Western Illinois Buries Morehead State 59-2
Morehead State finished with 77 total yards and two points. The two points came from a safety, which means the Eagles scored more on defense than they did with the ball (a sentence nobody wants to write about their offense). Western Illinois won 59-2 and never let up.
The Leathernecks were up 7-0 on Kennedy McGill's 28-yard run before the first quarter was half over, and 14-0 when he flipped a 5-yard touchdown to Tanner Zolnosky. By halftime it was 31-0, with Ihson Jackson-Anderson scoring once on the ground from 3 yards and once on a 35-yard catch with 33 seconds left in the second quarter. The safety by Luciano Corpora-Ellis in the third was the only time Morehead State touched the scoreboard, and Western Illinois answered with a 20-yard touchdown pass to Lukas Gilland late in that quarter to make it 45-2.
The backups finished the job. Cason Carswell hit Jamarion Davis from 7 yards in the fourth, and Gage Sturgill found Sasha Summers from 6 yards with 1:12 to go. Between them they went 7-for-7 for 92 yards and two scores, which is a nice afternoon for the depth chart. Western Illinois piled up 593 yards (356 passing, 237 rushing) with no turnovers and no sacks allowed, while its defense sacked Morehead State five times. Morehead managed 38 passing yards and 39 on the ground, and threw an interception.
Western Illinois is 1-1 after this one and Morehead State falls to 0-2. For fantasy, McGill is the story: four passing touchdowns and a rushing score gave him 48.7 points, more than his first two games combined.