Drake Scores 20 Straight, the Last on a Fumble Return at 0:00
With 5:50 left, Morehead State led 35-25. Drake then scored 20 points without an answer, and the last six of them came on a 38-yard fumble return by Tyson Shivers as time expired. Final: Drake 45-35.
It was a back-and-forth game. Blake Fisher ran 24 yards for Morehead State at 8:40 of the first quarter, and Drake tied it at 7-7 on a 54-yard pass from Braylon Wilson to Kavaughn Clark. Wilson ran in from 5 yards with 1:01 left in the half after a Griffin Kollhoff field goal, and Drake led 17-7 at the break.
Then Anthony Ice took over. He caught a 28-yard touchdown at 10:36 of the third quarter and an 11-yarder at 5:59 to put Morehead State up 21-17, and Bryce Patterson found Cannon Dinger from 15 yards early in the fourth to make it 28-17. That 11-point hole is the deepest the winner had to climb out of. Wilson scored from 2 yards at 9:25 and passed to Mitchell January for two (25-28), but Patterson and Ice connected on a 52-yarder at 5:50 for 35-25.
The next 20 points belonged to Drake: Wilson threw 23 yards to Willis Nofsinger at 4:40, Clark ran in from 4 yards with 0:49 left for a 39-35 lead, and Morehead State fumbled it away on the final play. Patterson lost two fumbles in all. Take away the fumble return and it is 39-35 Drake. Not close to the same story, but the same winner. Morehead State out-gained Drake 489 yards to 405 and threw for 371 of them, and still fell to 1-6. Drake sacked Patterson five times and moves to 3-5.
For fantasy, Wilson scored 44.7 Promethium points, Ice 41.5 and Patterson 37.9. Three of the best games of the week, and one team won.