Photo Gallery POCATELLO, Idaho- The Idaho State football team recorded its first shutout in 10 years by beating Black Hills State, 55-0, on Saturday afternoon at Holt Arena.
The Bengals tallied 710 total yards, the second most in school history and the defense held the Yellow Jackets to 155 total yards.
ISU rushed for 332 yards, led by
Jakori Ford's 201 yards on 24 carries. The quarterback duo of
Michael Sanders and
Tanner Gueller combined to throw for 378 yards.
Sanders was 15-for-18 for 278 yards and five touchdowns. Gueller was 10-for-16 for 100 yards and one touchdown.
Madison Mangum caught five passes for 78 yards and three touchdowns.
Hagen Graves caught three passes for 67 yards and two touchdowns and
CJ Hatchett caught a touchdown pass.
CJ Langlow led the defense with seven tackles, one interception and he returned a blocked punt for a touchdown.
Idaho State led 21-0 at the end of the first quarter after 41 and a nine-yard touchdown receptions by Mangum.
Xavier Finney added the third touchdown of the quarter on a one-yard run with 2:51 left in the first.
The Bengal lead was extended to 42-0 at halftime. Mangum scored his third touchdown on a three-yard reception from Sanders and Graves then scored his two touchdowns on passes for 29 and 30 yards from Sanders.
In the third quarter
Drew Sharkey blocked a punt and
CJ Langlow returned it 36 yards for his first career touchdown.
CJ Hatchett then scored on a nine-yard reception from Gueller in the fourth quarter.
Idaho State opens Big Sky Conference play next week vs. Portland State. Kickoff is at 4 p.m. in Holt Arena.
Game Notes- Today's game captains were
Cody Sorensen,
Terrence Carey,
Tyler Kuder and
Wesley Wingrove.
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Jakori Ford had a career-high 201 rushing yards on 24 carries. 201 yards tied Nick Whitworth for the ninth best rushing performance in school history. Whitworth rushed for 201 yards vs. Utah State in 2000.
- Idaho State's last shut out was 37-0 vs. Montana Western on Sept. 17, 2005.
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Madison Mangum's three receiving touchdowns was a career-high.
- The 55 point win was the largest margin of victory for ISU since beating Colorado College 77-8 on Oct. 22, 1960.
- The ISU defense didn't allow the Black Hills State offense to cross midfield.
- 11 different Bengals caught passes.
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Xavier Finney rushed for 64 yards and one touchdown. Finney has rushed for 2,712 yards in his career and he is two yards from passing Merril Hoge and moving into third place on the all-time career-rushing list. Finney has 23 career rushing touchdowns which now ranks fifth all-time.
- Braeden Mitchel rushed for a career-high 64 yards, including a career-long 23 yard run.
- 24 Bengals played in their first Division I game tonight. The 24 players are:
Michael Sanders, JonRyheem Peoples,
Jake Pettit,
Anthony Ricks,
Jeremy Bittle,
Cory Hollowell,
Tanner Gueller,
Fondereaux Wilson,
Dan Guthmiller,
Tucker Louie-McGee,
James Madison,
Joe Martin,
Andy Whittier,
Tate Razor,
Kody Graves,
Jaxon Landon,
Austin Schroeder,
Brian Fineanganofo,
Chris Miedema, Jake Hogan,
Jordan White,
Rasheed Williams,
Spencer Hoff and
Treven Aloi.
Mike Kramer post-game quotes- "Effective. Sloppy at times. Quality performance especially for our quarterbacks. We avoided the turnover situation which was good for us at QB."
- "We gave up the one turnover on Jakori's drive. I know he wishes he had that back. We showed good balance running and passing and it's all related to one thing; quality, ability, performance, accuracy, and the performance of our offensive line. When our offensive line plays like that we're gonna kick the door down every time."
- "We've got a severe challenge next week against the Portland State defense that led them to a win over a Pac-12 opponent. We got our mustache full. Our offensive line will have to rise to the challenge against a defensive front that took apart a Pac-12 offensive front."
- "Defensively our first shutout in 10 years. It was an excellent coaching adjustment. The speed of communication in the game was easily the most impressive thing for us because we've had good individual defensive players over the last couple years but we've never had 11 guys communicate as well as they can on every single play and that comes in the face of losing Mario and Taison. So new guys went in and played pretty darn well but mostly it was the veterans who played well on defense."
- "There is one veteran who got to play a lot of football for the first time today and who I've known since the first day of spring practice that
Hayden Stout would be that guy on defense for us and he welds it all together. He doesn't glue it together. He welds it all together along with great play from C.J. Langlow. What we displayed on defense today
was outstanding."
- "I don't know how important the shutout was, not to me. Once we got to the point where, okay we are done scoring and the game was just ticking, lets get this thing over with, then it was important that we got a lot of the guys in the game defensively whether we gave up five touchdowns or ten I didn't care."
- "Once we pulled our starters then the young guys had to play so the shutout wasn't nearly as important, but I'm excited about the result. It also means our offense which was also the two's and three's didn't turn the ball over at point blank."
- "Field position for both teams was pretty questionable. Neither team wanted anything to do with punts which was great. So there was a lot of field position changes there in the second half that could have made a real sloppy game something different. Excuse me not a sloppy game but a real tight game into something really sloppy. I'm proud of both teams because neither team really turned the ball over that much."
- "It was just an effective display by us on offense and defense and in the kicking game."
- "Tanner was a little more excited, a little more amped up. He's a little more emotional because he's a redshirt freshman so he didn't throw the ball with the accuracy he needs to and he'll be a lot better at that. There was a time where Tanner started off six of seven on his opening numbers, his first drive, but Michael played the way we thought he'd play. The first time we saw him on video, now I'm gonna say this about recruiting, we saw Michael on video and we thought, 'We've got no shot.' That was late in January and we went, 'We've got no shot at that guy.' And here he is playing for us. So I'm very proud of our recruiting efforts to get
Michael Sanders to play for our program because it allows Tanner Guller to go ahead and develop naturally. I'm real proud of the day and proud of my staff and the way that came about."
- "A lot of teams in the Big Sky Conference feel like they've got great offensive lines and I'm sure that one of them is in Portland tonight. I'm sure that they are feeling really good about themselves and their offensive line. We now have that same attitude here at Idaho State. They are the alpha dogs. I mean they aren't backing up to anybody. You know they wear big underwear and they play like it on every down."
- "I learned that our offensive front is going to be able to continue a year-in year-out tradition. Which is to be good all the time. And if you can be play really consistently at a high level with one of your groups then pretty soon everyone starts trying to mimic them."
- "It's really about our offensive front playing at a level that we want to sustain and our quarterback to play at a level that we are accustomed to. I mean it looked like we came off the field and
Justin Arias went right back on the field only he changed his name to
Michael Sanders."
- "Michael played outstanding. Mangum played outstanding on the outside, X played great, Jakori played great and you start going through it and really who played poor? Well there are some guys but that's why we practice."
On Mangum's one-handed touchdown catch"It's pretty good. I mean what do you say? It's pretty good. We see those every day. Really we do! We see those every single day like that. It's just like really? Okay. Really? He's just a great competitor, a competitive player and he plays well in the spotlight which is what you want your best players to be able to do."
"You have to hold serve at home versus a good opponent and Portland State's coming in here with some swagger. You wait until you see Portland State next week."
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