Mississippi State Rolls Minnesota 38-13 on the Road
Minnesota ran 15 times for 13 yards. It threw for 279 and still lost by 25, so you can do the math on how useful those passing yards were.
Mississippi State (the road team here) got going on the first scoring play, a 22-yard touchdown from Kamario Taylor to Zion Ragins with 13:12 left in the first quarter. Minnesota's Luke Drzewiecki answered with a 44-yard field goal, and then Fluff Bothwell ran in from 5 yards with 22 seconds left in the quarter. Taylor added touchdown passes of 30 yards to Sanfrisco Magee and 15 yards to Anthony Evans III in the second quarter, and it was 28-3. Drzewiecki's 41-yarder at the gun cut it to 28-6.
Minnesota's only touchdown came on a fumble recovery by Aydan West in the third quarter, which made it 28-13. (None of its 13 points came on an offensive touchdown.) Kyle Ferrie answered with a 52-yard field goal, and Bothwell scored again from 3 yards early in the fourth for the final margin.
The yardage was 479 to 292 for Mississippi State. The Bulldogs ran 46 times for 252 yards and threw for 227, and they lost only one fumble. Minnesota did not turn it over at all, and still got buried because it could not run and had no offensive touchdowns. Take away the fumble recovery and Minnesota has six points. Mississippi State is 2-0 and Minnesota is 1-1.
The fantasy story is the Mississippi State offense: Taylor, Evans and Bothwell were the top three, and all of them scored.