South Carolina State Holds on to Beat Bethune-Cookman 31-21
South Carolina State was up 24-7 at halftime, and it needed every point of it. Bethune-Cookman scored 14 straight in the third quarter and had the Bulldogs looking at a 24-21 game before Josh Shaw ended it with a 1-yard run in the fourth. Final: 31-21.
Shaw scored first, from 4 yards out, and Bethune-Cookman answered 82 seconds later when Tyler Jefferson ran 63 yards for a touchdown and a 7-7 tie. That was the only tie of the day. Keely Watson then threw an 18-yard touchdown pass to Troy Hillman, and a 32-yarder to Darius Thompson in the second quarter, and Jett Jackson kicked a 34-yard field goal with 1:01 left in the half for 24-7.
Then the third quarter. Rashon Brown ran 45 yards for a touchdown, and Josh Evans caught a 35-yard pass from Isaiah Daniel with 40 seconds left in the quarter to make it 24-21. Bethune-Cookman had 238 total yards in the whole game, and 143 of them came on three plays (a 63-yard run, a 45-yard run and that 35-yard catch). South Carolina State then sealed it with Shaw's score with 1:56 to play.
The Bulldogs ran for 282 yards and had 5 sacks on defense, and gave up one fumble. Bethune-Cookman had no turnovers and was held to 107 rushing yards.
South Carolina State is 3-0 and Bethune-Cookman is 1-1. Fantasy owners got a tie at the top: Shaw and Watson each scored 17.4 points, and Mason Pickett-Hicks was just behind at 16.9 on 136 yards.