Chris Smith rushed for 266 yards, added four catches for 43 yards and scored three rushing touchdowns as Upper Iowa overcame a ten-point deficit in the fourth quarter of their week six matchup with Concordia University, St. Paul. The Peacocks defeated Concordia for the first time in eight tries, 28-24, scoring 14 unanswered points in the fourth quarter. Smith scored UIU's first three touchdowns and set up the final touchdown with a 55-yard run to the 11-yard line giving way to a Cole Jaeschke bootleg to score the go-ahead touchdown. Smith carried the ball 34 times to reach the second highest single game total in UIU history. The big day rushing marks the fourth time in Smith's career, and second time this season, that he has rushed for more than 200 yards. The first two came as a freshman versus Wayne State (278) and Southwest Minnesota State (230); he then repeated the feat with 202 yards at Northern State in week three this season. Smith now has his name attached to four of the nine times a Peacock has rushed for more than 200 yards in the history of the program.
