South Florida Wins Ugly at Bowling Green, 14-6
South Florida is 4-0 and scored its first points of the game with 12:07 left in the fourth quarter. That is a long wait, and it still ended 14-6 in USF's favor over Bowling Green.
Bowling Green got there first, and for most of the game it was the only team scoring: Travis Kenner kicked a 43-yard field goal in the first quarter and a 28-yarder in the second, which was a 6-0 lead through three quarters. Then Luke Kromenhoek scored from 2 yards out, the extra point put USF up 7-6, and D.J. Crowther added a 1-yard touchdown run with 5:34 left to make it 14-6. Nothing else was scored.
USF did it with 217 total yards, 165 of them on the ground and only 52 through the air, and with two lost fumbles, both from Michael Van Buren Jr. Its defense sacked the quarterback three times. Crowther carried 23 times for 143 yards, which is 143 of the 165 rushing yards USF had. Bowling Green had 207 yards, no turnovers and six sacks of its own, and still lost. Those are the numbers of a team that did most things right and could not get the ball in the end zone.
Bowling Green is 0-4, and has now lost a game in which it never gave up a touchdown until the fourth quarter. For fantasy, this was a thin game: Crowther's 22.4 points were more than double anyone else's, and the next two best scorers were both Bowling Green pass catchers, Winn Sharp (5 catches, 56 yards) and tight end Eli Jacon-Duffy (4 catches, 30 yards).