BOZEMAN, Montana- The Idaho State football team lost to No. 8 Montana State 27-9 on Saturday afternoon in front of a crowd of 19,297 at Bobcat Stadium.
Idaho State had a season-high 213 yards rushing on 54 carries.
Tyevin Ford rushed for a season-high 112 yards on 26 carries. The Bobcat defense had been allowing only 108 yards on the ground. The 213 rushing yards is the 19th most in a game since 2007.
Hunter Hays and
Sagan Gronauer split time at quarterback. Hays threw for 111 yards and was 12-24.
Idaho State finished with 324 yards of total offense, besting the MSU defensive average of 269.
Idaho State had the ball for 42:17 and kept the Bobcat offense off the field as they only had the ball for 17:43.
David Allish was 3-3 kicking field goals. He nailed a 44-yarder in the first quarter, a 24-yarder in the third quarter and a 39-yarder in the fourth.
Darian Green led the defense with seven tackles.
Charles Ike and
Oshea Trujillo each had six.
The Montana State offense had been averaging 427 yards a game coming into Saturday's contest, was held to 388.
Idaho State led 3-0 at the end of the first quarter after Allish's 44-yard field goal with 2:39 left.
Montana State led 10-3 at halftime. On the Bengals opening drive of the third quarter the went on a 15 play, 69-yard drive that took 7:32 off the clock. The drive was capped off by Allish's 24-yard field goal, cutting the MSU lead to 10-6 with 7:28 left in the third.
Montana added a field goal in the third and scored two touchdowns in the fourth to take a 27-6 lead with 12:55 to play in the game. Allish's final field goal came with 6:22 left in the game.
Idaho State hosts Weber State on Saturday at 1 p.m. in Holt Arena.
