Burch Runs for 184 Yards and Three Scores as Buffalo Beats Bowling Green
Messiah Burch carried the ball 33 times for 184 yards and three touchdowns, and Buffalo needed every one of them. The Bulls beat Bowling Green 31-24 in a game that was tied three times.
It went back and forth for three quarters. Burch scored from 11 yards out in the first quarter, Jay Kastantin tied it with an 18-yard pass to Isaiah Dawson, and a 40-yard throw to Trey Johnson put Bowling Green up 14-7. Jason Wright found Clint Walker from 14 yards with 29 seconds left in the half to tie it again. Kastantin hit Nakai Amachree from 13 yards to make it 21-14 early in the third, and Burch answered from two yards two minutes later for another tie at 21.
Then Buffalo took the game. Oliver Hautanen kicked a 31-yard field goal, and on the next score Burch ripped off a 73-yard touchdown run with 12:18 left. That was 17 straight points to turn a 21-14 deficit into a 31-21 lead, and that one run was 73 of his 184 yards. Bowling Green got a 26-yard Travis Kenner field goal with 3:33 to go and nothing more.
The numbers say why. Buffalo ran for 251 yards and threw for 127. Bowling Green threw two interceptions, and Buffalo threw none, though Wright did lose a fumble. Buffalo is 5-3 and Bowling Green is 2-6, so the Bulls are comfortably above .500 and the Falcons are not.
Fantasy takeaway: Burch's 36.4 Promethium points were a season high, and Kastantin's 30.1 in a loss was a season high too.