Bethune-Cookman Pulls Away from Mississippi Valley State, 34-14
Tyler Jefferson threw 15 passes. He completed seven of them, for 109 yards. And he still finished with 31.0 Promethium points, because two of those completions and two of his eight runs went for touchdowns. Efficiency is overrated when you score four times.
Mississippi Valley State got on the board first. Josh Brown ran 47 yards for a touchdown with 12:01 left in the first quarter, and that 7-0 lead was the biggest the home team would have. Jefferson hit Rickie Shaw II from 23 yards midway through the second quarter to tie it, and a 2-yard run by Jefferson with 2:47 left in the half put Bethune-Cookman up 14-7. It was never tied again, and the Wildcats never trailed after that.
Jefferson added a 12-yard run late in the third for 21-7, and found Shaw from 23 yards again to start the fourth, which made it 28-7. Dayvian Bluitt caught a 35-yard touchdown from Brown with 10:44 left to make it 28-14, and that was all Mississippi Valley State had left. Jaden Davis closed it with a 61-yard fumble recovery for a touchdown with 50 seconds left, though the two-point try failed. The Delta Devils' offense gave it away four times (three interceptions by Brown, who went 15 of 34, plus a lost fumble), and the Wildcats sacked Brown six times. Bethune-Cookman's own numbers were modest at 304 total yards, 158 of them on 49 rushes, but it only needed 304 to win by 20.
Bethune-Cookman moves to 3-2 and Mississippi Valley State is 2-3. Bluitt's 133 receiving yards were the most of any player in the game.