The Bulldogs pulled out a nail-biting victory at home in a 23-22 win over CCSU. Yale moves to 2-1 on the season with an undefeated Big Green squad visiting the Bowl this weekend.
Grant Jordan returned at quarterback and finished 16 of 31 for 146 yards and a touchdown. Jordan had some great scrambles and key completions when needed but needs to be a bit more accurate and decisive moving forward. On Jordan’s huge 21 yard rush downfield to keep a drive alive, he took the safe route and slid to play another day. The play calling will need to give Jordan higher percentage plays to keep the ball moving against Ivy opponents as it’s hard to win being 6 of 15 on third downs. McCaughey appeared to be nursing an injury on the sidelines, so hopefully he can bounce back to provide depth. Pitsenberger looked improved over the Cornell contest and posted 127 rushing yards and a touchdown with the touchdown coming on a fantastic 64-yard scamper to keep Yale in the contest. Shipp, Pantelis and Nenad were solid at wideout when given good opportunities. Luke Foster made one of the plays of the season on his 19-yard touchdown reception to take the lead. St. Aubyn started at tackle with Sullivan shifting back to guard. The line’s performance was improved but Pitsenberger and Denney were still getting hit at the line of scrimmage too often to fully take control of the game. Jordan’s elusiveness aided in the sackless contest for CCSU. The offense took a step forward all around in this game and will need to keep that momentum while finding more ways to get our playmakers the ball in space.
CCSU racked up 458 yards on offense in another sloppy performance from the defense, although the Bulldogs do deserve credit for coming up with big plays and turnovers when needed. Yang was a bright spot with 3 tackles for losses. The defensive line jumped offsides on several hard counts, so discipline must improve in that regard. Egodogbare was back and did not yet appear to be in peak form. Shaffer and Biggs had their best performances of the season but still need to take their play to the next level. Ayo Durojaiye had a stellar sack for a ten yard loss that killed a CCSU drive. The secondary struggled to contain receivers with Daniyan constantly caught out of position. Tarver stepped up at safety with an interception and another key breakup. Da’Quan Gonzales was burned for a touchdown at corner but came back with a pass breakup to kill a drive. Kamara has been forced to be a workhorse for this defense and continues to rack up tackles with another 14 against CCSU. Yale needs to clean up the outside containment issues along with the gaps in coverage to keep Dartmouth in check this week.
Conforti was 1 of 2 on field goals with a 33-yard miss. Florio had a decent punting day with a 37.7 yard average and four punts inside the redzone.
7 replies on “CCSU Notes”
Gentlemen; another overall accurate analysis. Respectfully, disagree with the linebacker play where most of the tackles were 6 to 7 yards down the field and nowhere to be found in pass coverage.
It’s after 12:00pm and still no Football wright up on the biggest game of the year.
What a lousy performance by the person . Who is supposed to be doing this assignment. (No excuse ).!! Absolutely none.!
If you want to get information on the game . Bruce Woods, has it on his blog Big Green Alert.
Extremely disappointing , that Yale Athletics is so lacking in this vital information.
Yale QB’s have been pretty reckless putting the ball up for grabs this year. Sooner or later it’s going to come back to bite them. They need to be more careful in that regard.
Yes, all too often our WRs have to double as DBs.
https://yaledailynews.com/blog/2024/10/11/the-man-behind-the-mustache-yale-footballs-dean-shaffer/ Nice write up about Captain Dean
Must win game tomorrow. Two league losses may have given us a piece of the title last year, but usually a second loss is fatal.