BUFFALO, N. Y. (AP) – Jaret Patterson ran eight touchdowns to tie an FBS record and is the fourth elementary school football player to have a 400-yard game on the court when Buffalo beat Kent State 70-41 on Saturday.
Patterson wore the number 41 shirt instead of his own 26, an honor in the Buffalo program. The issue was used by Solomon Jackson, a bulls defensive final that died of a center challenge in March 2016 after collapsed low-season training. , coach Lance Leipold has started the culture of weekly rotation of the 41 team members, handing it over to a player as a reward.
“As you know, when someone gets that number, they get superpowers,” Patterson said. “I was just looking to set up that number, and I think I did it today. “
Patterson tied the TD mark in a bachelor game set through Illinois runner Howard Griffith on September 22, 1990 against southern Illinois. Kalen Ballage of Arizona State is the other player who has scored eight touchdowns in an elementary school game, getting seven on the court and one he received in 2016 opposed to Texas Tech.
Patterson, a junior, finished with 409 yards on the ground, the second best game in FBS history and 18 yards less than Samaje Perine’s record in a 427-yard single game for Oklahoma Kansas on November 22, 2014.
The other 400-yard race games in elementary school football are Melvin Gordon of Wisconsin (408 opposite Nebraska in 2014) and TCU’s LaDainian Tomlinson (406 vs. Nebraska). UTEP in 1999).
Patterson is the first Division I player to run more than three hundred yards in consecutive games since Texas star Ricky Williams did so in 1996. Patterson won four touchdowns and 301 yards, a school record through Saturday, in a 42-17 win last week over Bowling Green.
Against Kent State, Patterson had 36 runs and touchdowns of 3, 31, 42, 49, 1, 7, 11 and yards.
“Congratulations, great. I can’t believe it from you today. Welcome to the eight-touchdown club,” Griffith said in a video posted on Twitter.
Patterson, a 5-foot-9-inch, 200-pound junior, established the last six-touchdown Mid-American Conference in last year’s bowling green victory.
“That’s how you can do what you do,” said Buffalo offensive lineman Kayode Awosika.
Patterson prepared Buffalo (4-0, 4-0) with a 62-yard run in his first game chase at Kent State 3. He scored in the next game and the Bulls were never behind.
“Everyone can start strong, but you have to end up strong and I’m proud that when the boys are tired, I get more powerful as the game progresses,” Patterson said.
Patterson may have done even more damage, however, he stores the races with Kevin Marks, who has run 16 times for 97 yards and two runs.
“We’re a duo,” Patterson said, we strive every day to train, on and off the field. “
With a record 70 problems, the Bulls average 50. 8 game-consistent issues. Twice, they scored 42 problems, their weakest effort this season.
Kent State (3-1, 3-1) led Dustin Crum with 343 aerial yards and three scores.
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