Six touchdowns, four scorers: Western Michigan rolls past Akron, 42-14

Six touchdowns, split across four different scorers, with points on the board in every quarter — Western Michigan's 42-14 win at Akron was less a contest than a controlled display of scoreboard pressure. All eight scores of the game were touchdowns, each followed by the extra point. The Broncos scored first, scored last and never trailed.

Nathan Levicki opened the scoring in the first quarter to make it 7-0, and Cole Cabana doubled the lead in the second. Marcel Williams finally got the Zips moving with their first score of the night, but the response lasted one possession: Jalen Buckley crossed the goal line before halftime, sending Western Michigan into the break up 21-7.

Buckley's second touchdown came in the third quarter and made it 28-7, the second quarter in which Akron failed to score. The busiest stretch was the fourth, which produced three more touchdowns: Keivin Boone-Nelson II stretched the lead, Marcel Williams added his second score for the Zips, and Levicki's second touchdown sealed the 42-14 finish.

Buckley scored in back-to-back quarters around the break — one in the second, one in the third — giving Western Michigan its steadiest weapon through the middle of the game. Four different players combined on the six touchdowns, an offense Akron never solved. Williams' two scores kept the Zips out of shutout territory, but little beyond that.

By the end, Levicki had both the first word and the last: the game's opening touchdown and the one that closed the night at 42-14.