Georgia Southern Routs Marshall 49-13 Behind Max Johnson
Seven seconds. Georgia Southern scored a touchdown with 3:11 left in the first quarter and another at 3:04, the second on a 24-yard interception return by Chace Calicut. Marshall answered with a score of its own, but the Eagles had already gone ahead 14-0, and they never gave the lead back in a 49-13 win.
Max Johnson did most of the damage. He threw four touchdown passes (23 and 45 yards to Jeremiah Ware, 70 to Alex Taylor, and 1 yard to Andre Greene Jr.) and ran for another from 16 yards out early in the fourth quarter. Ty Cummings added a 16-yard run at 9:12 for a 49-7 lead. Marshall only got a 45-yard Jo'Shon Barbie run in the first quarter and a 66-yard Khalil Wilkins run late (a failed two-point try) on the board.
The odd part is Marshall's yardage. The Thundering Herd ran 39 times for 250 yards and totaled 412, which is not far behind Georgia Southern's 454. But Marshall threw two interceptions, one of them the pick-six, and Georgia Southern threw none, and had the edge through the air too, 287 passing yards to Marshall's 162. Take away the interception return and it is still a 42-13 game.
Georgia Southern and Marshall both sit at 5-4 after the game. One of them looks a lot better than the other today.
Fantasy managers should note that Johnson's 42.4 points came against a three-game average of 16.3, and Ware, who had no touchdowns all year before Saturday, got two against Marshall.