Abilene Christian Goes up 28-0 and Cruises past West Florida
Tucker Parks threw 17 passes and completed 16 of them. Three went for touchdowns, and Abilene Christian was up 28-0 at halftime on its way to a 35-7 win over West Florida.
The yardage was nearly even, 352 for Abilene Christian and 344 for West Florida, and that is the weird part. The Wildcats just kept turning theirs into points: a 31-yard Parks touchdown pass to JC French-Love late in the first quarter, a 30-yard Rovaughn Banks Jr. run, a 14-yard Deonte Dean run, and an 8-yard Parks touchdown pass to Jayden York with 37 seconds left in the half. West Florida did not score until Ty'ray Davis hit Jakari Mozelle from 22 yards with 5:17 left in the fourth. Parks answered with a 9-yard touchdown pass with 1:33 to go.
Parks also ran 15 times for 97 yards (Banks had 19 carries for 80), so he was involved in almost everything: 155 yards through the air, 97 on the ground. Abilene Christian ran 36 times for 197 yards. West Florida had the edge in passing yards, 208 to 155, and Davis threw 31 times to get them, but lost a fumble and only scored once. Both teams lost one fumble and neither threw an interception, so there was no turnover story here, just a team that cashed in and a team that did not.
Abilene Christian improves to 2-3, which is still a record that needs help, and it got some here. West Florida drops to 3-2. Parks led all fantasy scorers with 33.9 points, a season high.