The Temple Wildcats are headed away from home for the first time to challenge the Reagan Rattlers at 7:30 p.m. on Friday. Having both just faced considerable losses, both teams are looking to turn things around.
Temple lost 42-21 to Round Rock on Friday. While losing is never fun, the Wildcats can't take it too hard given the team's big disadvantage in MaxPreps' Texas football rankings (they are ranked 310th, while the Dragons are ranked 100th).
Temple might have lost, but man, Byron Crittendon was a machine: he rushed for 96 yards and a touchdown. Crittendon got the majority of those rushing yards when he took off on a run and that went for an incredible 96 yards.
Even though they lost, Temple was unstoppable on the ground and finished the game with 237 rushing yards. That's the most rushing yards they've posted since was before the start of last season.
Meanwhile, Reagan was beaten by Steele 62-34 on Saturday. Despite running the score up even higher than they did in their prior game last Saturday (31), the Rattlers still had to take the loss.
Reagan's loss shouldn't obscure the performances of Jack Bingham, who threw for 265 yards and three touchdowns while completing 78.1% of his passes, and Caleb Cappuccio, who picked up 124 receiving yards and two touchdowns. The dominant performance gave him a new career- in rushing yards.
Temple's defeat dropped their record down to 1-1. As for Reagan, their loss ended a five-game streak of wins at home dating back to last season and dropped them to 1-1.
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