The 2018 Columbia Lions football team represented

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in the

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as a member of the

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. They were led by fourth-year head coach

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and played their home games at

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. 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. Cornell vs Columbia football

Schedule

The 2018 schedule consisted of five home and five away games. The Lions hosted Ivy League foes

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, and

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, and traveled to

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, Harvard, and

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coincided with the game against Dartmouth on October 20. In 2018, Columbia's non-conference opponents were Central Connecticut of the

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of the

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, and Marist of the

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Game summaries

At Central Connecticut

At Georgetown

Princeton

Marist

At Penn

Dartmouth

Yale

At Harvard

At Brown

Cornell

References

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Columbia Lions football seasons

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