Eastern Illinois Puts up 554 Yards and Rolls UT Martin 45-16
UT Martin got to within four, 17-13, when Chris Franklin ran 14 yards with 1:04 left in the half. Cole LaCrue answered 51 seconds later with a 12-yard touchdown pass to Jeremy Reeves at 0:13, and the rest was Eastern Illinois's, 45-16.
Eastern Illinois opened with a 14-yard touchdown pass from LaCrue to Devin Whitlock and a 5-yard run by Charles Kellom, and Drew Schiller added a 36-yard field goal for 17-0. Franklin's earlier 8-yard score had its extra point blocked, so it was 17-6 until his second touchdown. After Reeves' touchdown, Eastern Illinois led 24-13 at the half.
Eli Evans caught a 19-yard score midway through the third quarter for 31-13, and Brandon Sims kicked a 39-yard field goal for UT Martin with 0:56 left in the period to make it 31-16. That was the last UT Martin score. LaCrue ran 50 yards for a touchdown early in the fourth quarter and then threw a 67-yard touchdown to Jacarre Fleming at 8:34 of the fourth.
The yardage was 554 to 341 in Eastern Illinois's favor. Eastern Illinois ran 30 times for 285 yards and threw for 269, while UT Martin passed for only 105 yards and threw two interceptions to one for Eastern Illinois. Eastern Illinois moves to 3-5 and UT Martin falls to 3-4.
UT Martin actually ran for 236 yards on 32 carries, and still scored only 16 points, because it could not make anything happen through the air and gave the ball away twice.
For fantasy: LaCrue's 52 points is the kind of number that wins a week by itself.