PHILADELPHIA, Pa. — Junior quarterback Zach Osborne scampered for a career-long 31-yard touchdown run, and classmate Treyvhon Saunders exploded for 16 catches totaling 123 yards, but it was not enough to lift Colgate past Penn on the road. The 27-17 loss drops the Raiders to 1-4 on the season with league play looming next weekend against Holy Cross.
“We knew coming in this was going to be a tough matchup,” Fred ’50 and Marilyn Dunlap Head Football Coach Stan Dakosty said. “There were some timely things that we really needed to capitalize on, whether it was a defensive stop, a third-down conversion on offense, or a field goal that we wanted to make. We really needed stuff like that playing against a team like this. We needed to play consistently disciplined football and we had lapses in that.”
“A couple of drives stalled early on,” Dakosty continued. “Penn always plays good defense and they’re good on all three levels. We knew we had to get the ball outside pretty quick and Trey always puts himself in great positions out there. Overall, I think we spread the ball around pretty good, and coming in we knew we were going to need to execute that part of our offensive scheme.”
Saunders now sits at eighth all-time in the Colgate record books for career receptions with 130 grabs. He also set the program record for most receptions in a game, breaking the previous mark of 14 set by Corey Hill ’99 in 1998. His 16 catches also tied the Patriot League single-game receptions record that was set in 2017 by Lehigh’s Troy Pelletier. …