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POCATELLO, Idaho- The Idaho State football team lost 52-27 to Southern Utah on Saturday afternoon in Holt Arena. Southern Utah improved to 4-4 and 3-3 in Big Sky play while ISU fell to 2-6 and 1-4 in league.
Idaho State had 344 total yards and the T-Birds had 610. The Bengals had 229 through the air and 115 on the ground. SUU had 358 yards passing and 252 rushing.
Tanner Gueller was 23-45 with three touchdown passes, two interceptions and 222 yards passing.
KW Williams caught six passes for 91 yards and two touchdowns.
Michael Dean had five receptions for 50 yards and
Ty Flanagan had five receptions for 39 yards.
Lonell Woodhouse had two carries for 62 yards including a 63 yard run in the fourth quarter.
Mario Jenkins had 12 tackles,
Anthony Ricks 11,
Taison Manu 11 and
Joe Martin had nine and an interception.
Southern Utah jumped out to a 7-0 lead with a touchdown with 8:17 left in the first quarter. The Bengals responded with back-to-back touchdowns to take a 13-7 lead with 9:58 left in the first half.
Hagen Graves scored the first touchdown on a one-yard reception from Gueller with 5:06 left in first and Williams scored on a 36-yard touchdown reception with 9:58 left in the second quarter.
SUU followed with a touchdown with 8:17 left in the half and then kicked a field as time expired to lead 17-13 at the break.
Southern Utah built a 38-13 before Williams scored his second touchdown, a 40-yard touchdown reception from Gueller with five seconds left in the third quarter.
The T-Birds extended their lead to 52-20 before Dean scored on a one-yard touchdown run with 2:02 left in the game.
Idaho State plays at Montana on Saturday, Nov. 5. Kickoff is at 5 p.m. and the game will be broadcasted on Root Sports.
Game Notes
- Game captains were
KW Williams,
Thomas Vazorka,
Taison Manu and
Drew Sharkey.
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Joe Martin had his first career interception.
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Zak Johnson was 23-23 on PAT's dating back to last year before the missed extra point in the second quarter.
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Anthony Ricks 11 tackles was a career-high.
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Taison Manu's 11 tackles was a season-high.
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Michael Dean's five receptions for 50 yards was a career-high.
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KW Williams six receptions gives him 172 for his career and moves him into a tie with Ed Bell, who played for ISU from 1967-69.
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KW Williams two touchdowns ties his career-high and gives him 25 for his career, tied for fourth with Brett Fowler, who played from 2000-03.
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KW Williams moved into six place for career receiving yards. His 91 yards today moves him into sixth place with 2,224. He passed Shawn Beals (2,208),
Madison Mangum (2,204) and Brett Fowler (2,179).
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Lonell Woodhouse's 62-yard run in the fourth quarter tied for the 15
th longest offensive play in the
Mike Kramer era.
Mike Kramer Post Game Quotes
-That's a whooping. We never got a stop. Defensively, we didn't put any pressure on the quarterback, and their quarterback played outstanding. They caught the ball well against us and got a run after the catch. That was the difference."
"We always fold a little bit in that second quarter. We get stagnant for about two or three possessions in the second quarter, and that just knocks us away from the opportunity to win. The third quarter is the tale of my career here. It's just a nonexistent quarter for us offensively. Defensively, we didn't get any stops."
"We had some meaningful performances. We had some guys who played extremely hard and played well. One of those players is KW [Williams]. We have him for three more games, and we'll see what we can do as we line up these next three."
"Every time we punt, it's a loss. It's a chink in the armor, and every time that we allow a first down on defense, it's a brick in the wall. Defensively, we didn't get off blocks and they beat us in man coverage, and we are a man coverage team. You beat us in man coverage, we probably are going to get beat."
"We made some decent adjustments and we played pretty hard, but we didn't play very effectively and there is a difference in that."
"We need to hold teams to less than 125 yards in the first half. That's what good football teams do. You can't win unless you do something like that, unless you're marching up and down the field yourself for 300 yards."
KW Williams Post-Game Quotes
"With a lot of football teams, you can't really pinpoint the problem to one spot because there are so many other factors that affect the success of the team. So we can't pinpoint it, but I'm on offense and I can say that the offense can't go three-and-out to start the second half. We've done that for way too long."
"We'll be in a game, down by a little bit or up by a little bit, our defense stops them on a 10-play drive, and then we go three-and-out and put our defense right back out on the field."
"We gave up 610 yards of offense but a lot of that is on us because they are going down on 15 play drives, scoring, and then we are going three-and-out and putting them right back out on the field."
"Football is a team sport. We affect the defense just as much as they affect us. We have to be better on offense."
"They didn't pose any huge threats on offense or defense. We thought we could hang with them. We watched film on them all week, came out here and they were running the same defense that we saw on film. So nothing surprised us. There wasn't a big shock or anything. They just out-executed us and played better football than us."
