Austin Peay Erases a 10-point Hole and Beats West Georgia 24-10
West Georgia scored all 10 of its points in the first quarter and then went quiet for the next three. Austin Peay answered with 24, and that is how a 6-1 team stayed a 6-1 team while the Wolves fell to 0-4.
The early going belonged to the home side. Logan Lopez kicked a 49-yard field goal, and Colton FitzGerald found DK Daniel for 55 yards with 4:02 left in the first quarter to make it 10-0. Then Chris Parson took over. He ran in from seven yards out in the second quarter, and again from a yard out with 1:21 left in the third, and that second one put Austin Peay ahead 14-10 for good. Hamilton DiBoyan added a 34-yard field goal early in the fourth, and Courtland Simmons scored from a yard out with 4:39 left to make it 24-10. One lead change in the whole game, and it was the one that mattered.
The yardage is the strange part. West Georgia threw for 333 yards and ran for 8, which is a lot of passing and not much of anything else, and finished with 341 total yards to Austin Peay's 327. The difference was the giveaways. West Georgia lost two fumbles and threw an interception, three turnovers in all, while Austin Peay lost one fumble and threw no picks. Austin Peay also ran the ball 43 times for 188 yards against 21 carries for the Wolves.
The fantasy story is Parson (12 of 21 for 139 yards, plus 68 on the ground and two scores) and a nice receiving day for Daniel, who had his best game of the year. Simmons rounded out the top three with 16 carries, 77 yards and the clinching touchdown.