Richmond Sacks Colgate Eight Times in 13-6 Win
Eight sacks. Colgate threw for 312 yards, and Richmond got to the quarterback eight times anyway, which is how a team that gained 253 total yards won 13-6.
All of the scoring came in the first half. Colgate's Luke Vogeler hit a 35-yard field goal, Richmond's Kyle Bitsko answered from 39, and Vogeler made a 29-yarder to put Colgate up 6-3. Then Ashten Snelsire found Jaden Fair from 16 yards for the only touchdown of the day, and Bitsko added a 40-yard field goal as time ran out in the half to make it 13-6. Nobody scored after that.
Colgate's day looks better on paper than it was. Jake Stearney was 25 of 45 for 312 yards, but he threw three interceptions, the team lost a fumble, and the rushing game managed 4 yards on 29 carries (Stearney lost 18 of those himself). Richmond gave it away once, on an interception, and ran 25 times for 104. Flip the turnovers and this is a different afternoon.
Snelsire was 10 of 20 for 116 yards with a touchdown and an interception for Richmond, which is not a line that wins many games on its own. Aziz Foster-Powell ran 14 times for 80 yards and that was most of the offense's ground work. The defense did the rest, and the scoreboard says it did enough. Colgate's 29 carries produced 4 yards, and 312 passing yards could not make up for that.
Richmond moves to 6-1. Colgate falls to 4-3. For fantasy purposes it was the Matt Fogler show on the losing side: 10 catches for 180 yards, no touchdown, and he still outscored everyone else in the game by 15 points.