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What a blatant pass interference non call. Let’s win against BC and these B12 refs! Stick it to them!

Touchdown!!!!!!!! Knighton!!!

TOUCHDOWN, SMU!

Jennings pass to Knighton at the 4 — Rooster runs it in

SMU 14-10

14-10 Ponies lead.

Weather has kept this game closer than it should be, along with the refs.

But good guys on top at the break.

HALFTIME

SMU 14
BC 10

Team stats — first half

Total yards
SMU: 192
BC: 122

Passing yards
SMU: 122
BC: 6

Rushing yards
SMU: 70
BC: 116

Penalties
SMU: 6/49
BC: 2/10

First downs
SMU: 14
BC: 8

Third downs
SMU: 5/8
BC: 3/6

Fourth downs
SMU: 1/1
BC: 0/0

Average yards per play
SMU: 4.8
BC: 4.7

Average yards per completion
SMU: 8.1
BC: 2

Average yards per rush
SMU: 3.9
BC: 6.1

Red zone
SMU: 2/2
BC: 1/1

Time of possession
SMU: 16:20
BC: 13:40

Turnovers
SMU: 1
BC: 0

Fumbles/lost
SMU: 2/1
BC: 2/0

Sacks
SMU: 0
BC: 0

Tackles for loss (yards)
SMU: 2 (12)
BC: 2 (10)

SMU winning every statistical category except for total rushing yards all because of Castellanos. Find a way to control him in the 2nd half and SMU runs away with this game. Overcame some tough calls that hurt our field position but all in all a pretty good 1st half after a horrible start

SMU stats

PASSING
Jennings: 15/22 — 122 yards — 1 TD

RUSHING
Jennings: 4/25
Johnson: 5/20
Knighton: 5/15
Bailey: 1/10
Lavine: 2/5
Daniels: 1/-5

RECEIVING
Bailey: 4/37
Knighton: 3/15 — 1 TD
Moore: 2/31
Brinson: 2/14
Hudson: 2/13
Daniels: 1/10
Lavine: 1/2

PUNTING
Bujcevski: 1/34

TACKLES
Roberts: 4 (1 TFL)
Walker: 3
Sanders: 2
Nwokobia: 2
Wilson: 2
Massey: 1
Crossley: 1
McGill: 1
Woods: 1
J. Rogers: 1
Miller: 1
Samuels: 1
Robertson: 1
Moses: 1
Adimora: 1
Monticure: 1

Castellanos has not completed a pass to a WR yet and the throws he's attempted have been pretty ugly. We need a stop to start this 2nd half and then another quick score to force BC to play catch up where they might have to think about trying to throw more which could really work in our favor. Just find a way to control Castellanos running. He's quick and gets to full speed quickly

Bujcevski's punts have been scary. He's going to get blocked if he doesn't work on getting those punts off faster. Tighten up that blocking on special teams guys.

Slobber knocker conditions are likely to make this a game where whoever turns it over in the 2nd half loses this game

Getting up 2 scores seems pretty paramount.

Big stop to start the 3rd Q would be huge.

Charleston Pony wrote:Castellanos has not completed a pass to a WR yet and the throws he's attempted have been pretty ugly. We need a stop to start this 2nd half and then another quick score to force BC to play catch up where they might have to think about trying to throw more which could really work in our favor. Just find a way to control Castellanos running. He's quick and gets to full speed quickly

Bingo. If SMU can force BC to go to the air, it obviously takes away from the most effective part of the Eagles' offense, which is the ground game. Hard to imagine BC would get too far away from the running game even if they go down another score — it's their bread and butter.

A penalty on BC!