Penn State Buries Marshall 45-0 Behind Rocco Becht
Penn State led 24-0 at halftime and 45-0 at the end. Marshall finished with 147 total yards, an interception and a lost fumble, and the scoreboard never moved off zero.
It started with a field goal, a 38-yarder from Ryan Barker with 12:26 left in the first quarter, and then Rocco Becht took over. He threw touchdowns of 42 yards to Koby Howard and 25 to Brett Eskildsen before the first quarter was over, added an 8-yard score to Benjamin Brahmer late in the second, and found Zay Robinson from 39 yards early in the third. Four touchdown passes on 13 of 18 for 271 yards. The ground game finished it, with Quinton Martin Jr. running in from six yards in the third quarter and Cam Wallace from six in the fourth.
The totals are as lopsided as the score. Penn State had 487 yards (324 passing, 163 rushing) and Marshall had 147 (103 passing, 44 rushing on 26 carries). Penn State threw no interceptions and lost no fumbles, and sacked the Marshall quarterbacks twice while giving up none. Marshall managed one sack of its own, which is not nothing, but it is close to nothing.
Penn State opens 1-0 and Marshall 0-1. A 45-point loss on the road is a rough way to start, though a shutout in Week 1 is the sort of result that gets mostly forgotten by October.
Fantasy-wise, this was a Penn State buffet. Becht scored 34.3 Promethium points, Howard 28.1 and Eskildsen 15.8, and that is your top three.