UC Davis Outruns Eastern Washington 49-38 in a Track Meet
Eastern Washington gained 601 yards and lost by 11. Put that on the list of things that should not happen.
UC Davis got 357 of its 635 yards on the ground, on only 28 carries, which is nearly 13 a pop. Jordan Fisher had 255 of them on 20 carries with touchdown runs of 87 and 37 yards, and Zach Jones added a 67-yard run to go with two touchdown catches. Treynor Cleeland threw four touchdown passes on 15 completions (Samuel Gbatu Jr. from 50 yards, Jones from 53 and 7, and Xzavior Guess from 56). That is not an offense that needs a lot of snaps.
Eastern Washington opened with a 50-yard Soren McKee field goal and led 3-0, which was the last time it was ahead. Gbatu's touchdown 33 seconds later put the Aggies in front for good. The Eagles did pull it back to 12-14 on a 34-yard Nate Bell pass to Jaxon Bell and to 15-21 at halftime, and they hit 21-27 early in the third quarter. Then UC Davis scored four touchdowns in about 12 minutes of the third quarter, 46-24 by the time it ended, and the rest was garnish. Bell kept throwing in the fourth (a 24-yarder to Drew Carlson and a 7-yarder to Will McKissick) and it got to 49-38, which made the score look closer than the game was.
The Aggies sacked Bell six times and threw one interception to the Eagles' one. UC Davis is 4-1, Eastern Washington 1-4.
If you own anyone in this one, you had a very good Saturday: Bell scored 51.2 Promethium points, Fisher 39.4 and Cleeland 38.6, and Jones added 32.7 on top of that.