SMU Rolls Virginia Tech 51-28 Behind Kevin Jennings
Kevin Jennings threw four touchdown passes, and three of them went to the same man. SMU beat Virginia Tech 51-28 at home, led from the first score to the last, and looked far more comfortable than the final margin of 23 suggests.
Dramekco Green ran in from 12 yards to open it, and Brendan Baird kicked field goals of 47, 26 and 50 yards, the last one with three seconds left in the first half to make it 23-14. In between, Jennings hit Yamir Knight from 46 yards for 20-7. Virginia Tech had scored on Ethan Grunkemeyer's one-yard run and a 22-yard Jeffrey Overton Jr. run, so the visitors were in it at the half. The third quarter ended that. Kendrick Raphael ran in from three yards, Jennings threw 13 yards to Knight, and it was 37-14. Knight caught a five-yarder in the fourth to make it 44-14.
Virginia Tech scored twice late, a two-yard Overton run (with a good two-point try) and a three-yard Grunkemeyer pass to Que'Sean Brown, to get to 44-28. Jennings answered 17 seconds later with a 50-yard touchdown pass to Jalen Cooper, and that was the last score.
The yardage was 569 to 418. SMU threw for 350 and ran for 219, and its defense sacked Grunkemeyer four times. Each team threw one interception, and Virginia Tech lost a fumble. SMU is 7-2, and Virginia Tech is 6-3.
For fantasy, Jennings led with 39.7 points, Knight had 35.4 on three touchdowns, and Overton had 31.6 for the losers.