By By FRITZ NEIGHBOR

Associated Press

By The Associated Press

MISSOULA, Mont. — Dalton Sneed threw five touchdown passes and Marcus Knight rushed for three scores to lead the Montana Grizzlies’ 73-28 rout of Southeast Louisiana in a Football Championship Subdivision second-round playoff game on Saturday.

Knight, a sophomore running back, also caught a touchdown pass as he set Montana’s single-season marks for rushing touchdowns (23) and total touchdowns (25).

Sneed’s threw three touchdown passes to Samori Toure, who set Montana’s single-game record with 303 receiving yards on 12 catches. Toure also broke the FCS playoff mark for yards, set by Marshall’s Randy Moss. Moss had 288 against Delaware in 1996.

Knight’s scoring reception came with eight seconds left in the first half, after SLU had gotten a 52-yard touchdown pass from Chason Virgil to CJ Turrner at the 1:17 mark.

Montana (10-3) led 38-21 at halftime and went up 45-21 when Sneed found Toure for 29 yards and a touchdown at 14:03 of the third quarter.

Toure’s other touchdowns covered 62 and 47 yards. The first came on Montana’s first offensive play and the latter made it 65-28 with 13:11 left in the game.

Montana also had an 81-yard kickoff return by Malik Flowers and a safety from Eli Alford. In the final minutes Corbin Walker scored on a 47-yard interception return.

Sneed was 29 of 45 passing for a career-high 459 yards including a 15-yard scoring strike to Mitch Roberts. That offset the efforts of the Lions’ Virgil, who threw for 436 yards and four touchdowns.

Javon Conner had nine catches for 155 yards and two scores for the Lions (8-5). Turner had nine catches for 148 yards. Bransen Schwebel had a 12-yard TD reception for SLU.

Southeast Louisiana rolled up big yardage with its passing attack, but didn’t get many stops on defense, allowing 600 yards.

N. Dakota St. 37

Nicholls St. 13

FARGO, N.D. — Trey Lance threw for two touchdowns and ran for another and defending champion North Dakota State pulled away in the second half.

The Bison (13-0), who have won seven of the last eight FCS championships, including the previous two, will host Illinois State in the third round.

Gavin Lasseigne’s second field goal cut the Bison’s lead to 14-13 with 10:36 left in the third quarter but two interceptions later in the quarter led to 10 points for NDSU (13-0), which extended its win streak to 34 games, the longest active run in Division I.

The Bison added a 6-yard run by Lance and a 3-yarder from Dimitri Williams in the fourth quarter.

Nicholls (9-5) had a five-game winning streak end and was denied reaching the quarterfinals for the first time.

Lance finished with 257 yards total offense with the Bison outgaining the Colonels 434-265.

Illinois St. 24

Cent. Arkansas 14

CONWAY, Ark. — James Robinson rushed for 210 yards and two touchdowns and Illinois State knocked off eighth-seeded Central Arkansas.

Robinson, the second-leading rusher in the FCS who set a school record with 297 yards in a first-round victory over Southeast Missouri, scored two of the Redbirds’ three second-quarter touchdowns, one on a 51-yard run. His 2-yard score came with 1:13 left in the half for a 21-7 lead. The other score was an 18-yard run by wide receiver Austin Nagel on a jet sweep.

San Fenlason added a 24-yard field goal with just over 4 minutes left in the game before Breylin Smith passed to Luke Ross for a 1-yard score with 1:32 remaining. The Bears (9-4) got the onside kick but an interception ended their hopes of making the quarterfinals for the first time.

Smith threw for 198 yards but was intercepted three times.

The Redbirds (10-4) will play at No. 1 seed and defending champion North Dakota State next week.