Army Kicks a Last-second Field Goal to Edge Tulane 20-17
Army threw for 19 yards. It still won. Cale Hellums completed 3 of 6 passes for those 19 yards, and the Black Knights ran 59 times for 329 more.
The game was low-scoring for most of its length. Hellums scored from a yard out with 1:42 left in the first quarter and Army led 7-0. Cooper Helmke kicked a 21-yard field goal for Tulane late in the second and it was 7-3 at halftime. Kadin Semonza ran in from a yard out with 3:18 left in the third to put Tulane up 10-7, the first lead change. Nothing else happened until the fourth quarter, which then had the whole game in it.
Dawson Jones tied it at 10 with a 31-yard field goal with 9:21 to go. Semonza threw a 39-yard touchdown to Jaylin Lucas with 7:44 left, and Tulane was up 17-10. Army needed 50 seconds to answer: Hellums broke a 58-yard touchdown run with 6:54 left, and it was 17-17. Nobody scored again until the clock hit zero, when Jones kicked a 25-yard field goal to make it 20-17.
The stats lean Army's way in only one place. Army had 348 total yards to Tulane's 280, and did not turn it over. Tulane threw one interception, and Semonza finished 14 of 26 for 158 yards and a touchdown. Army also had a single sack and Tulane had none.
Army moves to 3-2 and Tulane falls to 2-3. Hellums ran 38 times for 223 yards and two touchdowns, and that was the best fantasy game on the field by a lot.