Buffalo Beats UAlbany 21-17 on Morrow's Three Touchdowns
Three touchdowns, 18 yards. That is Chance Morrow's day in the end zone: a 9-yarder, a 4-yarder and a 5-yarder, all from Elijah Holmes. The last one was the game.
UAlbany scored first, when Kai Colon found Tavahri Groves from 14 yards in the first quarter, and Morrow answered with his 9-yard catch to tie it at 7-7. Morrow's 4-yard score with 2:46 left in the second put Buffalo up 14-7, but RJ Kocan's 46-yard field goal with 15 seconds left in the half cut it to 14-10. UAlbany went ahead 17-14 when Colon connected with Justus Murray Jr. from 14 yards with 3:23 left in the third.
Then the scoreboard sat still until Morrow's 5-yard catch with 4:53 left, which put Buffalo up 21-17 for good. Neither team scored again. The game had three lead changes and one tie, and Buffalo trailed by as many as 7.
The Buffalo numbers are not pretty. Holmes completed 26 of 47 for only 189 yards (4.0 an attempt), and he lost a fumble. But he threw three scores, and Buffalo ran for 154 yards on 30 carries and sacked UAlbany three times. It finished with 343 total yards and no interceptions. Messiah Burch ran for 74 yards on 8 carries, more than 9 a carry, and Terrance Shelton Jr. added 46 on 14. Morrow caught every Buffalo touchdown.
Buffalo is 1-0 and UAlbany 0-1. Morrow's 29.8 points and Holmes's 27.3 led all scorers, which proves a game can be won on very few yards if you cash in the right ones.