Arkansas-Pine Bluff Scores 34 Straight, Routs Southern 41-10
Garrison Davis threw four touchdown passes on 154 yards and ran for 92 more, which is a very good way to spend an afternoon. Arkansas-Pine Bluff beat Southern 41-10, and it did not look like it would at the start.
Southern scored first, a 20-yard Wyatt McCauley pass to Daejawn Smith in the first quarter, and after D'Avery Robinson tied it at 7-7, Christopher McKenna's 23-yard field goal put Southern back in front 10-7. That was the last time Southern led, and its last points of the day. Arkansas-Pine Bluff scored 34 in a row from there: a 15-yard Davis pass to Demetric Whitlock for 14-10, a field goal just before the half, another early in the third, a 30-yard touchdown to Robinson, an 8-yard Jaylen Jennings run with seven seconds left in the third, and a 2-yard Davis pass to Bryce Robinson in the fourth.
The ground game made the difference on the stat sheet: 299 rushing yards on 31 carries for Arkansas-Pine Bluff, against 164 on 38 for Southern. Passing was a wash at 154 yards each, and each team threw one interception. Arkansas-Pine Bluff had 453 total yards to Southern's 318, and the scoreboard read a lot wider than the yardage.
Arkansas-Pine Bluff is 1-1 and Southern is 0-3. Fantasy-wise, this was Davis's day and the Robinsons' (plus Whitlock's), and the 34-0 run tells you how lopsided it got. Southern got nothing after that 23-yard field goal, which I would call a long afternoon. Four touchdown passes from a quarterback who threw only 22 times is efficiency worth noting.