For the Record: The American has an octopus, a 58-yard debut, and 3-year quest for…
Emily Van Buskirk debuts a new column at UDD, diving into the depths of game notes. I went through this week's available packets from the American Conference, and the best discoveries range from an actual football octopus to a kicker whose first college field goal rewrote a school record.
Shoutout to the SIDs and communications staffs who assemble these little treasure maps every week. Against App State, Charlotte running back Khamani Alexander scored a one-yard touchdown and ran in the ensuing two-point conversion.
That eight-point sequence is called an octopus , and according to Charlotte's notes, Alexander is just the fourth 49er to pull one off. Somehow, Charlotte has had an octopus in three consecutive seasons.
In Week 1 against Rhode Island , he finally got it, stopping a run up the middle late in the fourth quarter. One tackle might be a footnote on a stat sheet.
KEY POINTS
- For the Record: The American has an octopus, a 58-yard debut, and 3-year quest for one tackle.
- College football game notes are part scouting report, part record book, and occasionally a portal into a story too good to leave buried on page 36.
- A team can be 0-3 and still lead the nation in delightfully weird trivia.
- Senior linebacker Reggie Jones has documented his quest to make one tackle for an audience of more than 172,000 Instagram followers and 65,000 TikTok followers, according to Temple's notes.