UT Rio Grande Valley Beats SE Louisiana 13-3
Three interceptions from SE Louisiana, and a score of 13-3. Those two facts go together better than most. UT Rio Grande Valley beat the Lions 13-3, and the winners did not need a touchdown until the fourth quarter to be comfortable.
The first half was one field goal. Brysen Gardner hit a 51-yarder as time ran out in the second quarter for a 3-0 lead, and SE Louisiana tied it at 3-3 on a 36-yard Drew Talley kick with 3:30 left in the third. That was the only point they would score. Gardner kicked a 36-yarder with 14:49 left in the fourth, and then Aidan Jakobsohn threw a 16-yard touchdown to Jaydon Smith with 3:57 to go. The extra point made it 13-3, and that was the end of the scoring.
The yardage actually favored the losers. SE Louisiana had 325 total yards to 312 for UT Rio Grande Valley, with 127 of them on the ground. Then it threw three picks to the home team's one. Dkhai Joseph caught 10 passes for 58 yards in the loss, which is a lot of work for 5.8 yards a catch.
Both teams sit at 2-2 now, which is exactly where the scoreboard suggests a game this ugly should leave them. Neither offense found the end zone before the fourth quarter, and only one found it at all. For fantasy, the best player on the field was Smith, whose one touchdown catch was the only touchdown of the day. Take away that score and it is a 6-3 game.