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PROVO, Utah- The Idaho State football team lost 56-3 to BYU on Saturday afternoon in front of a crowd of 60,043 fans at Lavell Edwards Stadium. BYU improved to 6-2 while Idaho State dropped to 2-6.
Idaho State had 251 yards of total offense led by
Kevin Yost's 174 yards passing and Rodrick Rumbles 83 yards receiving on 10 receptions. BYU had 572 yards of total offense.
Basim Hudeen led the Bengals defensively with 12 tackles, two tackles for loss and one forced fumble.
Tanner Davis had seven tackles.
The Bengal defense forced three turnovers as
Kelvin Miller,
A.J. Storms each recovered a fumble and
Ryan Coleman had an interception.
After BYU jumped out to a 7-0 lead three minutes into the game, the Bengal offense methodically marched 63 yards on 19 plays for a drive that lasted 7:07. It resulted in a
Brendon Garcia 34-yard field goal with 5:09 left in the first quarter.
BYU led 35-3 at halftime and the Cougars scored 21 points in the second half.
Idaho State returns to conference play at Montana State on Oct. 29. Kickoff is set for 12:05 p.m.
Game Notes
- Idaho State's drive that resulted in the 34-yard goal by
Brendon Garcia lasted 7:07 and took 19 plays. It was the Bengals longest drive of the season for plays and time of the possession.
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Ryan Coleman had his second interception of the season when he picked off Jake Heaps with 3:13 left in the third quarter.
- The 60,043 fans at Lavell Edwards Stadium is the third largest crowd Idaho State has played in front of in its program history.
- Idaho State is now 0-16 against FBS teams since beating Utah State 27-24 in 2000.
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C.J. Reyes first career-punt was a 56-yarder that pinned the BYU offense down at the 1-yard line with 2:35 to play in the second quarter. Reyes had four punts for an average of 41.5 yards a kick.
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Rodrick Rumble continues to inch closer to setting the Idaho State single-season receiving records. He has 10 receptions or more in seven of the eight games this year. His 1,079 receiving yards for the season ranks him No. 3 on the Idaho State single-season Top 10 list for receiving yards, passing Tom Hoffman's 1,072 yards receiving in 1971. Rumble needs eight receiving yards to move into second place and pass Ed Bell's 1,086 yards in 1968. Bell is also the single-season leader for receiving yards as he has 1,522 in 1969.
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Rodrick Rumble's 85 receptions moves him into second place on the Top 10 single-season list for receptions. Ed Bell holds the record with 96 in 1969.
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Kevin Yost's 26 completions at BYU moved him into seventh place on the Idaho State Top 10 single-season list for as he now has 234 this year. Mark Hetherington holds the record with 270 in 2004.
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A.J. Storms needs 27 tackles to become the Idaho State all-time leader in tackles.
Mike Kramer Quotes
“Great demonstration by BYU and where they are at in their program. They have grown a lot in the last three weeks. They started out of the gate and they didn't play as effective in their first five games. Now they are a much different and much improved team and they showed it today.”
“They are resilient on defense. They weathered a storm of a pretty good offensive performance by us early to hold us out of the end zone. Offensively, when you score on the first play of the game it bodes well. We were a little worn out defensively, but a nice job by BYU. My hat is off to Bronco Mendenhall and his staff.”
“It was 56-3 but there was a lot of growth. We lost our guys a bit in the second quarter but we talked to our guys at halftime. I like what I saw in the second half. I'm proud of our effort. I liked how we continued to fight, especially in the second half. I challenged our kids at halftime and said we wanted to see better play in the second half.”
“We have three winnable games left. We'll get back on the bus and go up to Pocatello and see what we can get done.”
“I thought Kevin (Yost) played well at times. He absorbs sacks. He doesn't take sacks. The coverage was good but the protection was even better. BYU rushes hard off the corners. We take too many negative plays on offense and we shouldn't. We'll keep working with Kevin on that. It's about developing him and teaching him how we play the quarterback position at Idaho State.”
