Temple kicker drills 64-yard field goal for second longest in modern FBS history

Kickers are ridiculously bully nowadays, adjacent astatine the college level.

As NFL kickers proceed to enactment connected a amusement by being each but automatic careless of distance, it's wide the aboriginal of kicking whitethorn beryllium successful adjacent amended hands.

Temple kicker Maddux Trujillo drilled a 64-yard tract goal, with plentifulness of country to spare, Saturday, making history.

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Temple Owls banners covering the extremity portion seating astatine Lincoln Financial Field earlier a crippled against the Villanova Wildcats. (Bill Streicher/USA Today Sports)

Trujillo's tract extremity was the eighth longest successful NCAA history, but the 2nd longest successful modern FBS history. Yahoo Sports notes that kickers were capable to usage a tee until 1989. The longest made footwear was 69 yards successful 1976.

Ex-NFL kicker Martin Gramatica inactive holds the modern-day grounds by a yard, a feat helium accomplished successful 1998 with Kansas State.

Trujillo's footwear is the longest palmy tract extremity since 2008, and it was the longest tract extremity successful Lincoln Financial Field history, beating Jake Elliott's 61-yard footwear successful 2017 erstwhile the Philadelphia Eagles bushed the New York Giants arsenic clip expired.

The tract extremity changed the momentum of the crippled , cutting the Owls' shortage against Utah State to 21-17 entering halftime.

A Temple Owls pylon anterior to a crippled against the Rutgers Scarlet Knights astatine Lincoln Financial Field Sept. 17, 2022, successful Philadelphia.  (Mitchell Leff/Getty Images)

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Temple scored 21 unanswered points successful the 2nd fractional to instrumentality a 38-21 lead.

Utah State attempted a comeback with a touchdown and two-point conversion precocious successful the fourth, but Temple responded with a touchdown astir a infinitesimal aboriginal to marque definite it wouldn't squander its comeback. In the end, it was a 49-25 triumph for Temple, which earned its archetypal triumph of the season.

Lincoln Financial Field earlier a crippled betwixt the Temple Owls and the Notre Dame Fighting Irish. (Derik Hamilton/USA Today Sports)

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Owls backmost Evan Simon threw 4 touchdowns, including a 91-yarder to Dante Wright, and ran for different people successful the large victory.

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