CMU QB Dan LeFevour caps career with 395 yards

Dan LeFevour finished with flair.All in a night’s work for one of college football’s most overlooked quarterbacks.
No. 25 Central Michigan’s relentless quarterback moved into second place on the career total yards list, accounted for two late touchdowns and scored one of his biggest wins in his last game by rallying the Chippewas to a 44-41 double-overtime victory against Troy in the GMAC Bowl on Wednesday night.Antonio Brown started the rally with a 95-yard kickoff return. LeFevour followed with a touchdown pass to put the sluggish Chippewas (12-2) ahead with 1:17 left and scored from 13 yards out in the first overtime to set up Andrew Aguila’s 37-yard game-winning field goal after Central Michigan appeared to fade away. It was the 10th 400-yard game of a decorated career. It also was vintage LeFevour, showing off everything he’s learned in four years. He completed 8 of 11 passes for 90 yards, hitting Bryan Anderson with a 4-yard touchdown for the lead with 1:17 left. He then completed another pass for the 2-point conversion to make it 34-31. The teams traded touchdowns in the first overtime with LeFevour scoring on a 13-yard misdirection run, then Vince Agnew blocked Michael Taylor’s 31-yard field-goal attempt to start the second overtime. Central Michigan played it conservative before Aguila set a GMAC record with his fifth field goal. The game-turning drive was in stark contrast to the rest of the night. The Chippewas and LeFevour were sluggish and plagued by small mistakes that kept Aguila busy. He hit from 28, 35, 44 and 42 yards in regulation, keeping Central Michigan in it until LeFevour rallied the team. He took the ensuing kickoff up the right side and raced nearly untouched to the end zone to cut the lead to 31-26. He also scored on a 7-yard touchdown run and finished with 403 all-purpose yards (178 receiving on 13 catches, 203 on kickoff returns and 22 rushing). “This is the moment people remember,” LeFevour said after a celebration at midfield. “For a lot of seniors, this will be the last time they play football. We wanted to end it the right way.”