Nevada Runs for 325 Yards and Beats Western Kentucky 49-14
Thirty-five seconds. That is how long it took Dominic Kelley to score on a 72-yard run, and Western Kentucky never got closer than 14-7 after that. Nevada won 49-14.
The Wolf Pack went on to rush for 325 yards on 40 carries, which is 8.1 a carry and a lot more than the 163 they threw for. Herschel Turner ran 8 yards for a touchdown at 2:17 of the first quarter and Donnie Cheers ran 20 yards at 2:21 of the second to make it 21-7. In between, Ajay Allen got Western Kentucky on the board with a 4-yard run at 5:20. That was all the Hilltoppers had until garbage time.
The second half was all Nevada. Carter Jones threw a 32-yard touchdown to Cheers at 11:01 of the third and a 14-yarder to DJ Asiasi at 4:03 to make it 35-7. Kelley added a 1-yard run and Carter Jackson another one-yarder in the fourth, two touchdowns 91 seconds apart, and it was 49-7. Allen scored again from 10 yards with 1:18 left, but nobody was counting by then. Nevada never trailed and the game was never tied.
Western Kentucky had 367 yards, with Rodney Tisdale Jr. going 24 of 40 for 203, but lost two fumbles. Nevada threw one interception and lost no fumbles. The Hilltoppers ran the ball 42 times for 164 yards (3.9 a carry).
Nevada is 1-0 and Western Kentucky is 0-1. For fantasy, Kelley and Allen were the two top backs of the day, 27.2 and 24.9 points, even if they were on different sides of a blowout.