California Puts up 29 in the First Quarter, Beats Wagner 49-7
Twenty-nine points in the first quarter is a lot of points, and California got them in about ten minutes of game clock. Wagner would never catch up from 29-0, and the rest of the afternoon was housekeeping.
Adam Mohammed ran in from 28 yards with 11:59 left in the first quarter, then from six yards with 5:58 left. Jaron-Keawe Sagapolutele hit Kyion Grayes for an 80-yard touchdown with 3:32 left (Mason Mini ran in the two-point try), and then threw 65 yards to Mohammed with 1:42 left. That is four touchdowns in the opening quarter, three of them by Mohammed's own hands and feet, and Cal led 29-0 before the second quarter started.
Wagner got on the board with Benjamin Newman's eight-yard pass to Malik Redd with 11:30 left in the second quarter, and that was its whole day. Towns McGough kicked a 36-yard field goal, Sagapolutele threw a 16-yard touchdown to Cooper Perry, Ashten Emory ran in from eight yards in the third quarter and Chase Meyer kicked a 37-yard field goal late in the fourth. Wagner never led and was never tied.
The passing numbers are the headline. Cal threw for 492 yards and ran for 134, for 626 total, and it lost two fumbles in a game it won by 42. Sagapolutele was 27 of 33 for 413 yards and three touchdowns. California is 2-1. Wagner is 0-2. The fantasy takeaway: Mohammed and Sagapolutele both set season highs, and Chase Hendricks had 9 catches for 98 yards without a touchdown, a fine day that the top three scorers simply outdid.