Stephen F. Austin Cruises past Prairie View A&M 31-10
Gavin Rutherford threw three touchdown passes before halftime had even arrived, and Prairie View A&M spent the rest of the day trying to climb out of a 24-0 hole.
Stephen F. Austin scored first on a 15-yard Rutherford pass to Gerard Edimo with 12:58 left in the first. Cameron Kelley made it 14-0 with a 15-yard catch at 0:42 of the quarter. Carlos Alvarado kicked a 46-yard field goal, and then a 10-yard touchdown pass with 1:48 left in the second put it at 24-0.
Prairie View A&M finally got on the board with an Ethan Eddins 37-yard field goal in the third, 24-3. Speedy Jones ran 21 yards for a touchdown at the start of the fourth quarter to make it 31-3, and Kaeden Smith's 2-yard run with 4:02 left set the 31-10 final.
The Lumberjacks did it with five sacks and a defense that held Prairie View A&M to 267 total yards, 81 of them rushing on 44 carries. They turned it over twice (one interception, one lost fumble) and Prairie View A&M once, and it did not matter.
The scoring was lopsided in every way you can slice it: 24 points in the first half against none, and the margin never dropped below 21 once Stephen F. Austin led 24-3 in the third. Rutherford had three touchdown passes on only 25 attempts, which is efficient by any measure.
Stephen F. Austin is 4-0. Prairie View A&M is 1-2. Rutherford led the fantasy board again, and Damien McDaniel, with six catches for 80 yards, was the best fantasy player on the losing side.