TWIST OF STATE!
GETTY/AP POUGHKEEPSIE, N.Y. — Anders Hill threw for three touchdowns and ran for two more, and Columbia rolled to a 41-17 win over Marist on Saturday for its best start in 21 years.
Hill was 23 of 33 for 350 yards and did all his scoring damage in the first half when the Lions (4-0), who won their first six games in 1996, opened a 38-0 lead. The win was Columbia’s largest since beating Princeton 42-14 in 2010.
DARTMOUTH 28, YALE 27: Jack Heneghan found Drew Hunnicutt up the middle in the end zone with 34 seconds left to help lift host Dartmouth over Yale.
ARMY 49, RICE 12: Kell Walker ran for 127 yards and three touchdowns and Ahmad Bradshaw added 115 yards rushing and two more scores as Army forced turnovers on four straight possessions in the first half to build a big lead early in a win over Rice in Houston.
MONMOUTH 48, HOLY CROSS 36: Kenji Bahar threw for a careerhigh 324 yards with three touchdowns, Mike Basile had a career-high 19 tackles and visiting Monmouth defeated Holy Cross.
DUQUESNE 38, WAGNER 0: Tommy Stuart threw four touchdowns passes as Duquesne snubbed Wagner in Pittsburgh. Duquesne intercepted Wagner’s Donald Glenn twice in the first half, with the second setting up a 5-yard Stuart-to-Nehari Crawford touchdown pass to put the Dukes up 14-0 with 9:00 left in the half.
SYRACUSE 27, PITT 24: Eric Dungey threw two touchdown passes and ran for another and the Orange defense stymied Pittsburgh’s offense on third down as host Syracuse held on to beat Pitt.
Syracuse’s win was its first over the Panthers in five years and kept Syracuse’s bowl hopes alive. Pitt had won 11 of the last 12 in the series and was 4-0 against Syracuse since both teams joined the ACC.
DELAWARE 24, STONY BROOK 20: Malcolm Brown returned a fumble 45 yards, Blaine Woodson had a fourth down sack in the red zone and visiting Delaware rallied to defeat Stony Brook.
Delaware pinned the Seawolves on their 9 with 4:12 to play but Joe Carbone completed 7 of 9 passes for 61 yards before a pass interference gave Stony Brook a first down at the 15. Colby Reeder had a tackle for a 3-yard loss before a pair of incompletions set up the coverage sack with 26 seconds left.
LAFAYETTE 14, FORDHAM 10: Sean O’Malley threw two touchdowns to Rocco Palumbo in the fourth quarter to bring Lafayette back from a 10-0 deficit and beat visiting Fordham. Kevin Anderson threw for 277 yards and a score for the Rams (1-5, 0-1) —AP