SUN BELT CONFERENCE

Arkansas State 48, Georgia

State 34: Warren Wand ran for 119 yards and a touchdown as Arkansas State pulled away to beat Georgia State 48-34 Saturday night.

Nick Arbuckle completed a 9-yard touchdown to Keith Rucker to make it 27-20 before half.

Arkansas State (5-3, 4-0 Sun Belt) tied it when Fredi Knighten hit Dijon Paschal for 26 yards. But that lead lasted 14 seconds because on the ensuing kickoff Marquan Greene raced 100 yards to put the Panthers back up 34-27.

Knighten found Tres Houston who made a leaping 3-yard catch to tie it at 34 to start the fourth.

J.D. McKissic intercepted Arbuckle on Georgia State’s next drive to set up Johnston White’s 3-yard run for the go-ahead score. Wand’s 60-yard touchdown run sealed the game.

Arbuckle threw for 390 yards and two scores as the Panthers fell to (2-5, 1-2). Knighten was 21 for 29 for 224 yards, three touchdowns and two picks.

Appalachian State 44, Troy 41,

3OT: Appalachian State’s Zach Matics kicked a 24-yard field goal after the Mountaineers had stuffed a fake field-goal attempt for a 44-41 victory over Troy on Saturday night in triple overtime.

After both teams had scored a touchdown in the first overtime and traded field goals in the second, Matics gave the Mountaineers (7-1, 4-0 Sun Belt) the lead. Troy had a fourth-and-2 at the Mountaineers 5 and lined up for a kick. But holder John Johnson tossed a shovel pass to Clark Quisenberry, who was stopped for no gain.

Troy (2-6, 1-3) sent the game into overtime when Brandon Silvers threw an 11-yard touchdown pass to Teddy Ruben with 3:49 remaining. Silvers finished with 265 yards passing, completing 27 of 41 attempts. He was intercepted twice.

Appalachian State’s Taylor Lamb was 16 of 26 for 184 yards, two touchdowns and an interception. He also ran for two scores. Marcus Cox rushed for 144 yards on 30 carries.

Georgia Southern 37, Texas

State 13: Matt Breida ran for 205 yards and two touchdowns on 23 carries to help Georgia Southern beat Texas State 37-13 on Thursday night.

Breida topped 200 yards for the first time this season and the third time in his career. The junior has run for 1,163 yards and 13 touchdowns this season after finishing with 1,485 yards and 17 touchdowns last season. He’s averaging 9.6 yards a carry this year.

Georgia Southern (6-2, 4-1 Sun Belt) rebounded from a 31-13 loss last week at Appalachian State to run their home winning streak to 10 games. Wesley Fields ran for 158 yards and a touchdown on nine carries and the Eagles finished with 503 yards rushing on 67 attempts.

Robert Lowe ran for 91 yards on 20 carries for Texas State (2-5, 1-2).

Breida opened the scoring with a 37-yard run on Georgia Southern’s first drive of the game. He made it 14-0 with a 48-yard dash up the middle early in the second quarter.

Texas State cut it to 14-6 in the second quarter on Lumi Kaba’s 33- and 28-yard field goals. Georgia Southern had a chance to pad its lead late in the half, but quarterback Kevin Ellison fumbled and the Bobcats’Trey McGowan recovered at the 12 with 7 seconds left.

The Eagles made it 21-6 on Fields’ 38-yard run on the opening possession in the second half. Texas State countered on Tyler Jones’ 23-yard scoring pass to Jafus Gaines midway through the third, and Georgia Southern pulled away with L.A. Ramsby’s 7-yard scoring run and Younghoe Koo’s three field goals.

New Mexico St 55, Idaho 48 OT:

Larry Rose III scored on 1-yard runs three times in the fourth quarter to bring New Mexico State back from a 23-point deficit to start the second half, then punched in from the 2 in overtime to lift the Aggies to their first win in eight tries for a 55-48 OT win over Idaho Saturday night.

Idaho (3-5, 2-3 Sun Belt) took a 20-0 lead in the second half and Matt Linehan scored on a 19-yard run to make it 40-21 with 14:13 left in regulation.

Andrew Allen hit Royce Caldwelll with a 61-yard touchdown pass to spark the comeback and Rose crunched in three times in a span of 9 minutes, tying the game at 48-48 with :51 left.

Rose and New Mexico State (1-7, 1-3) scored first in overtime and sealed the win when Terrill Hanks picked off Linehan.

Rose finished with 212 yards on 25 carries.

Louisiana-Lafayette 30, LouisianaMonroe 24:

Brooks Haack threw for a TD and ran for another and Louisiana Lafayette cashed in on a blocked punt and penalty to rally to beat Louisiana Monroe 30-24 Saturday in the 51st Battle on the Bayou rivalry game.

Held to 90 total yards of offense in the first half and trailing 24-9 at halftime, the Ragin’Cajuns (3-4, 2-1 Sun Belt) scored 21 unanswered points in the second half and won it on a 64-yard TD pass from Haack to Jamal Robinson in the fourth quarter.

Elijah McGuire scored on a 5-yard run in the third quarter to pull within 24-16 and Haack made it 24-22 after a 13-yard TD run that was setup up by a punt blocked by Chaiziere Malbrue. The drive had sputtered, but the Warhawks (1-7, 0-4) were called for roughing the punter and Louisiana-Lafayette kept the ball.

Garret Smith was 16-of-35 for 265 yards passing with three TD passes for the Warhawks, who have lost their sixth straight.