Jackson Gutierrez Scores Six Times as Navy Edges Temple
Jackson Gutierrez ran for five touchdowns, threw for another, and Navy needed every one of them. The Midshipmen beat Temple 42-35 after leading 28-0, and it took a 4-yard Gutierrez run with 1:14 left to settle it after Temple had tied it.
It looked like a blowout. Gutierrez scored from a yard out twice in the first quarter and again at 5:00 of the second, then added a 6-yard run to make it 28-0 with 1:14 left in the half. The next score was the strange one: JoJo Bermudez returned a punt 78 yards on the final play of the half, and Temple was suddenly on the board. Bermudez caught a 41-yard touchdown from Jaxon Smolik early in the third quarter, Gutierrez answered with a 49-yard throw to Jordan Collins, and it was 35-14.
Then Temple scored three times in the fourth quarter. Smolik hit Jayce Freeman from 6 yards, Samuel Brown V ran one in from a yard, and Freeman caught another from 25 yards with 5:35 left to tie it 35-35. That is 21 unanswered points. Gutierrez's last run was the answer.
The yardage explains why it was close and also why Navy won. Navy ran the ball 64 times for 333 yards and 511 in total, against Temple's 21 runs and 218 total, but Navy also gave it away (an interception and a lost fumble), and Temple threw an interception of its own. Navy is 3-6 and Temple falls to 2-7.
Fantasy managers who started Gutierrez got 61.1 points, his best game by a mile.