Eli Gillman Scores Four Times as Montana Buries Drake 45-10
Drake led for about five minutes. A 22-yard field goal on its first scoring play put the Bulldogs up 3-0, and then Eli Gillman went to work. Montana answered with 45 points of its own and won 45-10.
Gillman scored from 3 yards out with 7:00 left in the first quarter, from 3 yards again at 2:11, and from 1 yard with 7:19 left in the second. After the break he caught a 1-yard pass from Keali'i Ah Yat for a fourth touchdown, and Brooks Davis added a 26-yard catch with 53 seconds left in the third. That made it 35-3 going into the fourth quarter, which is the point at which this became a formality.
Drake got a 10-yard touchdown pass from R. Warzynski to K. Clark at 9:30 of the fourth to avoid the shutout. Jo Silver kicked a 50-yard field goal at 4:05 and Dylan Paine finished it with a 1-yard run at 1:27.
The yardage did not look quite as ugly as the score, and that is worth a look. Drake gained 297 yards to Montana's 490, so it moved the ball a bit. What it did not do is hold on to it: two lost fumbles against none for Montana.
Montana is 2-0. Drake is 0-1. Drake did move the ball through the air, 252 passing yards, but only 45 on the ground over 21 carries, and it never scored a touchdown before the fourth quarter.
Fantasy managers who started Gillman got 37.1 points out of one back, and Ah Yat added 282 passing yards on top.