Lamar Holds Off Idaho 23-17 on a 20-point Second Quarter
Lamar is 2-0 and Idaho is 0-2, and the gap between them is one quarter. The Cardinals scored 20 points in the second and then spent the rest of the game making sure it held up, winning 23-17.
Idaho scored first, a 38-yard Owen Forsman field goal with 5:38 left in the first. That was the last time it led. Andres Sandoval tied it with a 36-yard field goal early in the second, hit a 48-yarder to take the lead, and then Aiden McCown ran in a 3-yard touchdown with 1:08 left in the half. With one second left in the half, McCown threw a 15-yard score to Davin Driskell and it was 20-3. Those last two touchdowns came 1:07 apart.
Idaho got Joshua Wood's 1-yard run with 7:28 left in the third, which made it 20-10, and Sandoval added a 45-yard field goal with 10:45 to go in the fourth. That was the last Lamar score. Idaho was not done: Ferrari Miller scored from a yard out with 1:24 left to make it 23-17.
The stats are a coin flip. Lamar had 303 total yards, Idaho 296. Lamar lost two fumbles and Idaho one, with no interceptions on either side. The difference was five sacks by the Lamar defense against two for Idaho, and Idaho's 91 rushing yards on 37 carries. Wood had 19 carries for 50 yards of those, and threw 40 times to complete 20.
For fantasy, the two quarterbacks were first and second: McCown at 20.4 and Wood at 19.2. Neither beat their best game of the season.