Trey Holly Runs for 204 as Southern Beats Florida A&M
Trey Holly carried 25 times for 204 yards and two touchdowns, and Southern beat Florida A&M 42-14. If you were looking for the plot, that is most of it.
Southern ran for 312 yards as a team and threw for 112, and the scoring went the way those numbers suggest. Holly scored from a yard out with 7:01 left in the first quarter, Champ Davis added a 10-yard run in the closing seconds of it, and it was 14-0 before Florida A&M answered. Armond Parker hit Jayquan Reid for 23 yards to make it 14-7 with 10:12 left in the second. Twenty-one seconds later Holly broke a 65-yard run and the margin was back to two touchdowns.
The second quarter is where the Rattlers lost it. Christian Johnson threw a 10-yard touchdown to Aiden Valdez, then Michael Williams II picked off Parker and took it back 98 yards, and it was 35-7. Parker did throw a 14-yard score to Corey Petty with 1:01 left in the half, so it was 35-14 at the break. Nobody scored in the third quarter, and the only points of the second half were Davis's 1-yard run with 1:56 to play.
Parker finished 18 of 31 for 263 yards, two touchdowns and those two interceptions. Florida A&M had 366 total yards to Southern's 424, and it still lost by four touchdowns, because it ran for only 87 yards and two of its throws went the other way. One of those went back for a touchdown.
Southern is 2-4. Florida A&M is 1-6. Take away the pick-six and it is 35-14, which is still not close.