Bowling Green Scores with Eight Seconds Left to Beat Miami (OH)
Eight seconds. That is how much clock Miami (OH) left on the board after Kellan McLaughlin kicked his fourth field goal of the day, and it was enough for Bowling Green. Leo Kemp ran it in from two yards out with 0:08 left, Travis Kenner added the kick, and Bowling Green walked off with a 24-20 win after trailing 20-17.
It was a field goal game for most of the way. Miami went up 3-0 in the second quarter, Bowling Green answered with a 64-yard touchdown from Jay Kastantin to Nakai Amachree and a Kenner field goal, and McLaughlin's 41-yarder as the half expired made it 10-6. A third McLaughlin kick closed the third quarter at 10-9. Then Kastantin found Eli Jacon-Duffy from 14 yards out early in the fourth to make it 17-9, and Caleb Heavner hit Lynel Billups-Williams from 10 yards plus a two-point conversion to tie it at 17. McLaughlin's 28-yarder with 1:47 left put the home team back in front, 20-17. That lasted about a minute and a half. Three lead changes, one tie, and the last word went to the visitors.
The box score tells a lopsided story that the scoreboard does not. Bowling Green threw for 305 yards and ran for 60 (22 carries, so the ground game was mostly decoration), while Miami went 35 carries for 108 and 198 through the air. Neither team turned it over. Bowling Green's defense is credited with six sacks in the box score, which tells you where it earned its keep.
Bowling Green is 1-4 and Miami is 2-3, so the bigger swing here is a team that needed a win getting one the hard way. For the fantasy crowd, it was a passing day: Kastantin, Brennan Ridley (9 catches) and Billups-Williams all posted season highs.