Ashton Jeanty bested the 200-yard mark for the 6th time this season as No. 10 Boise State brought down No. 20 UNLV, 21-7, in Friday night's Mountain West Football Title at Albertsons Arena. It's the second consecutive MWC title for the Horses, who likewise wrapped up a School Football Season finisher spot with the success. Boise State is supposed to be granted a first-round bye when the last CFP rankings are delivered at 10 a.m. Mountain time Sunday.
The Horses will enter the CFP on a 11-game series of wins. The following are three action items from Boise State's (12-1) third triumph over UNLV (10-3) in a year. Jeanty entered Friday as a major longshot in the Heisman Prize competition to Colorado's Travis Tracker. Playing in a spotlight game while Tracker's Bison sat at home, Jeanty had 32 conveys for 209 yards and a score against a strong UNLV surging protection.
The Revolutionaries, who entered Friday positioned tenth broadly at 101.1 yards permitted per game, held Jeanty 128 yards and a score in the past gathering. Jeanty ripped off a 75-yard score arrive behind schedule in the second quarter that gave Boise Express a 21-0 lead at the break. It was his twelfth run of at least 50 yards this season; no FBS group has more than seven.
One convey before the long TD run, Jeanty passed USC's Marcus Allen for fourth on the FBS all-time single-season surging rundown. Allen ran for 2,342 yards in 1981. Jeanty's 2,497 hurrying yards and 29 scores are both school records. He trails just Oklahoma State's Barry Sanders (2,628 yards, 1988 season), Wisconsin's Melvin Gordon (2,587, 2014) and UCF's Kevin Smith (2,567, 2007) on the unsurpassed rundown.
Jeanty will require 132 yards in the School Football Season finisher to bring down Sanders' record. While Jeanty did his typical thing, the Boise State protection turned in a champion execution against the Dissidents. The Horses held UNLV to 327 complete yards, 86 of which came on a Kylin James burst up the center. He was pulled somewhere near a hustling Seyi Oladipo at the 4, and the Radicals ended up turning it over on downs.
Oladipo, a senior wellbeing, drove Boise State with 10 complete handles (two for misfortune) and a sack. The Horses had 11 handles for misfortune collectively, including six sacks of star quarterback Hajj-Malik Williams. Williams battled all game, finishing only 13 of 28 passes for 110 yards with a capture attempt while conveying it multiple times for 56 yards. He looked close steady strain from any semblance of Marco Notarainni, Sheldon Newton, Rodney Robinson, Andrew Simpson, Jayden Virgin-Morgan and Oladipo.
Not many individuals were pulling harder for UNLV than Large 12 Chief Brett Yormark. Prior in the week, Yormark impacted the School Football Season finisher choice advisory group for having Boise State positioned above Enormous 12 Title agents No. 15 Arizona State (10-2) and negative. 16 Iowa State (10-2). Friday's success probably wrapped up a first-round bye for the Horses while the Arizona State/Iowa State victor will get the No. 12 seed.
The five most elevated positioned gathering champions get a programmed offered to the new 12-group School Football Season finisher. The main four heroes procure a first-round bye. The Mustangs could move to the No. 3 seed if No. 17 Clemson (9-3) knocks off No. 8 SMU (11-1) in Saturday's ACC Title. Assuming that SMU wins, Boise State will probably get the No. 4 seed, causing Yormark a deep sense of's vexation.
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