Mike McLeod just keeps getting better. The junior waited just two weeks to break his own Yale single-game rushing record, putting up 276 in a 23-7 rout of Lehigh that was actually the Bulldogs' second-closest game of the year and the first in which they trailed.
No. 15 Yale (5-0, 2-0 Ivy) now has the No. 1 rusher in the Football Championship Subdivision at 199 yards per game, although McLeod's streak of 353 carries without a fumble ended.
"Everybody on the team does a great job to help you forget about [fumbling]," he told reporters after the game.
Must be easy when they only have to do it once every 353 carries.
Rushing by committee. Harvard coach Tim Murphy had waited for running back Cheng Ho to return from injury for Week 4. But since his return wasn't exactly stellar, Murphy went with another option for Week 5.
Ho still took seven handoffs, but freshman Gino Gordon stole the show, taking sixteen and leading the Crimson with 66 rushing yards.
Gordon helped ice the game for Harvard, using up the final five-plus minutes on nine straight rushes for three first downs after the Crimson had secured a 10-point lead.
Senior fullback Noah Van Niel "Fanaroff" got into the act in Ho's absence, too, rushing 10 times and grabbing his first career touchdown. For a guy who spent last season blocking for Clifton Dawson, getting more handoffs than a starting back is quite the shift.
Four sure. Cornell is the worst team in the Ivy League at converting on third down. Apparently fourth works better for the Big Red.
On a 4th-and-19 with just over 12 minutes to go in Saturday's game against Colgate, Cornell quarterback Nathan Ford somehow managed to thread a 28-yard touchdown pass to wideout Bryan Walters.
To cap it off, Cornell won by tackling Colgate's Jordan Scott on fourth-and-1 to send possession the other way.
When Bears attack. It was no secret that Brown's passing attack is the League's most dangerous. But even Bears coach Phil Estes seemed surprised by his team's defensive effort.
The Bears forced a whopping six turnovers in their 33-24 win over Princeton to give opponents something new to think about going forward.
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