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SVSU's Micah Cretsinger & More Deliver Video Game Number Stats In Week 10

SVSU's Micah Cretsinger & More Deliver Video Game Number Stats In Week 10

Here’s a look back at some of college football’s craziest stats of Week 10 including performances from Saginaw Valley Football's Micah Cretsinger.

Nov 6, 2024 by Briar Napier
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The days are counting down in the regular season across the college football landscape, yet Video Game Numbers is back once again to deliver you some of the wildest stat lines from across the country from the previous week.

FloCollege is the home of many of the best and brightest teams, conferences, and players in Division I FCS, II, and III, where performances like the ones you’ll uncover down below happen on a weekly basis.

If you’ve been following Video Game Numbers over the past few months, thank you — and you also know the drill about what’s coming next.

Here’s a look back at some of college football’s craziest stats of Week 10 from all across the sport:

Jaden Barnes, WR, Austin Peay (12 catches, 241 yards, three touchdowns at North Alabama)

After a solid five-catch, 113-yard day against Tarleton State the week before, Barnes was probably going into this week’s game against North Alabama with a surge of confidence.

Who knew that Barnes was going to follow it up like this?

It’s been a rough season for the Governors, who are probably missing out on back-to-back FCS playoff appearances this year with a current record under .500, but they had a lot of fun in Florence last Saturday as they defeated UNA 31-17 and both Barnes and quarterback Austin Smith had career days.

By the time the final buzzer rang to signal for the end of the first half, Barnes had already nabbed eight catches for 173 yards and two touchdowns as the Govs rolled out to a 24-3 lead. The Lions ended up scoring 14 unanswered points to begin the second half to put AP on notice, but Barnes eased concerns that the Govs were going to blow it by notching his third receiving touchdown of the day — a 49-yard catch and score with 7:21 left — to restore a two-score advantage.

It was a big-time performance from the 5-foot-8 sophomore, and with three games left in the regular season to get over the hump and finish with a winning record (the Govs are currently at 4-5 overall), Barnes and AP will now have even more momentum to pull off a late-season surge.

Joey Shew, DE, Indiana State (six tackles, three tackles for loss, two sacks, one forced fumble, one interception vs. North Dakota)

Raised in Clinton, Indiana, located less than 20 miles from the Indiana State campus, Shew as a local product helped give the Sycamores one of their biggest wins on the gridiron in recent years this past Saturday.

ISU defeated No. 15 North Dakota 35-31 in Terre Haute to give the program its first victory over a ranked opponent since 2018, with Shew doing a little bit of everything in the trenches as he helped take the Sycamores to back-to-back wins.

Shew set the tone immediately, picking off the Fighting Hawks and running back the interception for a 20-yard touchdown just 34 seconds into the game as his day only got better from there. He had a strip-sack later in the first quarter that ISU utilized to end a UND drive, and he continued to consistently get into North Dakota’s backfield and make big plays.

With the Fighting Hawks driving with under a minute left and trying to secure a late, go-ahead score, Shew on a third down sacked quarterback Simon Romfo and made it a much more difficult fourth-and-long for the visitors, who were unable to prevent the Sycamores’ upset. Shew earned Missouri Valley Football Conference Defensive Player of the Week honors for his efforts, and he’s also earned a spot on this week’s edition of Video Game Numbers, too.

John Siggins, WR, East Stroudsburg (eight catches, 239 yards, four touchdowns vs. Shippensburg)

East Stroudsburg is the No. 6-ranked team by the NCAA in its most recent Super Region 1 ranking, meaning that it is very much on the bubble in terms of qualifying for the D-II playoffs and the region’s seven-team bracket.

Performances like last Saturday’s from the Warriors — in which they pounded Shippensburg 45-0 — help them stay afloat, and weapons like Siggins help make them especially dangerous to deal with.

Siggins had 205 receiving yards by halftime, which broke the ESU school record for receiving yardage in a half, and his total by the end of the day ranked tied for second all-time in program history. He had touchdown grabs of 37 and 89 yards by the end of the first quarter as the Warriors really began to pile it on, then added two more of 19 and 16 yards — with one each coming in the second and third quarters — before his day was over with.

Nearly doubling his previous career high of 120 receiving yards, Siggins averaged 29.9 yards per catch and was one of two ESU wideouts who had over 100 receiving yards on the day, thanks to another strong performance under center from quarterback Sean McTaggart (23-for-31 passing, 415 yards, four touchdowns). ESU’s playoff standing looks better by the week, and as long as it can avoid disaster over the final two weeks of the regular season, it should be playing some postseason ball.

Micah Cretsinger, LB, Saginaw Valley State (eight tackles, three tackles for loss, one sack, one forced fumble, one interception vs. Davenport)

The All-American put up a vintage performance at linebacker this past weekend for the Cardinals, who have some work to do to solidify their playoff standing as they are currently the No. 8-ranked team in a stacked Super Region 3, leaving them on the outside looking in for the playoffs as of this writing.

Winning 24-14 against Davenport, SVSU relied on Cretsinger — who looks well on his way to his second straight season with double-digit tackles for loss — to wreak some havoc on the Panthers, who were held to a season-low 52 rushing yards for the day.

Cretsinger set up the Cardinals’ first touchdown of the day when he secured his first interception of the season on Davenport quarterback (and former SVSU player) Mike O’Horo early in the second quarter, of which SVSU utilized the takeaway and found the endzone a short time later to take a 10-0 lead.

A strip-sack in the fourth quarter also kept the signals going to DU that it was going to have a hard time getting anything going on the offensive end, with the Panthers only managing to find paydirt twice in the fourth quarter — including once with under a minute left and the game out of reach.

The fate of SVSU’s season may come down to its game against national power Ferris State this weekend in Big Rapids, where a Cardinals upset would make it especially difficult to leave them out of the bracket any longer. Fortunately for SVSU, a player like Cretsinger who can make a major difference is on its side.


Nathan McCahill, QB, DePauw (26-for-37 passing, 482 yards, seven touchdowns at Kenyon)

DePauw is on a tear as the Tigers are on the hunt for what could be a fourth straight outright North Coast Athletic Conference championship, and their 65-0 obliteration of Kenyon this past weekend was perhaps their most impressive performance yet in an 8-0 start to the season.

A conference- and school-record 537 passing yards, most of which were thrown by McCahill, only drove the point home further that DePauw could be a serious force in the fast-approaching D-III playoffs, of which a conference championship would secure the Tigers the NCAC’s automatic bid.

McCahill, who didn’t even play in the fourth quarter, bumped himself to second in the country in passing touchdowns with 36 on the year so far, tallying his sixth straight game with at least four passing scores in the process as he ripped the Owls to shreds. He threw for four touchdowns in the first half and three more in the third quarter alone, while the DePauw defense had absolutely no issue holding Kenyon at bay as the Tigers also picked up their third shutout of the season.

Receives Robby Ballentine (10 catches, 181 yards, two touchdowns) and Gabe Quigley (eight catches, 170 yards, four touchdowns) both reaped the rewards of McCahill’s monster day, which saw him set a school record for passing touchdowns. And with a tuneup game against Hiram this weekend before a likely de-facto NCAC title game against rival Wabash to end the regular season, the Tigers are hitting all the right notes as the home stretch of the regular season looms.

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