Grambling Scores 21 Straight to Beat Alcorn State 63-59
Alcorn State led 59-42 with 10:18 left in the fourth quarter. Grambling won 63-59. Sit with that for a second, because the Tigers scored 21 points in the last 10 minutes and the Braves did not score again.
The comeback went like this. Nae'Saan Dickerson caught a 15-yard touchdown from Ashton Frye at 6:11 to make it 59-49. D'Shuan Ford ran in from 1 yard out at 3:20 to make it 59-56. Then, with 19 seconds left, Frye hit Tyson George from 11 yards to finish it. Grambling had trailed by 17 and had not led since the third quarter. The lead changed hands three times and the game was tied twice, but only the last change mattered.
It was a game of big plays from both sides. Jaylon Tolbert threw five touchdown passes for Alcorn State and 411 yards on 18 completions, with scoring throws of 76 and 40 yards to Jamarr Ebron and 62 and 13 to Damien Jones. Grambling got a 97-yard kickoff return for a touchdown from K. Banks early in the third quarter, two touchdown passes from Jacobe Robinson to George in the first half and two rushing scores from Frye. The yardage was nearly even: 599 for Grambling (370 passing, 229 rushing on 34 carries) and 566 for Alcorn State (411 passing, 155 rushing). Alcorn State did not throw an interception, but it did lose a fumble.
Grambling is 1-1 now and Alcorn State is 2-2, and I would not want to be the one explaining that to the Braves. A 17-point lead in the fourth quarter is supposed to be safe. It was not.
For fantasy, this was a points festival: Tolbert (49.7), Frye (38.2) and George (33.6) all made the top three, and Frye did it on only 17 passes.