The Stan Drayton era has come to an end on North Broad. Temple fired its head football coach with two games remaining after Drayton compiled a 9-25 record in a little less than three seasons.<\/p>\n
We don’t want to remember the bad times, only the good.<\/p>\n
So let’s rank his Temple victories from one through nine:<\/p>\n
Drayton’s best Temple win was in 2023, against a Navy team that finished 5-7. They went up 17-0, almost blew it, then got their shit together and put together a couple of nice touchdown drives to claim a 32-18 home victory. The run defense really did a nice job, limiting the Midshipmen to just 144 yards on 48 carries, a 3.0 YPC average on the afternoon. The Owls struggled to run the ball themselves, but E.J. Warner showed up big time, completing 27 of 33 passes for 402 yards, four touchdowns, and two picks.<\/p>\n
Tulsa is not a good team, currently 3-7, but the Owls played great defense in this game. They limited the Golden Hurricane to 240 total yards and a 2-11 third down mark, overcoming 10 penalties of their own for a 20-10 victory. It’s the fewest points they’ve allowed in 2024.<\/p>\n
The Aggies are a three-win team in the Mountain West, but Temple put together a whopper of a fourth quarter to take ’em out, 45 to 29. Evan Simon completed 17 passes, five of which were touchdowns, and ran the ball 11 times for 49 yards and a touchdown as well. His six-score day was the catalyst as Temple scored four second half touchdowns to run away with it.<\/p>\n
Drayton’s final win was an overtime victory against the currently 2-8 Florida Atlantic Owls. They almost blew it, too, allowing FAU to storm down the field in less than two minutes, scoring a touchdown and hitting a two-point conversion to tie the game at 15. Temple escaped the battle of Strigiformes with a 39-yard field goal from Maddux Trujillo in what will go down as one of the greatest games ever played at Lincoln Financial Field.<\/p>\n
Temple’s only conference win in 2022 was against a USF team that went 1-11. This was the game in which Edward Saydee ran for 265 yards and three touchdowns on 24 carries. South Florida’s run defense put up the resistance of a wet Philly Pretzel Factory bag.<\/p>\n
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