Prairie View A&M Holds Off Grambling, 21-14
Five scoring plays, five touchdowns, and neither team gave the ball away once. Prairie View A&M's 21-14 win over Grambling was about as clean as a close game gets, and it came down to who kept finding the end zone on long plays versus short ones.
Grambling got there first. Nae'Saan Dickerson caught a 50-yard touchdown from Ashton Frye with 7:36 left in the second quarter, and the home side led 7-0. Prairie View A&M tied it before the half when Tevin Carter threw 37 yards to Travon Jones. The Panthers took their first lead in the third quarter on a 17-yard run by Jahbari Kuykendall, and led 14-7 going into the fourth. Carter then hit Kheagian Heckaman from two yards out with 9:13 left, which made it 21-7.
That looked like enough, and nearly was. Grambling needed one more big play and got it: Jacobe Robinson found Tyson George for 47 yards with 3:10 to go, and it was a one-score game again. Both Grambling touchdowns were long passes, 97 yards between them out of a team total of 268, so the offense was not exactly grinding. Prairie View A&M gained 321 yards (150 on the ground), and Grambling's defense sacked the Panthers four times and still lost. Prairie View A&M's defense got to the quarterback once. Sacks, it turns out, are not everything.
Prairie View A&M is 2-2 after the win, and it did it without a single turnover or field goal to lean on.
Fantasy-wise, Carter was the obvious pick, 18 of 22 and two scores, but two Grambling receivers each caught two passes and snuck onto the top three with one long touchdown apiece. Funny game.