Georgia Southern 48, South Alabama 13
STATESBORO, Ga. – Shai Werts accounted for three touchdowns as Georgia Southern jumped out to an early lead and coasted to a 48-13 Sun Belt Conference victory over South Alabama on Saturday afternoon.
Werts rushed for 85 yards with two scores and threw for 99 yards and another TD as Georgia Southern (4-1, 2-0) continued to roll with its only loss being to Clemson, which was ranked No. 2 in the nation at the time.
Werts opened the scoring with a 1-yard plunge in the first after Monquavion Brinson returned an interception 30 yards to USA's 5. Two plays later Werts scored. He then hit a wide-open Darion Anderson in stride for a 59-yard scoring strike to go ahead 14-0 early in the second quarter. Georgia Southern pushed that to a 27-6 lead going into the fourth. Werts tacked on another score when he ran it in from the 4 early in the final quarter.
Monteo Garrett finished with a career-high 91 yards rushing on 11 carries for the Eagles.
Evan Orth led South Alabama (1-5, 1-2), throwing for 197 yards.
Louisiana 42, Texas State 27
SAN MARCOS, Texas – Elijah Mitchell ran for 191 yards and three touchdowns and Louisiana-Lafayette snapped a three-game losing streak by topping Texas State, 42-27 for its first Sun Belt victory of the season Saturday night.
The Ragin’ Cajuns now are unbeaten in seven games all-time against Texas State and have outscored the Bobcats 103-40 in three games in San Marcos.
Trey Ragas, who finished with 100 yards on 21 carries, got the Cajuns on the board by punching in from the 1 in the first quarter. Mitchell scored on a pair of runs in the second quarter to help push the lead to 28-0 at intermission.
Tyler Vitt threw 36 yards to Jeremiah Haydel and caught a five-yard touchdown pass from Hutch White to get the Bobcats (1-4, 0-2) to 28-13, but UL-Lafayette (2-3, 1-1) answered with a six-yard run by Mitchell.
Vitt finished 28 of 39 for 296 yards and three touchdowns after hitting Keenen Brown for two scores in the fourth quarter.
Ole Miss 70, ULM 21
OXFORD, Miss. – Jordan Ta'amu was 21-of-24 for 374 yards and accounted for five touchdowns. Ta'amu threw touchdown passes to A.J. Brown, D.K. Metcalf and DaMarkus Lodge for 20, 62 and 16 yards, respectively as Ole Miss defeated ULM on Saturday.
Ta'amu added touchdown runs of 1 and 39 yards, individually accounting for 437 yards of total offense before sitting out the second half.
"From an offensive standpoint, I thought we could move the ball and we did," ULM coach Matt Viator said. "We never really got into a rhythm. We just didn't finish enough drives."
Caleb Evans was 17-of-28 passing for 206 yards and rushed for 37 yards on 13 carries. The Warhawks finished with 427 yards of offense, but they were largely ineffective in the red zone. R.J. Turner had five receptions for 112 yards.