Arkansas-Pine Bluff Hangs On Against Florida A&M, 31-28
Make both extra points and Florida A&M still loses. That is the arithmetic of a 31-28 game in which Florida A&M missed one extra point in the third quarter and had another blocked at the end, so even 30 points would have been one short. Arkansas-Pine Bluff is 2-2 after it. Florida A&M is 1-5.
The lead changed hands four times. Arkansas-Pine Bluff started it with a 2-yard Jaylen Jennings run, Florida A&M took a 13-7 lead on two Gabriel Caison field goals and a 37-yard run by Armond Parker, and Jalen Williams put the visitors back ahead 14-13 with 1:04 left in the half. Corey Petty caught a 17-yard touchdown from Parker early in the third quarter (that missed extra point) to make it 19-14, and then Arkansas-Pine Bluff took over. Za'Marion Webber scored from 2 yards out and Demetric Whitlock caught a 14-yard pass from Jack Schierholz, and it was 28-19 going into the fourth.
Caison cut it to 28-22 with a 43-yard field goal, and Trey Glymph answered with a 39-yarder with 3:36 left. Then Parker threw a 61-yard touchdown to Kieren Jackson 17 seconds later, with the blocked extra point leaving it at 31-28. That was the last score, which means Florida A&M needed only a field goal to tie it with 3:19 left and never got one.
The yardage was lopsided in strange directions. Florida A&M won the total yards, 394 to 352, and threw for 319 of them, but ran for only 75. Arkansas-Pine Bluff ran for 212. Neither team threw an interception, and Arkansas-Pine Bluff lost one fumble.
The fantasy story is Parker, who put up 36.5 points in a loss, with his two receivers right behind him.