James Madison Goes Wire to Wire past San Diego State
Javion Kinnard carried 33 times for 181 yards and scored a touchdown, and his team still lost. James Madison led from the first score to the last and won 26-13, moving to 3-0.
Camden Coleman ran 4 yards for the first touchdown, with 12:14 left in the first quarter, and Morgan Suarez added field goals of 46 and 32 yards. Coleman threw a 7-yard touchdown pass to Cole Keller with 30 seconds left in the half (the two-point try failed), so the visitors took a 19-0 lead to the break.
San Diego State's only answer in the first three quarters was a 3-yard Kinnard run at 6:47 of the third, which made it 19-7. Keller caught another from Coleman, 20 yards, early in the fourth to make it 26-7, and Nathan Acevedo caught a 14-yard touchdown from Jayden Denegal with 8:52 left. The two-point run failed there as well, and that was the end of the scoring.
The yards were closer than the score. James Madison had 421 total and San Diego State had 401, with 192 yards on the ground to 175 for James Madison. What decided it was the ball: Denegal threw two interceptions, and that is hard to cover. James Madison lost one fumble and threw none. San Diego State is 1-2, and Kinnard did everything a back can do to prevent that, with 33 carries and 4 catches.
For fantasy, Kinnard's 35.1 points were a huge day for a back on a losing team, and Coleman's 30.3 was the best by a quarterback.