Montana State Beats Nevada 20-7 as Nevada Turns It over Four Times
Four turnovers. Nevada threw three interceptions (two from Luke Duncan, one from AJ Bianco) and lost a fumble, and that is the whole reason Montana State walked out with a 20-7 win.
Montana State had the game in hand early. J. Lamson threw a 24-yard touchdown to D. Steel with 12:05 left in the first quarter, Myles Sansted kicked a 45-yard field goal in the same quarter, and Adam Jones ran in from 6 yards in the second to make it 17-0. Nevada did not score until the fourth quarter, when Bianco hit Marshaun Brown for a 28-yard touchdown with 11:38 to play. Sansted answered with a 29-yard field goal at 1:10 to close it out.
Nevada did not lose this one on the ground. They ran 35 times for 182 yards (Dominic Kelley had 17 carries for 84 and Herschel Turner 9 for 48) and finished with 349 total yards. They also sacked the Montana State quarterbacks three times. But 167 passing yards, a 12-of-20 day for Bianco and a 7-of-16, two-interception outing for Duncan do not get you out of a 17-0 hole. Flip the three picks into three punts and this is a very different game.
Montana State is 1-0. Nevada is 1-1 and has one touchdown in the game to show for 349 yards.
For fantasy, this was not a big week for anyone on the Nevada side. Bianco led the way at 14.4 points, Brown caught the touchdown for 13.4 despite the lost fumble, and Kelley's 10.3 was well short of his Week 1 number.