Ashton Jeanty rushed for 259 yards and four touchdowns on 26 carries to lead No. 25 Boise State to a 45-24 victory over Washington State on Saturday night in nonconference play at Boise, Idaho.
Jeanty scored on runs of 64, 59, 14 and 2 yards while recording the third-best single-game yardage amount in Broncos’ history. He set the school mark of 267 earlier this season against Georgia Southern, surpassing Cedric Minter (261 vs. Northern Michigan in 1978).
Maddux Madsen completed 12 of 21 passes for 184 yards, two touchdowns and one interception for the Broncos (3-1). Matt Lauter had four receptions for 96 yards and two touchdowns for Boise State.
John Mateer was 26-of-37 passing for 327 yards, two touchdowns and one interception for Washington State (4-1).
Kyle Williams had nine receptions for 142 yards and a touchdown, Kris Huston had nine catches for 126 yards and Cooper Mathers had a scoring reception for the Cougars.
Jeanty now has four career 200-yard rushing performances and he struck a Heisman Trophy pose after his final touchdown. This season, he has five scoring runs of 59 or more yards and has a non-scoring run of 68 yards.
Jeanty has rushed for 845 yards and 13 touchdowns in four games. He is averaging 10.3 yards per carry.
Jeanty got things rolling when he broke loose on a 64-yard scoring scamper just 2:08 into the contest.
Washington State knotted the score just 1:29 later when Mateer tossed a 14-yard touchdown pass to Mathers.
The teams traded field goals in the second quarter — Boise State’s Jonah Dalmas connected from 29 yards, Dean Janikowski hit from 35 yards out for Washington State — before Jeanty scored from 14 yards out to give the Broncos a 17-10 with 3:19 left in the half.
Boise State increased its lead to 14 when Madsen threw a 22-yard scoring pass to Lauter with 1:22 remaining in the third quarter.
The Cougars moved within 24-17 eight seconds into the final stanza when Mateer threw a 33-yard touchdown pass to Williams.
Just 95 seconds later, Jeanty broke another one and raced 59 yards to make it 31-17.
Jeanty added a 2-yard scoring run with 9:38 left and Boise State piled on when Lauter caught a short fourth-down pass in the left flat and cruised for a 34-yard touchdown to make it 45-17.
Leo Pulalasi scored from the 1 with 19 seconds left for the Cougars.
–Field Level Media
