Alcorn State Outlasts Arkansas-Pine Bluff 53-51 in Overtime
Five touchdown passes from Jaylon Tolbert, and the last one came in overtime. Alcorn State beat Arkansas-Pine Bluff 53-51 in a shootout that needed the extra period to settle.
The Braves threw for 485 yards and gained 699 in total. Tolbert hit Tyree Kelly from 28 yards and Nolan Chambers from 23 in the first quarter, and both extra points failed (a theme for the night, as it turned out). Ernest Temple added a 1-yard run in the second quarter. Arkansas-Pine Bluff kept coming back with Garrison Davis, who threw four touchdown passes on just 12 completions, two of them to D'Avery Robinson.
The fourth quarter is where it got silly. Michael Henderson took one of Tolbert's two interceptions 100 yards the other way for a Golden Lions score, and Za'Marion Webber added a 54-yard run. Alcorn State answered with a Fredrick Robertson 4-yard run, then Tolbert found Kelly again from 68 yards and Damien Jones from 9 with 3:50 left. In overtime Paul Summers II caught a 7-yard touchdown from Davis, and Tolbert answered with a 3-yard pass to Armon Wright to end it.
Arkansas-Pine Bluff ran the ball well, 40 carries for 258 yards, but passed for only 167 and lost a fumble on top of the interception. Alcorn State sacked Davis three times and gave up nothing in return on that front.
The Braves open 1-0 and the Golden Lions are 0-1 after a loss by two points. For fantasy, Tolbert gave his owners 53 points in one afternoon, nearly nine times what he had scored in the opener.