Crum totaled 350 yards of offense on the day, 257 through the air with a touchdown and 93 on the ground and a score. Marquez Cooper and Xavier Williams combined for another 110 yards and each had a score to pace the rushing attack.
Dustin Crum hit Dante Cephas on a 33-yard pitch-and-catch on the Flashes' first drive of the game to get Kent State on the board. Cephas topped the 100-yard mark again on Saturday, grabbing nine passes for 103 yards and that opening touchdown.
Kent State would turn the turnovers into a 31-yard Andrew Glass field goal pushing the lead out to 10-0, late in the first quarter. It would stay that way until late in the first half when the teams would exchange touchdowns. The Flashes answered an Ohio touchdown drive with an eight-play, 71-yard drive at the end of the half. Crum would call his own number on a four-yard option and made it a 17-7 game heading into the locker room.
Nykeim Johnson made his presence felt in a key third quarter. He had a career-high 86 yards on eight catches including several clutch grabs in the second half. He had a trio of big grabs on the opening drive of the second half, capped by a Xavier Williams 15-yard touchdown to make it 24-7 Golden Flashes. After an Ohio score, the Flashes continued to answer back, Cooper punched in a 15-yard run of his own to make it a three-score game once again at 31-14.
That proved to be enough, Ohio would score a pair of late touchdowns, but an Andrew Glass 27-yard field goal put the game out of reach. Isaac Vance ushered a late Ohio on-side kick out of bounds and the Flashes dropped into victory formation.
The win moves the Flashes to 4-4 on the season and sit atop the MAC East Division with a 3-1 record, Ohio falls to 1-7 overall and 1-3 in MAC play.