UAlbany Runs for 295 Yards Without a Passing Yard
Zero passing yards. UAlbany finished its opener with exactly none through the air (Aidan Semo went 0 for 1) and still beat New Hampshire 28-14, because 35 carries went for 295 yards. Nobody had to throw when the ground game was working like that.
New Hampshire did score first, Brooks Bentley hitting Myles Thomason from 4 yards out in the first quarter. That 7-0 lead lasted until Rahshan La Mons punched in a 1-yard run to tie it at 7. Then came two more UAlbany touchdowns before the half, Semo from a yard out and Joey Koch from 3 yards, and it was 21-7. Semo added another from 8 yards in the third quarter. UAlbany scored 21 of the last 28 points, and that was the whole game.
The Wildcats did not go quietly. Bentley found Ja'Carree Kelly for a 45-yard touchdown early in the third quarter to make it 21-14, and that was the last time New Hampshire scored. They actually out-gained UAlbany 297 yards to 295, with 235 of those through the air, but only 62 on 24 rushes and one interception. The sack column is not worth leaning on here.
So UAlbany is 1-0 and New Hampshire is 0-1, and the Wildcats can take some comfort that the yardage was dead even. Yardage does not go on the scoreboard, though.
Fantasy-wise, this was a game for the people who like a lopsided split. Kelly led everybody with 24.3 points on six catches, one of them a long score, and Koch's 144 rushing yards on seven carries put him second.