Weber State Rushes for 308 and Holds Off Idaho
Idaho had 507 yards of offense and lost by 11. Weber State had 407, and 308 of them came on the ground, which is how the Wildcats won 38-27 without ever trailing.
The lead came on the first play of consequence. Spencer Ferguson ran 75 yards for a touchdown with 14:49 left in the first quarter, and Seth Rigtrup added a 6-yard score with 3:39 to go in it to make it 14-0. Idaho's Joshua Wood answered with a 19-yard pass to Noah West-Baranco in the second quarter, but that was the only Idaho score of the first half. David Dellenbach kicked a 25-yard field goal in the third to make it 17-7, and Wood found Tony Harste from 39 yards with 2:00 left in the quarter, so it was 17-14 going into the fourth.
The fourth quarter is where the game got busy. Nate Dahle threw 14 yards to Noah Kjar at 14:41 to make it 24-14. Wood hit Ryan Jezioro from 13 yards with 8:15 left to make it 24-21. Weber State answered 63 seconds later on Rigtrup's 16-yard run, and Ferguson's 2-yard run with 2:46 to go made it 38-21. Wood and Harste connected again from 14 yards with 15 seconds left, but the two-point try failed and it was too late to matter.
The ground game decided it. Ferguson had 14 carries for 153 yards and Rigtrup had 14 for 129, 282 yards between them. Weber State passed for 99 yards. Idaho went the other way, with Wood throwing 50 times for 383 yards and two interceptions, plus a Weber State defense that gave up yards and never gave up the lead.
Weber State is 4-2 and Idaho is 1-4. For fantasy, Wood's 44.5 points were the high mark of the day even in a loss, with Harste (27.6) and Ferguson (27.3) behind him.