Georgia State Pulls Away from Kennesaw State with Field Goals and Runs
Georgia State kicked three field goals, scored three rushing touchdowns and left Kennesaw State with a 31-17 loss that was never really in doubt.
Samer Layous opened with a 41-yarder, Kennesaw State's Daniel Kinney answered from 29 to tie it 3-3, and Layous kicked a 27-yarder to put Georgia State up for good. In the second quarter Cameran Brown ran 18 yards for a touchdown (the two-point try, a pass from Ayden Pereira to Wesley Campbell VI, was good) for 14-3, and Lanear McCrary Jr. scored from a yard out at 0:40 for 21-3.
Dennis Murray Jr.'s 12-yard run made it 28-3 late in the third, and then Kennesaw State finally did something. Rickie Collins ran 12 yards for a touchdown and hit the two-point conversion (a pass to Brayden Munroe) to make it 28-11 with under a minute left in the third. Layous added a 43-yard field goal with 9:15 left in the fourth. Collins found Jamari Harrold from 3 yards at 1:56 for the final 31-17, though the two-point try failed.
The yardage told the story. Georgia State had 489 yards, 253 passing and 236 rushing, against 332 for Kennesaw State, which managed just 72 on the ground. Both teams threw an interception, and Georgia State also lost a fumble.
Georgia State is 2-0 and Kennesaw State is 1-1. Georgia State led 28-3 late in the third quarter, and Kennesaw State's 14 late points made the scoreboard kinder than the game was.
Fantasy owners saw Collins score 27.0 for the losing side, and Brown (22.3) and McCrary (16.1) split the Georgia State carries.