Columbia at Marist
POUGHKEEPSIE (Interstat) — Columbia will visit Marist on Friday in an NCAA Football Championship Division game at Tenney Stadium at Leonidoff Field in Poughkeepsie, N.Y.
Columbia enters with a 2-1 record. Marist is 3-2 and will be the home team. Columbia is the visiting team, and Marist is the home team. Columbia’s team nickname is the Lions, and Marist’s team nickname is the Red Foxes. The Lions are coming off a 35-7 loss to Princeton. In that game, quarterback Chase Goodwin completed 35 of 51 passes for 331 yards and one touchdown. Griffin Johnson ran for 63 yards and caught six passes for 35 yards. Michael Walters ran for 29 yards and had two receptions for 13 yards.
Goodwin is the player to watch for Columbia. He completed 23 of 50 passes for 277 yards and two touchdowns in a 20-17 win over Georgetown. He also threw for 367 yards and two scores in a 40-34 win over Lafayette. Columbia beat Georgetown on the road and topped Lafayette at home. Columbia has scored 20, 40 and 7 points in its three games. The Lions have allowed 17, 34 and 35 points.
Marist has won its past two games. The Red Foxes defeated Stetson 28-14 last time out. Sonny Mannino completed 13 of 29 passes for 210 yards and two touchdowns. Isaiah Simmons ran for 85 yards and scored twice, and he caught one pass for 12 yards. Jeremy DeCaro ran for 24 yards, caught one pass for 14 yards and returned a punt 11 yards. Marist has scored 21, 27, 9, 42 and 28 points in its five games. The Red Foxes have allowed 22, 18, 13, 7 and 14 points.
Mannino is the player to watch for Marist. He completed 20 of 26 passes for 198 yards and two touchdowns and ran 15 times for 63 yards and two scores in a 42-7 win over Presbyterian. Marist beat Franklin Pierce 27-18. The Red Foxes lost 13-9 at Lafayette and 22-21 at New Haven. Marist also defeated Presbyterian.
Columbia will next visit Penn, then host Dartmouth, Yale and Cornell. The Lions also will visit Harvard and Brown. Marist will next visit Drake, then host Saint Thomas (Minn.), visit San Diego, host Morehead State and Butler, and visit Davidson. The game will be played Friday in Poughkeepsie. The Red Foxes will host the Lions at Tenney Stadium at Leonidoff Field.
Interstat’s game simulator projects a final score of Marist 31, Columbia 16. Columbia has been installed as a pregame favorite with a spread of +1.5. The over/under for the game is 43.5.