Bowling Green Steals One from Kent State, 33-28
Kent State led for nine seconds. That is how long 28-27 lasted before Nakai Amachree broke a 48-yard touchdown run with 1:51 left and Bowling Green went back in front for good, 33-28.
Bowling Green scored first. Austin Novosad threw a 70-yard touchdown to Amachree with 10:27 left in the first quarter, and Dru DeShields answered with a 9-yard run to tie it at 7-7. Kent State went up 14-7 on a 39-yard DeShields pass to Wayne Harris, then Eli Jacon-Duffy's 23-yard catch tied it again at 14-14. Travis Kenner's 46-yard field goal with 2 seconds left in the first half put Bowling Green ahead 17-14.
The third quarter was Bowling Green's. Blane Cleaver caught a 1-yard touchdown pass from Novosad to make it 24-14, and Kenner added a 38-yarder for 27-14 going into the fourth. Kent State needed 13. DeShields hit Harris from 13 yards with 6:37 left, then ran for a 25-yard score with 2:00 to go to make it 28-27, Kent State's first lead since the second quarter. Then Amachree broke free, the two-point try failed, and the lead was five.
Kent State had 409 yards to 349 and 332 through the air, and it still lost, partly because DeShields threw two interceptions and Bowling Green did not give the ball away once. Bowling Green also piled up eight sacks, while Kent State ran just 32 times for 77.
Both teams are 3-7, so nobody's season was saved or sunk here. This one will be remembered as the one Kent State led for nine seconds.