UT Rio Grande Valley Beats McNeese 27-10 on Turnovers
Four turnovers to one. That is the short version of why McNeese is 0-3 and UT Rio Grande Valley walked out of this one 27-10.
McNeese threw three interceptions and lost a fumble, and the Vaqueros turned the day into a ground game: 40 rushes for 317 yards against 28 for 109, with only 173 passing yards of their own. Aidan Jakobsohn started it with a 4-yard touchdown pass to Kyran Lee late in the first quarter, then ran in from 7 yards for 14-0 with 9:38 left in the second. McNeese answered with a Deaglan Camron field goal, Brysen Gardner kicked one back right before halftime, and it was 17-3.
Jakobsohn added a 3-yard touchdown run with 10 seconds left in the third quarter, and that made it 24-3 going to the fourth. Devin Lippold hit Curtis Deville from 39 yards at the top of the fourth to make it 24-10, and that was the whole McNeese offense in the touchdown column. Gardner's 23-yard field goal with 1:55 left closed it out.
The Vaqueros are 1-1 after a game in which they were never headed (no lead changes, no ties). McNeese took three losses to start the season and, in this one, handed over the ball four times. Hard to win that way.
McNeese finished with 279 total yards and one touchdown. The other side had 490 yards and four takeaways to go with them.
For fantasy purposes, Jakobsohn was the best player on the field with one pass touchdown, two rush touchdowns and an interception thrown, and TJ Dement quietly ran 13 times for 144 yards.