Army's Hellums Runs for Three Scores in 21-17 Win
Cale Hellums scored three touchdowns, and the last one, a 3-yard run with 1:41 left, is why Army beat Temple 21-17.
Here is the strange part. Army threw for 36 yards. Total. Temple threw for 242 and had 459 yards to Army's 319, with no turnovers and no sacks allowed. Temple still lost, because Army ran 55 times for 283 yards and turned the ground game into the points that mattered. Neither side turned it over, so the whole game came down to which style of offense could finish drives.
It started fast. Hellums ran 15 yards for a touchdown with 3:06 left in the first quarter, and Temple answered 49 seconds later when Ajani Sheppard hit Samuel Brown V on a 78-yard touchdown pass. Then nothing happened for a long while. The two teams went to halftime tied 7-7 without a point in the second quarter.
Army went up 14-7 on a 12-yard Hellums run late in the third, but Temple tied it 1:16 later on a 67-yard Sheppard pass to Colin Chase. So Temple hit on two long passes and Army answered with short runs. A Carl Hardin 29-yard field goal put Temple up 17-14 with 7:38 to go, and that was the only lead the Owls had all day. Hellums took it back.
Army moves to 2-1, and Temple drops to 1-3 after outgaining a team by 140 yards and losing. It is not fair. It is also how the option works. For fantasy, this was a good day to own a quarterback on either side.