Cal Poly Beats Idaho 38-34 on a 34-yard Touchdown with Nine Seconds Left
Idaho kicked a 40-yard field goal with 1:03 left to take a 34-31 lead. Cal Poly had 63 seconds left and Anthony Grigsby Jr. used 54 of them. His 34-yard touchdown pass to Tayvion McCoy with 0:09 on the clock made it 38-34, and Cal Poly won it.
The game was close from the start. Grigsby threw touchdowns of 17 yards to Alek Marshall and 1 yard to Misa Paiau, then a 16-yarder to Fidel Tau Pitts with 1:53 left in the second quarter for a 21-10 lead. Idaho answered with field goals of 40 and 44 yards in the third, which kept it at 21-16.
The fourth quarter was a fistfight. Noah Thayer's 28-yard field goal made it 24-16, then Joshua Wood threw a 5-yard touchdown to Tony Harste and hit Noah West-Baranco for the two-point conversion to tie it at 24. Wood found Harste again from 75 yards with 6:10 left and Idaho led 31-24, the only time Cal Poly trailed by seven. Grigsby ran in from 15 yards with 2:16 left to tie it at 31, Owen Forsman kicked his fourth field goal, and then Grigsby and McCoy had the last word.
Neither team threw an interception or lost a fumble, so the yardage tells the story. Cal Poly gained 516 yards (319 passing, 197 rushing on 42 carries) and Idaho 483, with 363 of those through the air. Cal Poly starts 1-0 and Idaho 0-1. Flip that last touchdown and Idaho wins by a field goal.
Fantasy managers with Grigsby, Harste or McCoy all got a great week.