San Diego State Pulls Away from Portland State 53-20
Seventeen seconds. Portland State scored a touchdown early in the third quarter to cut it to 29-13, and San Diego State answered 17 seconds of game clock later, with Jaylon Hawkins taking the kickoff back 100 yards. That was the game, and San Diego State won it 53-20.
It did not start that way. Portland State kicked field goals of 22 and 35 yards in the first quarter and led 6-0 until Jayden Denegal found Nathan Acevedo from 9 yards with 33 seconds left in the period. San Diego State led for good from there. Lucky Sutton scored on a 1-yard run early in the second, Denegal hit Justius Lowe from 40 yards (Bert Emanuel Jr. ran in the two-point try), and Sutton's 13-yard run made it 29-6 at the half.
The Aztecs ran 42 times for 237 yards and threw for 157, for 394 total, and the stat sheet has some mess in it: an interception and two lost fumbles. They survived it. Sutton scored a third time from 5 yards in the third quarter, to make it 43-13, and Cooper DiLeva's 31-yard field goal opened the fourth. Gabe Downing's 1-yard run got Portland State to 20 late, and Jordin Thomas answered from 2 yards with 3:03 left.
San Diego State is 1-0 and Portland State 0-1. Sutton led the fantasy scorers with 23.8 points, which is a lot of value from 18 carries for 58 yards (about three yards a carry), because three of them went for touchdowns. Denegal added 19.6 and Acevedo 14.7, even after losing a fumble.