Tennessee Tech Scores 31 Straight to Bury Monmouth 38-14
This was a 7-7 game with 4:45 left in the second quarter. Tennessee Tech then outscored Monmouth 31-0 and won 38-14, with Jax Leatherwood throwing four touchdown passes.
Tech scored first when Leatherwood hit Gabe Nunez from 2 yards in the first quarter, and Elijah Jennings tied it with an 11-yard run for Monmouth. That was the end of the contest. Leatherwood found Qua Ashley from 18 yards with a minute left in the half, Carter Brown kicked a 40-yard field goal as the half expired, and it was 17-7 at the break. M.J. Flowers scored from 6 yards early in the third, Maury Sullivan caught a 16-yarder at 12:01 of the fourth, and Ashley caught his second touchdown from 23 yards with 4:53 to play. That was 31 unanswered points before Kenny Smith got one back for Monmouth from a yard out with 1:50 left.
The passing game was the whole story: Tennessee Tech threw for 289 yards and ran for 106, while Monmouth got 125 on the ground on only 24 carries but 179 through the air. Monmouth threw an interception and lost a fumble, and Tech lost a fumble of its own. Monmouth recorded 2 sacks, which did not slow anything down.
Tennessee Tech never trailed after that tie, and the margin, 24 points, is the kind of thing you check twice in Week 1. Three of Tech's four touchdown passes came from the second quarter on. Tennessee Tech is 1-0. Monmouth is 0-1. For fantasy, Leatherwood finished with 34 points, and Nunez and Ashley both made the top three behind him.