Sunday, September 17, 2023

UMass Football News--September 17th, 2023

 Two inflection points in yesterday's game: The first, Gerrell Johnson's incredible hustle play to strip Sampson Evans and preventing the score to going to 17-0. If he had not made that play the rest of the game would have probably been moot.

The second was Carlos Davis' third INT. UMass was inside the Eagles 10 yards line and came away with zero points. If UMass had kicked a field goal, we would have been up seven points and the game would have gone into overtime.

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UMass won the stats creating 464 yards of total offense. The defense played well holding EMU to 19 points, only 14 first downs and three total 3rd down conversions.

EMU is a pretty good team. UMass needs to cut down on the mistakes and we'll get some wins in the future.

UMass' write-up here.

EMU's write-up here.

The Hampshire Gazette says a late EMU touchdown doomed UMass.

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New Mexico State beat rival New Mexico 27-17.

Auburn beat Samford 45-13. 

Miami of Ohio upset Cincinnati. The Redhawks first win in the series since 2005.

Arkansas State beat Stony Brook 31-7 for their first win of the season.

Toledo rallied to beat San Jose State 21-17.

Penn State beat Illinois 30-13.

Army won Friday night.

Merrimack held DII Virginia-Lynchburg to 74 total yards and won 44-0.

Liberty crushed Buffalo 55-27. 

UConn fell to 0-3 with a 24-17 loss to FIU. 

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Boston College committed a school-record 19 penalties and lost to Florida State.

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