Shaban Carries Colgate past Fordham with 214 Yards
Daniel Shaban carried the ball 28 times for 214 yards and two touchdowns, and Colgate needed every one of them. The Raiders beat Fordham 24-14, and for a stretch in the third quarter it looked like they might not.
Colgate led 14-0 at the half on a 1-yard Shaban run and an 8-yard Jake Stearney run. Then Fordham woke up. Gunnar Smith hit Ricky Gonzalez II for 24 yards early in the third to make it 14-7, and a few minutes later Justin Johnson returned an interception 23 yards for a touchdown to tie it at 14. Stearney threw two picks on the day and that was one of them. The game had gone from 14-7 to a tie in about four minutes.
Colgate got the lead back on a 37-yard Luke Vogeler field goal with 7:23 left, and Shaban finished it with a 29-yard touchdown run with 1:53 to go. That was the final 10 points.
The yardage was not close: Colgate 439, Fordham 189. The Raiders ran 44 times for 280 yards and threw for 159, while Fordham managed 73 rushing yards on 21 carries and 116 through the air. Colgate also gave it away three times (two interceptions and a lost fumble) and Fordham did not give it away at all, which is why a game that should have been a blowout ended up a one-score affair into the fourth quarter. Flip those turnovers and it is probably not even that.
Colgate is 1-0, Fordham 0-1. Shaban's 39.0 Promethium points were the top score in the game by 24.