UCLA Breaks Open a Scoreless Game, Beats San Diego State
Nobody scored for 33 minutes and 43 seconds. After that, UCLA scored 28 points and San Diego State scored 10, and Wayne Knight got three of the four UCLA touchdowns. The Bruins won 28-10.
Knight put UCLA up 7-0 with an 8-yard run at 11:17 of the third quarter. San Diego State's Cooper DiLeva kicked a 46-yard field goal early in the fourth, and it was 7-3 for a while. Then the Bruins turned it on: Knight from 7 yards, Jaivian Thomas from 1 yard, and 21-3 was not much of a contest.
The Aztecs did get a touchdown, a 19-yard Jayden Denegal pass to Jackson Ford with 2:28 left. UCLA answered 12 seconds later with a 36-yard Knight run, his third score of the day. Take away that last answer and it is a one-score-and-change game at 21-10. With it, it is a comfortable 18-point win.
The yardage was lopsided. UCLA had 367 total yards, 216 on the ground at 41 carries, and San Diego State had 189, of which just 45 came through the air. The Aztecs ran 38 times for 144. Each side threw one interception. UCLA is 2-0, San Diego State is 1-1. The Aztecs got 10 points from a field goal and a touchdown that came after the game was already decided.
For fantasy, Knight had 27.7 points on 13 carries and 97 yards, all of them from the three touchdowns and the yards. Nobody else at UCLA cracked 14. San Diego State's offense produced 10 points on 189 total yards, and its 45 passing yards included Ford's 19-yard touchdown catch.