Morgan State Rallies from 14 Down to Stay Unbeaten
One blocked extra point. That was the whole distance between a 28-27 Morgan State win and a trip to overtime.
Robert Morris looked like the team in charge for a long stretch. Carson Haggard threw a 28-yard touchdown to Attawan Mays in the first quarter and ran one in from 4 yards in the second, and it was 14-0 before Morgan State had a point. The Bears got a 30-yard Gavin Fetty field goal as the first half ran out, then another from 19 yards early in the third, and it was 14-6. Not much, but it was a pulse.
The third quarter is where it turned. Cameron Edge found Joseph Towler on a 56-yard touchdown to make it 14-13, Haggard answered with a 54-yard strike to Noah Schaerli (21-13), and then Keith Jenkins Jr. broke off a 45-yard run and Edge hit Alex Simmons for the two-point conversion. Tied at 21 going into the fourth. Robert Morris went back up 27-21 on a 9-yard Haggard pass to Eyasu Palmore, but the extra point was blocked, and that is the sort of thing that comes back around. It did. Jenkins scored from the 1 with 24 seconds left, Fetty kicked it, and Morgan State led for the first and only time.
The yardage says Robert Morris should have won: 448 total yards to 369, with 376 of them through the air. The Colonials also lost a fumble and could not sack anybody, while Morgan State got to Haggard twice. The Bears ran for 188 yards on 27 carries, which is a very different way of getting to the same place.
Morgan State is 4-0, Robert Morris falls to 2-1. Fantasy-wise, Haggard was the week's big winner on the losing side with 39.3 points, and Jenkins led the winners with 31.5.