Weber State Leads from the First Kick and Beats UC Davis 38-14
Nate Dahle threw three touchdown passes, ran for another score, and threw an interception too, and Weber State never trailed for a second in a 38-14 win over UC Davis. Weber State opened with a 21-yard David Dellenbach field goal, and the lead never went below three.
UC Davis did get within three once. A 12-yard touchdown pass from Dahle to La'akea Kalama made it 10-0, and Treynor Cleeland's 38-yard touchdown throw to Zach Jones cut it to 10-7 with 1:04 left in the first quarter. That was as close as it got. Dellenbach kicked a 31-yarder, Dahle ran in from 12 yards (with a two-point conversion after it), and Weber State led 21-7 at the half.
The third quarter started with Seth Rigtrup's 52-yard touchdown catch for 28-7. Cleeland answered with a 2-yard touchdown pass to Scott Nixon, and UC Davis scored nothing after that. Noah Kjar caught a 6-yard touchdown from Dahle for 35-14, and Dellenbach's 42-yard field goal with 4:59 left closed the book at 38-14.
The yard totals: Weber State 505, UC Davis 386. The home team rushed only 26 times, for 196 yards, and threw for 309. Each team threw one interception. Weber State is 6-3 and UC Davis is 5-3.
Seth Rigtrup was the other fantasy name, 74 rushing yards plus the 52-yard touchdown catch, and the Wildcats' defense had four sacks. UC Davis ran the ball 40 times for 121 yards and got a lot of volume but little else.
If you had Dahle, you had a week. 44.3 points, and it still was not his best game of the season.