The 2019 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 fifth-year head coach

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and played their home games at

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. They finished the season 3–7, 2–5 in Ivy League play to finish in a tie for sixth place. Columbia averaged 5,376 fans per game

Preseason

Preseason media poll

The Ivy League released their preseason media poll on August 8, 2019. The Lions were picked to finish in sixth place.

Schedule

Game summaries

At Saint Francis

Georgetown

At Princeton

Central Connecticut

Penn

At Dartmouth

At Yale

Harvard

Brown

At Cornell

References

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