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  Iowa managed just 156 total yards in its loss at Wisconsin, the Hawkeyes' fewest since they were held to 66 by the Badgers in 2017 and tied for fourth fewest since 2000. The Hawkeyes' combined 427 yards in their last two games are their fewest in back-to-back games since Wisconsin and Purdue held them to 324 in 2017. Iowa's 291.5 yards per game rank last in the Big Ten and 124th out of 130 FBS teams. - AP College Football

rSr/2025 QB Spencer PetrasUtah State
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  Logan Bonner threw for 361 yards and four touchdowns and Utah State defeated Hawaii 45-31 on Saturday. Bonner was 21-of-30 passing and combined with Elelyon Noa's career day of 111 yards on 23 carries, the Aggies (6-2, 4-1 Mountain West Conference piled up 564 yards of total offense. Deven Thompkins hauled in seven passes for 176 yards, his sixth 100-yard game this season, the most since Kevin Curtis had seven games with 100 yards in 2002. Thompkins pushed his season yardage total to 1,099, the first 1,000 yard receiver since Curtis in 2002. Noa's short touchdown run and Justin McGriff's 34-yard touchdown reception helped Utah State to a 14-0 lead in the first quarter. It was 20-10 at halftime but Bonner threw three touchdown passes in the third quarter to break it open. Chevan Cordeiro threw for 296 yards and three touchdowns for Hawaii (4-5, 1-3). Calvin Turner Jr. and Dedrick Parson combined for 15 receptions and 225 yards. - Utah State/AP College Football

rSr/2023 QB Logan BonnerUtah State
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  OCT 18 MOUNTAIN WEST DEFENSIVE PLAYER OF THE WEEK: SHAQ BOND, UTAH STATE, Senior, Safety, Decatur, Illinois/MacArthur Southwestern JC,...Helped secure a 28-24 road win at UNLV, tallying nine tackles, including 0.5 tackle for loss, a career-best two interceptions and a forced fumble...Both interceptions came in the fourth quarter, including the game-sealing pick with just 10 seconds left. - Mountain West Football

rSr/2022 SS Shaq BondUtah State
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  OCT 18 MOUNTAIN WEST OFFENSIVE PLAYER OF THE WEEK: DEVEN THOMPKINS, UTAH STATE, Senior, Wide Receiver, Fort Meyers, Florida/Dunbar HS,...Helped lead Utah State to a 28-24 victory over UNLV, hauling in 12 receptions for 180 yards and two touchdowns...The 12 receptions were a career high...Averaged 15 yards per catch and racked up 174 yards after the catch...Touchdown receptions of 37 and 6 yards, respectively...Also ran the ball two times for 14 yards. - Mountain West Football

Sr/2022 WR Deven ThompkinsUtah State
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  Connor Coles kicked a career-best four field goals, including a 34-yarder to give Utah State a two-score lead with five minutes left, and the Aggies held off Colorado State 26-24 on Friday night. Coles was a perfect four-for-four on the night with kicks of 45. 30. 42 and 34 yards, his last giving the Aggies (5-2, 3-1 Mountain West) a 26-17 lead. Colorado State's Todd Centeio, who passed for 282 yards, needed 81 seconds to tear 73 yards downfield and answer with a 13-yard pass to Gary Williams that shaved the Utah State lead to two points. Centeio and the Rams (3-4, 2-1) nearly pulled off a stunner, taking a final possession 61 yards in 44 seconds only to have a 42-yard field goal attempt sail wide.

Utah State started hot with Luke Bonner, 233 yards passing, hooking up with Derek Wright on a pair of touchdown strikes, including an over-the-shoulder catch for a 38-yard touchdown. Deven Thompkins made six catches for 104 yards - his seventh 100-yard game. Bonner endured eight sacks - a season high for the Colorado State defense - for a loss of 52 yards, had four passes broken up and was intercepted once. The swarming Rams also made 13 tackles for loss. Between the sacks and the tackles behind the line, Colorado State forced 113 yards in losses on Utah State. David Bailey ran for a pair of short touchdowns for Colorado State, and gained 159 yards on 30 carries. The yardage is his career-best with the Rams, though he has a 181-yard game while at Boston College. - Utah State/AP College Football


rSr/2023 K Connor ColesUtah State
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  Spencer Petras threw a 44-yard touchdown pass to Nico Ragaini to complete No. 3 Iowa's comeback from a two-touchdown deficit, No. 4 Penn State's offense did next to nothing after quarterback Sean Clifford was knocked out of the game and the Hawkeyes held on for a bruising 23-20 victory Saturday. The Hawkeyes (6-0, 3-0) took control of the Big Ten West with their 12th straight win and thrust themselves into the College Football Playoff conversation. Penn State (5-1, 2-1) lost for the first time in 10 games and headed back to Happy Valley with a list of injuries that could make its path through the rest of the season difficult.

When Petras took a knee in victory formation to end the game, students and other fans poured out of their end zone seats to celebrate. Bodies were packed together the entire width of the field from the south end zone to the 10-yard line on the other end. "It's a pretty special place when the lights go on and the sun goes down," Iowa coach Kirk Ferentz said. The Hawkeyes' grinding offense isn't built to play from behind, but it managed to come back in the biggest game at Kinnick Stadium since then-No. 1 Iowa beat then-No. 2 Michigan in 1985. Iowa won the field-position battle thanks to the work of punter Tory Taylor, who repeatedly pinned Penn State deep in its own end after Clifford went out of the game in the second quarter. - Iowa/AP College Football


rSr/2025 QB Spencer PetrasUtah State
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  Spencer Petras threw for three touchdowns and ran for two and No. 5 Iowa took advantage of seven Maryland turnovers in a 51-14 victory Friday night. The Hawkeyes (5-0, 2-0 Big Ten) intercepted five of Taulia Tagovailoa's passes, and they outscored the Terrapins 31-0 in the second quarter as Maryland completely unraveled. The Terps (4-1, 1-1) never recovered after losing standout receiver Dontay Demus to an apparent leg injury on a kickoff return early in the second.

Iowa beat Iowa State earlier this season thanks to a plus-four turnover margin on a day the Hawkeyes were badly outgained. The matchup with Maryland was an even more extreme version of that. The Terrapins turned the ball over five times in the first half and four times in the second quarter. Tagovailoa had thrown only one interception all season — while leading the Big Ten in yards passing — but he was picked off on the Terrapins' second possession Friday in a sign of things to come. That turnover led to a field goal that opened the scoring, but Maryland responded sharply, driving 69 yards in eight plays and taking the lead on a 9-yard scoring pass from Tagovailoa to Chigoziem Okonkwo. - Iowa/AP College Football


rSr/2025 QB Spencer PetrasUtah State
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  Iowa made it through September undefeated with the remainder of the Big Ten schedule looming. But it wasn't easy for the No. 5 Hawkeyes to get to this point. They opened the season with wins against ranked teams Indiana and Iowa State. A home win over Kent State followed. Then came Saturday's game against Colorado State, and it turned out to be the biggest challenge so far for the Hawkeyes. Spencer Petras threw for 224 yards and two touchdowns as Iowa needed a second-half comeback to win 24-14.

The Hawkeyes (4-0), who trailed at halftime for the first time this season, won their 10th consecutive game, the program's longest streak since winning 12 games to open the 2015 season. Iowa also has a 15-game nonconference winning streak, the longest current streak in the nation. "I think our guys were trying today, and we had practiced well," Iowa coach Kirk Ferentz said. "But it just wasn't clicking for us." The Hawkeyes were pushed by the Rams (1-3), who led 14-7 at halftime. "We certainly got stressed, which is going to help us," Ferentz said. Iowa rallied with touchdowns on back-to-back possessions that took a combined four plays in the third quarter. - Iowa/AP College Football


rSr/2025 QB Spencer PetrasUtah State
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  SEPT 20 MOUNTAIN WEST DEFENSIVE PLAYER OF THE WEEK: JUSTIN RICE, UTAH STATE, Senior, Linebacker, Modesto, California/Arkansas State,...In a Mountain West-opening victory at Air Force, tied a career high with 14 tackles, including a pair of tackles for loss, to go along with an interception and forced fumble...In the four-point victory, the interception came in the end zone, ending an Air Force scoring drive...Forced fumble came on Air Force's final drive of the game late in the fourth quarter with the Aggies leading 49-45. Utah State got the ball back on its own 25-yard line and the offense ran out the remainder of the clock. - Mountain West Football

rSr/2022 ILB Justin RiceUtah State
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  Calvin Tyler Jr. raced 61 yards for the go-ahead touchdown with just under four minutes to play to lift Utah State to a 49-45 win over Air Force in the Mountain West Conference opener Saturday night. The Aggies, who had just one win a year ago, won their third straight game to open the season for the first time since 1978. Tyler carried 19 times for 132 yards and two touchdowns to lead Utah State while Logan Bonner completed 21 of 34 passes for 253 yards and two touchdowns. Andrew Peasley threw three second-half touchdown passes, including a 72-yard bomb to Deven Thompkins with 9:51 to go to pull the Aggies within a touchdown of the Falcons, 45-40.

Air Force took a 10-0 lead in the first quarter, but Bonner engineered a 13-play, 71-yard drive capped by Tyler's first touchdown, then drove the Aggies 92 yards in 11 plays on their next series, giving them a 13-10 lead after hitting Brandon Bowling from six-yards out. Haaziq Daniels connected with Micah Davis on a 56-yard touchdown pass in the second quarter to put Air Force back in front and Dane Kinamon scored just before intermission to put the Falcons in front, 24-13. - Utah State/AP College Football


rSr/2023 RB Calvin Tyler Jr.Utah State
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  SEPT 13 MOUNTAIN WEST DEFENSIVE PLAYER OF THE WEEK: JUSTIN RICE, UTAH STATE, Senior, Linebacker, Modesto, California/Arkansas State,...In a victory over North Dakota, registered a career-high two interceptions to go along with a season-best nine tackles, including one for loss...The two interceptions were tied for the second-most in a single game this season...The second interception led to the last touchdown. - Mountain West Football

rSr/2022 ILB Justin RiceUtah State
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  Logan Bonner passed for a career-best 390 yards with four touchdowns as Utah State clawed out of an early hole to rally past North Dakota 41-24 on Friday night. Bonner more than doubled his passing yards from the 143 in Utah State's last-minute upset at Washington State last week, and matched his career high with four touchdowns. The Aggies (2-0) trailed 21-7 after North Dakota's dizzying first-quarter saw three different passers throw for touchdowns on the first three possessions. But from there, Utah State outscored North Dakota 41-3.

North Dakota's Tommy Schuster was 29-of-43 passing for 348 yards with a touchdown. Otis Weah, who posted 114 yards and three touchdowns in the season opener, was held to 47 yards on 17 carries Friday with no scores. After a field goal to open the second half, the Fighting Hawks (1-1), ranked No. 6 in the FCS coaches poll, were forced to punt away their next four possessions while Utah State went on a scoring spree. Bonner had touchdown passes of 54, 4, 75 and 41 yards. One play after his lone interception on the night led to a North Dakota field goal, Bonner found Deven Thompkins on swing pass for a one-play, 75-yard touchdown sprint up the left sideline that put the Aggies up for the first time, 27-24, just 12 seconds later. - Utah State/AP College Football


rSr/2023 QB Logan BonnerUtah State
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  SEPT 6 MOUNTAIN WEST SPECIAL TEAMS PLAYER OF THE WEEK: CONNOR COLES, UTAH STATE, Senior, Place-Kicker, Bozeman, Montana/Bozeman HS,...Scored 10 points in Utah State's comeback victory on the road at Washington State (26-23)...Was a perfect 3-for-3 on field goal attempts, connecting from 23, 39 and 28 yards out, respectively, and made his lone PAT...This was the Aggies first win over an autonomous-5 opponent since 2014. - Mountain West Football

rSr/2023 K Connor ColesUtah State
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  Logan Bonner threw a 7-yard touchdown pass to Deven Thompkins with 11 seconds left to lift Utah State to a 26-23 victory over Washington State on Saturday night. Utah State (1-0) got the ball back on its own 22 with 3:02 left and Bonner drove them to the winning score in Blake Anderson's first game as the Aggies' coach. Bonner completed a pass to Derek Wright for a two-point conversion and the final score.

Max Borghi ran for 86 yards and a touchdown for Washington State (0-1) of the Pac-12, which finished 1-3 last year. "Food is going to taste better. Beds are gonna be softer," Anderson said after becoming the first Utah State coach in more than 40 years to win his opening game. "This is a memory I'll never forget." "I'm not surprised at all," Anderson said of the upset win. "We did not play our best football," he said. "All in all we made the plays we absolutely had to make." Anderson said the outcome did not settle the battle over who should be the team's starting quarterback. - Utah State/AP College Football


rSr/2023 QB Logan BonnerUtah State
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  Alabama wide receiver Xavier Williams will not play in 2021 because of "medical issues," coach Nick Saban revealed Wednesday evening. Williams, who was entering his fourth season with the Tide, was removed from the roster prior to fall camp. "Without saying what, he's medically not gonna play this year," Saban said. Williams was a four-star recruit from Florida in 2018 who did not see significant time on offense in his first three seasons with the Tide. His playing time did increase toward the end of last season, and he recorded a catch in each of the final three games against Florida, Notre Dame and Ohio State -- the only three catches of his college career. How much playing time he would have received in 2021 was uncertain after Alabama added Ohio State transfer Jameson Williams in the offseason, giving the Tide a speed threat to pair with John Metchie and Slade Bolden. - Birmingham News

rSr/2024 WR Xavier WilliamsUtah State
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