Tarleton State Pulls Away from Prairie View A&M 49-30
Prairie View A&M gained 519 yards. Tarleton State gained 505. Neither team threw an interception or lost a fumble, and the one with fewer yards won by 19. Welcome to the first week of the season.
Tarleton State was the faster team on the scoreboard. Kaden Anderson hit Marquis Willis from 7 yards on the opening score, Chase Bingmon tied it at 7-7 on a 2-yard run, and after that Tarleton never trailed. Tylan Hines broke a 40-yard run, Anderson threw to Willis again from 30 and to Tanner Schmidt from 15, and it was 28-12 with 1:19 left in the half. Tevin Carter ran in a 4-yard score and threw the two-point conversion to Travon Jones with 23 seconds left to cut it to 28-20 at the break.
The third quarter put it away. Hines ripped off a 63-yard run at 12:28, and Anderson scored from 2 yards at 7:41 for 42-20. Ethan Eddins kicked a 21-yard field goal to make it 42-23, and Braedyn Locke's 7-yard touchdown pass to Klein Essler pushed the lead to 49-23 in the fourth. Carter's 53-yard pass to Jahbari Kuykendall at 9:51 was the last score of the day.
The yardage tells you what Prairie View did right: 331 through the air and 188 on the ground. It also did not sack anybody (zero), while Tarleton State's one sack was the only defensive sack of the game. Tarleton State opens 1-0, and Prairie View A&M is 0-1 with a lot of yards and not many answers.
For fantasy, Carter led everyone with 37.4 points, and Hines was close behind.