STANFORD — Walker Eget handed for 473 yards and three touchdowns, together with a rating early within the fourth quarter that gave the Spartans a 12-point lead, however the Spartans’ hopes of defeating Stanford for the second yr in a row had been dashed in a 30-29 loss on Saturday evening at Stanford Stadium.
It was the third time in 4 video games SJSU’s destiny was determined within the remaining seconds. The Spartans (1-3) missed a pair of area purpose makes an attempt within the remaining 90 seconds of their season-opening 16-14 loss to Central Michigan, and held off Idaho 31-28 every week in the past on Denis Lynch’s area purpose as time expired.
San Jose State Spartans’ Leland Smith (1) catches an extended cross in opposition to the Stanford Cardinal’s Collin Wright (6) within the first half of a soccer recreation at Statanford Stadium in Stanford, Calif., on Saturday, Sept. 27, 2024. (Ray Chavez/Bay Space Information Group)
Saturday evening, the Spartans allowed 9 factors within the remaining 5:54 within the Invoice Walsh Legacy Sport, together with Stanford’s go-ahead landing with 19 seconds remaining.
SJSU led 29-21 on Lynch’s 31-yard area purpose with 7:51 remaining and had an opportunity to carry off the Cardinal on the ultimate drive. The Spartans had the Cardinal stalled close to mid-field on 4th and 10, however allowed a 34-yard cross to maintain the drive alive. Stanford’s go-ahead rating got here 4 performs later.
San Jose State had simply sufficient time to run three performs however didn’t get past it’s personal 46 yard line.
SJSU has an opportunity to defeat Stanford in back-to-back seasons for the primary time since they received three three in a row from 1998-2000. The Spartans received 34-31 final yr in San Jose.
Saturday evening, SJSU nearly solely deserted the run in opposition to Stanford, working simply 12 designed run makes an attempt for 32 yards. Eget had 19 yards on scrambles.
San Jose State Spartans’ Kyri Shoels (4) celebrates his landing with a teammate afteer scoring in opposition to the Stanford Cardinal within the first half of a soccer recreation at Statanford Stadium in Stanford, Calif., on Saturday, Sept. 27, 2024. (Ray Chavez/Bay Space Information Group)
The gameplan coming in was to assault the Cardinal secondary that has struggled in opposition to the cross and it allowed for the Spartans to have three receivers over 100 receiving yards: Danny Scudero (135 yards on 11 catches), Kyri Shoels (147 yards on 10 catches) and Leland Smith (101 yards on six catches).
Lynch, coming off his successful kick the earlier week in opposition to Idaho, made his first two makes an attempt in opposition to Stanford, however then missed makes an attempt from 28 yards and 22 yards earlier than changing his fourth-quarter kick.
The Spartans led 20-14 at halftime and had sacked Stanford quarterback Ben Gulbranson 4 instances by intermission, however had been unable to cease the Cardinal from scoring on its remaining three drives of the sport. Gulbranson handed for 444 yards and two touchdowns.
The Spartans open Mountain West play on Friday evening in opposition to New Mexico (3-1, 0-0 MW) at CEFCU Stadium.
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