Columbia Beats Georgetown in Overtime on a 25-yard Field Goal
Hugo Merry kicked a 25-yard field goal in overtime and Columbia escaped Georgetown 20-17. It was the kind of win the box score does not explain until you read it twice.
Columbia scored first, Chase Goodwin finding Braden Dougherty from 16 yards with 0:55 left in the first quarter. Georgetown tied it at 7-7 on a 26-yard pass from Jack Johnson to Burke Carroll, and Merry's 38-yard field goal with 0:24 left in the half made it 10-7 Columbia. Then the game turned. Hassan Mahasin took a punt back 71 yards for a touchdown early in the third quarter, and a 23-yard Thomas Anderson field goal made it 17-10 Georgetown going into the fourth.
Georgetown's offense did very little to get there. It finished with 234 total yards to Columbia's 431, and Johnson went 10 of 18 for 119 yards. Ten of its 17 points came from a punt return and a field goal. Columbia, meanwhile, put up the yards and gave a chunk of them back: Goodwin threw 50 times, completed 23 and tossed two interceptions. Bryce Coleman caught a 2-yard pass from Goodwin with 13:11 left in the fourth to tie it at 17-17, and that was the end of the regulation scoring. Columbia was the one that had to climb out of a hole, down 17-10 at the worst, and it did.
Columbia is 2-0. Georgetown is 0-3, having led in the second half and still come away with nothing.
For fantasy, nobody hit big. Goodwin's 22.8 led the game, and Griffin Johnson carried 30 times for 121 yards for 17.7. It was a grind.