Box Score
LINCOLN, Nebraska- The Idaho State football team lost 73-7 to No. 22 Nebraska on Saturday afternoon in front of a crowd of 84,923 at Memorial Stadium. Idaho State dropped to 1-2 while Nebraska improved to 3-1.
Idaho State had 210 yards of total offense while Nebraska had 569. The Bengal defense did force three turnovers, two fumble recoveries, one by
Ethan Monroe and
James Bergren and an interception by Dononvan Henley. Henley's interception was his fifth of his career and it was the first time this season the Idaho State defense had an interception.
Kevin Yost finished 16-for-34 with two interceptions and 123 yards while CJ Reyes was 5-for-9 for 56 yards and one touchdown.
Luke Austin caught five passes for 79 yards and scored the touchdown.
Rodrick Rumble had six receptions for 39 yards and
Cameron Richmond had three catches for 24 yards.
Henley,
Trevor Spence and
Cameron Gupton each had seven tackles while
Tanner Davis,
James Bergren,
Phil Pleasant and
Anthony Boyles had six tackles. Bergren, Graves and
Demetrius Allen all had sacks on the afternoon.
Nebraska led 35-0 at the end of the first quarter and 45-0 at halftime and 66-0 at the end of the third quarter. Idaho State's Austin scored its touchdown early in the fourth quarter on a six-play 54-yard drive that took 2:23 off the clock.
Idaho State returns to the field next Saturday at 1:30 p.m. for a Homecoming contest against Sacramento State at Holt Arena.
Mike Kramer Quotes
We have some big play ability in our defense and we didn't show it today.
We play Sacramento State next Saturday. Had we played them today we would have gotten our rear ends handed to us.
What we allowed today in both defense and kick coverage units is we allowed them to get on us, block us and stay blocked. That means you are too high.
We traveled pretty well. We are going to get on the plane, go home and shower this thing off. Our organization is pretty cool. We flew out charter. We have excellent equipment and support people who lay it down for our team to go out and play but we went out and did not play tonight. We need to play better, not work harder because we are not working football. We need to play better. We got misaligned a couple of times on defense and paid a price for it and offensively we have to do a better job of clearing routes.
Game Notes
- Idaho State is 0-18 against FBS schools since 2000 and has lost 34 straight road games.
- The 84,923 fans at Memorial Stadium was the second largest crowd a Bengal football team has played in front of. Idaho State played in front of 92,000 fans at Georgia in 2010.
- Saturday was the first time this season the Bengals forced three turnovers. Against Air Force, ISU recovered one fumble. Last year the Bengals forced three turnovers or more four times.
- CJ Reyes threw his first career touchdown pass as a Bengal in the fourth quarter.
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Donovan Henley,
Cameron Gupton and
Trevor Spence had a career-high seven tackles.
James Bergren had a career high six tackles.
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Donovan Henley has five interceptions in his career as a Bengal.
