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Antavious Lane Antavious Lane
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Tucker Gregg Tucker Gregg
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Cornelious Brown Cornelious Brown
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Roger Carter Roger Carter
Roger Carter
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Trajan Stephens-McQueen Trajan Stephens-McQueen
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Dontae Wilson Dontae Wilson
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Blake Carroll and Trajan Stephens-McQueen Blake Carroll and Trajan Stephens-McQueen
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Jamyest Williams Jamyest Williams
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Tucker Gregg Tucker Gregg
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Cornelious Brown Cornelious Brown
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Tucker Gregg Tucker Gregg
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Roger Carter Roger Carter
Roger Carter
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Roger Carter Roger Carter
Roger Carter
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Blake Carroll Blake Carroll
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Roger Carter Roger Carter
Roger Carter
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Noel Ruiz Noel Ruiz
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Cornelious Brown Cornelious Brown
Cornelious Brown
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Shawn Elliott Shawn Elliott
Shawn Elliott
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Tucker Gregg and Shamarious Gilmore Tucker Gregg and Shamarious Gilmore
Tucker Gregg and Shamarious Gilmore
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Jordan Strachan Jordan Strachan
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Javan Denis Javan Denis
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Shamarious Gilmore Shamarious Gilmore
Shamarious Gilmore
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Destin Coates Destin Coates
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Johnathan Bass Johnathan Bass
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Noel Ruiz Noel Ruiz
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Malik Sumter Malik Sumter
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Shawn Elliott Shawn Elliott
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Trajan Stephens-McQueen Trajan Stephens-McQueen
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Roger Carter Roger Carter
Roger Carter
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Sam Pinckney Sam Pinckney
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Jordan Strachan Jordan Strachan
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Cornelious Brown Cornelious Brown
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Winner Georgia State GSU 1-3 , 1-2
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Troy TROY 3-2 , 1-1
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Georgia State GSU
1-3 , 1-2
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Final
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Troy TROY
3-2 , 1-1
Score By Quarters
Team 1st 2nd 3rd 4th F
GSU Georgia State 7 6 20 3 36
TROY Troy 7 14 0 13 34

Game Recap: Football |

Panthers Find a Way for 36-34 Win at Troy

TROY, Ala. – Roger Carter caught a pair of touchdowns from redshirt-freshman quarterback Cornelious Brown IV and Georgia State survived with a 36-34 win over Troy on Saturday at Veterans Memorial Stadium.
 
Georgia State (2-2, 1-2 Sun Belt) topped Troy (3-2, 1-1 Sun Belt) for a second-straight season and won for the first time on Troy's home field, but the win wasn't secure until the very end.
 
"What a contest – the fight, the finish. I'm really proud of them," head coach Shawn Elliott said. "We're playing on the road in the Sun Belt Conference and we found a way to win the game. That's what's most important."
 
Troy's Jacob Free, replacing the injured Gunnar Watson, found Reggie Todd on an 11-yard touchdown reception with 37 seconds to play, but the Trojans missed the two-point conversion that would have tied the game as Free's pass was incomplete out of the end zone.
 
Troy appeared to recover the ensuing on-sides kick, but video review showed that the ball did no travel 10 yards before the Trojans touched it.
 
Brown went 20-of-30 for 169 yards and two touchdowns, both to Carter, who finished with seven catches for 72 yards. On the ground, Destin Coates led the rushing attack with 25 rushes for 115 yards, while Tucker Gregg ran 10 times for 67 yards and a touchdown.

Trailing 21-10 with 5:29 to go in the second quarter, Georgia State scored 23-straight points and never trailed again.

Led by outside linebacker Jordan Strachan, the Georgia State defense allowed just 40 yards rushing, the second lowest figure in school history (the GSU record is minus-2 yards vs. WKU in the 2017 AutoNation Cure Bowl).

Strachan, the junior from Kingsland, Ga., had 2.5 sacks, two fumble recoveries, and a forced fumble to go along with four tackles. He returned one fumble 63 yards to the GSU 20, and the other one came in the pivotal third quarter as he sacked Troy quarterback Jacob Free to force the fumble and recovered at the Troy 8-yard line.  Four plays later, Brown scored from two yards out to put the Panthers up 33-21 with four minutes left in the third quarter.

The GSU defense also came up with interceptions by Antavious Lane, his second of the season, and Cameron Sims, both redshirt freshman.
Free finished 24-of-38 for 329 yards and two touchdowns for the Trojans but was also intercepted twice. Watson finished 8-of-10 for 78 yards before missing the rest of the game.

Georgia State scored on its first possession in the third-straight game as Brown hit Carter in the back of the end zone to give the Panthers an early 7-0 lead.

The Trojans tied the game with 58 seconds to play in the opening quarter as Watson found Khalil McClain for a 10-yard strike.

After Noel Ruiz drilled a 46-yard field goal to give Georgia State a 10-7 lead, Troy's defense scored on back-to-back possessions. Reddy Steward intercepted Brown and returned it 34 yards for a touchdown to give Troy a 14-10 lead. Just 38 seconds later, Shakel Brown picked up a Cornelious Brown fumble and returned it 21 yards to put the Trojans ahead 21-10 with 5:29 remaining in the second quarter.

Ruiz made his second field goal of the game, a 31-yard attempt, with 39 seconds to play in the second quarter to send the Panthers into the locker room trailing 21-13.

Troy drove to the GSU 8-yard line early in the third quarter when Lane picked off Free in the end zone, grabbing a ball that was tipped by cornerback Jaylon Jones early and returned it to the GSU 42-yard line.

Seven plays later Tucker Gregg rushed 27 yards for a touchdown and following the Ruiz extra point, the Panthers trailed by just one.
Brown found Carter again for a 36-yard touchdown to give Georgia State a 27-21 lead with 6:05 to play in the third quarter. It was Carter's ninth career touchdown reception.
 
On the next possession, Strachan forced Free to fumble and less than a minute later, Brown rushed two yards for a touchdown to put the Panthers ahead 33-21.
 
Free found A.J. Lewis for Troy's first offensive points since the first quarter with 13:29 to play in the game, cutting Georgia State's lead to 33-28.
 
Ruiz added his third field goal of the game, a 37-yard attempt, to push the lead back to eight with 6:54 to play.
 
Freshman Cameron Sims intercepted Free with just under six minutes to play, but the Trojans would get the ball back on a fumble and score a touchdown to pull within two. Then Free's two-point pass was incomplete.
 
"It's the maturation of a football team that believes they can win," Elliott said. "They kept believing. We gave up the touchdown but not the two-point conversion. Tonight, it didn't matter what the situation was, we stood tall."
 
Georgia State will return home next Saturday to face top-25 ranked Coastal Carolina at Center Parc Stadium at noon on ESPNU.
 
 
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