Howard Answers Alabama A&M's Late Lead and Wins 31-24
Howard went 13-0 up early, got dragged back into a one-score game, fell behind by a single point, and still won 31-24. The last blow was a 51-yard touchdown pass from Ja'Shawn Scroggins to Se'Quan Osborne with 2:41 to play, and Howard went for two and got it (Scroggins to Nathanial Clark).
The first half was Howard's. Scroggins threw a 1-yard touchdown to Markus Hopson, Matt Conord kicked field goals from 18 and 19 yards, and Scroggins found Clark from 4 yards at 4:23 of the second quarter for a 20-7 lead. Alabama A&M had gotten on the board with a 26-yard Cornelious Brown IV touchdown pass to Jarel Williams, and answered Howard's score with a 14-yard strike to Imari Conely with 2:13 left in the half. It was 20-14 at the break.
Conord's 31-yard field goal in the third made it 23-14, and then Alabama A&M climbed all the way back. Brown ran in from 4 yards at 13:10 of the fourth to make it 23-21, and David Faulk's 32-yard field goal at 7:49 put Alabama A&M ahead 24-23. That was Howard's only deficit of the game, one point. It lasted until Osborne's score.
Howard had 436 total yards to Alabama A&M's 405, with 322 of them through the air. Alabama A&M recorded 4 sacks, each team lost a fumble, and Brown threw the game's only interception. Howard opens 1-0, and Alabama A&M is 0-1 after a 24-23 lead with 7:49 left.
Fantasy angle: Scroggins completed just 19 of 36 and still finished with 35.5 points, because three touchdown throws will do that.