# 2019 Columbia Lions football team

The 2019 Columbia Lions football team represented Columbia University in the 2019 NCAA Division I FCS football season as a member of the Ivy League. They were led by fifth-year head coach Al Bagnoli and played their home games at Robert K. Kraft Field at Lawrence A. Wien Stadium. They finished the season 3–7, 2–5 in Ivy League play to finish in a tie for sixth place. Columbia averaged 5,376 fans per game

## Preseason
### Preseason media poll

The Ivy League released their preseason media poll on August 8, 2019. The Lions were picked to finish in sixth place.
| Predicted finish | Team | Votes (1st place) |
| 1 | Yale | 119 (9) |
| 2 | Dartmouth | 111 (2) |
| 3 | Princeton | 107 (4) |
| 4 | Harvard | 93 (1) |
| 5 | Penn | 67 |
| 6 | Columbia | 61 (1) |
| 7 | Cornell | 29 |
| 8 | Brown | 24 |

## Schedule

| Date | Time | Opponent | Site | TV | Result | Attendance |
| September 21 | 1:00 p.m. | at Saint Francis (PA)* | DeGol FieldLoretto, PA | NEC Front Row | W 31–14 | 2,405 |
| September 28 | 1:00 p.m. | Georgetown* | Robert K. Kraft Field at Lawrence A. Wien StadiumNew York, NY | ESPN+ | L 10–24 | 4,311 |
| October 5 | 1:00 p.m. | at No. 25 Princeton | Powers Field at Princeton StadiumPrinceton, NJ | ESPN+ | L 10–21 | 5,225 |
| October 12 | 1:00 p.m. | Central Connecticut* | Robert K. Kraft Field at Lawrence A. Wien StadiumNew York, NY | ESPN+ | L 14–24 | 3,172 |
| October 19 | 1:30 p.m. | Penn | Robert K. Kraft Field at Lawrence A. Wien StadiumNew York, NY | ESPN+/SNY | W 44–6 | 10,452 |
| October 25 | 6:00 p.m. | at No. 17 Dartmouth | Memorial FieldHanover, NH | ESPNU | L 24–59 | 4,221 |
| November 2 | 12:00 p.m. | at Yale | Yale BowlNew Haven, CT | ESPN+ | L 10–45 | 5,667 |
| November 9 | 1:00 p.m. | Harvard | Robert K. Kraft Field at Lawrence A. Wien StadiumNew York, NY | ESPN+/SNY | W 17–10 $^{OT}$ | 4,739 |
| November 16 | 1:00 p.m. | Brown | Robert K. Kraft Field at Lawrence A. Wien StadiumNew York, NY | ESPN+ | L 24–48 | 4,207 |
| November 23 | 1:30 p.m. | at Cornell | Schoellkopf FieldIthaca, NY (rivalry) | ESPN+ | L 9–35 | 3,744 |
| *Non-conference gameHomecomingRankings from STATS Poll released prior to the gameAll times are in Eastern time |||||||

## Game summaries
### At Saint Francis

| | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | Total |
| Lions | 14 | 7 | 3 | 7 | 31 |
| Red Flash | 14 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 14 |

### Georgetown

| | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | Total |
| Hoyas | 0 | 7 | 10 | 7 | 24 |
| Lions | 7 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 10 |

### At Princeton

| | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | Total |
| Lions | 3 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
| No. 25 Tigers | 7 | 0 | 7 | 7 | 21 |

### Central Connecticut

| | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | Total |
| Blue Devils | 7 | 10 | 0 | 7 | 24 |
| Lions | 0 | 7 | 7 | 0 | 14 |

### Penn

| | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | Total |
| Quakers | 0 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 6 |
| Lions | 10 | 7 | 13 | 14 | 44 |

### At Dartmouth

| | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | Total |
| Lions | 3 | 7 | 14 | 0 | 24 |
| No. 17 Big Green | 10 | 28 | 14 | 7 | 59 |

### At Yale

| | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | Total |
| Lions | 0 | 3 | 0 | 7 | 10 |
| Bulldogs | 7 | 14 | 3 | 21 | 45 |

### Harvard

| | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | OT | Total |
| Crimson | 7 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 10 |
| Lions | 0 | 7 | 0 | 3 | 7 | 17 |

### Brown

| | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | Total |
| Bears | 21 | 7 | 20 | 0 | 48 |
| Lions | 0 | 17 | 7 | 0 | 24 |

### At Cornell

| | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | Total |
| Lions | 0 | 9 | 0 | 0 | 9 |
| Big Red | 7 | 14 | 14 | 0 | 35 |