Ball State Beats Bowling Green 32-31 in Overtime on a Two-point Try
Down 24-17 with about a minute left, Ball State had about as little going for it as a team can have. It got a 20-yard touchdown pass from Keldric Luster to Eli Hohlt as the fourth quarter ran out, tied it 24-24, and then won the thing 32-31 in overtime by going for two. That is the whole story, and the rest is how it got so weird.
Ball State led 10-0 on a Brody Boehm field goal and a TJ Horton eight-yard run. Bowling Green answered 17 seconds later with a 77-yard touchdown from Jay Kastantin to Brennan Ridley, then kicked a 49-yard field goal to tie it at 10 before the half. Luster ran 28 yards for a touchdown in the third to make it 17-10, and that held until 1:12 was left, when Kastantin hit Eli Jacon-Duffy from six yards to tie it at 17-17.
Eleven seconds later, it was 24-17 Bowling Green. D'kyah Banks returned a fumble 35 yards for a touchdown, and it was Ball State's one turnover of the day. Luster's late touchdown pass got it back to 24-24, and Austyn Dendy opened overtime with a four-yard run for Bowling Green. Horton scored from the one, and Luster threw to Alex Scherle for the two-point conversion and the win.
Ball State outgained Bowling Green 435 yards to 313, with 240 of them on the ground on 42 carries. Both teams finish at 2-5, so nobody gets to call this a turning point yet.
For fantasy, the best score belonged to Luster, who ran 17 times for 125 yards and a touchdown, threw for another and scored 32.3 Promethium points. Horton added 22.3, and Kastantin, on the other side, had 21.3.