Utah State Erases 13-point Hole, Beats Washington State 17-16
Javen Jacobs scored from two yards out with 6:22 left, and that was the only time Utah State led all day. Everything before it was Washington State's game: 16-3 late in the second quarter, with a 54-yard run from Leo Pulalasi and three Jack Stevens field goals (40, 43 and 50 yards) doing the work. The Cougars then did not score again.
Utah State got there with fourteen unanswered. Kian Afrookhteh's 48-yarder in the second quarter was the only first-half answer, and then Grady Brosterhous hit Eli Wood for 27 yards at 7:08 of the third to make it 16-10. Jacobs's run in the fourth put the Aggies in front 17-16. The game was never tied. One team led, then the other did, and the second one kept it.
Neither offense had much. Utah State finished with 236 total yards, with Brosterhous 11 of 26 through the air, and it lost a fumble. Washington State had 257 yards, no interceptions, and lost two fumbles. Two lost fumbles for a team that lost by one is the kind of detail that bothers a coach for a week.
Put it in perspective: the Cougars led by 13 in the second quarter and then went the last 33 minutes or so without a point. One more score and they have a second win instead of a fifth loss.
Utah State goes to 2-4 and Washington State drops to 1-5.
Fantasy owners got a modest day. Wood led everyone with 20.4 points, and nobody else reached 14.