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 Draft Scout College Football Player News: Bowling Green
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  Harold Fannin Jr. had a rushing touchdown, Mason Lawler made two field goals and Bowling Green held off Western Michigan 13-9 on Wednesday night despite turning it over three times. Ta'ron Keith returned the second-half kickoff 83 yards and Fannin scored three plays later from 8 for a 13-0 lead. The Broncos pulled within four points on a field goal with 5:28 remaining in the fourth quarter and forced a three-and-out to get it back with four minutes left. Western Michigan used eight plays to get to the Bowling Green 19 but lost three yards on fourth down.

Matt McDonald was 23-of-31 passing for 161 yards for Bowling Green (5-4, 4-1 Mid-American Conference), which won its third straight conference game. Bowling Green led 6-0 at halftime after holding Western Michigan to four first downs and 91 total yards. Western Michigan (3-6, 2-3) scored for the first time with 3:11 left in the third when Corey Crooms caught a short pass over the middle and eluded the Bowling Green safety for a 39-yard touchdown. Crooms finished with eight catches for 151 yards. - Bowling Green/AP College Football

rSr/2023 QB Matt McDonald, Bowling Green
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  OCT 24 MAC EAST DIVISION SPECIAL TEAMS PLAYER OF THE WEEK: Sami Sir, Bowling Green, Punter, Freshman, Melbourne, Australia (Essendon Keilor College),...Helped flip the field for the Falcons all game. Had three of his six punts (42.2 avg.) pinned CMU inside its own 10-yard line. A fourth punt was looked to be downed inside the five-yard line before the coverage team knocked into the end zone for a TB. Perfectly hung a punt that the coverage team forced a fumble that BGSU recovered and scored a field goal. - MAC Football

Jr/2026 P Sami Sir, Bowling Green
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  Demetrius Hardamon returned a fumble 45 yards for a touchdown as Bowling Green collected four takeaways in a 34-18 win over Central Michigan on Saturday. The Falcons (4-4, 3-1 Mid-American Conference) recovered three fumbles, pushing their season total to 12, and also had an interception by Walter Haire that led to a touchdown. Bowling Green scored first and led throughout. The Falcons scored 17 points in the fourth quarter, including Hardamon's touchdown after Kari Brooks' sack, to pull away. Brooks had three of the Falcons' six sacks. Matt McDonald threw a pair of touchdown passes to Tyrone Broden on his way to an 18-of-21 day for 253 yards for Bowling Green. Odieu Hilliare had 105 yards receiving and Jaison Patterson 101 rushing. Jase Bower threw for 185 yards, including a touchdown, and ran for 109 more for the Chippewas (2-6, 1-3). - Bowling Green/AP College Football

rSr/2025 OLB Demetrius Hardamon, Bowling Green
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  OCT 17 MAC EAST DIVISION DEFENSIVE PLAYER OF THE WEEK: Demetrius Hardamon, Bowling Green, OLB, Junior, Beavercreek, Ohio (Beavercreek),...Hardamon helped lead a team defensive effort in a win over Miami. He Notched five tackles, four of which were solo in the win. Hardamon had a career-high 3.0 tackles for loss and a career-high 2.0 sacks (BGSU had 4.0 sacks). One of his sacks was a strip sack with BGSU recovered. He help spearhead a BGSU defensive effort that held Miami under 200 yards of total offense. - MAC Football

rSr/2025 OLB Demetrius Hardamon, Bowling Green
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  Matt McDonald threw for 247 yards and three touchdowns, and Bowling Green beat Akron 31-28 on Saturday in a Mid-American Conference opener for both teams. Bowling Green took a 24-14 lead with 1:15 left before halftime when Akron fumbled inside its 5-yard line on a punt return and McDonald found Christian Sims one play later. Bowling Green went on a seven-play, 88-yard drive to take a 31-21 lead after McDonald's 18-yard connection to Odieu Hiliare in the corner of the end zone.

Akron answered with at 41-yard pass from DJ Irons to Alex Adams to cap the scoring with eight minutes left. Seven different Bowling Green rushers combined for 36 carries and 175 yards, led by Jamal Johnson's 13 carries and 70 yards. Hiliare caught four passes for 95 yards and a score for Bowling Green (2-3, 1-0). Irons also threw for three touchdowns for Akton (1-4, 0-1). He passed for 224 yards and rushed for 105 more. Adams made four catches for 96 yards, including two scores. - Bowling Green/AP College Football

rSr/2023 QB Matt McDonald, Bowling Green
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  SEPT 19 MAC EAST DIVISION OFFENSIVE PLAYER OF THE WEEK: Matt McDonald, Bowling Green, QB, Senior, Newport Beach, Calif. (Mission Viejo),...McDonald led BGSU to a 34-31 win over Marshall as he found Ta'ron Keith in the endzone for the game-winning score in overtime. Marshall was ranked No. 26 in the nation, just a few points away from being in the Top 25. McDonald became the first Falcon since Matt Johnson in 2015 to throw 4+ touchdowns in back-to-back games. He had five last week against Eastern Kentucky. McDonald had scoring passes of 25 and 30 yards in the second quarter, both coming on fourth down plays. He spread the wealth with six receivers having at least 30+ receiving yards. - MAC Football

rSr/2023 QB Matt McDonald, Bowling Green
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  SEPT 19 MAC EAST DIVISION DEFENSIVE PLAYER OF THE WEEK: Karl Brooks, Bowling Green, Defensive End, Senior, Lansing, Mich. (Lansing Sexton HS),...Brooks led a very balanced defensive effort that caused havoc for the Marshall offense. He notched one sack and fumble recovery. His fumble recovery came inside BGSU's own five-yard line. Brooks also helped BGSU force two Marshall turnovers inside the Falcons' five-yard line. His pass rush helped BGSU hold Marshall to a FG in the first overtime, setting stage for BGSU's game-winning touchdown drive. - MAC Football

rSr/2023 DT Karl Brooks, Bowling Green
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  Matt McDonald found Ta'ron Keith from 2 yards out in overtime to lift Bowling Green to a 34-31 win over Marshall on Saturday. The Thundering Herd came into the game looking to build momentum after shocking Notre Dame, 28-21, to break into the Top 25 for the first time in two seasons. Henry Colombi fired a 51-yard touchdown pass to Corey Gammage in the first quarter to open the scoring for Marshall and followed it with a 78-yard strike to Caleb McMillan to take a 14-0 lead after one quarter.

McDonald got the Falcons on the board with a 25-yard strike to Odieu Hiliare, but Marshall answered with a 5-yard run by Khalan Laborn to take a 21-7 lead. McDonald hit Hiliare from 27-yards out, then found Cavon Croom with a 30-yard strike to even the game at 21-21 at intermission. Bowling Green took the lead when Harold Fannin Jr. punched in from the 1, but Marshall answered on an 8-yard run by Laborn to tie the game and force overtime. The Thundering Herd got the ball first in overtime and Rece Verhoff kicked a 38-yard field goal. - Bowling Green/AP College Football

rSr/2023 QB Matt McDonald, Bowling Green
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  Connor Bazelak threw a touchdown pass and completed a 2-point conversion pass with 47 seconds left Saturday to force overtime and Charles Campbell made a 51-yard field goal to give the Hoosiers a 33-30 victory over Western Kentucky on Saturday. The unbeaten Hoosiers have rallied in the second half of all three victories this season and have now surpassed last season's win total. But it took everything Indiana could muster late - a 17-point fourth quarter, a late goal-line stand, Western Kentucky's missed 44-yard field goal as time expired in regulation, and a blocked 39-yard field-goal attempt in overtime before Campbell won it.

Western Kentucky (2-1) has lost all five meetings with Indiana - the last three by a combined total of eight points - and is 0-9 against Big Ten foes since joining the FBS in 2007. And for most of the game, it looked like those skids would end. Austin Reed threw two touchdown passes and ran for another Saturday to give the Hilltoppers a 24-13 lead after three quarters. They just failed to close it out. It was a wacky game even before the late flurry. Indiana's starting center, Zach Carpenter, didn't play after getting hurt in pregame warmups and Western Kentucky nearly lost starting safety Kaleb Oliver on a targeting call on Indiana's fifth play. The call was overturned on a replay review. Then at the end of the first half, three players ran into the goal post chasing an overthrown ball by Bazelak. - Indiana/AP College Football

rSr/2025 QB Connor Bazelak, Bowling Green
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  SEPT 12 MAC EAST DIVISION OFFENSIVE PLAYER OF THE WEEK: Matt McDonald, Bowling Green, QB, Senior, Newport Beach, Calif.,...Threw a career-high five touchdowns, which is tied for third-most in the nation this season and are the most in the MAC. McDonald's six total touchdowns were also a career high. McDonald helped Bowling Green overcome a 14-point deficit in the second half, taking a seven-point lead late. He led BG through seven overtimes, including throwing two touchdown passes and going 3-of-5 on 2-point plays starting in the third OT. McDonald also rushed for a touchdown and a game-high 64 yards. - MAC Football

rSr/2023 QB Matt McDonald, Bowling Green
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  Connor Bazelak took Indiana on a 75-yard scoring march on its final series and Shaun Shivers capped it by scoring on a 1-yard run with 23 seconds left to give the Hoosiers a 23-20 victory over Illinois on Friday night. Indiana's season-opening victory snapped an eight-game losing streak and a nine-game skid in Big Ten play. Bazelak finished 28-of-52 passing for 330 yards and one TD in his Hoosiers debut. It was a frustrating finish for the Illini, who allowed only 70 yards in the second half before the final series. Chase Brown ran for 199 yards and Tommy DeVito threw two touchdown passes for Illinois (1-1, 0-1). Brown became the first Illinois player to open a season with consecutive 100-yard games since 1944. And yet it still wasn't enough to prevail in this slugfest.

Brown lost one of two fumbles, multiple players were injured and a series of replay reviews that brought the second-half to a stalemate that featured just one score - DeVito's go-ahead 16-yard TD pass to Brian Hightower early in the third quarter - until the final 2 1/2 minutes. While Indiana struggled to stop the run, Bazelak carved up the Illinois secondary in the first half and again on the final drive. His first completion as a Hoosier went for 40 yards - more than Illinois yielded in last weekend's entire game. Bazelak, the former Missouri starter, added three more completions of 24 or more yards during the first two quarters including a 52-yard TD pass to D.J. Matthews Jr. that helped Indiana take a 16-10 halftime lead. - Indiana/AP College Football

rSr/2025 QB Connor Bazelak, Bowling Green
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  2022 PRESEASON JOHNNY UNITAS GOLDEN ARM AWARD WATCH LIST: Connor Bazelak, Indiana,...Bazelak joined the Hoosiers as a transfer from the University of Missouri on Jan. 7, 2022. He enrolled in spring classes and participated in practice. Bazelak threw for 5,084 yards with 23 touchdowns, 17 interceptions, and a 66.4 completion percentage in 20 starts (24 games) from 2019-21. - Indiana Football

rSr/2025 QB Connor Bazelak, Bowling Green
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  When Bowling Green State University football opens its season at UCLA, senior quarterback Matt McDonald will be able to say every football-playing member of his family has played in the Rose Bowl Stadium. McDonald is looking forward to the season opener in the stadium that has hosted "The Granddaddy of Them All", the Rose Bowl football game, since 1902. The Falcons and Bruins will tangle on Sept. 3 with kickoff set for 2:30 p.m. on the Pac-12 Network. McDonald's excitement is shared by BGSU coach Scot Loeffler and his teammates. "Being a Big Ten guy there is no greater place in the United States to play but in the Rose Bowl," Loeffler said. "I love it. I think the kids are going to have a great experience. "Now with Matt playing every McDonald has played in the Rose Bowl, so it is going to be a neat experience for our kids," Loeffler continued. "It's a really great football team - (UCLA coach) Chip (Kelly) does a really great job. We have to go out there and play our very best and find a way to sneak one past them."

McDonald's father, Paul McDonald, was a standout quarterback at USC, finishing his collegiate career 22-1-1 and holding the NCAA mark for the lowest interception percentage in a career at 2.3% (13 interceptions in 561 attempts). With Paul McDonald calling the signals, the 1980 Trojans won a national championship with a 17-16 victory over Ohio State in the Rose Bowl. Two of Matt's brothers played quarterback in college football, including Mike, who was a third string QB for USC during the 2005 season. For Matt, who hails from Newport Beach, California and is the youngest of Paul and Allyson McDonald's four children, nothing could be better than beginning his final season on the Rose Bowl stage. "It's the grandaddy of them all. I'm excited," Matt said. "I've always dreamed of playing in that stadium. - Sentinel Tribune

rSr/2023 QB Matt McDonald, Bowling Green
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  Bowling Green benefits from a veteran presence at quarterback in redshirt senior Matt McDonald, who threw his first collegiate pass at Boston College when Mike Jinks was still coaching the Falcons. After sitting out the 2019 season, he endured a difficult 2020, passing for just one touchdown against six interceptions as Bowling Green finished a truncated season 0-5. McDonald showed signs of improvement in 2021 that belied his numbers. He threw seven interceptions, but none in the season's final four games.

He peaked in an Oct. 30 victory over Buffalo, completing 13 of 19 passes for 263 yards and four touchdowns. McDonald even rushed for 39 yards on five attempts. Still, his passing efficiency of 121.2 ranked 11th in the conference among qualified quarterbacks. A spate of talented signal-callers loom on the Falcons' schedule in 2022, including UCLA's Dorian Thompson-Robinson, Mississippi State's Will Rogers, Miami of Ohio's Brett Gabbert, Kent State's Collin Schlee, and the Rockets' Dequan Finn. McDonald will have to raise his game in order to keep Bowling Green competitive in any potential shootouts. - Sentinel Tribune

rSr/2023 QB Matt McDonald, Bowling Green
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  The Bowling Green State University football program has added Rutgers transfer Tunde Fatukasi, according to head football coach Scot Loeffler. Fatukasi, an offensive tackle, spent two seasons at Rutgers. He will have four years of eligibility with the Falcons. Fatukasi (Far Rockaway, New York) spent the 2020 and 2021 seasons in Piscataway, New Jersey, with Rutgers. He is a 2020 graduate of Erasmus Hall High School, located in Brooklyn. While at Erasmus, Fatukasi helped the Dutchmen win back-to-back PSAL Championships in 2018 and 2019. He was named all-city and all-conference along the way. - Sentinel Tribune

rSr/2025 OG Tunde Fatukasi, Bowling Green
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