Valparaiso Beats Drake Despite 323 Yards to 250 the Other Way
Drake had six turnovers. Four interceptions and two lost fumbles, and that is the game. Valparaiso won 21-13 while gaining 250 yards to Drake's 323, which tells you what the giveaways were worth.
Drake looked like the winner at the break. Valparaiso scored first on a 2-yard run by Rowan Keefe, and Cody Blicharz tied it with a 1-yard run late in the first quarter. Griffin Kollhoff then kicked a 24-yard field goal and, as the half ran out, a 48-yarder, and Drake led 13-7 at the half. Then Drake stopped scoring, and Valparaiso did not.
Daniel White caught an 8-yard touchdown from Keefe with 10:26 left in the third, and that made it 14-13 Valparaiso. The lead stayed at one point until White caught another from Keefe, this one for 27 yards with 4:05 to play, for the 21-13 final. Drake scored nothing in the second half. Riley Warzynski threw for 264 yards on 22 of 38 and four of them landed in the wrong hands.
Valparaiso had no interceptions of its own and lost one fumble. It also sacked Drake's quarterback five times, while managing only 155 passing yards and 95 on the ground. Not a pretty offense. A winning one.
Both teams are 2-3 now. Drake out-gained Valparaiso by 73 yards and still lost by eight, which is the kind of math that makes a coach stare at the stat sheet for a while. For fantasy, Keefe led everyone with 23.7 points, and White, whose position is not listed, produced 21.4 on four catches.