Liberty Rolls Kennesaw State 34-6 Without Ever Trailing
Kennesaw State threw for 235 yards and scored six points. Liberty threw for 187 and scored 34.
The difference was what each team did with the ball. Liberty ran 40 times for 216 yards, and Kennesaw State ran 27 times for 62. Kennesaw State threw two interceptions (both from Rickie Collins) and Liberty threw none and did not lose a fumble. Put that together and Liberty finished with 403 total yards to 297, which is a closer number than the score suggests.
Liberty led from the first scoring play, a one-yard run by Kam Davis with 7:11 left in the first quarter, and added a 56-yard touchdown pass from Deshawn Purdie to Jaylon Coleman before the quarter ended, 14-0. Daniel Kinney's 37-yard field goal in the last half-minute of the second quarter was all Kennesaw State had at the half, 14-3. Chase Reeves kicked a 30-yarder early in the third, Coleman ran in from nine yards late in the quarter, and Reeves added a 49-yarder to open the fourth. Terron Kellman finished it off with a two-yard run with 5:26 to go, and Kinney's 28-yard field goal with 1:11 left kept Kennesaw State off the zero.
Dylan Gary and Javon Rogers each caught five passes for 43 and 42 yards, so the passing game found its yards. It never found the end zone, and 297 yards, two giveaways and two field goals is the whole story. Liberty is 6-1 now. Kennesaw State is 1-6.
For fantasy, Jaylon Coleman scored once running and once catching for a season-best 24.6 points.