Campbell Scores 31 in the Third Quarter, Beats Hampton 44-20
Thirty-one points in one quarter. Campbell and Hampton went to halftime tied at 13-13, and then the visitors scored five times in a row (four touchdowns and a field goal) to make it 44-13 before the fourth quarter started. The final was Campbell 44, Hampton 20.
The first half was a trade. Hampton opened with a Brett Starling field goal, Kamden Sixkiller found Connor Adair from 28 yards for a 6-3 Campbell lead (the extra point was blocked), and Gracen Goldsmith's seven-yard run put Hampton back up 10-6. Sixkiller threw 34 yards to Chinua Ezeigbo to retake it, 13-10, and Starling's 19-yard field goal with 18 seconds left in the half tied it. Campbell trailed by as many as four, which is not much of a hole.
Then the third quarter. De'Von Thomas scored from two yards out at 8:14, caught a 29-yard touchdown pass from Sixkiller at 4:46, Kaleb Robison kicked a 24-yard field goal, Christian Campbell caught a six-yard score with 42 seconds left, and Ezeigbo took one 64 yards with 25 seconds left. That was five scoring plays in under eight minutes of game clock.
Hampton's offense, to be fair, did move it: 321 yards, 259 through the air. It also threw two interceptions and lost a fumble, and Campbell lost two fumbles and still turned 534 yards into 44 points. Isaiah Smith's five-yard catch from Tre'Von Taylor in the fourth made it 44-20, the last score of the game.
Campbell is 4-0, and Hampton is 0-3 with a 24-point loss to explain.