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11/23/21 - Jacob Dobbs, rSr/2025, James Madison + More +

2021 PATRIOT LEAGUE DEFENSIVE PLAYER OF THE YEAR (COACHES): Jacob Dobbs, Holy Cross, Jr., LB,...2021 Stats: 112 tackles (10.18 tackles/gm), 15.0 TFLs, 8.0 sacks, 3 pass breakups...Dobbs finished third in the Patriot League and 10th in the FCS in tackles per game (10.2) while leading the League in TFLs (15.0) and sacks (8.0)...The Buck Buchanan Award finalist led a Holy Cross defense that finished first in the League and second in the FCS in total defense (253.7), and 19th in the nation in scoring defense (19.0)...Dobbs received Stats Perform FCS National Defensive Player of the Week after finishing with 13 tackles, 4.0 TFL and 2.0 sacks in the Crusaders' win at Yale. He set a career-high with 21 tackles the following week in a win at Monmouth. - Patriot League Football

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11/20/21 - Gabriel Hollingsworth, rSr/2025, James Madison + More +

Gabriel Hollingsworth and Bryson Canty wrapped touchdowns around a Will Allen interception early in the fourth quarter as Columbia broke open a tied game to defeat Cornell 34-26 on Saturday in the annual Empire State Bowl. The see-saw season finale was knotted at 19-19 when Hollingsworth scored on a 2-yard run on the first play of the fourth quarter. Four plays later Allen intercepted a Richie Kenney pass, returning it 47 yards and setting up Canty's 6-yard TD catch from Joe Green, pushing the lead to 32-19. Allen had two of Columbia's five interceptions. Columbia (7-3, 4-3 Ivy League) intercepted Cornell's Jason Wang late in the fourth before the Big Red (2-8, 1-6) scored a final TD with 2:48 left in the game. The Lions made five interceptions of three Cornell quarterbacks. Devon Brewer rushed for 87 yards on 12 carries and a touchdown for Cornell, which saw Scott Lees kick four of four field goals. - AP College Football

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11/20/21 - Cole Johnson, rSr/2022, James Madison + More +

Cole Johnson matched his school-record of six touchdown passes and James Madison beat Towson 56-10 on Saturday as the Dukes finished in a tie for the Colonial Athletic Association title. The Dukes (10-1, 7-1), ranked No. 2 in the FCS, share the league title with Villanova, which handed the Dukes their only loss, 28-27, this season. It's the sixth conference title in seven years for JMU. Johnson's six touchdowns gave him a school single-season record of 32. Three of them went to Antwane Wells Jr., a career-best for Wells - who had nine catches for 107 yards. Kris Thornton had 116 yards on five catches, including an 83-yard score - a career-long connection for both Thornton and Johnson. Johnson finished 21 of 25 for 363 yards. Solomon Vanhorse ran back the opening kickoff for a 94-yard touchdown. Jerry Howard Jr. had 30 carries for 162 yards rushing for Towson (4-8, 3-6). - AP College Football

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QB Cole Johnson, James Madison
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11/13/21 - Ethan Ratke, rSr/2022, James Madison + More +

Ethan Ratke kicked a school-record six field goals and set two NCAA records in James Madison's 32-22 victory over William & Mary on Saturday. Ratke reached 100 career field goals, extending his own FCS record and breaking the NCAA record of 96 held by Arizona State's Zane Gonzalez (2013-16). With the six field goals and two PATs Saturday he has 517 points, passing Oklahoma's Austin Seibert (499 points, 2015-18) on the all-time scoring list for a kicker. The Dukes built a 23-0 lead midway through the third quarter behind three Ratke field goals, Cole Johnson's 3-yard TD pass to Kris Thornton and Johnson's 2-yard run.

The Tribe (6-4, 4-3 Colonial Athletic Association) scored on a 53-yard run by Malachi Imoh and a 46-yarder by Bronson Yoder to cut the deficit to eight early in the fourth quarter but three more Ratke field goals put the game out of reach. The Dukes (9-1, 6-1), who have won five straight and are ranked second in the FCS coaches poll, are tied for first with Villanova in the CAA with one regular-season game remaining. The Dukes, who lost to Villanova 28-27, will play at Delaware in next Saturday. - AP College Football

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11/06/21 - Cole Johnson, rSr/2022, James Madison + More +

Cole Johnson threw for four touchdowns, Kris Thornton caught four TDs and James Madison beat Campbell 51-14 on Saturday. Johnson and Thornton connected on three touchdown passes. Johnson finished with 259 yards on 11-of-21 passing while Thornton made eight catches for 142 yards. The Dukes (8-1) led 10-7 after the first quarter then scored 17 second-quarter points, two on Johnson-to-Thornton passes, to lead 26-7 at halftime. By the time Johnson added an 8-yard scoring run midway through the third quarter, the Dukes were up 36-7.

Hajj-Malik Williams was 19 of 33 for 268 yards passing and two touchdowns for the Fighting Camels (4-6), both to Caleb Snead, who had 198 yards on 11 catches, both single-game school records. Snead also set school records with single-season receptions (63) and career TD catches (25). Campbell lost three fumbles, two leading to Dukes scores. Before the game, James Madison, ranked third in the FCS coaches poll, announced it would be leaving the Colonial Athletic Association to move up to the FBS and join the Sun Belt Conference. After this season, the Dukes will go through a two-year transition to the FBS and join the Sun Belt no later than July 1, 2023. The Dukes' withdrawal from the CAA is effective June 30, 2022, the CAA said. JMU won the national FCS title in 2016 and reached the championship game twice since. - AP College Football

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QB Cole Johnson, James Madison
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10/31/21 - Dylan Morris, rSr/2025, James Madison + More +

Dylan Morris threw a 20-yard touchdown pass to Jalen McMillan with 21 seconds remaining, lifting Washington past Stanford 20-13 on Saturday night. Sean McGrew ran for 114 yards on 19 carries to pace Washington's best game of the year running the ball. Cameron Davis added 99 yards on 18 attempts to help the Huskies (4-4, 3-2 Pac-12) pile up a season-high 229 yards on the ground. Peyton Henry matched his career-high with four field goals.

Afterward, loud music blared from Washington's locker room as the Huskies celebrated their first win in Stanford since 2007. "That feeling right there is just going to give us so much more confidence," Morris said. "That's the resilience we have on this team. We harped on all this week details and coming out with energy and starting fast. That definitely showed in this game." Stanford has lost three straight since knocking off then-No. 3 Oregon. "Not the way we wanted to come out after the bye," Stanford coach David Shaw said. "Honestly (we) played defense good the entire game but once again it comes down to two minutes and we couldn't get the stop to end the game. That's how you lose." The Cardinal (3-5, 2-4) trailed most of the game before scoring 10 points in the fourth quarter to take a brief lead. Quarterback Tanner McKee scored on a 1-yard dive and Joshua Karty kicked a 43-yard field goal that put Stanford up 13-12. The Huskies turned the ball over on downs on its ensuing possession but forced a three-and-out to get the ball back with 2:51 remaining. - Washington/AP College Football

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QB Dylan Morris, James Madison
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10/30/21 - Cole Johnson, rSr/2022, James Madison + More +

Cole Johnson threw a school-record six touchdown passes and James Madison beat Elon 45-21 on Saturday to take over first place in the Colonial Athletic Association. The victory gave the Dukes (7-1, 5-1) the conference lead over William & Mary and Villanova, both 4-1. The Tribe defeated the Wildcats 31-18 on Saturday. Johnson's six touchdown passes broke a school record he shared with three other Dukes. Four of his touchdown passes came in a 28-point second quarter when the Dukes went out at front 35-14 at halftime. His sixth TD, a 31-yarder to Devin Ravenel late in the third quarter made it 45-14. Johnson finished 22 of 25 for 307 yards. Antwane Wells Jr. had two of the TD catches and finished with 114 yards on eight grabs for James Madison, ranked fifth in the FCS coaches poll. Bryson Daughtry had seven catches for a career-high 112 yards and a score for the Phoenix (4-4, 3-2). - James Madison/AP College Football

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QB Cole Johnson, James Madison
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10/23/21 - Ethan Ratke, rSr/2022, James Madison + More +

Ethan Ratke kicked a school record five field goals to back a sturdy defense and James Madison smothered Delaware 22-10 on Saturday. Ratke had kicks of 30, 37 and 47 yards but the Dukes trailed 10-9 at the half. Ryan Coe had a 51-yard field goal for the Blue Hens and Zach Gwynn found James Collins for a 26-yard touchdown. Ratke booted another 47-yarder, which is his career long, on the initial drive of the second half and Cole Johnson scored on a 36-yard run, the longest of his career, late in the third quarter. Radke's last field goal was 42 yards and was the 90th of his career. James Madison (6-1, 4-1 Colonial Athletic Association), ranked seventh in the FCS coaches poll, held the Blue Hens (3-4, 2-3), ranked 23rd, to 109 yards of total offense, 25 in the second half. Delaware turned the ball over three times and James Madison had the ball for 11 more minutes, getting off 28 more plays. - James Madison/AP College Football

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10/22/21 - Gabriel Hollingsworth, rSr/2025, James Madison + More +

Joe Green passed for one touchdown, Gabe Hollingsworth barreled for another on Friday night and Columbia, thanks to a pair of goal-line stands, threw a 19-0 wrench into Dartmouth's ride towards an undefeated season. Twice in the final seven minutes, Dartmouth advanced to a first-and-goal - at the 5 and at the 7 - only to be stymied on both drives. Derek Kyler's final pass of the game was batted down at the line of scrimmage by the Lions Will Allen. The Columbia defense handed Dartmouth a shutout for the first time in a decade (Oct. 8, 2011) and held Big Green 60 yards rushing.

The Lions win also tightened the Ivy League standings as Columbia (5-1) and Dartmouth (5-1) each stand at 2-1 in conference. The remaining unbeatens, Harvard and Princeton, face off on Saturday. On Columbia's first touchdown, Hollingsworth was hit by Dartmouth's Jalen Mackie - the Ivy's leading tackler - and wrapped up behind the line of scrimmage on a direct snap. Hollingsworth stayed on his feet and hauled Mackie to the end zone for a 1-yard touchdown as Columbia grabbed a 9-0 lead. Green, a transfer from San Diego State, completed 14 of 22 passes for 98 yards. He lofted a 25-yard rainbow to Mike Roussos in the end zone as the Lions extended the lead to 19-0. With less than seven minutes left to play, Dartmouth got to a first-and-goal at the 5-yard line but turned the ball over on downs after a Lions defensive stand stopped two runs and forced two incompletions. Dartmouth's Kyler was 24-of-45 passing for 194 yards with an interception. - AP College Football

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10/16/21 - Ethan Ratke, rSr/2022, James Madison + More +

Ethan Ratke kicked a career-high four field goals and James Madison bounced back from its lone loss of the season with a 19-3 win over Richmond on Saturday. Cole Johnson hit Solomon Vanhorse over the middle on a short pass and the running back went untouched into the end zone for a 25-yard score and a 10-0 first-quarter lead. Ratke added a 32-yard field goal for a 13-0 lead. His other kicks came from 23, 24 and 26 yards. Jake Larson kicked a 40-yard field goal to get the Spiders (2-5, 0-4 Colonial Athletic Association) within 13-3 at halftime before Ratke added two more field goals in the third quarter for the final margin. Johnson finished 19-of-29 passing for 270 yards in leading the Dukes (6-1, 4-1), ranked seventh in the FCS coaches poll, to victory after a 28-27 loss to Villanova last week. Bruce Carter and Tony Thurston had two sacks each and James Madison six altogether. - AP College Football

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10/02/21 - Cole Johnson, rSr/2022, James Madison + More +

Cole Johnson threw three touchdown passes and Diamonte Tucker-Dorsey intercepted a pass with 1:45 to play as James Madison, the second-ranked FCS team, held off New Hampshire 23-21 on Saturday. The Dukes (4-0, 2-0 Colonial Athletic Association) led 17-7 at halftime as Johnson hit Reggie Brown for a touchdown in the closing seconds. However Randall Harris picked of Johnson in the opening minutes of the third quarter and returned it 18 yards for the Wildcats (3-2, 2-1). Then New Hampshire took the lead, 21-17, when Bret Edwards found Brian Espanet for an 8-yard score after the Dukes lost a fumble.

The James Madison defense took over from there and the Dukes finally put together a winning drive. Johnson's second TD pass to Kris Thornton capped a 12-play, 77-yard drive for a 23-21 lead with 8:20 to go. Johnson had 273 yards on 33-of-44 passing with Thornton catching 12 balls for 112. The Dukes had 432 yards of offense. After their last touchdown, the Wildcats had three punts but still had a chance to win despite just 162 yards of offense before the interception near mid-field. - James Madison/AP College Football

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09/22/21 - Cole Johnson, rSr/2022, James Madison + More +

Five CAA Football teams remain ranked in the top 25 nationally in both the Stats Perform and AFCA Coaches FCS polls released after Week 3 of the regular season. James Madison (3-0) stayed at No. 2 in the AFCA poll and No. 3 in the Stats Perform rankings after its convincing 37-24 road victory over #9/8 Weber State last Saturday. The Dukes are off this weekend. Delaware (2-1) slid to No. 8 in the Stats Perform poll and No. 11 in the AFCA Coaches rankings following its 45-13 setback at Big Ten member Rutgers last week. The Blue Hens have a bye this Saturday. Villanova (3-0) moved up to No. 7 in the AFCA poll and rose to No. 11 in the Stats Perform poll after rallying past #21/18 Richmond, 34-27 last Saturday. The Wildcats travel to Big Ten power Penn State on Saturday. - Colonial Athletic Association Football

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09/21/21 - Jacob Dobbs, rSr/2025, James Madison + More +

SEPT 20 STATS FCS NATIONAL DEFENSIVE PLAYER OF THE WEEK: Jacob Dobbs, Holy Cross, LB, Jr., 6-0, 232, Macomb, Michigan,...Dobbs was the consistent defensive force as Holy Cross won at Yale 20-17, posting at least three tackles in each quarter and 13 overall. Four were behind the line of scrimmage for 18 yards in losses, including two fourth-quarter sacks. It was Yale's first game since 2019, when it had the fourth-highest scoring offense in the FCS, and the two-time defending Patriot League champ held the Bulldogs to only a field goal in the final 40 minutes. Dobbs has posted double-figure tackles in four straight games. Honorable Mention: Kelechi Anyalebechi, LB, UIW; Harrison Beemiller, LB, Northern Arizona; Markquese Bell, S, Florida A&M; Ty Boeck, LB, Chattanooga;Nick Cagnetto, S, Drake; Braydon Deming, DE, Illinois State; Tyrell Grayson, DB, Dixie State; Corione Harris, DB, McNeese; Jalen Mackie, LB, Dartmouth; Jalen Porter, LB, ETSU; Ryan Saddler, LB, Bryant; J.T. Whitmore, DE, Campbell. - STATS FCS Football

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09/19/21 - Cole Johnson, rSr/2022, James Madison + More +

Cole Johnson threw two touchdown passes and ran for another score to lead third-ranked James Madison over No. 9 Weber State 37-24 on Saturday night. Johnson bullied into the end zone from the 3 late in the first quarter, and his 5-yard touchdown pass to Antwane Wells Jr. stretched the Dukes' lead to 23-3 in the third quarter. The pair connected again for a 14-yard touchdown early in the fourth.

Johnson was 20-of-28 passing for 177 yards. Wells finished with eight catches for 76 yards. Ethan Ratke kicked a 44-yard field goal and made two more from the 40. The senior has kicked 78 career field goals for James Madison (3-0). Creyton Cooper tossed a 1-yard touchdown pass to tight end Hayden Meacham in the third quarter for Weber State (1-2). Late in the fourth, Kylan Weisser threw a 27-yard TD pass to Rashid Shaheed and Josh Davis ran for a 2-yard score. The Dukes had never traveled farther west than Texas or North Dakota before Saturday night's matchup in Utah. - James Madison/AP College Football

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09/15/21 - Ethan Ratke, rSr/2022, James Madison + More +

SEPT 13 CAA FOOTBALL CO-SPECIAL TEAMS PLAYER OF THE WEEK: Ethan Ratke, Sr., PK, James Madison (Mechanicsville, Va./Atlee),...Ratke became the FCS all-time leader in points by a kicker (417) and tied the FCS career record for field goals (75) as James Madison beat Maine, 55-7. The senior accounted for 13 points vs Maine, making field goals of 41 and 21 yards and going 7-for-7 on extra points. - Colonial Athletic Association Football

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