Montana Buries UC Davis 62-22 Behind Four Gillman Touchdowns
Eli Gillman ran 26 times for 275 yards and four touchdowns. That is not a typo, and it is only part of how Montana got to 62-22 over UC Davis.
The Grizzlies opened the scoring with a 5-yard Gillman run, and added another 5-yarder from him before the first quarter was over. A Jo Silver field goal made it 17-0 with 20 seconds left in the first. In the second, Keali'i Ah Yat hit Landon Ransom-Goelz from 2 yards and ran one in from 7, and Montana had a 31-0 lead. UC Davis finally got on the board as the half expired, a 27-yard touchdown pass from Treynor Cleeland to Zach Jones and a two-point conversion, which made it 31-8.
It did not get any closer. Gillman added a 16-yard score in the third, Ah Yat threw a 3-yarder to Brooks Davis and later ran in from 12, and Gillman broke a 58-yard run at the start of the fourth for a 59-15 lead. Silver kicked a 50-yard field goal, and UC Davis got a late touchdown from Jackson Kollock to Xzavior Guess to make the margin 40. Montana never trailed and was never tied.
The totals look like a misprint. Montana ran for 366 yards on 45 carries and finished with 607 total yards, no turnovers and three sacks. UC Davis had 392 total yards, which is not nothing, but it lost two fumbles and never got a sack of its own.
Montana is 4-0 and UC Davis is 3-1. For fantasy, Gillman had a 53.4-point day, and Ah Yat and Davis went well over 25 each. Nobody else in this game needs a pep talk, except maybe the UC Davis defense (62 points, in case you were wondering).