McNeese Holds on to Beat East Texas A&M, 27-24
Take away Omiri Wiggins' 74-yard touchdown run and McNeese loses this game 24-20. It came with 14:09 left in the third quarter, and it turned a 13-10 lead into 20-10. McNeese went on to win 27-24, and both teams are now 1-3, so nobody here is having a great September.
East Texas A&M had actually outgained the Cowboys, 475 yards to 412, with 286 of them through the air. It still lost. McNeese opened with two Deaglan Camron field goals before Jack Jacobs hit Sean Sallis from seven yards to put the visitors up 7-6, the only lead East Texas A&M held until it was too late to matter. Jake Strong's two-yard pass to Jamaal Levi made it 13-7, and Ozlo Rigby's 26-yard field goal as the half expired made it 13-10.
Then came Wiggins, and then Hutch Swilley's six-yard run with 4:35 left in the third made it 27-10. Eric Rodriguez would not quit, though. He threw 49 yards to Kaden Taylor to make it 27-17 going into the fourth quarter, and then 46 yards to Rayshawn Glover with 4:33 left in the game to make it 27-24. That was the last score of the evening.
Both sides lost a fumble, and East Texas A&M added an interception on top of it. McNeese did not throw one, and that was the difference in a game decided by a field goal's worth of points.
Fantasy-wise, Wiggins led all scorers at 25.2 points, and Rodriguez had a season high despite the loss.