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Kevin Jennings accounts for 3 TDs as No. 21 SMU holds off Boston College 25-16 · Best of: Features

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  Kevin Jennings accounts for three TDs as number twenty one SMU holds
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  off Boston College twenty five sixteen. This
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  article is being read by an automated voice generated by Everlett. Dallas,
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  the Ape Kevin Jennings threw for two touchdowns and ran for a
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  score, and No. Twenty one SMU beat Boston College twenty five sixteen
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  in a soggy defensive struggle Saturday. Jennings the FBS passing leader at
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  three hundred and fifty seven yards per game coming in, had only
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  one hundred and sixty, while going twenty of thirty in a light
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  but steady rain that lasted into the second half. His passing yardage
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  was his lowest since the week Jennings took over as the starter
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  early in the twenty twenty four season. Marks White had three of
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  SMU's five sacks, including one that forced a fumble by Mason McKenzie,
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  and was returned thirty four yards by Aickel Washington to the Eagles
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  thirteen yard line. It set up Jennings fourteen yard scoring pass to
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  Randy Pittman Jr. Really proud of our defense, SMU coach Rhett Lashley
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  said, after the Mustangs won despite getting outgained, three hundred and twenty
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  two, two hundred and eighteen. I thought defensively start to finish it
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  was our most complete game. Jennings other TD toss also came on
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  a short drive when SMU, four one two one Atlantic Coast Conference,
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  returned a punt to the BC forty one. After a roughing the
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  passer penalty on third down, Jennings threw a twenty yard scoring pass
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  to Derek McFall. Kendrick Raphael had a two yard TD run. The
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  Eagles, 2 3 0 2, had a chance to get within two
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  U points early in the fourth quarter, but Cameron Cossman dropped a
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  pass when he was wide open, and probably would have scored easily
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  on fourth and inches from the SMU eight. Too many mistakes, said
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  B C coach Bill O'Brien, whose team had eleven penalties for ninety
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  five yards. We work very hard to coach a disciplined team. We
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  weren't a disciplined team today. Evan Dickens caught a forty-three yard scoring
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  pass from Mackenzie, and Danny Edgehill had a six yard T D
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  grab before the Eagles failed two point conversion attempt left the nine
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  points down with 207 remaining. The Takeaway Boston College.
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  Mackenzie bounced back from a rough passing game in a loss to
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  Virginia Tech, to throw for two hundred and right yards and two
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  touchdowns without an interception. His scrambling ability was negated somewhat by the
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  sacks. He had seventy four yards rushing, with thirty three subtracted by
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  the sacks. SMU. Lashley was already annoyed with special teams coming into
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  the game, and that was before the Mustangs botched two PAT attempts.
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  The first was a high snap that was difficult for Wade McSparren
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  to handle, particularly on a wet field. McSparren simply mishandled the snap
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  the second time. While saying he thought other parts of the special
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  teams were better, Elashley added, Obviously there's guys in Pop Warner that
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  can take a snap and hold better than we can right now.
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  Fourth and fifty is not a typo. The Mustangs faced fourth and
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  fifty after getting the all at the Boston College forty four yard
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  line when O'Brien went for it on fourth, down in a nine
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  point game in the third quarter. SMU had three holding penalties, including
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  one that wiped out a twenty two yard completion. Jennings was sacked
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  for a nine yard loss, and Raphael lost two more yards on
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  a run on third and forty eight. McSparren's punt was fifty yards,
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  caught right at the first down marker by Charlie Camella before a
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  ten yard return. It's finally fall in Texas, and SEMYU was playing
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  three weeks after a fifty six ten victory at home when the
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  temperature was one hundred degrees Fahrenheit, thirty six degrees Celsius, just about
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  from start to finish. The Texas heat finally relented on Thursday, and
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  the third day of the month was all clouds, rain, and a
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  pleasant seventy three degrees. Up next. Both teams are off next week
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  before playing at home october seventeenth. Boston College has Pittsburgh and SMU
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  plays Virginia in the third of four consecutive home games. Sign up
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