Akron broke open its game with Robert Morris on September 12, 2026 and finished with a 45-10 win, powered by four touchdown passes from Cibastian Broughton. The result gave the Akron Zips a win built on passing rhythm and a late surge that left The Robert Morris Colonials far behind.
That search traffic makes sense because Broughton was the day’s clearest difference-maker. He threw touchdown passes of 41 yards to Sean Patrick, 25 yards to Elijah Alexander and 6 yards to Miles Burris, then added a 3-yard scoring pass to Elijah Alexander for his fourth touchdown throw of the game. By the end, he had completed 5 consecutive passes in the fourth quarter and moved past 200 passing yards, all while Akron was pulling away in NCAA Division I Football Bowl Subdivision play.
The scoring line tells the rest of the story. Akron had already led 21-10 in the second quarter before putting together 24 unanswered points, a stretch that turned a competitive game into a rout. Robert Morris did land a 43-yard touchdown pass to Galen Combs from Carson Haggard, but it did not stop Akron’s offense from answering with Jordan Gant’s 1-yard run, Brayden Roggow’s 15-yard run and another Broughton-to-Alexander touchdown in the fourth quarter.
The fourth quarter was where the separation became impossible to miss. Broughton hit his 20th completion on a 4-yard pass in the third quarter, then kept the chains moving with three consecutive third-down conversions as Akron stayed on schedule. Alexander’s second touchdown catch of the game and Roggow’s first touchdown run of the game were the final blows, and the 45 points marked Akron’s first 40-point outing since November 4, 2025, when it beat Massachusetts 44-10.
What remains open is the one number that would sharpen the picture even more: how many total passing attempts Broughton needed to produce the kind of efficient, layered performance that carried Akron to its biggest offensive output in months. The answer is not in the game log, but the result already makes the point. Akron did not just win; it found the kind of passing game that can change the tone of its season.
