Maiava Throws Five Touchdowns as USC Beats Louisiana 49-30
Five touchdown passes, and the quarterback threw an interception too. Jayden Maiava was 19 of 29 for 261 yards and put 40.4 Promethium points on the board, the most of anyone in this game, as USC beat Louisiana 49-30 and moved to 3-0.
Louisiana did lead, for about six minutes of the first quarter. Tony Sterner kicked a 47-yard field goal for 3-0, and Maiava answered with a 5-yard touchdown pass to Mark Bowman at 4:57 of the first quarter. After that USC was never behind. Bowman caught another from 9 yards, Kayden Dixon-Wyatt added one from 19, and Trent Mosley took a punt back 86 yards for a score at 1:24 of the second quarter. That made it 28-10, and the only thing Louisiana (1-1) had to show was a 1-yard run from Steven Blanco.
Mosley scored again in the third on a 21-yard catch from Maiava, and a 44-yarder to Z. Williams at the start of the fourth made it 42-17. Louisiana kept coming. Its quarterback ran for two touchdowns (a 1-yarder and a 32-yarder) and threw a 14-yard score to Russell Babineaux with 2:38 left, but the scoreboard had stopped being the point. Louisiana scored 13 in the fourth quarter to USC's 14 and still lost by 19.
USC finished with 484 yards to Louisiana's 358, 215 of them on the ground, including 128 from King Miller on 18 carries. Louisiana threw no interceptions and lost no fumbles, so this one was not about turnovers. An 86-yard punt return and five touchdown passes did it.
For fantasy, Maiava's 40.4 was a season high, and the Louisiana quarterback was right behind with 35.6. Bowman's two touchdowns made him the third name on the list, at 26.3.