Fresno State 30, Utah State 28 | Stats
LOGAN, Utah (AP) - Kevin Goessling kicked a 58-yard field goal as time expired to lift Fresno State to a 30-28 win over conference rival Utah State Saturday.

Tom Brandstater completed 25-of-36 passes for 257 yards for the Bulldogs (5-2, 2-1 Western Athletic Conference) and completed an 18-yard pass to Rashad Evans in the final seconds to set up the winning kick. Goessling missed a 22-yard field goal attempt earlier in the game, while making another from 44 yards out.

Utah State running back Marquis Butler scored on a run from less than a yard out with 38 seconds left in the game to tie it 27-27. Peter Caldwell, who holds a 44-44 career point after attempt record for the Aggies (1-7, 1-3), drilled the point-after kick to push the Aggies to their first lead since early in the first quarter.

Diondre Borel passed for 193 yards and one touchdown and ran for a team-high 74 yards for Utah State. Caldwell also kicked field goals from 35 and 20 yards out to help the Aggies.

Utah State came into the game having been outscored 75-7 in the first quarter this season, but scored with 8:57 left in the first quarter on a 3-yard run by Borel, the first possession of the game for the Aggies. The Aggie drive was extended after a fake field goal attempt that ended in a 7-yard run by Borel, who was holding on the attempt.

Fresno State took its first lead of the game, 13-10, with 4:10 remaining in the first half, when Brandstater found Devon Wylie on a 7-yard pass play.

The Bulldogs gained 411 total yards on the day and the Aggies had 399.

Idaho 20, New Mexico State 14 | Stats
MOSCOW, Idaho – Robb Akey roared into the post-game news conference soaked from a recent Gatorade shower. Animated by nature, Akey had even more cause Saturday evening after the Idaho Vandals bounced New Mexico State 20-14 to snap a six-game skid and win for the first time in the Western Athletic Conference since 2006.

“That’s about a 750,000-ton gorilla that just got ripped off our backs today,” Akey said. “I’m happy as I can be for this football team, for those kids. They’ve been busting their butts and they keep coming back to work, keep coming back to work, and they keep working to do things better and do things right and we finally got ourselves a game put together today. They were rewarded for that. That means everything to me. It’s been a long haul getting to this point in time.”

Akey and his players were joined in their post-game celebration by hundreds of students and fans who rushed the field to take part in the moment that highlighted Homecoming weekend at the University of Idaho.

The Vandals successfully transferred their film and practice sessions to the field.

Redshirt freshman running back Princeton McCarty dashed and darted for a career-high 161 yards on 15 carries – a total that includes a 54-yard romp to score for the Vandals with 9:40 to play in the first. He and his backfield mates – Deonte` Jackson and Troy Vital, helped Idaho to a season-best 271 rushing yards. Even quarterback Nate Enderle found positive yardage with a total of 19 as part of an afternoon during which he artfully directly the Vandals’ choice of a run-oriented attack.

Defensively, there were big plays and big players throughout the evening. Senior defensive end Josh Shaw tallied 10 tackles and two big sacks of Aggie quarterback Chase Holbrook. Sophomore linebacker Justin Allen totaled eight tackles but also came up with a fumble recovery and an interception. True freshman Kenneth Patton and junior Virdell Larkins also had eight tackles each with Isaac Butts coming up with his third interception of the season for the final play of the game.

Senior kicker Tino Amancio had a career-long 52-yard field goal as well as a 51-yarder to the Vandals gather enough points for a victory celebration, while his fellow specialists also had commendable outings with Vicente Rico allowing only one kickoff return and T.J. Conley averaging 44.3 yards on his three punts.

For senior captain Adam Korby, who started his 44th consecutive game at center, winning seemed a long time coming.

“It just feels good. It’s hard to explain,” said Korby when queried about his feelings moments after the game. “We knew coming into this game and that we had to run the ball to win. The main thing, we got the run started early. We just kept with it and that led us to victory today.”

The credit went all around, though, he said.

“The defense played their butts off today. They played the best game of their season and we won because of them,” he said.

As for Allen, who came up with two of the four turnovers forced by Idaho, it was a matter of seizing the moment.

“Right place at the right time, I guess,” he said. “We took the field trying to get our own turnovers. That was our goal all day, to get turnovers. We thought coming into the game that we knew where they were running, based on their alignments and formations, and that we were going to take advantage of that and fly around.”

The Vandal defense was called on immediately. After stopping the Aggies at their own 36 on the game’s opening possession, Kama Bailey fumbled the punt and New Mexico State suddenly had the ball back at the Idaho 26. Holbrook completed one pass before an incompletion, a seven-yard sack by Shaw and another incompletion returned the ball to the Vandals.

They made the most of their first offensive opportunity. McCarty had runs of seven yards, then six to bring the Vandals to near midfield. Enderle’s first pass of the day was short and the next play was a handoff to McCarty. He found running room and outran the Aggie defenders for the 54-yard TD. Amancio’s kick made it 7-0 with 9:40 to go in the first.

The Aggies, whose favorite way to move the ball is through the air – a serious test to Idaho’s depleted and young secondary, scored their first TD when Holbrook connected with Chris Williams from 18 yards out with 13:43 left before halftime.

The teams traded series again before New Mexico State took the lead on a 13-yard pass from Holbrook to Williams that was set up when Nick Paden intercepted Enderle at the Idaho 43 and returned it to the Vandal 23. That score gave the Aggies a 14-7 edge with 5:13 left in the second.

McCarty said he knew he had an atonement to make when he fielded the ensuing kickoff at the Idaho 10. He pushed through for three yards on his first run and was pulled in a circle by a facemask on second down. The penalty moved the ball to the Idaho 29 where Enderle scrambled for three yards before McCarty took off on a 49 yards gain. Five plays later, Enderle went to a leaping Daniel Hardy for a three-yard TD pass which, with Amancio’s PAT kick, tied the game at 14 with 1:11 to go before halftime.

Idaho went up 17-14 when Amancio’s kick from 52 yards was good with 2:47 left in the third quarter – a period that marked a succession of traded possession. The same scenario played out in the final period with Amancio’s 51-yard field goal with 1:29 left in the game the lone score.

Butts ended the game when he picked off Holbrook at the Idaho 5. As Butts started to run with the ball, time expired and the jubilant Vandals and their fans flooded the field in celebration.

Hawai‘i 38, Nevada 31 | Stats
HONOLULU – Greg Alexander connected with  Malcolm Lane for a 24-yard touchdown with 20 seconds remaining to lift the University of Hawai`i Warrior football team to a 38-31 win over Nevada Saturday night at Aloha Stadium. UH evened its record to 4-4 overall and moved to 3-2 in the Western Athletic Conference with the win.

UH never trailed in the game, but needed performances from all three phases—offense, defense and special teams—to hold off the Wolf Pack (4-4, 2-2 WAC).
 
Perhaps no one was bigger than Alexander, who directed three scoring drives in the second half, including the game-winner. The junior quarterback finished 17-of-22 from 205 yards and two touchdowns in one half’s work.
 
On UH’s final possession of the game, Alexander eluded a sack for a 16-pass play to start the drive and later scrambled 10 yards for a key third-down conversion. With UH facing a third-and-one from the 24-yard line and less than 30 seconds remaining, the Warriors opted for the end zone instead of a field goal with Alexander hitting Lane streaking down the sideline.
 
Hawai`i won despite being out-gained 481-331. UH had just 42 yards of offense in the first half but the Warrior defense and special teams helped the team stake a 14-10 lead at the half. The UH defense scored its first touchdown of the season on a fumble recovery in the first quarter when David Veikune sacked Nevada quarterback Colin Kaepernick for a 15-yard loss and forced a fumble. John Fonoti scooped the ball up and ran in seven yards for UH’s first defensive touchdown of the year and an early 7-0 lead
 
Meanwhile, the UH special teams gave one of its best performances of the year, as UH won the battle of field position. Lane posted 115 yards in kick returns and UH punter Tim Grasso pinned three punts deep in Wolf Pack territory, including a career-long 55 yarder. 
 
Solomon Elimimian led the Warrior defense with 10 tackles and in the process became UH’s all-time leader in tackles with 373, surpassing Levi Stanley (366). Elimimian set the recrord early in the first quarter.
 
The Warriors pulled off the win after a fourth-quarter rally by the Wolf Pack. Nevada erased a 14-point deficit and tied the game with 1:31 left after Kaepernick found Chris Wellington from 34 yards out to tie the score, 31-31. Kaepernick finished with 173 yards passing, 139 yards rushing and three touchdowns.

Army 14, Louisiana Tech 7 | Stats
WEST POINT, N.Y.-- Despite a valiant defensive effort by the Louisiana Tech defense, the Bulldogs (3-4, 1-2 WAC) were unable to pull off their first road victory of the season falling to Army (3-5) 14-7 in the rain at Michie Stadium.

"It was one of those old fashion rain, wind, field-position games," said Tech head coach Derek Dooley. "The type where the team that makes the fewest mistakes wins. We made an inordinate amount of mistakes on offense from penalties to dropped balls to mental errors. And we had a turnover that led to a touchdown. When you make those types of mistakes, you won't win."

The Louisiana Tech defense forced four turnovers and only allowed 203 yards rushing on 56 attempts to an Army team coming into the game averaging 253 yards rushing per game.

"We played well defensively," Dooley said. "But in these kind of games, it wasn't good enough to win though. We gave up a touchdown drive after we had tied it. Army answered the bell."

Army put points on the board first after taking advantage of a Ross Jenkins fumble. The Black Knights would take over at the Tech 18 yard line and seven plays later Army would punch it in with a one yard touchdown run by Ian Smith at the 2:30 mark in the first quarter. Mathew Campbell would add the extra point to make it 7-0 Army.

Army registered five sacks in the game against Tech which had allowed only six all season coming into the game.

"I thought they out-quicked us up front," Dooley said. "They were beating us off the ball. We just didn't do a good job of protecting. Ross also has to get rid of the football sometimes.

Louisiana Tech would later force a fumble of their own early in the second quarter when Brannon Jackson forced Army running back Wesley McMahand to fumble on the Army 41 yard line and Tech's Antonio Baker would recover the fumble. However, Tech would suffer from a 15 yard block in the back penalty and 10 yard holding penalty on the drive forcing the offense to need 35 yards for a first down. A 20 yard completion from Ross Jenkins to Shane Womack would set up a 42 yard Brad Oestriecher field goal attempt. However, the attempt would go wide left allowing the Black Knights to take over on their own 25 yard line.

The Bulldog defense would force another turnover on the ensuing drive when Quin Harris intercepted a Chip Bowden throw at the Louisiana Tech 48 yard line, Harris' first interception of the season. The drive, however, would stall and go three and out forcing Chris Keagle to come on to punt for the Bulldogs. Keagle's punt would be fair caught on the Army 11 yard line.

The Tech defense would hold strong yet again forcing Army to punt after five plays. Army's punter Andrew Rinehart would bobble the snap forcing him to rush his punt. The punt would go 10 yards allowing Tech to take advantage of a short field starting at the Army 36 yard line, but the Army defense would hold forcing a Tech punt. Keagle's punt would be downed on the Army two yard line.

The Black Knights were unable to earn a first down from their two yard line giving Tech the ball at the Army 47 yard line with 1:03 remaining in the first half, but the Bulldog's offense would be unable to gather any points before the end of the half.

After a Louisiana Tech punt on their first drive of the second half, Tech's Tarence Calias would force Army's Justin Turner to fumble and Jared Barron would recover at the Army 34. Tech would face a fourth and one on the Army 26 yard line and Dooley would elect to go for it. Ross Jenkins would convert the fourth down conversion by completing a pass to receiver R.P. Stuart for 14 yards moving Tech down to the Army 12 yard line. Tech would eventually put the ball in the end zone on a two yard run by Stuart around the left end, Stuart's second career rushing touchdown and second straight game with a rushing touchdown. Oestriecher added the point after knotting the score at seven with 7:11 remaining in the third quarter.

Late in the third quarter Army's Jameson Carter would muff a Keagle punt allowing Louisiana Tech's Anthony Harrison to recover the fumble at the Army 40 yard line and giving the Tech offense another golden opportunity to put points on the board inside Army territory. The Bulldog offense would again struggle to put a drive together though, forcing a 51 yard field goal attempt by Oetriecher that would sail wide right.

The Army offense would then take over and march 66 yards on 10 plays as Bowden connected on a two yard touchdown pass to Smith to give the Black Knights a 14-7 lead with 10:00 left in the fourth quarter.

On Tech's last attempt to tie the game the offense would be unable to get anything going suffering from an illegal substitution penalty and a sack on second down for a loss of five yards. The Bulldogs would be forced to go for a fourth and 20 from their own 35 and would not convert as Ross Jenkins' pass would go incomplete with the ball slipping through receiver Phillip Livas' hands in front of the first down markers.

Army would run out the final seconds of the game making the final score 14-7 and preserving the Army win.