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POCATELLO, Idaho- Behind a career and record-setting day by quarterback
Tanner Gueller, the Idaho State football team defeated Idaho 62-28 on Saturday in front of a crowd of 11,015 in Holt Arena.
Idaho State racked up 754 yards of total offense, 518 coming through the air and 236 on the ground.
Gueller passed for a career-high 492 yards and a school record eight touchdown passes. He was 19-30 and had nine completions of 20 yards or more.
Mitch Gueller caught six balls for 184 yards and one touchdown. Five of his receptions were for longer than 20 yards and
Michael Dean caught six passes for 156 yards and a career-high four touchdowns. The four touchdown receptions also tied a school record.
Demonte Horton had two receptions for 113 yards and one touchdown.
Christian Holland led the defense with 10 tackles.
Jayson Miller and
Joe Martin each had nine.
Christian McFarland recovered a fumble and
Caleb Brown had an interception.
The Bengals trailed 7-0 with 10:53 left in the first quarter. ISU tied the game at seven on an
Austin Campbell 11-yard touchdown reception with 8:35 left in the quarter. The Bengals never trailed the rest of the game.
Later in the quarter Dean caught his first touchdown, a 14-yarder from Gueller to give Idaho State a 14-7 lead. Idaho State put up 21 second quarter points to lead 35-14 at the break.
Mitch Gueller caught a 29-yard strike with 13:12 left and Horton scored on his 87-yarder with 10:27 remaining until halftime.
Following an Idaho touchdown to make the score 28-14, Dean extended the lead on a 62-yard strike with 1:27 to play.
The Vandals got within 14 points early in the third quarter at 35-21 and 13 points at 41-28 with 5:25 left in the third but ISU scored the 21 points to put the game away.
Idaho State returns to the field, Saturday, Oct. 13 for a 5 p.m. mountain time contest at UC Davis.
Game Notes
- Idaho State is 4-1 for the first time since 2000.
- Idaho State is 3-0 in Big Sky Conference play for the first time since 1981.
- This is the first time Idaho State has beaten Idaho since 1995.
- 62 points scored was the most scored against a Division I team since the first game in Holt on Sept. 26, 1970. That game ISU beat UNLV 64-34.
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Tanner Gueller set a school record for most touchdown passes in a game with eight. The previous record was six set by Justin Arias in 2014 and Jerry Dunne in 1969. The Big Sky Conference record for most touchdowns in a game is nine.
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Michael Dean's four receiving touchdowns tied a single-game school record. Ed Bell had four in 1969 and Chris Corp had four in 1981.
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Mitch Gueller's 184 receiving yards is the 11
th best single-game performance in school history.
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Mitch Gueller now has nine receptions of 50 yards or more in his career.
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Tanner Gueller moved into second place for career touchdown passes with 58. He passed Jason Whitmer, who had 55 from 1987-90.
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James Madison moved into eighth in career-rushing yards. He now has 1,633.
- The last time an Idaho State quarterback through for over 400 yards was Michael Sanders at North Dakota in 2015 (427).
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Demonte Horton's 87-yard touchdown reception was the third longest offensive play since 2011 and the fifth longest pass play in school history.
- ISU was 16 yards away from tying the school record for most total yards in a game. Idaho State finished with 754 and the school record is 770 vs. Simon Fraser in 2014.
- The 11,015 fans was the largest crowd at Holt Arena since 11,434 vs. Montana in 2003.
- 156 receiving yards by
Michael Dean is a career-high.
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Demonte Horton scored his first-career touchdown.
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Trey Bell's 26-yard reception was a career-long.
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Austin Campbell's two receiving touchdowns was a career-high.
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TJ Togiai had a career-high seven tackles.
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Cephas Harden had a season-high seven tackles.
