Samford Beats Wofford 10-9 on a Last-second Field Goal
Down nine into the fourth quarter with no points on the board, and Samford still won. Ty Ippolito's 44-yard field goal as time expired beat Wofford 10-9.
The Terriers scored first and kept scoring, in their own way. Conner Deviney kicked three field goals (43, 31 and 34 yards) and Wofford led 9-0 after the third quarter. Samford had nothing to show for it until Ken Cherry broke a 41-yard touchdown run with 6:56 left, which made it 9-7. That was the only lead change of the afternoon, and it came on the last play.
The box score tells you who deserved what. Wofford ran 50 times for 227 yards, with Gerald Modest alone going for 197 on 38 carries, and had 386 total yards to Samford's 310. Samford ran 18 times for 91. But Wofford threw two interceptions (Samford threw none) and could not turn all those yards into anything but field goals. Flip one of those three kicks into a touchdown and this is a different game.
Samford's defense had three sacks to Wofford's one, which matters when the whole thing is a one-point squeaker. Samford moves to 3-5 and Wofford drops to 5-3.
For fantasy, this was a Modest day on a losing team: 19.7 points, the top score of the game, though well under his best. Cherry's season-high 17.3 came on one touchdown and four catches.