Georgetown Erases a 17-point Hole to Beat Colgate
Colgate scored 17 points in the first 27 minutes and then stopped. Georgetown scored 27 straight after that. Flip the order and nobody would believe it, but the order is the order, and the Hoyas walked out of Week 7 with a 27-17 win and a 17-0 comeback in the books.
It started the way Colgate wanted. A 22-yard field goal, a 17-yard touchdown run by Cole Fulton and a 10-yard run by Joey Tomasso made it 17-0 before the second quarter was half over. Georgetown got on the board with Gavin Beard's 1-yard pass to Burke Carroll at 5:53 of the second, and it was still 17-7 at the break. Carroll caught another from Beard, 23 yards, early in the third to make it 17-14. That was the last Colgate lead, and it was three points. Beard found Hassan Mahasin from 3 yards out with 10:37 left in the fourth for a 21-17 lead, and Jayden Sumpter added a 10-yard run with 56 seconds to go. The two-point try failed, which is why it is 27 and not 28.
The stat sheet backs up the swing. Georgetown outgained Colgate 344 yards to 251, with 175 through the air and 169 on the ground against Colgate's 119 and 132. Beard threw an interception, Colgate lost a fumble, and each defense sacked the other quarterback three times. Nothing there screams blowout. It was just one team that kept scoring and one that did not.
Georgetown moves to 2-4, Colgate drops to 4-2. Colgate had the game in hand at 17-0 and still lost by ten. That is the part that will stick.
The fantasy takeaway: Beard threw three touchdowns on 24 of 33 and put up 24.2 Promethium points, his best of the year. Anyone who rolled the dice on him got a better week than the recent average suggested.