FIU Leads Start to Finish and Beats Buffalo 33-20
J.J. Kohl put up 43.5 fantasy points, and Chance Morrow put up 40 on the other sideline and still lost. That sums up Florida International's 33-20 win over Buffalo: big numbers everywhere, and only one team in front the whole way.
FIU scored first on a 45-yard Kohl touchdown pass to Maguire Anderson and never trailed or got tied. A trick play followed, with Jojo Stone throwing 19 yards to Kohl to make it 14-3, and Kohl hit Anderson again from 14 yards to push it to 21-3 before halftime. Buffalo got only field goals of 51 and 45 yards from Oliver Hautanen in the first half. In the third quarter, Jason Wright threw a 2-yard touchdown to Morrow and ran in the two-point try for 21-14. Kohl answered about 90 seconds later with a 68-yard throw to Stone (the extra point was blocked), and Robert Czeremcha's field goals of 36 and 35 yards made it 33-14.
Buffalo's last touchdown, a 23-yard Wright to Morrow connection with 5:58 left, came with a failed two-point run and made the score 33-20. The giveaways did the rest of the damage: Buffalo lost two fumbles and threw one interception, three turnovers against one lost fumble for FIU. FIU out-gained the Bulls 540 yards to 308, 386 of them through the air, and sacked the quarterback three times. The scoreboard looked more comfortable than the box score. Buffalo threw for 246 yards and Morrow alone had 170 of them, but the team ran for only 62 yards on 25 carries and never found the ground game to climb back in.
Both teams are 1-1. The Panthers' offense, as it turns out, is a fantasy gold mine.