Navy Wins Despite Four Turnovers, with Jackson Gutierrez Running 41 Times
Four turnovers. Navy lost three fumbles and threw an interception, Tulsa lost none, and Navy still won 34-26. That is the kind of arithmetic a ground game makes possible: 66 rushing attempts for 388 yards will cover a lot of mistakes.
Tulsa had the better of the first half. Jackson Gutierrez opened the scoring with a 56-yard run, but the Golden Hurricane answered with a one-yard Sevion Morrison score, a 10-yard pass from Oran Singleton Jr. to David Wells Jr., and two Owen Carey field goals to go up 20-7 with 1:17 left in the half. Navy got a touchdown back before the break, when Gutierrez threw a 58-yard score to Truman Brasfield with 0:17 left. That 13-point hole was the biggest Navy had to climb out of, and it was down 20-14 at halftime.
Tulsa pushed it back to 26-14 when Singleton Jr. caught a three-yard pass from Baylor Hayes (the two-point try failed). Charles Robinson scored from seven yards, but Nolan Bartley missed the extra point, so Tulsa still led 26-20 entering the fourth. Gutierrez then scored from four yards at 8:30 to put Navy ahead 27-26, and from three yards at 1:10 to make it 34-26.
Gutierrez ran 41 times for 232 yards and three touchdowns, and added the 58-yard touchdown pass on five completions. Navy finished with 95 passing yards and 483 total; Tulsa had 376, with 278 through the air. Navy is 2-3 and Tulsa is 3-3. For fantasy, 51 points from a quarterback with two lost fumbles is hard to complain about.