Colgate Rides Fast Start, Four Interceptions to 41-21 Win Over Football on Homecoming

Game Recap: Football | 10/4/2025 6:23:00 PM | Jeremy Hartigan, Senior Associate Director of Athletics for Communications

ITHACA, N.Y. — Colgate scored touchdowns on 4 of its first six possessions and intercepted 4 passes to spoil Cornell’s Homecoming with a 41-21 victory on Saturday afternoon at Schoellkopf Field. The Big Red fell to 0-3, whereas the Raider supped its report to 2-3.

The Big Red lower a 28-6 deficit to a single possession within the third quarter (28-21), however the Raiders answered with two fourth-quarter touchdowns to tug away in entrance of greater than 9,000 followers below sunny skies in Ithaca.

Junior quarterback Garrett Bass-Sulpizio accounted for 316 yards yards and a landing passing and speeding after coming off the bench early. He piled up 91 of the staff’s 233 speeding yards and threw for 225 yards and a rating. 

Colgate junior quarterback Jake Stearney threw 4 landing passes and accomplished 16-of-25 passes for 206 yards with out an interception, whereas operating again Cole Fulton sealed the win with a 19-yard scoring run with 25 seconds remaining.

Cornell outgained Colgate 458-384 in whole offense and held the ball for longer (31:15 to twenty-eight:45), however 4 turnovers – together with a 43-yard interception return for a landing by linebacker Trooper Price – proved pricey. Price intercepted two passes on the day.

Colgate took benefit of two early interceptions, changing each into touchdowns as a part of a 14-0 first-quarter lead. Stearney linked with Treyvhon Saunders on a 22-yard landing cross halfway by means of the primary, then hit him once more for a 12-yard rating simply 5 minutes later. Saunders caught six passes for 91 yards two two first-quarter touchdowns.

The Big Red responded within the second quarter with a 13-yard landing cross from Bass-Sulpizio to Doryn Smith to make it 14-6, however Stearney led back-to-back scoring drives – a 2-yard cross to Mason Mozo and Price’s pick-six – to push the halftime result in 28-6.

Cornell discovered life within the third quarter. Senior Robert Tucker III powered in from 4 yards out on the primary drive of the second half to tug inside 28-13. Then, after a defensive cease, Bass-Sulpizio capped a 14-play, 84-yard drive with a 1-yard landing run, adopted by a two-point conversion rush by Brendan Lee to chop the deficit to 28-21.

Colgate calmly responded with an 11-play, 72-yard drive, culminating in a 21-yard landing strike from Stearney to Max Walters on a busted protection early within the fourth quarter. The Raiders later iced the sport with Fulton’s landing run within the closing minute.

Next Up

• Cornell travels to Cambridge, Mass., to tackle Harvard Friday, Oct. 10 on ESPNU.

• It would be the 89th assembly all-time between the Big Red and Crimson with Harvard main the sequence 52-34-2.