Chandler Brayboy & Trinidad Chambliss Put Up Wild Stats In Week 8
Chandler Brayboy & Trinidad Chambliss Put Up Wild Stats In Week 8
Ferris State Football's Trinidad Chambliss and Elon's Chandler Brayboy put up wild video game numbers in Week 8 of the college football season.
Video Game Numbers is truly in midseason form — literally and figuratively — as we exit Week 8 and get closer to the few weeks of the regular season.
If you’re a routine reader, welcome back; a 600-yard passing performance, a five-sack day and other wild performances are waiting for you. If this is your first time checking out Video Game Numbers, welcome in; a highlight package of the wildest and wackiest stats across the previous week in NCAA Divisions I, II, and III football awaits.
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The postseason is approaching, but the avalanche of weekly stats that only seem believable in video games ain’t stopping.
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Here’s a look back at some of the over-the-top, beyond-belief performances across the college football world from this past weekend:
Cole Gonzales, QB, Western Carolina (35-for-55 passing, 620 yards, five touchdowns at Furman)
Before this past weekend, Western Carolina’s single-game passing mark of 474 yards had stood for 24 years. Gonzales smashed that mark by almost 150 yards.
In the Catamounts’ record-setting 52-20 win on the road at Furman last Saturday — where they posted a Southern Conference record 801 total yards of offense — Gonzales was a man aflame, breaking both the SoCon and school records for passing yardage in a game as he posted the most passing yards from a single player in one game seen across all levels of the NCAA this season.
A total of 11 different receivers caught passes from Gonzales as he was dialed in, with the junior notching his fourth career five-touchdown game as a 15-yard touchdown throw from him to Isaiah Johnson a minute into the game set the tone for an explosive day on the offensive end for WCU.
The Catamounts are beginning to cook, having won three straight games with their quarterback throwing for at least 250 yards in all three. It’s an important time for Gonzales to get going, too; WCU gets Mercer and Chattanooga back-to-back over the next two weeks in a pair of matchups that will likely decide the SoCon title — and the league’s automatic bid to the FCS playoffs. Days like Saturday will definitely help the Catamounts’ chances down the line.
Chandler Brayboy, WR/KR, Elon (Four catches, 55 yards, two kickoff return touchdowns at UAlbany)
Sure, Brayboy is a solid receiver who has caught 27 passes for 368 yards and two touchdowns so far this season. But what most around the Coastal Athletic Association (and FCS as a whole) know him for is his lethal big-play ability in the return game.
He showed it off with authority in the Phoenix’s 30-14 CAA win over the Great Danes last Saturday, helping get Elon a big bounce-back victory in the process following a four-game losing streak.
Brayboy became the first player in Elon’s FCS history to take two kickoffs back to the house in a single game, first opening up the Phoenix’s scoring in the first quarter as he answered a UAlbany touchdown with a 94-yard romp to the crib with 8:54 to go in the opening frame.
Unstoppable!
— CAA Football (@CAAFootball) October 19, 2024
Road game for @ElonFootball, but Chandler Brayboy takes it to the 🏠. #CAAFB on @FloFootball pic.twitter.com/lLp4uN65hb
That was the start of a 24-0 run by Elon that stretched into the third, with Matthew Downing throwing for a score and TJ Thomas Jr. running in for another during the stretch as Brayboy also reached the 2,000 receiving yards mark for his career in the process. A Myles Burkett touchdown toss to Caden Burti with 6:16 left in the third seemingly got the Great Danes back into it as they cut the deficit to 24-14, but Brayboy immediately shattered those comeback dreams by returning back the ensuing kickoff 93 yards to find paydirt for the second time.
Elon, which was ranked earlier in the season, hasn’t had the year it’s wanted as it currently sits at 2-5 overall and out of the playoff picture. But Brayboy’s explosiveness, which he put on full display against UAlbany, still makes the Phoenix’s games (on FloFootball the rest of the way) a must-watch affair.
Trinidad Chambliss, QB, Ferris State (18-for-30 passing, 383 yards, six touchdowns, 10 carries, 90 yards vs. Michigan Tech)
Chambliss is already on an ongoing streak of three straight GLIAC Offensive Player of the Week awards with four won in total this season, so he only had to go out and add to his accolades by nabbing a spot on this week’s edition of Video Game Numbers.
The Bulldogs, on a six-game winning streak going into this weekend’s highly-anticipated top-five clash with Grand Valley State in the Anchor-Bone Classic, easily got through Michigan Tech by a 51-13 margin last week as coach Tony Annese improved to 23-0 all-time at FSU against Michigan’s Upper Peninsula schools. Chambliss helped his coach pull that feat off, tying a school record for touchdown throws in a single game and throwing three of them in the first quarter to get the Bulldogs out to a 20-0 lead to start the rout.
Ferris State is putting on a show!! 🏈
— FloFootball (@FloFootball) October 19, 2024
Cam Underwood makes a great adjustment to secure the TD catch to put the Bulldogs on top 37-13 in the third quarter! #GLIACfb | @GLIACsports | @FerrisFootball pic.twitter.com/Y8f2bnUKNi
Chambliss also doubled as the Bulldogs’ leading rusher for the day as he burst off the game’s longest run (33 yards), accounting for 473 yards of total offense in all as the Grand Rapids, Michigan native has made major strides with FSU since struggling in its season-opening loss at Pittsburg State back in August.
Seemingly peaking at just the right time, Chambliss will get a major test against the Lakers on the road Saturday to show off if he has the potential to lead the Bulldogs back to a national championship. The ability to throw for six touchdowns in a college football game helps with that.
Chavon Wright, RB, Charleston (West Virginia) (36 carries, 225 yards, five touchdowns at Frostburg State)
Wright isn’t just putting up Video Game Numbers every once in a while. He’s putting them up on a weekly basis.
D-II’s national rushing yardage leader — who is ahead of the next closest player by over 200 yards as of Tuesday — has probably been overdue for a Video Game Numbers appearance for some time now, but there’s no more denying him a spot any longer thanks to his monster day in the Golden Eagles’ 48-7 win over previously unbeaten Frostburg State this past Saturday.
Wright, who posted his second straight game with five touchdowns and sixth straight game with at least three, was a workhorse in every sense of the word as the 5-foot-8 bowling ball had a season-high for carries and touchdowns of two, eight, and 18 yards by the end of the first half. With UC up 27-0 at the break and cruising, a run-heavy approach the rest of the way fit perfectly with Wright’s seemingly endless motor as he added touchdown Nos. 4 and 5 in the third quarter.
No. 11-ranked and unbeaten UC, which only became Mountain East Conference champion for the first time in school history last season, should be the big favorite the rest of the way to repeat and make it back to the playoffs, where Wright had six rushing touchdowns in the Golden Eagles’ first-round win over New Haven last year. Good luck to whoever is left on UC’s schedule in trying to stop him.
Jacquez Mabin, DL, Delaware Valley (Eight tackles, 6.5 tackles for loss, five sacks, three forced fumbles vs. FDU-Florham)
Six-time defending Middle Atlantic Conference champion Delaware Valley’s reign atop the league is in jeopardy after it lost its first MAC game in eight years on Sept. 21 against Stevenson.
Mabin showed this weekend how the Aggies may not need to worry that much.
With a school-record five-sack game in DelVal’s 33-8 win over a Devils squad that was receiving votes in D-III rankings, Mabin was the driving force on defense behind the Aggies’ strongest win yet this season as he accounted for nearly all of their six sacks on the day. His constant pressure of FDU-Florham quarterback Ryon Thomas also played a role in him throwing two interceptions and just 121 yards passing.
Throw in three forced fumbles on top of it — two of which were recovered by DelVal — and Mabin’s performance catapulted him to now being tied for the most forced fumbles, second-most sacks and outright most tackles for loss in all of D-III so far this season, with his 17.5 tackles for loss on the season putting him a full two tackles above the next closest player on the list.
Mabin and the Aggies will continue their hunt for a MAC seven-peat this weekend against Albright before going on the road to face league-leading King’s on Nov. 2, hoping to get a win to improve their odds of extending their season and get Mabin back to terrorizing offensive lines in the playoffs.
Where Every Ranked Division II Team Is Playing This Weekend
- No. 3 Ferris State at No. 1 Grand Valley State
- Chowan vs No. 2 Valdosta State
- Shepherd vs No. 4 Kutztown
- Arkansas Tech at No.5 Ouachita Baptist
- No. 6 Pittsburg State at No. 9 Central Oklahoma
- No. 22 Southern Arkansas vs No. 7 Harding
- No. 8 Western Colorado at No. 10 Colorado School of Mines
- Fairmont State vs No. 11 Charleston (W.Va)
- No. 13 Minnesota State vs No. 25 Augustana
- No. 14 Emporia State at Nebraska-Kearney
- No. 15 Slippery Rock at Clarion
- Limestone vs No. 16 Lenoir-Rhyne
- No. 17 Carson-Newman at Emory & Henry
- Chowan vs No. 18 West Alabama
- No. 19 Johnson C. Smith at Winston-Salem State
- Midwestern State at No. 20 Central Washington
- No. 21 Indianapolis at Upper Iowa
- Shorter vs No. 23 West Florida
- No. 24 Delta State at North Greenville
AFCA NCAA Division II Football Rankings In Week 9
- Grand Valley St. (Mich.) (27) - Prev. 2
- Valdosta St. (Ga.) (3) - Prev. 3
- Ferris St. (Mich.) - Prev. 4
- Kutztown (Pa.) - Prev. 5
- Ouachita Baptist (Ark.) - Prev. 9
- Pittsburg St. (Kan.) - Prev. 7
- Harding (Ark.) - Prev. 1
- Western Colorado - Prev. 8
- Central Oklahoma - Prev. 11
- Colorado School of Mines - Prev. 12
- Charleston (W.Va.) - Prev. 13
- Colorado St.-Pueblo - Prev. 14
- Minnesota St. - Prev. 15
- Emporia St. (Kan.) - Prev. 16
- Slippery Rock (Pa.) - Prev. 6
- Lenoir-Rhyne (N.C.) - Prev. 17
- Carson-Newman (Tenn.) - Prev. 18
- West Alabama - Prev. 10
- Johnson C. Smith (N.C.) - Prev. 20
- Central Washington - Prev. 21
- Indianapolis (Ind.) - Prev. 19
- Southern Arkansas - Prev. 24
- West Florida - Prev. 23
- Delta St. (Miss.) - Prev. NR
- Augustana (S.D.) - Prev. NR
Dropped Out: Frostburg St. (Md.) (22), Henderson St. (Ark.) (25)
Others Receiving Votes: Angelo St. (Tex.), 22; Findlay (Ohio), 22; California (Pa.), 21; Virginia Union, 20; Wayne St. (Neb.), 16; Wingate (N.C.), 10; Sioux Falls (S.D.), 8; Colorado Mesa, 7; Indiana (Pa.), 7; New Haven (Conn.), 7; Davenport (Mich.), 6; Frostburg St. (Md.), 6; Saginaw Valley St. (Mich.), 4; Fort Hays St. (Kan.), 3; Ashland (Ohio), 2; Emory & Henry (Va.), 1; Western Oregon, 1.
When Do The NCAA Division II Football Playoffs Start?
The playoffs begin on Nov. 23 and end on Dec. 21 at District Stadium in McKinney, Texas.
When Is The Anchor Bone Classic
The Lakers will host Ferris State at 3 p.m. ETS on Oct. 26. The game is streaming on FloFootball and the FloSports app.
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