LJ Turner, David Avit & More Deliver Video Game Numbers In Week 6
LJ Turner, David Avit & More Deliver Video Game Numbers In Week 6
Here’s a look back at some of the top, beyond-belief performances across the college football world from this past weekend.
Throwing six touchdowns in a road upset? Tossing the game-winning score — as a wide receiver — to beat a top-five team? A school-record rushing day?
All of the above performances are part of this week’s edition of Video Game Numbers, highlighting the most absurd stats of the college football week that just happened across all levels of the game.
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Here’s a look back at some of the top, beyond-belief performances across the college football world from this past weekend:
Richie Munoz, QB, Weber State (19-of-28 passing, 364 yards, six touchdowns at Montana)
What’s better than throwing six touchdowns? Throwing six touchdowns in one of the toughest environments in the FCS against the defending national runner-up.
Unbothered by playing in the over 25,000-capacity Washington-Grizzly Stadium, Munoz willed the Wildcats to an epic 55-48 overtime win against the then No. 8-ranked Grizzlies in a signature victory amid a breakout season to date, in which he leads the Big Sky Conference with 13 passing touchdowns to just one interception.
The first Weber quarterback to throw for six touchdowns in a game in 31 years, Munoz had five of those scores in regulation as his 50-yard toss to Jacob Sharp with 7:28 remaining in the first half gave the Wildcats a commanding 28-10 lead. The Griz ended up storming back and took the lead with a minute left, but Munoz got the Wildcats down the field in a short amount of time and gave kicker Kyle Thompson enough to work with as he booted through a game-tying field goal as time expired in regulation.
Weber got the ball first in overtime, and Munoz put the pressure right back on Montana by closing the Wildcats’ series with a seven-yard touchdown pass to Damon Bankston. The Griz were then stripped of the ball by Weber’s Garrett Beck and turned it over on their first play of overtime, sealing the Wildcats’ huge upset and putting the bow on Munoz’s legendary performance.
David Avit, RB, Villanova (13 carries, 183 yards, four touchdowns at Stony Brook)
With Avit’s explosion in the Villanova backfield over the past two weeks, are we seeing a star in the making for the Wildcats?
The freshman’s huge game in a comeback victory over Stony Brook this past weekend, which allowed No. 5 Villanova to remain unbeaten against FCS opponents with a 42-24 triumph, certainly is the type of thing that builds up your legacy early on at a school.
Avit’s 183 yards on the ground was the most by any freshman in the FCS this year and came a week after he had a 24-carry, 160-yard day against LIU. His performance against Stony Brook, however, came on far fewer carries as he averaged 14.1 yards per rush against the Seawolves and had nearly a third of his touches go for scores.
With ‘Nova down 24-14 in the second half as SBU running back Roland Dempster (himself a former Video Game Numbers nominee) was having a great game in his own right with 115 rushing yards and three touchdowns — plus six catches for 41 yards — Avit then proceeded to take over as he kickstarted a surge of 28 unanswered points by the Wildcats. He had scores of one, 59 and 72 yards in quick succession as ‘Nova turned what was once a hairy game into a comfortable win at the end, with Avit showing a game-changing ability beyond his years in the process.
LJ Turner, RB, Catawba (35 carries, 329 yards, five touchdowns vs. Anderson)
After two defeats in a row to Virginia-Wise and Carson-Newman by a combined four points, it was about time that a close game went Catawba’s way.
Having a running back that breaks a 34-year-old school rushing record certainly will help with finally getting the job done in a nail-biter.
Turner nearly doubled his season rushing total in a single day as he tallied the second-most rushing yards in a single game from any player in D-II this year, scoring Catawba’s first three touchdowns of the game to put the hosts up 21-0 less than two minutes into the second quarter.
Averaging 9.4 yards per carry with a long run of 61 yards — which ended with his fourth score of the game at the 9:50 mark of the third quarter — Turner was unstoppable in the backfield as Catawba kept turning to him when the Trojans kept the pressure on, with Anderson eventually coming back from the three-score deficit to tie it and take it to OT with a 44-yard field goal as time expired in regulation.
Fellow tailback Kevon Rivera got the honor of running in the game-winning touchdown for Catawba in the extra period, denying Turner a chance at a six-score game, but that did little to diminish the fact that the 5-foot-9 junior from Florida put up one of the greatest games on the ground in South Atlantic Conference history this past weekend.
Brandt Stare, WR, Wisconsin-Platteville (seven receptions, 189 yards, two touchdowns, 1-of-1 passing, 25 yards, one touchdown at Wisconsin-La Crosse)
Of all of the entries so far this year in Video Game Numbers, perhaps no performance yet has better encapsulated the spirit of the series than Stare’s wild day in the Pioneers’ huge overtime 30-27 victory over then No. 3-ranked Wisconsin-La Crosse.
With Platteville down 14-3 late in the second half with little consistency on the offensive end, Stare gave the Pioneers a sudden jolt with a 78-yard house call on a toss from quarterback Michael Priami, giving the visitors some life.
Once again facing a two-score deficit (24-9) but this time with under 6:30 left in regulation, Stare yet again had a huge play to put Platteville back into contention as his 42-yard touchdown catch got the Pioneers within eight. A Pioneers stop later and Platteville was back in the end zone again, with Stare catching the subsequent game-tying two-point conversion with 1:18 to play to put the Eagles firmly on notice.
La Crosse first kicked a field goal in overtime, meaning a touchdown would win it for the Pioneers when they got the ball. And on Platteville’s first offensive play of the extra period, it relied on Stare to pull off something truly video game-like — a trick play for the upset.
Priami threw a backward pass toward the sideline to Stare, who then proceeded to connect with a wide-open Ryan Doherty for a 25-yard score in the boldest of ways to give both the Pioneers one of the biggest upsets in all of D-III this season and Stare a well-deserved spot on Video Game Numbers this week.
Maddox Reed, DE, Norwich (four total tackles, three sacks vs. SUNY Maritime)
It hasn’t been an ideal start to the season for the Cadets, who lost a 37-14 decision this past Saturday against Maritime to drop to 0-5 on the year, but it hasn’t stopped Reed from having the best year of his career to date.
And on top of it all, the junior from Tennessee had a career day against the Privateers, too.
Coming into this past weekend’s game with just four career sacks, Reed had three in a single game against Maritime (with 15 yards of total yards lost) with his last two coming on the same drive, no less.
Reed has now racked up four tackles in four consecutive games for Norwich, and while his team still looks for its first victory going into the thick of New England Women’s and Men’s Athletic Conference play, he looks well on pace to break his previous career high of 28 total tackles (set during his sophomore season last year) and has already broken his career best single-season sack mark in a single game.
The Cadets are on a bye this weekend before going to United States Merchant Marine Academy on Oct. 19, where Reed and Norwich will attempt to break a 12-game losing streak dating back to last season.
AFCA NCAA Division II Football Rankings In Week 7
- Harding (Ark.) (30) - Prev. 1
- Grand Valley St. (Mich.) - Prev. 2
- Valdosta St. (Ga.) - Prev. 3
- Ferris St. (Mich) - Prev. 5
- Kutztown (Pa.) - Prev. 8
- Slippery Rock (Pa.) - Prev. 9
- Pittsburg St. (Kan.) - Prev. 10
- Western Colorado - Prev. 13
- Central Washington - Prev. 11
- Ouachita Baptist (Ark.) - Prev. 14
- West Alabama - Prev. 15
- Colorado School of Mines - Prev. 4
- Central Oklahoma - Prev. 17
- Charleston (W.Va.) - Prev. 16
- Minnesota St. - Prev. 7
- Colorado St.- Pueblo - Prev. 18t
- Lenoir-Rhyne (N.C.) - Prev. 6
- Emporia St. (Kan.) - Prev. 18t
- Delta St. (Miss.) - Prev. 20
- Findlay (Ohio) - Prev. 23
- Indianapolis (Ind.) - Prev. 22
- Johnson C. Smith (N.C.) - Prev. 24
- Carson-Newman (Tenn.) - Prev. 25
- Frostburg St. (Md.) - NR
- Indiana (Pa.) - Prev. 21
Dropped Out: Central Missouri (12)
Others Receiving Votes: Central Missouri, 45; Augustana (S.D.), 28; West Florida, 19; Texas A&M-Kingsville, 17; Virginia Union, 13; Southern Arkansas, 11; Henderson St. (Ark.), 9; Northwest Missouri St., 5; New Haven (Conn.), 4; Sioux Falls (S.D.), 4; Wayne St. (Neb.), 4; Assumption (Mass.), 3; Colorado Mesa, 2; Davenport (Mich.), 2; Michigan Tech, 2; Angelo St. (Tex.), 1; Fort Hays St. (Kan.), 1; Limestone (S.C.), 1.
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