Richmond Jumps on Bucknell Early and Wins 35-14
It was 21-0 after one quarter and 28-0 at the half, so the only question left was whether Bucknell would get on the board. It did, and Richmond won 35-14.
The Spiders had four touchdowns on the board before halftime. Ashten Snelsire threw an 8-yard touchdown to Carson Derey with 10:21 left in the first and a 9-yarder to Bryce Allen about four minutes later. Aziz Foster-Powell added a 1-yard run with 1:08 left in the quarter and a 5-yard run with 1:56 left in the second. Richmond led the whole way and never had to look back.
Bucknell finally scored with 2:34 left in the third, when Christopher Dietrich hit Michael Cadden for 51 yards, and added a 29-yard score to Sam Milligan early in the fourth. That made it 28-14. Ten seconds later (13:03 to 12:53 on the clock) Snelsire and Allen connected on a 75-yard touchdown, and that settled it.
The ground game was lopsided. Richmond ran 34 times for 194 yards. Bucknell ran 29 times for 32 and fumbled once. Richmond lost a fumble too, but sacked Bucknell four times. Richmond finished with 393 yards to 187.
Christopher Dietrich threw both Bucknell touchdowns (51 and 29 yards), and the Bison finished with 155 passing yards in total. Those two plays were all 14 of Bucknell's points, which is not much of a plan for a road opener.
Richmond is 1-0 and Bucknell 0-1. For fantasy, this was a three-way split among running back, receiver and quarterback, and all three finished within about two points of each other.