Monmouth's Two Backs Run for 332 Yards in 34-21 Win
Elijah Jennings and Kenny Smith Jr. carried the ball 43 times between them for 332 yards and four touchdowns. Monmouth threw for 81 yards as a team and did not care. The Hawks ran 47 times for 319 yards, and that was the entire plan.
Jennings started it with an 18-yard touchdown run at 11:17 of the first quarter, and Sky Sholder added a 21-yard field goal before the quarter ended. Jennings came back with a 37-yarder early in the second, and Smith followed with a 55-yard run at 8:28. That was 24-0, and Bryant had not scored. Jordan Bennett finally got the Bulldogs on the board with a 1-yard run at 0:51 of the half, making it 24-7 at the break.
Monmouth led by at least 17 until the final touchdown. Sholder kicked a 34-yard field goal to open the third quarter, and Smith scored from 8 yards out at 5:09 to make it 34-7. Bryant got two late touchdowns, a 21-yard pass from Brennan Myer to Shamar Fowles in the fourth quarter and a 12-yard Deshon Jenkins run with 23 seconds left, but 34-21 was as close as it got. Monmouth never trailed and the game never had a tie.
Monmouth is now 7-1. Bryant drops to 5-2, still a good record for the Bulldogs, who gained 297 yards to Monmouth's 400 and threw an interception, while Monmouth lost a fumble. The fantasy angle is easy: if you owned either Hawks back, you had a great Saturday. Both topped 30 Promethium points.