Philadelphia, PA -- (Sports Network) - Coaches refer to certain games on their scheduled as "trap" games. Those are the games that the players and the public underestimate, but the coaches know are going to take every last ounce of energy, smarts and luck to win.

They are the games in which a team might be subject to a natural letdown, following a big win or major accomplishment.

Richmond and James Madison were two schools that knew the trap had been set for them on Saturday.

Richmond had climbed to the No. 1 ranking in the country for the first time since 1985, but knew that it would be difficult to beat an under-respected Villanova team on the road in a venue where it seldom plays well.

James Madison was coming off high-profile wins against Massachusetts and Appalachian State in back-to-back weeks before facing a challenge at Maine, a place that had been difficult for the Dukes to play well over the years.

The traps were set, with one team responding well enough to win and the other coming away with a loss.

Richmond found out early just how much of a struggle it would face against a tenacious Villanova defense on its first two drives of the game. The Spiders managed just three points after intercepting a pass and returning it deep into Wildcat territory, then blocking a punt.

"The key for me was early in the game when we had the interception and punt block and we only gave up three points," Talley said. "That's when I knew we could beat them."

Villanova limited Richmond running back Josh Vaughan to 44 carries on 16 carries. The Spiders logged eight total yards in the first quarter on nine plays, and had 14 carries for 13 yards rushing in the first half.

Richmond quarterback Eric Ward got his arm working in the second half to complete 23-of-32 passes for 236 yards and an eight-yard touchdown throw to Joe Stewart, but he was bottled up as a runner, being limited to 39 yards rushing on 17 attempts. Ward was also sacked six times.

"We kind of went in thinking we needed to win all three phases of the game," Talley said. "We went in knowing we were not going to let them run the ball. We took some of the play away from them. Their strength is running the ball and we took that away from them. We made them pass the ball."

The result was a 26-20 victory that marked Villanova's first-ever win over a No. 1-ranked opponent. Richmond hasn't beaten Villanova on the road since 2000, and is 9-19 all-time against the Wildcats.

JMU, meanwhile knew the No. 1 spot in the Sports Network poll would probably belong to them, if they could just get past Maine.

The Dukes struggled early, going to the locker room with a 3-3 tie. It was still 10-10 in the fourth period after Derek Session broke loose for a 35-yard touchdown run for the Black Bears with 13:23 to play.

But JMU responded, with some help from the officials. Maine had apparently recovered its second onsides kick of the evening, but the Black Bears were called for illegal touching on the play to negate possession and give the Dukes the ball at the Maine 35.

It took just 62 seconds for JMU to take the lead, 17-10, on Griff Yancey's 12- yard scoring jaunt. Yancey (10 carries, 58 yards) added another touchdown on a 30-yard burst with 3:39 remaining to put the game away, 24-10.

James Madison (4-1, 2-0) piled up 319 yards on the ground, 156 yards and one TD on 27 carries from quarterback Rodney Landers and 94 yards on 14 attempts from Eugene Holloman.

Mickey Matthews won his 62nd career game at JMU to break the school record he had tied the previous week in the 35-32 win over Appalachian State.

Maine (2-3, 0-2) played without star running back Jhamel Fluellen, who was out with an injury, but Black Bears defensive end Jovan Belcher kept things close with 13 tackles, including 1.5 tackles for loss. JMU had three interceptions, including the second two-interception game of the season for safety Marcus Haywood.

REMEMBERING MR. REILLY

When quarterback Mike Reilly decided to leave Washington State, he dreamed of playing at Montana. That dream came true on Saturday when Reilly played at Washington-Grizzly Stadium, but unfortunately for the Grizzlies, it was in the uniform of Central Washington.

The Wildcats, ranked seventh in Division II, took Montana to the wire before the Grizzlies escaped with a 38-35 victory before a record crowd of 25,326 fans at Washington-Grizzly Stadium.

Reilly was 21-of-35 for 280 yards and three touchdowns, but it was the Central Washington defense that came up big by forcing five Montana turnovers.

But Cole Bergquist came off the deck in a 35-all tie to lead the Grizzlies to another late win. Bergquist (25-of-34, 377 yards, three touchdowns) completed a pair of clutch passes to Mike Ferriter for 25 yards on a third-down conversion and 15 yards on a 4th-and-4 as Montana scratched its way into field-goal range.

Redshirt freshmen Brody McKnight then drilled a 42-yard field goal with one second left to give the No. 4-ranked Grizzlies (4-0) a 38-35 victory.

The Grizzlies have walked a tightrope in three of their four wins, and will probably need a more complete performance in the next two weeks with Big Sky road encounters against Weber State and Eastern Washington on the schedule.

Elsewhere in the Big Sky, Weber State gave a good account of itself in a 37-21 loss at Utah, the No. 17-ranked FBS school. It marked the return to Utah of Ron McBride, the long-time Utes coach (1990-2002) who is now at Weber State.

Cameron Higgins was 24-of-38 for 303 yards and three touchdowns to lead the Wildcats (3-2).

Eastern Washington (3-2) struggled for three quarters against Idaho State before pulling away with a couple of fourth-quarter scores in a performance similar to its win against Western Washington the previous week.

Matt Nichols passed for 382 yards and five touchdowns in the 45-31 win, completing 25-of-40 passes, and Aaron Boyce broke loose for nine receptions, 135 yards and three TDs.

Nichols had scoring strikes of 61 yards to wide receiver Brynsen Brown and 15 yards to fullback Alexis Alexander in the fourth quarter to pull out the win for the No. 11 Eagles.

Russel Hill was 24-of-36 for 312 yards and three TDs in a losing cause for Idaho State.

NO PLACE LIKE HOME

Dorothy of Wizard of Oz fame should have been on hand in Carbondale, IL, on Saturday night, where she would have found out again that there is no place like home in the Southern Illinois-Northen Iowa series.

For the 11th year in a row, the home team was able to defend its turf in this classic Missouri Valley Football Conference series. This time, it was No. 15 SIU's turn in a 27-24 win over No. 5 UNI.

The Salukis (3-1, 1-0) opened the game with Larry Warner's 97-yard kickoff return for a touchdown, and closed things out with Kyle Dougherty's game- winning 40-yard field goal as time expired.

Northern Iowa (2-3, 1-1) committed five turnovers and fell behind 24-7 in the first half before rallying to tie things at the end of the third quarter.

UNI had the ball with 1:13 remaining when Saluki linebacker James Cloud stripped quarterback Pat Grace of the ball on a sack and Brandin Jordan recovered at the Panther 29.

Panther tailback Corey Lewis rushed 35 times for 190 yards and a touchdown, but the Payton Award candidate also fumbled a couple of times in a game where UNI out-gained SIU 365-231, but still lost.

One of those fumbles came with Northern Iowa threatening to take the lead on the Southern Illinois one-yard line. But Marty Rodgers knocked the ball away from Lewis and Jordan recovered.

Northern Iowa's defense limited SIU to just 49 yards in the second half.

"The turnovers late in the game were key," said UNI coach Mark Farley. "We could have won this game by two touchdowns. When we lost that one at the one- yard line, that was the difference."

GIVE ME LIBERTY

When Liberty finished the 2007 season on the outside of the playoffs, Flames players and coaches vowed that they wouldn't let a slow start to the 2008 campaign do them in again.

The Flames (4-0) took a major step towards a possible playoff berth on Saturday with a 31-28 victory over Youngstown State (2-3), when Matt Blevins blasted a 24-yard field goal on the final play of regulation.

With wins over Youngstown State and Western Carolina, Liberty has the two wins it needs over teams from automatic-bid conference to satisfy one of the elements of the NCAA's new earned access rule.

Should the Flames finish ranked among the top 16 teams in an average of the Sports Network poll, the coaches poll and the Gridiron Power Index, and win the Big South championship, they would earn one of the eight at-large entries into the playoffs.

Rashad Jennings rushed for a career-high 220 yards and three touchdowns to help the Flames build a 28-14 lead through three quarters.

YSU forced a pair of turnovers in the fourth period and rallied to tie the game with 1:29 remaining on an 11-yard pass from Brandon Summers to Ferlando Williams. But then Liberty was able to drive back down the field in 10 plays to set up Blevins' game-winning kick.

Summers connected on his first 12 passes and finished with a YSU-record 32 completions on 39 attempts for 334 yards and three touchdowns. Summers also scampered in from 18 yards out for another score.

GOING FOR TWO

Georgia Southern made an incredible rally against Wofford to go from a 31-14 halftime deficit to a 31-all tie at the end of regulation. But the Eagles rolled the dice one time too many time and lost this key Southern Conference encounter, 38-37, at home in overtime.

The No. 24 Eagles outscored the Terriers 17-0 in the second half and had a goal-line stand in the fourth quarter.

No. 13 Wofford had a 4th-and-8 in overtime and went for it instead of kicking a field goal, with a pass from Ben Widmyer to Andy Strickland setting up Widmyer's one-yard TD plunge and Patrick Mugan's extra point.

Georgia Southern answered quickly with a 25-yard TD burst from Adam Urbano and decided to set up a fake kick to go for two points and the win. But that plan unraveled when the Eagles had to burn a timeout, and they sent in the offense for a two-point pass play instead.

This time, one of the players was late getting on the field, and quarterback Lee Chapple (15-of-22 passing for 202 yards and a TD) was correctly denied another timeout by the officials. Wofford defender Mychal Johnson jumped the intended route, leaving Chapple nowhere to throw the ball as he was swarmed by the Terrier defense.

Wofford piled up 533 yards - 332 on the ground - in this offensive circus, while Georgia Southern finished with 447 yards, but four turnovers. Fullback Dane Romero had 118 yards and three touchdowns on 28 carries for the Terriers.

TRIMMING THE IVY

The co-favorites to win the Ivy League title were both derailed by upsets on Saturday afternoon.

Cornell stopped Yale 17-14, holding running back Mike McLeod to 20 carries for 57 yards and limiting the Bulldogs to zero yards on the ground, while forcing four turnovers. Touchdowns on the ground from Nathan Ford and Randy Barbour and a 21-yard Brad Greenway field goal gave the Big Red the points it needed.

Brown stopped a two-point conversion from Harvard with 1:03 remaining to hang on for a 24-22 victory in the rain in Providence.

Harvard missed an extra point in the first quarter to leave it two point shorts when Liam O'Hagen threw a three-yard scoring pass to Matt Luft to make the score 24-22.

Michael Dougherty fueled the Brown offense by hitting 20-of-36 passes for 231 yards and two touchdowns. That offset a 25-of-45 day for 320 yards and two TDs from Harvard's Chris Pizzotti.

OTHER GAMES OF NOTE

-Jordan Scott ran wild again for Colgate with a career-high 272 yards and four TDs on 43 carries as the Raiders won a key Patriot League game at Fordham, 31-24. Scott broke the FCS record for career carries with 1,153, and needs 62 more runs to set the NCAA Division I mark.

-Joe Taylor won his 200th game as a head coach when Florida A&M upset 23rd- ranked and previously unbeaten Tennessee State 28-21. The Rattlers built a 21-0 lead and then held off a furious Tiger rally in the second half.

-Campbell won its first game since disbanding football in 1950, beating Carthage College, 36-27. Milton Brown picked off a pass with Carthage threatening to take the lead from the Camels five, and he returned it 99 yards for a game-clinching touchdown.

-Jacksonville State (3-1, 1-0) used two touchdown runs and one TD pass from Ryan Perrilloux to knock off No. 21 Eastern Illinois, 23-10, in an important Ohio Valley Conference game. Perrilloux, the LSU transfer, was 20-of-25 for 281 yards.