WASHINGTON – The Georgetown University football team will look to reclaim the Lou Little Trophy when Columbia makes its way to the Hilltop for a 12:30 kickoff at Cooper Field. The Hoyas enter the game with a 1-2 record while the Lions are 1-0 on the year.

HOW TO FOLLOW

• Saturday's contest can be streamed on ESPN+ with Jeremy Huber and Emory Hunt on the call.
• Live stats will be available for the game and can be found on GUHoyas.com.
• Tickets for Saturday's game can also be found at GUHoyas.com.

ABOUT THE HOYAS

• Despite Georgetown's loss to Monmouth on the road last weekend, Sherman Steptoe II earned a Patriot League Honorable Mention following a career-high 10 tackles. His 10 stops were also the most by a Hoya this season.
• The Hoyas have been efficient through the air, ranking eighth in FCS with a 70.3% completion rate. Pierce Holley ranks fifth in the nation in the category, completing 76-of-107 passes through three games at a 71% efficiency.
• GU's secondary is tied with seven other teams, including Holy Cross, for 13th in FCS with four interceptions this season.
• Freshman Wedner Cadet has logged two of the team's four picks and is one of five freshmen in FCS to have at least two interceptions through the first two weeks.
• Joshua Tomas (7.3), Dorrian Moultrie (6.3) and Cameron Crayton (5.3) are ranked second, third and fifth, respectively, in the Patriot League in receptions per game. The three Hoyas also all sit inside the top 50 in FCS.

ABOUT THE LIONS

• Columbia dominated Marist in its first game of 2022 last weekend, knocking off the Red Foxes 38-3 for its fifth-straight win in a season opener.
• The Lions are coming off of a 7-3 campaign in 2021, including a win in the Empire State Bowl over Cornell.
• Reigning Ivy League Rookie of the Year Joe Green returned under center and produced a two-touchdown game in the season opener.
• Columbia's Al Bagnoli is in his eighth season with the team and 40th as a head coach. He is the second-winningest coach in college football with 269 wins, trailing Alabama's Nick Saban (272).

THE MATCHUP

• Georgetown and Columbia will meet for just the ninth time in history with the Lions holding a slight 5-3 advantage over the Blue & Gray.
• The Hoyas and the Lions have evenly split the Lou Little Trophy game (3-3) since the installment began in 2015. 
• Lou Little served as head coach and the university's athletic director, boasting an impressive 41-12-3 record and mentoring three All-Americans. OL/DL Harry Connaughton (1926), center Claude Grigsby (1927) and OL/DL/ punter Jim Mooney (1928) each went on to be inducted into the Georgetown Athletics Hall of Fame.
• Little eventually went on to be head coach of Columbia Football for the better part of 26 years (1930-56) before being elected president of the American Football Coaches Association (AFCA) and serving on the college football Rules Committee. His successes earned him induction into the College Football Foundation Hall of Fame in 1960.