DAVIDSON, N.C. -- On Monday morning, the scoreboard at Davidson College was still intact. It had not exploded. The grandstands at Richardson Stadium were also there, clearly having not been enveloped and swallowed into a space-time wormhole. There were also no visible skid marks or burnout trails on Stephen B. Smith Field. (No relation to Stephen A., Stephen B. played for the Wildcats in the 1960s.)

There was, however, a giant oak tree down, having literally crashed the gate to the venue that, four days earlier, had hosted one of the greatest offensive performances in college football history.

"This old tree was wore out," a Davidson College physical plant employee stated as he gripped the starter cord on his chainsaw. "After that game last week, everybody was."

On Thursday night, Sept. 13, 2018, the Davidson Wildcats defeated the Guilford College Quakers by a score of 91-61. In a football game. There's a lot to digest there. And a lot to print. The official stats report is 19 pages long. That's what happens when the home team scores 13 touchdowns and the visitors add another nine. A total of eight Davidson players scored TDs, joined by six Quakers, racking up 152 combined points. A total of 35 players touched the ball on offense as the two teams combined for 1,662 total yards, 1,005 rushing and 657 passing. The game was so devoid of defense that there were no interceptions, only two fumbles lost (one each) and zero field goals attempted.

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Because they don't play in the same division -- Davidson is FCS; Guilford is Division III -- the NCAA's finicky record book won't officially recognize any of their insane combined statistics (the FCS scoring record is 141; D-III is 138). So the Wildcats will have to settle for two FCS records: total yards (964) and rushing yards (685) for a single game. They also set six school marks for yards in a half (525), points in a half (57), touchdowns in a game (13), average yards per play (15.5), rushing touchdowns in a game (10) and blocked kicks (3).

Yeah, that's right. They blocked three kicks. All were Guilford PAT attempts. Add that to the night's WTH list.

It's a long list.

"I've been coaching this game for more than 20 years, and I've never seen anything like that," Davidson head coach Scott Abell, only three games into the job, confessed Monday morning. He sat in his modest office, film projected onto a wall at one end, talking ball with his sophomore quarterback Tyler Phelps. "People hear 'Davidson scored 91 points,' and they're going to immediately assume that happened around the corner over there," Abell said, pointing down the hallway of Baker Sports Complex to the basketball floor made famous by Stephen Curry and longtime Wildcats head coach Bob McKillop. But even that storied hoops program rarely does what Abel's crew did last week. Last season, on their way to yet another conference title and NCAA tournament berth, McKillop's team scored 91 or more points in only four out of 33 regulation games. Twice they scored exactly 91.

"Honestly, the night started off as normal as you could have imagined," Abell recalled of each of the team's first drives. Both ended in punts. Guilford's second series was an eight-play, 52-yard beauty that made the score 6-0 in favor of the visitors five minutes into the contest. Then the Wildcats blocked the PAT. Five plays later, Wildcats receiver-turned-running back William Wicks scored on a 60-yard TD dash. Guilford punted. The Wildcats scored three plays later via a 23-yard run from Wicks. Guilford punted. On the very next play, the Wildcats scored on a 40-yard sprint from running back James Story. Guilford tried to punt, but it was blocked. The Wildcats scored two plays later -- on a 50-yard carry from Wesley Dugger. Then the first quarter ended.

"That's when I first realized, 'OK, this might not be a normal night at the stadium,'" remembered Abell, shaking his head. "If it wasn't then, at the end of the quarter, it was on our very first offensive play of the second quarter. Wouldn't you say, Tyler?"

Abell received the nod of agreement from his quarterback, the one who made that play -- an 84-yard TD pass to Hunter Louthan, his only catch of the game -- happen. That was one of only six passes attempted by Phelps. He completed all six for 192 yards and a pair of TDs. Phelps, without a shred of arrogance, replied to his coach, "I think when we hit 36-6, we honestly started thinking about, 'OK, how do we start slowing this down?'"

Slowing down was a concept welcomed with open arms and minds along the sideline of Smith Field and in the press box above it. On the field, the chain gang and game officials were already looking a bit winded as they tried to keep up. In the box, Davidson football sports information director Jake Brewer's keyboard and fingers were in overdrive, not only logging the big numbers but also researching where the team measured against the school's 121-year-old record book.