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East Division
Co-Offensive Player of the Week: Kent State QB Dustin Crum
Kent State junior quarterback Dustin Crum (Grafton, Ohio) amassed 470 yards of total offense (369 pass 101 rush) and four touchdowns in a 41-38 win over Ball State on Nov. 23. Crum set a career high in both passing and rushing yards in the game. He connected on 69 percent of his passes (18-26) and connected on touchdown passes of 21-24-51 to Isaiah McKoy.
He became the first quarterback to throw for 300 and rush for 100 in the same game since Josh Cribbs in 2004 and the first to throw for 350 since Colin Reardon in 2014. His 470 yards of offense are the most by a player since 1997.
Co-Offensive Player of the Week: Buffalo RB Jaret Patterson
Buffalo sophomore running back Jaret Patterson (Glendale, Md.) rushed for a career-high 192 yards and four touchdowns and added 35 receiving yards and another score in a 49-30 win over Toledo on Nov. 20.
His five total touchdowns tied a MAC record for a single game. Patterson scored on touchdown runs of 1, 1, 2 and 7 yards.
His four rushing touchdowns tied a school record for a single game in the Bulls’ FBS era. His 24-yard touchdown reception, late in the first quarter, was the first of five straight touchdowns he scored for the Bulls in the game.
Defensive Player of the Week: Miami LB Ivan Pace Jr.
Miami freshman linebacker Ivan Pace Jr. (Cincinnati, Ohio) recorded six sacks in a 20-17 win over Akron on Nov. 20. The six sacks match an NCAA record for sacks in a single game. An accomplishment that has only been recorded three times in NCAA history, last happened back during the 2006 season. Pace, a true freshman, recorded those six sacks on just 18 defensive snaps played.
Special Teams Player of the Week: Ohio K Louie Zervos
Ohio senior kicker Louie Zervos (Tarpon Springs, Fla.) became the program’s all-time leading scorer in a 66-24 win at Bowling Green on Nov. 19 at Doyt Perry Stadium.
Zervos tallied a season-high 12 points off of a career-high nine made extra points and a 33-yard made field goal, bringing his career point total to 415 and breaking the previous school record of 409 points by former placekicker Matt Weller (2009-12).
Zervos is now currently ranked 25th in NCAA FBS history in scoring. In addition to his scoring record, he ranks first in program history with 208 career extra points made and has made his last 116. He also ranks second in program history with 69 career field goals made.
West Division
Offensive Player of the Week: Eastern Michigan QB Mike Glass III
Eastern Michigan senior quarterback Mike Glass III (St. Louis, Mo.) completed 20-of-24 passes (83.3%) for 235 yards and three touchdowns, while adding a running touchdown as well, in a 45-17 win at Northern Illinois on Nov. 19. The win was the first for Eastern Michigan over NIU since the 2007 season and ensures that the Eagles will finish with a .500-or-better record for the third time in its last four season.
The performance also notched Glass to over 2,400–career passing yards, a mark which only nine players in Eastern Michigan history have outmatched.
Glass’ performance has Eastern Michigan bowl eligible for the second consecutive year, and for the third time in the last four seasons, both feats that have never been accomplished in the program’s 128-year history.
Defensive Player of the Week: Eastern Michigan LB Kobie Beltram
Eastern Michigan senior linebacker Kobie Belram (Antioch, Calif.) led with a team-high 10 stops, two tackles for loss and one sack in a 45-17 win at Northern Illinois on Nov. 19. Beltram leads all Eagles with 104 tackles on the season, while his 9.5 tackles per game is good for fifth in the conference and 20th in the FBS.
Beltram has registered a team-best 21 tackles, 4.5 tackles-for-loss, and two sacks during Eastern’s last two games, both victories.
Eastern Michigan is bowl eligible for the second consecutive year, and for the third time in the last four seasons, both feats that have never been accomplished in the program’s 128-year history.
Special Teams Player of the Week: Toledo KR Ronnie Jones
Toledo senior kick returner Ronnie Jones (Pittsburgh, Pa.) had three kickoff returns for 110 yards in a 49-30 loss at Buffalo on Nov. 20. The Rockets scored points on two drives that started with his long kickoff returns.
His 54-yard kickoff return in the first quarter was his career long. He added a 41-yard return in the second quarter, his fourth of the season of 40 yards or more.
