Saturday, August 30, 2014

It wasn't pretty, but ODU prevails over Hampton 41-28

PHOTO COURTESY HAMPTON UNIVERSITY ATHLETICS
& MSUTTON PHOTOGRAPHY
NORFOLK, Virginia  --  It wasn’t pretty.
The defense, as usual, gave up wide swaths of real estate. And late in the fourth quarter, the outcome was still in doubt.
But Old Dominion managed to stave off a Hampton University rally and defeat the Pirates, 41-28, at Foreman Field Saturday before a sellout crowd of 20,118 and a regional television audience.
It was the first game for ODU in the Football Bowl Subdivision and Conference USA but came against an old rival from the Football Championship Subdivision. ODU is now 4-0 against Hampton.
The schedule gets much tougher for ODU from now on. Hampton is the only FCS team on ODU’s schedule. Ahead for the Monarchs are 11 FBS opponents, beginning with a game at North Carolina State, Saturday.

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