Alabama A&M Scores 44 Straight to Bury Grambling
Grambling led 17-3 in the second quarter. Alabama A&M then scored 44 straight points and won 61-31. Read that again if you need to.
The comeback had a leading man. Cornelious Brown IV threw for 417 yards and five touchdowns (22 of 38, with one interception) and ran for another, and Jaylan Bean caught 10 of them for 240 yards, four for touchdowns. Brown found him from 61 yards in the second quarter, and the Bulldogs trailed only 17-16. David Faulk's 56-yard field goal on the last play of the half gave Alabama A&M its first lead of the day at 19-17. That was the only lead change, and nobody tied it again.
The third quarter is where it got out of hand. Bean caught a 6-yarder with 10:03 left, Kolton Nero ran in from 14 yards, Bean took a 67-yard score, and Bean added a 19-yarder to make it 47-17. Tony Phillips Jr. gave Grambling a 100-yard kickoff return touchdown, and Jarel Williams got right back with a 46-yard score on the last play of the quarter for 54-25. Tyler Thomas ran 52 yards to make it 61-25 with 2:56 left, and Zerrick Jones scored a meaningless 15-yard run with 22 seconds left.
The team numbers say the same. Alabama A&M had 669 total yards (433 passing, 236 rushing) to 241 for Grambling, and its defense sacked the quarterback four times. Grambling lost two fumbles and threw an interception. Alabama A&M moves to 4-2, Grambling falls to 2-2. If you had Bean or Brown, you did well: their 58.0 and 56.4 points were the top two scores of the game by a mile.