Tarleton State Scores 49 Straight and Buries Chicago State 56-21
Chicago State led 7-0. Remember that, because it is the last time the game was close. Tarleton State then scored 49 points in a row and won 56-21, running its record to 4-0.
Chicago State took the early lead on a 1-yard Chris Edmonds run in the first quarter. Tarleton State tied it at 7-7 on a 7-yard Kaden Anderson pass to Kyle Thompson and kept going: B.J. Fleming from 15 yards, Danny Joiner from 8, and Bryce Parker from 23 early in the third. That made four touchdown passes for Anderson and a 28-7 lead, and he did it on 10 completions in 22 attempts and 145 yards. Four of his ten completions were touchdowns, which is one way to be efficient.
The second half belonged to the ground game. Bryce Green scored from 10 yards in the third, then from 5 and 23 in the fourth, and Markellus Bass added a 23-yarder to make it 56-14. Tarleton State finished with 392 rushing yards on 40 carries and 589 total, against 13 rushing yards on 31 carries for Chicago State, which also threw two interceptions and lost a fumble.
The Chicago State passing game was not the problem. It threw for 292 yards, and Kymari Gray caught a 38-yard touchdown from Ashton Pannell in the fourth quarter. Jacob Tiberi punched in a 1-yard run with 1:54 left to make the final 56-21. Chicago State is 0-4, and those 14 late points were the only ones it got after that first quarter.