Jacobs' blitz sinks Ohio; Hill hits 4 TDs for Marshall

He threw for 389 yards and two TDs to fuel Bowling Green's 41-16 win.
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ATHENS -- Omar Jacobs passed for 389 yards and two touchdowns and ran for a score to lead Bowling Green to a 41-16 win over Ohio on Saturday.
Jacobs completed 28 of 44 passes with touchdowns of 3 yards to Charles Sharon and 16 yards to Cole Magner. He also scored on a 1-yard run in the first quarter for the Falcons, who never trailed.
Steve Sanders caught nine passes for 185 yards for the Falcons (5-2, 3-1 Mid-American Conference).
Bowling Green's offense rolled up 481 yards behind Jacobs, who directed scoring drives of 71, 80, 78 and 99 yards. The red-shirt sophomore, in his first year as the starter, has 20 touchdown passes this season against only two interceptions.
Bowling Green held Ohio (3-5, 1-4) to 65 yards rushing on 30 carries and didn't allow a touchdown until the fourth quarter, when Justin Riley caught a 14-yard scoring pass from Austen Everson to make it 34-16.
Stafford Owens scored the Bobcats' other touchdown when he ran back a blocked punt 44 yards in the second quarter.
N. Illinois 59, W. Michigan 38
KALAMAZOO, Mich. -- Josh Haldi threw for a career-high 333 yards and six touchdowns to lead Northern Illinois. Haldi fell short of a school record by just one touchdown. Dan Sheldon caught six passes for 213 yards and three touchdowns -- the fourth-highest receiving total in Northern's history.
Northern Illinois (6-2, 5-0 MAC) had three scoring plays covering more than 50 yards, and rolled up 652 total yards of offense. The Huskies averaged 9.9 yards per play, and scored on their first four possessions, including the first play of the game, when running back Garrett Wolfe scampered 78 yards for a touchdown.
The loss was the sixth consecutive for Western Michigan (1-6, 0-4) in its longest losing streak since 1996.
Receiver Greg Jennings caught eight passes for 127 yards and one touchdown for the Broncos in his third consecutive 100-yard game.
Wolfe ran for 185 yards on 20 carries for the Huskies. The touchdown run was his 12th of the season. Once Wolfe scored for Northern, it never trailed. By the time Sheldon caught a 63-yard scoring pass from Haldi, with 13:19 left in the second quarter, Northern was already ahead 28-7.
Western quarterback Ryan Cubit completed 26-of-45 passes for 290 yards and a touchdown.
Marshall 48, Buffalo 14
HUNTINGTON, W.Va. -- Stan Hill threw four touchdown passes for Marshall, and Josh Davis had 132 yards receiving and tied a personal best with 12 catches. Davis moved within eight of the conference career mark of 272 set last year by former teammate Darius Watts.
Hill threw TD passes to four different receivers and he went 19-of-26 for a season-high 269 yards.
Marshall's Ivan Clark blocked two punts. One of them was recovered in the end zone by teammate Dennis Thornton for a 42-7 lead.
Buffalo (1-7, 1-5) is 0-24 in MAC road games since joining the conference in 1999 and went 0-6 overall against Marshall, which leaves for Conference USA next season.
The only offensive highlights for Buffalo were Dave Dawson's 83-yard TD run in the first quarter and P.J. Piskorik's 61-yard scoring pass to Matt Knueven in the fourth.
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