Dayton Holds Off Eastern Kentucky 17-14
Eastern Kentucky had 427 yards to Dayton's 303 and lost. The Colonels also lost two fumbles, both by quarterback Jordyn Potts, and that is the whole difference in a three-point game.
Dayton got on the board with 1 second left in the first half, when Bryce Schondelmyer threw a 4-yard touchdown to Michael Mussari for a 7-0 lead. Luke Hansen's 1-yard run with 3:05 left in the third made it 14-0. That was the lead entering the fourth quarter: two touchdowns, nothing else.
The fourth quarter was where the game got interesting. Brady Hensley ran in from 2 yards at 14:57 to make it 14-7, and David Maurer kicked a 23-yard field goal to push it back to 17-7. Potts then found Caeleb Schlachter on a 54-yard touchdown with 8:18 to play, and it was 17-14. Nobody scored after that.
Dayton ran 33 times for 157 yards and threw for 146, with no turnovers and two sacks. Eastern Kentucky threw for 278 and ran for 149 but never got the lead, and the two fumbles tell you where the extra yardage went. Dayton is 1-0 and Eastern Kentucky drops to 1-2.
For fantasy, Mussari's seven catches for 87 yards and a score led all scorers with 21.7 points.