Tennessee Tech Beats Chattanooga 24-9 as Three Field Goals Fall Short
Chattanooga got to the end zone zero times, kicked three field goals, and lost 24-9 to Tennessee Tech. Jude Kelley was good from 22, 33 and 39 yards. The rest of the offense had 37 passing yards.
Chattanooga did lead early, 3-0 on Kelley's first kick at 1:00 of the first quarter, and Marcus Harris II ran it in from a yard out with 1:16 left in the second to flip it, 7-3. Kelley's 33-yarder on the last play of the half made it 7-6. That was the last time Chattanooga was within a point. Carter Brown kicked a 50-yard field goal with 6:38 left in the third, and Maury Sullivan caught a 16-yard touchdown from Jax Leatherwood at 1:01 to make it 17-6.
Kelley's third field goal at 8:32 of the fourth cut it to 17-9. Gabe Nunez's 11-yard touchdown catch with 2:44 left made it 24-9, and that was that.
The yardage says Chattanooga was in this game more than the score does. It ran 35 times for 190 yards, to Tennessee Tech's 81 yards on 26 carries, and the two teams ended up almost even at 227 to 242 in total yards. The difference was the end zone, plain and simple: Tech scored three, Chattanooga none, and Chattanooga threw two interceptions to Tech's one.
Tennessee Tech is 2-0 and Chattanooga is 1-1. For fantasy, Sullivan and Leatherwood were the top two on the sheet, and Journey Wyche's 113 yards on 12 carries was the best thing on the Chattanooga side.