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Hawaii tops Utah State 49-36 to snap losing streak (AP)

Sat, 07 Nov 2009 22:50:18 PST

Bryant Moniz threw four touchdowns and Leon Wright-Jackson ran for a career-best 167 yards and three scores to help Hawaii snap a six-game losing streak with a 49-36 victory over Utah State on Saturday night. Greg Salas had 10 catches for 187 yards and two TDs for the Warriors (3-6, 1-5 Western Athletic Conference), who were in the midst of their longest losing streak since going 0-12 in 1998.

Utah State Team Report (Yahoo! Sports)

Tue, 03 Nov 2009 22:15:40 PST

First-year Utah State head coach Gary Andersen has kept spirits up by continuing to assert to his 2-6 team that goals which were approachable last winter can still be met.

USU will prepare for a long trip to Hawaii — longer than every other road-trip mileage, combined, to this point, in fact — by trying to forget that it has lost three of the last four games.

"We have a great opportunity to do some things in the next few weeks that haven't been done here in a long time," Andersen said Nov. 2. "We can win more WAC games than they've won for a long time, we can have a winning season playing at home, which hasn't been done here for a long time."

For starters, USU is 1-3 in the WAC and could reasonably go 4-4.

Fresno State rallies past Utah State 31-27 (AP)

Sat, 31 Oct 2009 18:30:44 PDT

Ryan Mathews rushed for 185 yards, including a 10-yard touchdown with 4:53 remaining, to lead Fresno State past Utah State 31-27 on Saturday. Mathews, the nation's leading rusher, had two rushing touchdowns, and quarterback Ryan Colburn added 256 passing yards and a touchdown as Fresno State (5-3, 4-1 Western Athletic Conference) overcame a 10-point halftime deficit.