USC Shuts Out Fresno State 39-0 Behind Maiava
Fresno State finished with 117 total yards, a lost fumble, an interception and zero points. USC finished with 553 yards, 39 points and two safeties, which the Trojans can apparently do while fumbling the ball away twice themselves.
Jayden Maiava was 23 of 25 for 349 yards and three touchdowns, and the first of them was an 8-yarder to Tanook Hines at 9:27 of the first quarter. Trent Mosley caught a 68-yard score early in the second, a safety made it 16-0, Mosley caught a 9-yarder and Waymond Jordan ran in from 2 yards with 14 seconds left in the half. That made 30-0 at the break, and a second safety in the third made it 32-0. D. Redeaux's 5-yard run in the fourth was the last score.
The defense had five sacks, and Fresno State ran 28 times for 40 yards, which is not a rushing attack so much as a rumor. Take away both safeties and USC still wins 35-0.
USC is 2-0 and Fresno State is 0-1 with a zero in the points column. Fantasy owners got 31.8 from Maiava, 26.4 from Mosley (4 catches, two touchdowns) and 16.2 from Kayden Dixon-Wyatt, who lost a fumble along the way.
Maiava lost 2 yards on three carries, which tells you the passing game was doing the work. USC's own mistakes were two lost fumbles, one of them Dixon-Wyatt's, and they were the only thing that went wrong. Mosley's 68-yarder alone went for more yards than Fresno State's whole rushing game, which was 40.