Patterson's five touchdowns tied . . .
The Bulls had their most successful game of the season rushing the ball, rolling up 331 yards on the ground. Patterson finished with 192 yards on 32 carries and Kevin Marks added 118 yards and a score on 16 touches. Quarterback Kyle Vantrease added a rushing score for six rushing touchdowns in the game, the most by a UB team in its FBS era and one shy of the all-time school record.
The Bulls opened the scoring late in the first quarter when Marks found the end zone on a four-yard run. On the ensuing possession, Matt Otwinowski came up with his first career interception to set up the Bulls at the Toledo 24-yard line. On the first play from scrimmage, Patterson took a screen pass from Vantrease and barreled 24 yards to the end zone to give the Bulls a 14-0 lead.
Toledo struck back quickly, scoring two touchdowns in less than two minutes to tie the game at 14. The Bulls responded with a 10-play, 75-yard drive, capped off by a 1-yard Patterson touchdown run, to take the lead for good, 21-14. Patterson's third touchdown, a 1-yard run, gave the Bulls a 28-17 advantage late in the first half. Buffalo took a 28-20 lead to the locker room at halftime.
After Toledo opened the second half with a field goal to cut the UB lead to 28-23, it was all UB. Patterson capped two long scoring drives with a two and seven-yard touchdown run, respectively, to extend the lead to 42-23 early in the fourth quarter.
"When our team is playing fast and doing some things, we're a pretty good football team," head coach Lance Leipold said. "I thought they embraced that all week and they had a great focus in the last 24 hours approaching kickoff, and I think they went out and executed that way."
While the offense moved the ball efficiently all night, the defense also had another solid game, holding the MAC's top rushing team to 154 yards on the ground. Otwinowski tied a career high with 10 tackles to go along with his interception. The Bulls had four more sacks in the game, led by Ledarius Mack's two, to bring their total to 27 over the last six games.
(Courtesy of UB Athletics)