{"id":10043,"date":"2011-09-19T16:07:19","date_gmt":"2011-09-19T20:07:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=10043"},"modified":"2011-09-19T16:10:12","modified_gmt":"2011-09-19T20:10:12","slug":"rattlers-embarrass-faithful-against-usf","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=10043","title":{"rendered":"Rattlers Embarrass Faithful Against USF"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>BY TED TAYLOR<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Rattlers of Florida A &amp; M got a taste of big time college football on Saturday evening in Tampa, but it was not a good taste. The University of South Florida Bulls crushed the Snakes to the tune of 70-17, in Raymond James Stadium before a crowd of 50,128.<\/p>\n<p>USF took the opening kickoff and marched 64 yards in six plays scoring on a 43-yard bomb from quarterback <strong>B. J. Daniels<\/strong> to receiver <strong>A. J. Love<\/strong> in just 1:46.\u00a0 From there the romp was on.<\/p>\n<p>USF followed with first quarter touchdowns on runs of 6 yards by running back <strong>Darrell Scott<\/strong> and 5 yards by<strong> Daniels<\/strong>. Each drive took less than two minutes.<\/p>\n<p>Things finally started to look up for FAMU when quarterback <strong>Austin Trainor<\/strong> hit running back <strong>Lavante Page<\/strong> on a 4-yard toss.\u00a0 The key play was a 48-yard interception return by cornerback <strong>Devontae Johnson<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>USF was not fazed, however, answering quickly on a 56-yard run by <strong>Scott<\/strong>.\u00a0 FAMU scored again on its next drive on a <strong>Trainor<\/strong> 32-yarder to receiver <strong>Edmund Baker<\/strong>. USF scored 21 unanswered points for a 49-14 halftime lead.<\/p>\n<p>The second half began as the first half ended.\u00a0 After going nowhere on the opening drive, FAMU saw USF tally again on a run of 30 yards by <strong>Scott<\/strong>.\u00a0 The 56-14 lead was enough for the starters to retire for the evening.\u00a0 Later in the quarter, <strong>Andre Davis<\/strong> blocked and ran in a FAMU punt from 11 yards.<\/p>\n<p>The reserves scored on a 2-yard run by <strong>Marcus Shaw<\/strong>. FAMU second-string quarterback freshmen <strong>Damien Fleming<\/strong> engineered a drive that led to a 34-yard field goal by <strong>Trevor Scott<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>FAMU travels to Atlanta next weekend for a battle against Southern University in the Atlanta Classic.\u00a0 Southern, of the Southwestern Athletic Conference, replaces longtime opponent Tennessee State.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Pictured: The family of the late Lee Roy Selmon participated in the coin toss during Saturday night\u2019s game at Raymond James Stadium. (Photo by Lomax McIntyre)<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BY TED TAYLOR The Rattlers of Florida A &amp; M got a taste of big time college football on Saturday evening in Tampa, but it was not a good taste. The University of South Florida Bulls crushed the Snakes to the tune of 70-17, in Raymond James Stadium before a crowd of 50,128. USF took [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":210,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pmpro_default_level":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10043","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports","pmpro-has-access"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10043","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/210"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10043"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10043\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10043"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10043"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10043"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}