Colgate vs. Lafayette

Every meeting on file, as played. Ranks are the AP poll’s going in.

1. Colgate’s biggest win1975: Colgate 56, Lafayette 2by 54 points
2. Lafayette’s biggest win2025: Lafayette 59, Colgate 42by 17 points
3. Upset1968: Lafayette 14, Colgate 10Lafayette had a 10% chance, by our ratings before kickoff
4. Upset2023: Colgate 37, Lafayette 34Colgate had a 22% chance, by our ratings before kickoff
5. Upset2022: Lafayette 21, Colgate 16Lafayette had a 32% chance, by our ratings before kickoff

Head-coach pairings with three or more meetings on file, the series read from Colgate’s side (Kerr 4–⁠0–⁠1 against McCracken). A season split between coaches goes to the one credited with the game.

Our Elo rating at the end of each season, a measure of how strong a team was, not a forecast; 1500 is an average FBS team.

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  1906 · The Minneapolis journal, Minneapolis, Minn., Oct 28, 1906

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  1930 · Evening star, Washington, D.C., Oct 12, 1930

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  1932 · The Daily Alaska empire, Oct 17, 1932

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  1935 · The Waterbury Democrat, Connecticut, Oct 21, 1935

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  1946 · The Daily Alaska empire, Nov 4, 1946

Public-domain newspapers from the Library of Congress’s Chronicling America, found through the American Stories dataset (Dell and Harvard, CC BY 4.0). The earliest meetings with a story on file; each game’s page has the full text.

Every game is listed as played on the field.

• Colgate vs. Cornell90 meetings, Colgate 39–⁠48–⁠3
• Colgate vs. Holy Cross67 meetings, Colgate 32–⁠30–⁠5
• Colgate vs. Syracuse61 meetings, Colgate 25–⁠32–⁠4
• Colgate vs. Bucknell55 meetings, Colgate 42–⁠13
• Lafayette vs. Lehigh88 meetings, Lafayette 46–⁠38–⁠4
• Lafayette vs. Pennsylvania80 meetings, Lafayette 21–⁠55–⁠4
• Lafayette vs. Rutgers52 meetings, Lafayette 16–⁠35–⁠1
• Lafayette vs. Princeton45 meetings, Lafayette 3–⁠39–⁠3