Oregon State Outguns Washington State 48-30 in Shootout
If you started anyone in this game, you had a good week. Oregon State beat Washington State 48-30, the teams combined for 1,016 yards, and five players cleared 30 fantasy points.
The Beavers did most of their damage early. Jake Reichle scored from a yard out, Braden Atkinson hit Jesse Legree for a 90-yard touchdown, and Caleb Ojeda added a field goal, so it was 17-0 before the first quarter was over. A Washington State field goal and an Ojeda kick from 46 yards followed, then Atkinson found AJ Newberry for an 88-yard touchdown with 3:59 left in the half. That made it 27-3, and Owen Eshelman hit Branden Ganashamoorthy from 40 yards to make it 27-10 at the break. Oregon State never trailed, and Washington State never got closer than 11.
It kept coming. Atkinson threw a 5-yard touchdown to Legree in the third (34-10), Julian Dugger answered with a 3-yard run (34-16), and Reichle scored again early in the fourth (41-16). The Cougars got back to 41-30 with Eshelman's 20-yard run and a two-point conversion with 1:37 left. The Beavers answered 21 seconds later with a 16-yard run by Cornell Hatcher Jr., and that was it. Washington State scored 30 and still lost by 18, which tells you what the other side was doing.
Oregon State gained 557 yards (347 passing, 210 rushing) and did not turn the ball over. Washington State gained 459 and threw one interception. The Beavers are 5-2. The Cougars are 1-6, and Eshelman's 43.2 points for a losing team are the cruelest kind of fantasy line.