South Alabama 56-49 Arkansas State: 105 points and a Phillips touchdown in every quarter

105 points. 15 touchdowns. One two-point conversion. Zero field goals. Sixteen scoring plays, every one of them in the end zone, and South Alabama took the biggest share, beating Arkansas State 56-49 in NCAA Division FBS play. Arkansas State scored 49 and lost.

The pattern was set early. Patrick Martin's first-quarter touchdown put the Jaguars ahead, Timothy Carter answered for Arkansas State, and Keenan Phillips restored the seven-point lead: 14-7 after one. The second quarter produced five touchdowns. Hunter Summers and Carter pushed Arkansas State in front 21-14, but Phillips struck again and Jared Hollins added two more, the second without the extra point. Summers scored once more before the break: 34-28 South Alabama at half.

The third quarter broke it open. Phillips scored his third touchdown, the extra point no good, Hollins added a two-point conversion, and Rod Gibbs found the end zone — 15 points in the quarter against Arkansas State's seven, 49-35 after three.

Arkansas State kept swinging. Solomon Baggett answered in the third quarter, and after Phillips' fourth touchdown made it 56-35, Jabari Bush and Trey Owens pulled the Red Wolves within seven at 49-56. It was as close as they got.

Phillips was the difference. One touchdown in every quarter, four in total, each one coming straight after an Arkansas State touchdown. Hollins added two scores of his own plus the conversion that made it 42-28 in the third. South Alabama missed two extra points; Arkansas State converted all seven of its tries.

Arkansas State won the second quarter, 21-20. It was the only quarter they won.