BYU Stays Unbeaten, Grinding Out a 17-10 Win at TCU
Take Bear Bachmeier's two rushing touchdowns off the board and TCU wins this game 10-3. That is how little there was to it. BYU beat TCU 17-10 to go to 4-0, and it did so while completing 11 of 24 passes for 62 yards.
Nobody scored in the first quarter, and for a while the only points came from Bachmeier. He ran 9 yards for a touchdown at 7:52 of the second quarter to make it 7-0. TCU answered with 27 seconds left in the half, when Jaden Craig threw 13 yards to Kari Ashley, and it was 7-7 at the break. Matthias Dunn's 49-yard field goal at 7:34 of the third put BYU back in front, 10-7. That was the last score for a long while.
Bachmeier ran 21 yards for his second touchdown at 2:06, which made it 17-7. Nate McCashland kicked a 44-yard field goal for TCU with 32 seconds left, and that was all the time there was. BYU never trailed.
The team numbers are a little backwards. TCU had 259 total yards to BYU's 219, with TCU throwing for 187 while BYU managed 62. But BYU ran for 157 on 36 carries and TCU threw an interception and mustered 72 yards on the ground. BYU also sacked the TCU quarterback four times. TCU falls to 2-3.
For fantasy, Ashley led the game with 23.5 points on six catches for 108 yards and a score, which is a nice reminder that you can lose and still win your week.