The postseason is now officially here in the FCS and Divisions II and III — and the wild, record-setting games from all levels of college football are still coming in.

FloCollege’s Video Game Numbers series has highlighted the most extraordinary of stat lines each week throughout the college football season, and while the 2024 campaign may be wrapping up soon, the big-time statistical performances are parallel with the stakes.

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You know the drill by now if you’ve followed this series all season. Let’s hop into this week’s version of Video Game Numbers, only this time with a postseason twist.

Here’s a look back at some of college football’s craziest stats of Week 13 from all across the sport:

Lan Larison, RB, UC Davis (23 carries, 148 yards, three touchdowns, four catches, 69 yards at Sacramento State)

The Big Sky Conference has earned its reputation as arguably the best league in the FCS this season, and part of that is due to the fact that players like Larison show out there each weekend.

No one in the FCS has more all-purpose yardage going into the first round of the playoffs than Larison at 2,132, which also makes him the only player in the nation with over 2,000 on the season. The reigning Big Sky Offensive Player of the Year added to his total even more during the Aggies’ Causeway Classic rivalry win on the road against Sacramento State, helping clinch UC Davis a first-round bye for the FCS playoffs in the meantime, too, with a 42-39 victory.

As he usually is, Larison was a beast both in the run and passing games, being in sync all night with one of the best quarterbacks in the FCS this season Miles Hastings. Larison broke UC Davis’ career and single-season all-purpose yardage records against the Hornets, as well, and additionally had his seventh 100-yard rushing game of the year en route to finding paydirt from 1, 12, and 59 yards out on the night.

Clinching a 10-win season for the first time in its FCS era, UC Davis will now try to add to its historic campaign on Dec. 7 when it hosts the winner of the first-round game between Southeast Missouri State and Illinois State in its playoff opener. But whether it’s the Redhawks or Redbirds going to the West Coast to face the Aggies, they’re going to be in for a long afternoon if they can’t get a handle on Larison early and often.

Christopher Jean, CB, Central Connecticut State (Seven tackles, three interceptions vs. Duquesne)

Central Connecticut State needed a huge day to snatch the Northeast Conference title (and the league’s automatic bid to the FCS playoffs) under the nose of Duquesne during the final week of the regular season, and the Blue Devils got one from a redshirt freshman who hadn’t had an interception all year before this weekend.

Maybe Jean was just saving it up for when CCSU needed it most.

The Blue Devils punched their ticket into the playoffs with a 21-14 victory this past weekend in a de-facto NEC title game, anchored by a defense that forced eight Dukes turnovers and garnered seven — yes, seven — interceptions. Jean’s first pick set the Blue Devils up for a field goal that allowed them to draw first blood after a scoreless first quarter, and he had another just ahead of halftime to help set up another field goal that kicker Jack Barnum booted through right before the first-half buzzer.

Duquesne scored on the first play from scrimmage in the second half to retake a 14-13 lead, but Jean came up clutch once again soon after to help ensure that CCSU wouldn’t be behind forever. 

On the first play of the fourth quarter, Jean completed his hat trick of picks to set the Blue Devils up at the Dukes’ 32-yard-line, of which CCSU took advantage with a touchdown run a few plays later to retake the lead and seal its postseason spot. It was a remarkable season recovery for the Blue Devils after starting the season 3-5, and they have Jean to thank for playing a big role in completing the turnaround once and for all. 

Trevor Bycznski, QB, Ashland (28-for-42 passing, 435 yards, three touchdowns, five carries, six yards, one touchdown at Charleston (West Virginia))

In what was perhaps the biggest upset of the first round in this year’s Division II playoffs, Ashland stunned previously unbeaten UC 40-38 on its own turf, sending the No. 2-seeded Golden Eagles packing after the Eagles played right into Charleston’s strategy of turning their matchup into a shootout — and beat it at its own game.

Of course, Ashland wouldn’t be where it is now without the stellar play of its signal-caller, who put up a season-best outing at just the right time to move Ashland to the second round on the road at California (Pennsylvania) at 1 p.m. (ET) Saturday.

Forming a devastating partnership with wide receiver Tony Pannunzio (who easily could’ve made this week’s edition of Video Game Numbers himself, tallying 14 receptions for 228 yards and a touchdown), Bycznski set the tone right away by throwing a 41-yard touchdown to his top wideout less than two minutes into the game. 

And then, when the Eagles found themselves down 21-10 in the third quarter and in danger of letting the game slip through their fingers, Bycznski entered another gear, running in a touchdown at the goal line before throwing scores to Brock Henne and Jamari Croom to get Ashland back in front by a 30-28 margin. 

A wild 40-point fourth quarter did little to impact Bycznski’s nerves, even after UC took the lead on a long touchdown pass with 1:13 to play. Instead, Bycznski coolly marched the Eagles down the field, going from his own 23-yard-line with 1:05 left to the Charleston 20 as A.J. Rhodes buried the walk-off field goal as time expired to send Ashland through in the bracket.

Adonis McDaniel, WR, Lenoir-Rhyne (Seven catches, 202 yards, two touchdowns at West Alabama)

A sophomore wideout who had had a solid year with the Bears going into their playoff opener against West Alabama this past weekend, McDaniel had 663 receiving yards on the regular season as he had proven himself to be a key man in Lenoir-Rhyne’s passing attack.

But when Lenoir-Rhyne played at West Alabama this past weekend, McDaniel became an invaluable piece of the Bears’ offense as part both of a record-setting day for LR quarterback Jalen Ferguson and a 37-34 win over the Tigers that propelled the Bears into the second round of the D-II playoffs.

Ferguson threw for a school-record 411 yards, and almost half of that yardage went McDaniel’s way as he finished with a mark of 28.9 yards per catch. McDaniel’s first touchdown grab of the day came in the second quarter when he tied the back-and-forth affair at 14-14 with a 3-yard reception, but his biggest play of the afternoon came in the third quarter when he tied it at 34-34 with a 78-yard house call to paydirt — his longest catch of the season at just the right time.

McDaniel also had a massive 50-yard catch on the game’s final scoring drive in the fourth quarter, which got the Bears deep into UWA territory and helped set up a go-ahead chip-shot field goal a few plays later with 4:46 to play. LR held firm from there, and thanks to Virginia Union also upsetting Wingate this past weekend, it also means that the Bears will host their second-round playoff game against the Panthers at 1 p.m. (ET) Saon turday.

Dylan Sleva, LB, Westminster (Pennsylvania) (16 tackles, two tackles for loss, one sack, one fumble recovery vs. Marietta)

On a history-making day in Canton, Ohio, Sleva — who tallied the most tackles by a Westminster player since Nov. 2021 — marked the occasion with a big-time performance on defense that helped him lead his Titans team to a victory in the first-ever Extra Points Bowl.

Sleva showed out in his final game of the 2024 season, posting a career-high 16 tackles as Westminster took down Marietta by a 27-13 margin as part of this past weekend’s Opendorse Bowl Series, a two-game slate held at Tom Benson Hall of Fame Stadium — hallowed ground located next to the Pro Football Hall of Fame.

Helping to put pressure on Marietta quarterback Connor Vierstra (who was picked three times by the Titans’ defense), Sleva was all over the place whenever the Pioneers did manage to get the ball upfield, with Marietta only being able to get in the endzone once on the night. Sleva didn’t have any of those interceptions, but he did manage to pick up a pair of pass breakups as part of his busy game.

Sleva’s fumble recovery in the second quarter additionally led to a Titans field goal, and in a game that Westminster was outgained on offensive 380-170 and was more than doubled-up on first downs (19-9), it was still able to pull out a two-score win by way of walling up when it needed to on the defensive end and getting timely plays outside of on offense.

And now, because of those big plays, Westminster has a trophy from this season to celebrate with.

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