Matt Fogler Catches Three Touchdowns as Colgate Beats Holy Cross 35-10
Matt Fogler had three touchdowns before halftime, and Colgate beat Holy Cross 35-10 with the last 28-odd minutes of the game left as a formality.
Jake Stearney threw to Fogler from 33 yards at 10:57 of the first quarter, from 64 yards at 5:12, and from 18 yards with 36 seconds left in the second. In between, Danny Shaban scored on a 1-yard run at 12:51 of the second to make it 21-3. Holy Cross had a 23-yard Owen Saraceno field goal in the first quarter and a 7-yard Joseph Williams touchdown run with 2:20 left in the half, and that was the whole Holy Cross scoring story. Winston Moore caught a 58-yard touchdown from Stearney at 13:45 of the third quarter, which made it 35-10, and there were no more points after that.
Colgate never trailed, and never had to. It outgained Holy Cross 442 yards to 330, but the real gap is the turnovers: Holy Cross threw three interceptions, Colgate threw one, and neither side lost a fumble. Holy Cross did get 264 passing yards out of it, and Ty Curran caught seven passes for 130 of them, but 66 rushing yards on 35 carries is not going to move anyone.
Colgate is 2-0. Holy Cross is 0-2, and the fourth quarter produced no points for either side.
If you had Fogler or Stearney, you won your week with them. Stearney's four touchdown passes (three to Fogler, one to Moore) added up to 37.8 points, second only to his own receiver.