Cornell football 2022

[Trotsky]

Things are looking up for the 2022 Big Red gridders after the 24-21 win at Colgate. Cornell has already matched 2021's win total. Is .500 possible? Four and six? Lehigh, at Cornell in two weeks, is 1-4 and seems beatable. Take down two Ivy teams, that's a .500 season. Jameson Wang seems like the real deal at QB.

Can anybody be at least a little bit happy that Cornell has a winning team to date?

Geez, Bill.  Wins are rare enough that we should get the score right.::whistle::

He gave it in Celsius.

[billhoward]

Harvard plays Cornell Friday Oct. 7 at Schoellkopf Field, ESPNU, 7 pm. Temperature will be 50 degrees, some chance of rain.

Harvard is 2-1: beat a decent Merrimack 28-21 in OT, beat Brown 35-28, then its strongest game, lost to Holy Cross 30-21. Harvard and Dartmouth were tied atop the pre-season media poll; Cornell now 2-1 was picked for eighth and last place and is now 2-1.

Cornell PR's pre-game notes: https://cornellbigred.com/news/2022/10/4/football-know-your-foe-harvard.aspx
Cornell Daily Sun preview: https://cornellsun.com/2022/10/06/preview-football-hosts-harvard-on-friday-night/

The Sun's Aaron Snyder picks Harvard.

Prediction: Harvard 31 Cornell 17
I've fallen to 0-3 in my picks (I'll note that I'm 2-1 against the spread), but I'm feeling good about my chances of picking up my first win this week. There were a lot of positive takeaways from Cornell's wins over VMI and Colgate, but Harvard is the better team in this matchup. Cornell's recent success against Harvard at home gives me enough hesitation to think Cornell will keep this within two possessions.

A win would be an amazing accomplishment. True, Cornell has won the last two home games against Harvard, but that last win was 2018.

[Al DeFlorio]

Harvard plays Cornell Friday Oct. 3 at Schoellkopf Field, ESPNU, 7 pm. Temperature will be 50 degrees, some chance of rain.

Harvard is 1-1: beat a decent Merrimack 28-21 in OT, beat Brown 35-28, then its strongest game, lost to Holy Cross 30-21. Harvard and Dartmouth were tied atop the pre-season media poll; Cornell now 2-1 was picked for eighth and last place and is now 2-1.

Cornell PR's pre-game notes: https://cornellbigred.com/news/2022/10/4/football-know-your-foe-harvard.aspx
Cornell Daily Sun preview: https://cornellsun.com/2022/10/06/preview-football-hosts-harvard-on-friday-night/

The Sun's Aaron Snyder picks Harvard.

Prediction: Harvard 31 Cornell 17
I've fallen to 0-3 in my picks (I'll note that I'm 2-1 against the spread), but I'm feeling good about my chances of picking up my first win this week. There were a lot of positive takeaways from Cornell's wins over VMI and Colgate, but Harvard is the better team in this matchup. Cornell's recent success against Harvard at home gives me enough hesitation to think Cornell will keep this within two possessions.

A win would be an amazing accomplishment. True, Cornell has won the last two home games against Harvard, but that last win was 2018.

October 7.  Tonight.

[CAS]

Harvard is 2-1 & a 10 & 1/2 pt favorite

[RichH]

Cornell now 2-1 was picked for eighth and last place and is now 2-1.

But what are they now?

For the purposes of that poll, they're 0-1.

[CAS]

Believe the team (including the coaching staff)
should be judged primarily by their Ivy record.

[billhoward]

OMG: Cornell gets the game's first score, 12 minutes in, long drive after a short Harvard opening possession. Not much run, couple nice third-and-long passes, roughing call gave Cornell life inside the 10. #moralvictory
But need a real victory, too.

OMG Part Deux: Harvard stalls and settles for a field goal. C7-3. Cornell stalls, punts, high snap, blocked, Harvard returns for a TD. Cornell cannot win if it makes unforced major errors; be hard enough to win if Cornell makes zero errors. H10-7 midway into the second.

Second half, Harvard grinds away, mistakes by both sides, Harvard goes up 27-14, Cornell mounts a decent drive with several good catches offsetting some going-nowhere runs. Then a very good Cornell drive gets Cornell a score and PAT to cut it to 27-21 midway through the fourth.

Harvard score, then excellent Cornell drive to close the score to 35-28 with a minute to play, Cornell can't recover the onside kick. This was a quality loss.

Jameson Wang looked pretty beaten up. I wonder if he would have gone back in if Cornell recovered. If his ankle is marginal, maybe he should sit out the Lehigh game, which is winninable, but it's not an Ivy game where Cornell is now 0-2.

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Attendance somewhat less than the homecoming fireworks crowd, Cornell's previous fall event Friday night at Schoellkopf. Kind of sad. (This is Fall Break weekend.)

[Al DeFlorio]

Can we please stop handing the ball to a guy starting nine yards behind the line of scrimmage?  How about some option plays to free Jameson.

[billhoward]

Can we please stop handing the ball to a guy starting nine yards behind the line of scrimmage?  How about some option plays to free Jameson.

Also, on third and nine, when the receiver turns and plants seven yards up from the line of scrimmage, odds are you won't get those last two yards. At least that's my perspective.

[ugarte]

i'll be honest, i thought the 7-yard punt would be the worst punt of the day.

blocked, returned for 6. Harvard up 10-7 but with an excessive celebration penalty after the TD hopefully the field position is good.

[Al DeFlorio]

99 just let that guy go by.

[Al DeFlorio]

Why do we keep wasting downs by starting drives with runs?

[Al DeFlorio]

3 and out, 3 and out, 3 and out; brain dead play-calling.

[ugarte]

the screen was a good call but poorly executed. our OL is outmatched and our punter is horrible. this is rough.

[ugarte]

jfc wang looking at his receivers and literally asking them what the fuck they're doing