Combined Blog Post from ACU FB game vs. Angelo State

Wildcats move to 6-0
Like much of us thought - ASU's defense, though more stout than other LSC teams in the league hadn't faced the offensive firepower of the Wildcats.

Knox's record-setting night and Malone's 5TD passes were the highlight.

Next up, is the biggest game of the season as the Wildcats head to Canyon to face No. 4-ranked West Texas A&M.

Final

Wildcats 51 ASU 7

Knox sets school record, ties LSC record and another school record
Knox caught his fourth touchdown pass of the night on a drag rout and scored from 29 yards out.

The senior has six receptions for 232 yards and four touchdowns.

The 232 yards passes REggie McGowan's 1985 mark of 228 yards on nine catches. McGowan accomplished that feat against Stephen F. Austin.

Scooter Phillips also had a record-breaking game in 1985 against Northern Colorado when he caught four touchdown passes. The LSC record is four touchdown passes caught, Knox did it for the ninth time in conference history. And .... he did it in three quarters - the big three (Malone, Knox, Scott) are likely done for the night.

Adams' PAT was good, Wildcats 51 Rams 7

The Rams are driving as the buzzer sounded for the end of the third quarter.
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80-yard return squandered by Rams
Matt Adams drug down Garrett Tidwell after an 80-yard kickoff return.

However, Aston Whiteside blocked Dylan Wiggs' first career field goal attempt from 30 yards out.

A few plays later, Malone got his 20th touchdown pass to Johhny Knox from 47 yards out. Knox did most of the work on the play reversing field for his third score of the game. It also gave him 203 yards, which is a career high. Previously he had 183 yards a high against WTAMU in 2007. Knox also scored three touchdowns against Mesa State in the NCAA Playoffs.

Malone is now over the 10,500 yard mark passing for his career.

Adams' PAT was blocked, making it just the second extra point missed in 2008.

Wildcats 44 Rams 7

Five-Straight Weeks with a defensive touchdown
Quarterback Will Mezger threw a pass of the hands of Jeremy Hill, the ball popped up in the air and Quinton Wilson took it back for a 56-yard inteception return. It was Quinton Wilson's first interception of the 2008 season.

Adams' PAT is good.

This makes the fifth-straight games for the No. 3 Wildcats to have a defensive score. The season-opener against Northwest Missouri State was the only game we didn't have a defensive score.

The marks 42 points this season for the 2008 defense after the 2007 defensive unit didn't score.

Wildcats 38 Rams 7

First Half Numbers
Malone; 9-16-1, 222 yards, 3 TD
Scott; 17-55, 1 TD
Knox; 4-156, 2 TD

Team Offense:

ACU 33-277
ASU 29-111

Scoring Summary

1st - 13:49 - ACU - Knox 59 yd pass from Malone (Adams Kick) 7-0
02:24 - ACU - Knox 60 yd pass from Malone (Adams Kick) 14-0
2nd - 09:30 - ACU - Scott 1 yd run (Adams Kick) 21-0
09:12 - ASU - Daniel Thomas 87 yd run (Wiggs Kick) 21-7
08:05 - ACU - Adams 39 yd field goal - 24-7
00:45 - ACU - Holloway 5 yd pass from Malone (Adams Kick) 31-7

Reminiscent of Super Bowl 27
Willis Hogan got an interception for the Wildcats and appeared to be taking it to the house, however, Sam Tindol smacked it out from behind at the 11-yard line and the ball went out of the endzone for an ASU touchback. However, Hogan wasn't showboating like Lett did when Bebe knocked it out of his hands, Tindol just simply knocked it out as Hogan attempted to score.

No damage done, the Rams couldn't muster up and offensive drive thanks to a tackle for loss and a sack. After a punt, the Wildcats are driving from the ASU 6-yard line.

Billy Malone found Kendrick Holloway in the endzone for his third touchdown of the night for his 19th of the season.

Adams' PAT is good and the Wildcats lead 30-7 with 45 seconds remaining in the half.

Adams knocks one through
Matt Adams hit a 39-yard field goal to put the Wildcats up 24-7.

This season he's 38-39 on extra points and 5-6 on field goals to give the senior kicker 53 points on the season.

ACU gave up a 87-yard touchdown run to Daniel Thomas; after Wiggs' extra-point the score is ACU 21, ASU 7.

Before Thomas' run, the longest play that the Wildcat defense had allowed was 32 yards.

ACU's Kendrick Holloway fields the kickoff at the 45-yard line and returned it for 28 yards with 9:05 left in the second quarter.

ACU 14 plays 173 yards
ASU 13 plays 3 yards

ASU held Eastern New Mexico to 172 yards for the entire game last week, however, the Wildcats exceeded that in the first quarter.

Drew Cufee got his first pick of the season off ASU backup quarterback Michael Cochran. He had a nice return of 21 yards after breaking a tackle.

The Wildcats are threatening again in their first trip to the redzone. Malone just over threw a wide open Knox, which could have been the duo's third hook up of the game.

Scott just ran the ball to the 2-yard line, had a facemask call, so it's first and goal from the 1-yard line.

Rams stuff Scott on the 1-yard line to bring up second down. ASU answers again as the Wildcats no-huddle with the same play but the Rams are tough again. Third and 1, but this one didn't matter, Scott wouldn't be denied his 11 rushing touchdown of the season.

Adams' PAT is good

Wildcats 21 Rams 0

Malone to Knox, revisited
Billy Don hit Knox on a comeback route at about the ASU 35-yard line, Knox then had open field, got a great block from Tyjuan Manning and scampered in for a 60-yard score. That gives Knox four touchdowns on the year, and three receptions for 135 yards and two scores with still 2:24 remaining in the first quarter.

Adams PAT good

Wildcats 14 Rams 0

Punt, Punt, Pick
Dylan Wiggs punted for ASU and it was downed at the 1-yard line. ACU went three-and-out and punted to the 36 yard line; the Wildcat defense then forced the Rams to turn the ball over on downs.

However, on the second play of the drive, ASU's Ian Ritchie picked off an attempted screen pass from Malone to Scott, which the Wildcats ran several times last week against ECU. ACU went four wide and sent the receivers deep; last week Scott had 173 yards receiving often thanks to the screen play. However, the Rams' coaching staff did its homework.

Kobey Lewis just made his first play at Shotwell Stadium with a carry for five yards. Lewis was a standout running back for Abilene High School, went to Texas Tech for two seasons where he was the starter in 2007 for head coach Mike Leach.

The Wildcats just forced another punt after the interception, but it was another solid special teams effort for Wiggs and the ASU Rams downed the ball at the ACU 3-yard line.
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Three plays, 17th touchdown pass for Malone
'Cats got the kickoff, one rush by Bernard, one pass from Malone to Morris, then a 59-yard strike from Billy to Johnny Knox who burned the Ram secondary - beautiful throw into that 17 MPH wind I was talking about earlier. Adams PAT good.

Wildcats 7 Rams 0 (1st Quarter 13:49)

Pre-Game Football Thoughts
I've noticed it seems that the wind hasn't been blowing at all in Abilene except for on game days for ACU football. It hasn't seemed to affect them as the Wildcats have outscored their two opponents at home (A&M-Commerce, East Central) 111-21 in two games. However, I think it would be nice to know what our air attack would be capable of with just a light wind.

A lot of talk has been made about the Angelo State defense thus far. THey are reanked second in total defense in the LSC behind us, however, I'm having trouble assuming that this will be a tougher game than the weeks before this season. Only because, Other than Texas State (NCAA Division I-AA) Angelo's opponents this year, when not playing the Rams haven't tallied an offensive total higher than 380 yards in a game. This leads me to believe, that though their LSC ranking is high on the defensive end, I don't believe that they've faced the caliber of opponents so far that they're about to see tonight.

In fact I can almost guarantee it, we average 540 yards per game, 54 points a game which equals a point for every 10 yards of offense (Thanks Lance).

The Big Purple is playing Grandioso right now with 12 minutes left on the scoreboard.

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