Columbia Erases a 17-point Hole, Beats Penn 28-27
Bryce Coleman caught three touchdown passes, and the last one won it. Columbia beat Pennsylvania 28-27 after trailing 24-7 in the second quarter, a 17-point hole that the Lions climbed out of one Chase Goodwin throw at a time.
Penn looked like the winner for a long stretch. Tommy Lafayette ran in from six yards, Mason Walters kicked a 52-yard field goal, and Karson Siqueiros-Lasky threw touchdown passes of 19 yards to Mason Page and 20 to Dante Barone. That was 24-7 with 14:19 left in the second quarter. From there Columbia outscored Penn 21-3. Griffin Johnson ran in from three yards, Coleman caught an 11-yarder with 1:28 left in the half, and Walters added a 28-yard field goal in the third to make it 27-21. Coleman's nine-yard catch with 6:41 to play put Columbia up 28-27, and the scoreboard did not move again.
The odd part is that Penn had the better numbers. The Quakers had 446 total yards to Columbia's 363, with Siqueiros-Lasky throwing for 374. He also threw four interceptions. Columbia threw two of its own, so the turnover gap was only two, but that was plenty in a one-point game. Penn lost by a single point and handed over four possessions through the air, which is the sort of arithmetic that makes a coach stare at a wall for a while.
Columbia moves to 4-1, Pennsylvania falls to 2-3. For fantasy, Coleman was the whole conversation: 33 points on six catches, which beat the next best player on the field by more than five.