Lafayette Scores 17 Straight to Beat Fordham 31-17
Eddie Jordan was 13 of 13. Not 13 of 14, not 12 of 13 with a drop. Thirteen throws, thirteen catches, 199 yards and a touchdown, plus a rushing touchdown of his own. Lafayette beat Fordham 31-17, and the perfect passing line was the headline.
For a while it did not look like that kind of day. Fordham went up 7-0 on a 12-yard Jamell James run, Jakyre Henley tied it with a 30-yarder, and Yohan-Li Louis put Fordham back in front 14-7. Jordan found Mason Kuehner from 6 yards to tie it at 14, and then Bennett Henderson kicked a 20-yard field goal on the last play of the half for a 17-14 Fordham lead. That was the last time Fordham scored.
Lafayette outscored Fordham 17-0 in the second half. Henley ran in from a yard out at 9:52 of the third for a 21-17 lead, Jordan ran 16 yards at 14:10 of the fourth, and Jack Simonetta's 26-yard field goal at 3:58 finished it. Fordham threw for 309 yards, 28 of 40 from Gunnar Smith, and still had 397 total yards to Lafayette's 325. Neither team turned it over, so the difference was one quarterback who never missed.
Mason Kuehner caught 6 passes for 44 yards and that touchdown (16.4 points), and Lafayette's defense had three sacks while Fordham managed no points after halftime.
Lafayette is 3-3. Fordham is 2-5.
Fantasy takeaway: Ricky Gonzalez of Fordham had 11 catches for 129 yards and 23.9 points, with no touchdown. Fordham scored 17 points on 309 passing yards without a touchdown pass.