North Dakota State Is up 28-0 on Sacramento State Early
North Dakota State scored four times before Sacramento State got on the board, and it was 28-0 with 11:24 left in the second quarter. The Bison went on to win 31-10 and moved to 4-0.
The first score was a 33-yard Nathan Hayes pass to Jackson Williams with 13:37 left in the first. The second came 1:48 later, and they did not have to move the ball for it: Darius Givance returned a fumble 24 yards for a touchdown. Myles Mitchell ran 9 yards for a score with four seconds left in the quarter, and DJ Scott broke a 42-yard run early in the second to make it 28-0.
Sacramento State finally scored on a 25-yard Grant Meadors field goal with 6:52 left in the second quarter. It stayed 28-3 through the third quarter, and 31-3 after a Drew Klein field goal with 12:00 left in the fourth. A 21-yard touchdown pass from Jackson Sharman to Onterrio Smith Jr. with 8:05 to go made the final score look a little less lopsided.
The turnovers tell it. North Dakota State had none. Sacramento State had three, two interceptions by Sharman and a lost fumble, and one of them was the fumble that Givance took in for six. Take that touchdown away and it is still 24-10 and still not close. Sharman went 25 of 41 for 238 yards, which out-passed the Bison (210), and Sacramento State still lost by three touchdowns. Sacramento State is 1-3.
For fantasy, the top two scorers came from the winning side, with Matthew Coleman the best on the other sideline.