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LOGAN, Utah- The Idaho State football team lost 51-13 to Utah State on Thursday night at Maverik Stadium in front of a crowd of 19,638.
Utah State had 596 total yards while the Bengals were held to 303.
Tanner Gueller was 17-30 with one touchdown pass and two interceptions.
Hagen Graves had five receptions for 70 yards and
Michael Dean had three receptions for 59 yards and one touchdown.
Ty Flanagan had 25 carries for 106 yards and one touchdown.
Joe Martin led the Bengal defense with a career-high 20 tackles.
Adkin Aguirre and
Nikko Hayes each had a career-high in tackles with 11 and 10 respectively.
Tucker Louie-McGee had one interception and
Mario Jenkins recovered a fumble.
Utah State jumped out to a 17-0 lead with 42 seconds left in the first quarter. The Bengals then jumped on the scoreboard with a five play, 23 yard drive following Louie-McGee's interception to make the score 17-6 with 11:26 left in the first half.
Utah State led 38-6 at halftime and 45-6 in the third before ISU went on a nine play 94 yard drive that was capped off with a
Michael Dean 42-yard touchdown reception from Gueller.
Utah State managed two field goals in the fourth quarter to extend the lead.
Idaho State returns to the field, Saturday, September 16 for a 5 p.m. mountain time kickoff at the University of Nevada.
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Notes
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Tucker Louie-McGee was this week's special team's captain with
Joe Martin,
Hagen Graves and
Mario Jenkins.
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Tucker Louie-McGee with his first career interception with 13:25 left in the second quarter.
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Ty Flanagan had a career night for the second straight week with 25 carries for 106 yards and one touchdown.
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Nate Page had his first career catches as a Bengal. He had two catches for 19 yards. Â
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Joe Martin had a career-high 20 tackles. Â
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Nikko Hayes had a career-high 10 tackles. Â
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Adkin Aguirre career-high 11 tackles.
- 13 points against an FBS team is the most Idaho State has scored since 2014 when scoring 14 against Utah and 20 against Utah State.
Rob Phenicie Post Game Quotes
"They are better than where they are picked and I am familiar enough with the conference to know what type of level they play at. I think they are a very good team. The big thing for us coming out is we always preach playing error free football. When you play up a division you have to play extremely error free. That wasn't the case tonight. We had some missed passes. We had some penalties, a blocked kick, bad snap on extra points, our third down conversion was poor, which we need to do a better job at and two turnovers and one was a pick six."
"Our thought at halftime was it is us. That is all it really ever is. It is about us, not about them. We have to perform the way we are capable of."
"Our kids are still flying around. There is no give up. They played hard and believing what we are telling them. After halftime we were looking for who is going to be a war daddy and who is going to tap out. Our two captains on defense played well.
Ty Flanagan ran hard. We finally got Mikey the ball in the third quarter. We were trying the whole game. Tanner was over shooting him and finally we got him the ball and we saw what he could do."
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