# 2018 Columbia Lions football team

The 2018 Columbia Lions football team represented Columbia University in the 2018 NCAA Division I FCS football season as a member of the Ivy League. They were led by fourth-year head coach Al Bagnoli and played their home games at Robert K. Kraft Field at Lawrence A. Wien Stadium. They finished the season 6–4, 3–4 in Ivy League play to finish in a three-way tie for fourth place. Columbia averaged 5,667 fans per game.

## Schedule

The 2018 schedule consisted of five home and five away games. The Lions hosted Ivy League foes Princeton, Dartmouth, Yale, and Cornell, and traveled to Penn, Harvard, and Brown. Homecoming coincided with the game against Dartmouth on October 20.
In 2018, Columbia's non-conference opponents were Central Connecticut of the Northeast Conference, Georgetown of the Patriot League, and Marist of the Pioneer Football League.
| Date | Time | Opponent | Site | TV | Result | Attendance |
| September 15 | 5:00 p.m. | at Central Connecticut* | Arute FieldNew Britain, CT | NECFR | W 41–24 | 3,789 |
| September 22 | 2:00 p.m. | at Georgetown* | Cooper FieldWashington, DC | PL Net | W 23–15 | 1,865 |
| September 28 | 6:00 p.m. | Princeton | Robert K. Kraft Field at Lawrence A. Wien StadiumNew York, NY | ESPNU | L 10–45 | 5,327 |
| October 6 | 1:00 p.m. | Marist* | Robert K. Kraft Field at Lawrence A. Wien StadiumNew York, NY | ESPN+ | W 34–24 | 3,296 |
| October 13 | 1:00 p.m. | at Penn | Franklin FieldPhiladelphia, PA | ESPN+ | L 10–13 | 6,011 |
| October 20 | 1:30 p.m. | Dartmouth | Robert K. Kraft Field at Lawrence A. Wien StadiumNew York, NY | ESPN+ | L 12–28 | 12,506 |
| October 27 | 1:00 p.m. | Yale | Robert K. Kraft Field at Lawrence A. Wien StadiumNew York, NY | ESPN+ | W 17–10 | 2,555 |
| November 3 | 12:00 p.m. | at Harvard | Harvard StadiumBoston, MA | ESPN+/NESN | L 18–52 | 10,447 |
| November 10 | 12:00 p.m. | at Brown | Brown StadiumProvidence, RI | ESPN+ | W 42–20 | 2,118 |
| November 17 | 1:00 p.m. | Cornell | Robert K. Kraft Field at Lawrence A. Wien StadiumNew York, NY (rivalry) | ESPN+ | W 24–21 | 4,651 |
| *Non-conference gameHomecomingAll times are in Eastern time |||||||

## Game summaries
### At Central Connecticut

| | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | Total |
| Lions | 14 | 3 | 10 | 14 | 41 |
| Blue Devils | 7 | 7 | 0 | 10 | 24 |

### At Georgetown

| | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | Total |
| Lions | 10 | 0 | 6 | 7 | 23 |
| Hoyas | 0 | 0 | 0 | 15 | 15 |

### Princeton

| | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | Total |
| Tigers | 13 | 17 | 15 | 0 | 45 |
| Lions | 3 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 10 |

### Marist

| | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | Total |
| Red Foxes | 0 | 14 | 7 | 3 | 24 |
| Lions | 0 | 17 | 14 | 3 | 34 |

### At Penn

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

### Dartmouth

| | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | Total |
| Big Green | 7 | 0 | 7 | 14 | 28 |
| Lions | 3 | 3 | 0 | 6 | 12 |

### Yale

| | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | Total |
| Bulldogs | 0 | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
| Lions | 3 | 0 | 7 | 7 | 17 |

### At Harvard

| | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | Total |
| Lions | 6 | 6 | 0 | 6 | 18 |
| Crimson | 21 | 7 | 7 | 17 | 52 |

### At Brown

| | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | Total |
| Lions | 0 | 14 | 14 | 14 | 42 |
| Bears | 14 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 20 |

### Cornell

| | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | Total |
| Big Red | 0 | 7 | 0 | 14 | 21 |
| Lions | 10 | 0 | 0 | 14 | 24 |