Jaguars win Sun Belt opener on road
South Alabama's Maurice Strong wraps up App State quarterback Joey Aguilar during Thursday's night game in Boone, N.C. South Alabama won 48-14. It’s hard to imagine two more decisive performances in back-to-back weeks for South Alabama than what we have seen the last two Thursday nights.
The Jaguars throttled Sun Belt Conference preseason favorite Appalachian State 48-14 on the road Thursday, a week after routing Northwestern State 87-10 in Mobile. The 135 points in a two-game span are the most for any Sun Belt program in the conference’s history.South Alabama is now 2-2 overall, but an all-important 1-0 in conference play. The Jaguars get a 10-day break before perhaps their biggest challenge of the season, a Sept. 28 trip to LSU.1.
It was easy to write off the 87-10 win over Northwestern State as the result of facing an historically-bad opponent , but that performance looks a little less fluky now after coordinator Rob Ezell’s offense torched the Mountaineers. In the three games quarterback Gio Lopez has played this season , South Alabama is averaging 57.8 points and 558.7 yards of total offense. The running game carried the day with 320 yards on Thursday, with both Lopez and freshman phenom Fluff Bothwell topping 100.
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