Tre' Holloway Scores Four Times as Tennessee Tech Routs Samford
Tre' Holloway caught six passes, carried once, returned a punt, and scored four touchdowns. Tennessee Tech beat Samford 45-19 and moved to 3-0, while Samford fell to 0-3.
Holloway caught touchdown passes of 48 and 43 yards from Jax Leatherwood, ran in a 4-yarder, and took a punt back 76 yards in the third quarter. Qua Ashley added a 56-yard run in the first quarter, which made it 14-0 after two scores. Tennessee Tech scored first, scored again, and never trailed.
Samford did get points, mostly in threes. Ty Ippolito kicked four field goals (54, 22, 58 and 28 yards, so credit for the leg), and Gabarri Johnson ran in from 7 yards in the third quarter to make it 38-19. Then Joe Hall III returned a fumble 5 yards for a touchdown with 0:51 left in the quarter, and that was the end of the scoring. Samford threw for 281 yards but ran for only 39 on 25 carries and lost a fumble.
Tennessee Tech's offense was calmer than the score: 409 total yards to Samford's 320, 180 of them on the ground, no turnovers and four sacks on defense. Samford had three sacks of its own and did not throw an interception, which is a fine stat line for a team that lost by 26. The punt return and the fumble return did a lot of the damage. Tennessee Tech's Carter Brown kicked a 49-yard field goal just before the half and made all six extra points, the quiet kind of work nobody writes about.
For fantasy, Holloway was the week. He scored 36.8 points, well ahead of his quarterback.