Wofford finished with 431 yards of offense, including 301 on the ground. The Terriers averaged 5.8 yards per play with their confusing wingbone offense, which utilizes three backs as well as an effective passing game on occasion. James Madison had all kinds of trouble dealing with the variety of formations and at times simply couldn’t stop Wofford from gaining big yardage.

James Madison quarterback Rodney Landers wasn’t prepared to play his final game in a losing cause at home. So he made sure the top-seeded Dukes will live to see another day in the Football Championship Subdivision playoffs.

How can you stop—or even slow down—an offensive machine like Wofford, which is averaging 470 yards and 36.6 points? “Get’em to have five turnovers,“ said Appalachian State coach Jerry Moore.

Fumbles lost is one of the many categories the NCAA keeps track of in college football. It is not one that Mickey Matthews and his team remember fondly from a year ago.

In a corner of the James Madison Museum, second cousin Zachary Taylor’s baby fork and spoon sit in a glass case. “You can see where he teethed on one end,“ said Helen Marie Taylor, a relative of Taylor’s and the president of the James Madison Foundation. The blemished silverware is part of a new “Presidential Cousins” exhibit at the museum to celebrate Zachary Taylor and second cousin James Madison. The exhibit unveiling event on Sunday included a patriotic birthday cake to celebrate the 224th anniversary of Taylor’s birth.

The way Mike Ayers figures it, the NCAA selection committee for the Football Championship Subdivision playoffs was so impressed with what his Wofford team did in 2007, it upped the ante. “Last year, we went out to Montana to play the number two [seeded] team, and evidently they wanted to see what we could do against the number one team this year,“ said Ayers, whose Terriers knocked off the Grizzlies 23-22 in the opening round.

James Madison may be the top seed in the Football Championship Subdivision playoffs, but the Dukes certainly didn’t draw an easy first-round opponent. JMU (10-1) will face Wofford (9-2), which finished runner-up to No. 2 seed Appalachian State in the Southern Conference, in a 3 p.m. kickoff on Saturday in Harrisonburg. “If the NCAA had called me, they would not have been my first choice of the teams to play in the first round, believe me,“ coach Mickey Matthews said.