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WEEK 11 SCHEDULE (all times PT)
Saturday, November 14
Fresno State at Texas State                      1pm      The CW
     Rick Allen, Will Blackmon, Michael Bumpus

Oregon State at #24 Boise State               3pm      USA Network
     Nate Gatter, Ryan Leaf, Lauren Green

Utah State at San Diego State              6:30pm      USA Network
     Ted Robinson, Darius Walker, Dalen Cuff

Colorado State at Washington State   7:30pm      CBS Sports Network
     Rich Waltz, Adam Breneman, Jordan Giorgio

AROUND THE PAC-12
CHASE FOR THE CHAMP GAME: With 2 weeks left in the regular season, 6 of the 8 teams are still in contention for a spot in the Pac-12 Championship Game on Friday, December 4th.  At 5-0 in conference play, Boise State is 1 win away from clinching not only a spot in the Pac-12 Football Championship but a win this weekend would also mean the Broncos would be hosting the game.  

There are currently 4 teams tied for 2nd place with Texas State, Oregon State, Utah State and San Diego State all 3-2 in Pac-12 play.  If Boise State does not win either of their final 2 conference games, the Beavers and Aztecs would also be in contention to host the Pac-12 title game should they get to 5 conference wins.  San Diego State is the only 1 of the 4 teams currently tied for 2nd place that is guaranteed a spot in the championship game if they get to 5 conference wins.

Utah State needs to win this week to stay in the hunt for a championship game berth while Texas State would be eliminated with a loss AND a win by Oregon State this weekend.  Fresno State, who enters the week 2-3 in conference play, would be eliminated with a loss OR wins by either Boise State or Utah State on Saturday.

THESE GO TO 11:  There are just 2 weeks remaining of conference play before the regular season ends with FLEX week.  All 8 teams are active this week with all of the bye weeks now completed.

• Week 11 gets started with the first ever matchup between Fresno State and Texas State.  The Bobcats have won 4 straight games at home, outscoring their opponents 198-89 in that span and topping 600 total yards in 3 of those 4 games.  The Bulldogs, playing a road game in the state of Texas for the first time since a 2007 visit to Texas A&M that ended in triple overtime, will look to snap a 2-game road losing streak with both games decided by 7 points or less.
• ESPN’s College GameDay will be in attendance for a battle on The Blue between Oregon State and #24 Boise State.  GameDay’s only previous trip to Boise was also for a Beaver/Bronco matchup back in September 2010.  Oregon State holds a slim 6-5 advantage in the all-time series, splitting the last 4 matchups.  The last time these 2 tangled was also on The Blue in the 2024 regular season finale with Ashton Jeanty rushing for 226 yards in a 34-18 Boise State victory.  Oregon State is 1-4 all-time in Boise with the 1 win coming in 1989 when the Broncos were still a I-AA (now FCS) program.
• A pivotal matchup in the race for the Pac-12 Championship Game takes place at Snapdragon Stadium between Utah State and San Diego State.  SDSU leads the all-time series 13-5 but the Aggies have won the last 3, including the 2021 Mountain West Championship Game.  These 2 last faced off in 2024 in Logan with Utah State picking up a 41-20 victory behind QB Bryson Barnes who went 13-of-15 passing for 139 yards and 3 scores while adding 193 on the ground with another score.  USU has actually won their last 3 road games against the Aztecs with SDSU’s last home win in the series coming in 2015.
• In the nightcap, Colorado State looks for its 2nd ever victory over Washington State and first since the 2013 New Mexico Bowl when the Rams overcame a 22-point deficit including 18 straight points in the final 2:52 of the game for a 48-45 victory.  The Cougars have won all 3 meetings since including a 20-3 victory in Fort Collins last year, which snapped a CSU streak of 85 straight home games with a touchdown.  Their only ever previous meeting in Pullman was in 2022, with Cam Ward throwing 4 touchdowns in a 38-7 victory.

POLL WATCHING:  The 2nd College Football Playoff rankings saw Boise State move up 1 spot to 24th and remain the only team from a non-autonomy conference in the Top 25.  If the playoff started today, the Broncos would be the 12th seed and face 5th Notre Dame in South Bend.  Boise State is also the only team from the non-autonomy conferences in the Top 20 of either the AP Poll (17th) or coaches poll (18th).  Inside the analytics, Spencer Danielson’s team is the top team from non-autonomy conferences in several metrics including: SportSource’s Team Strength Ranking (12th), ESPN’s Game Control (17th), ESPN’s SOR (20th), and FPI (33rd).

HIGH FIVE:  Through 10 weeks of the regular season, the Pac-12 continues to prove it being one of the Top 5 conferences in college football.  Taking a look inside the analytics….

• Average SP+ of 76.3 - 5th best among FBS leagues
  • 4 teams in Top 60, most of any non-autonomous conference
• Average FPI of 78.0 - 5th best among FBS leagues
  • Have only team from non-autonomous conference in Top 40 (#33 Boise St)
  • Only non-autonomous conference with 2 schools in Top 55 & 4 schools in Top 70
    • No other non-autonomous conference has more than 2 teams in Top 70
• Average Strength of Record (ESPN) of 83.6 - 5th best among FBS leagues
  • Have only team from non-autonomous conference in Top 29 (#20 Boise St)
  • 6 of 8 schools (75%) in Top 100, highest % of any non-autonomous league
• Average Strength of Schedule (ESPN) of 76.3 - 5th best among FBS leagues 
  • All 8 schools in Top 88, only SEC, Big Ten & Big 12 also have 100% in Top 88
• Average Game Control ranking of 76.4 - 5th best among FBS leagues
  • Have 2 of the 4 schools from non-autonomous conferences in Top 35 overall 
    • Have 3 of the 6 schools from non-autonomous conferences in Top 51
• According to SportSource Analytics, have 5th best SOS among conferences (71.0)
  • Have 6 of the Top 9 SOS among schools from non-autonomous conferences
  • All 8 schools in Top 87, 1 of 4 leagues with 100% of schools in Top 87 (Big 12, Big Ten, SEC)
• According to SportSource Analytics, have 5th best average Team Strength Ranking (76.3)
  • Highest rated team from non-autonomous conferences (Boise State, #12)
    • 4 teams in the Top 80, 7 teams in Top 102
• 9-4 against FBS teams from outside the autonomous conferences, the highest win% (.692) by a non-autonomous conference against other non-autonomous conferences
  • The Pac-12 went 3-0 against the Mountain West, 3-2 against the American, 2-1 against the MAC and 1-1 against the Sun Belt during non-conference play
  • Have wins over the Top 2 teams from the American in FPI (#55 North Texas & #57 Memphis) and best in the MAC (#85 Western Michigan)

RUN RILEY RUN:  After racking up 300 all-purpose yards against Colorado State, 1 short of the school single-game record, Boise State RB Dylan Riley was named Pac-12 Offensive Player of the Week for the 2nd time this season. Riley is just the 3rd player in FBS this season to amass 300 all-purpose yards in a game.  On the ground, the 3rd year RB had 192 yards on 19 carries for a 10.1 AVG, the 3rd time this season he’s rushed for at least 192 yards in a game (tied for most in FBS).  Riley added a career-high 88 receiving yards on 2 catches, including a 73-yard TD on the 2nd play of the game, the 2nd longest of his career.  The Bronco has 5 plays from scrimmage this season (4 rush, 1 rec) of 70+ yards, most in FBS and those 4 runs of 70+ are also the most.  It was the 2nd time in his career with 3+ total TD (2 rush, 1 rec).  It was the 2nd time this season that Boise State has run for 350+ yards in a game, the first time in program history they’ve done it multiple times in a single season.

Riley was also this week named 1 of the 18 semifinalists for the Maxwell Award as the top college football player in the nation.  Former teammate Ashton Jeanty won that award in 2024.  Riley leads FBS in rush yards (1,241), rush yards per game (137.9) and all-purpose yards per game (171.9) while his 6.74 yards per carry is 7th best in the country.

IN THE CUT:  Playing in place of the injured Maddux Madsen, Boise State QB Max Cutforth had a huge game in his 1st start of the season to be named 1 of the 8 Manning Stars of the Week for Week 10.  Cutforth had more touchdowns than incompletions, completing 16-of-19 for 317 yards and a career-high 4 pass TD plus a 1-yard rushing touchdown.  It was his 2nd career game with 300+ pass yards.  This is the 2nd time a Bronco QB has been honored by the Manning Award this season after Madsen was named one of their Stars of the Week following their win over Western Michigan.  

CLASS ACTS:  The Davey O’Brien Award named their QB Class of 2026, a group of the top 30 quarterbacks in the country, with a pair of Pac-12 QBs making the cut in Oregon State’s Braden Atkinson and Texas State’s Brad Jackson.  Atkinson leads the country in both pass yards (3,169) and pass YPG (352.1) while Jackson is 1 of 2 FBS QB this season with at least 2,000 pass yards (2,147) and 500 rush yards (523) along with South Carolina’s LaNorris Sellers.  The Award will announce its semifinalists on Tuesday, Nov. 17.

WHILE WE’RE YOUNG:  A pair of Boise State true freshman wide receivers earned Pac-12 weekly honors this week.  For the 3rd straight week, Rasean Jones earned the conference’s Freshman of the Week after grabbing 6 catches for 116 yards and a score in the win over Colorado State.  That’s back-to-back weeks with 100+ receiving yards, making Jones the first Bronco freshman to have multiple games with over 100 receiving yards in a season.  He now ranks 5th among FBS true freshmen this season with 43 receptions and 4th with 661 receiving yards, while his 5 receiving TD this season are tied for 3rd.

Teammate Terrious Favors meanwhile returned a pair of kicks 46 yards while adding 2 receptions for 45 yards and a touchdown against CSU to be named the Pac-12 Special Teams Player of the Week.   The freshman from Atlanta had not returned a kick prior to that this season and both set up touchdown drives.  Favors is the 2nd Bronco to earn this honor this season after Cam Bates ran away with the award after the Week 2 win over Memphis.

TEXAS JUSTICE:  Texas State held the explosive Oregon State offense to a season-low 347 total yards and their lowest point total since Week 1 in a 42-21 victory in Corvallis.  For his efforts in that victory, Jayden Bradley was named Pac-12 Defensive Player of the Week.   The Bobcat DB stuffed the stat sheet with 6 tackles (tied for team high), an interception, 1 PBU and 2 QB hurries which also tied for the team high.  It was the 2nd straight week that Bradley has picked off a pass and Texas State had 2 interceptions off Oregon State, who had thrown only 2 interceptions total in the first 8 games.  The Bobcats also were the 1st team to hold QB Braden Atkinson under 300 yards passing this season.

Bradley was named to the PFF College National Team of the Week as 1 of the 2 highest rated safeties in the country for Week 10.  While Bradley was the lone Pac-12 player to make the national team this week, 3 others were recognized for being the top at their position at schools from non-autonomous conferences, all from Boise State:  RB Dylan Riley, LG Zander Esty and Center Stewart Taufa.

PAC PRIMERS
Boise State

• The Broncos have now won 8 straight games, 1 of 4 FBS teams on a current 8-game or longer win streak.  Spencer Danielson’s crew has scored 31 points or more in each of those games, the first time that Boise State has won 8 straight games while scoring 31+ points in every game of the streak since 2010.
• Playing without QB Maddux Madsen and RB Sire Gaines, Boise State still put up a season-high in points (64) and total yards (669) in their win over Colorado State.  It was the Broncos most points scored in a game since 2007 vs. Nevada (69) with their most in a road game as a 4-year program and most in any road game since 1952.  The 669 yards are the 8th most in school history and their top performance since setting the school record with 818 against UConn in 2018.
• Boise State continues to be one of the top teams in the country on 3rd down, as 1 of 2 teams in FBS ranked in the Top 15 in both 3rd down offense and 3rd down defense.  The Broncos converted 5-of-7 (71.4%, tied season-high) on offense against Colorado State and now rank 3rd in FBS at 53.4% on the season.  Boise State’s defense held CSU’s explosive offense to 4-of-13 on 3rd down and the Broncos’ defense ranks 14th in FBS at 30.8%.

Colorado State

• The Rams offense under Jim Mora continues to put up big numbers with 38 points and 513 total yards against Boise State.  It’s their 5th game this season with 35+ points, having reached that number only 4 times the previous 2 seasons combined, and are 20th in FBS in scoring offense at 35.8 PPG.  CSU is 25th in total offense (441. YPG) and have reached 500 yards 4 times this season after doing it once the previous 3 seasons combined.  The Rams have 29 scrimmage plays of 30+ yards this season, 6th most in FBS, after having 18 plays of 30 or more yards in 2025.
• QB Hauss Hejny continued his solid season last week, completing 14-of-25 passes for 253 yards and 2 pass TD while adding 69 rush yards and another touchdown on the ground.  It’s the 3rd time in the 6 games he’s played that Hejny has had multiple pass TD and a rush TD in the same game.  Only 2 other CSU quarterbacks in the last 30 seasons have had 3 games with multiple pass TD and a rush TD in the same game:  Nick Stevens in 2017 and Matt Newton in 1999.  It was also Hejny’s 3rd game this season with at least 69 rush yards, joining Bradlee Van Pelt as the only Ram QBs to do that.  Van Pelt did it 3 times:  3 games in 2001, 6 games in 2002, and 5 games in 2003.
• After not being targeted the previous game at Utah State, WR Tommy Maher had 6 catches for 99 yards and a touchdown.  The 6 receptions matched his career-high, set in Week 8 against San Diego State, and over those 2 games (Boise St, SDSU) had 12 catches for 207 yards and 3 scores. In the other 6 games he’s appeared this season, Maher has 13 receptions for 149 yards and 0 touchdowns.

Fresno State

• Matt Entz’s team is on the road for the 3rd time in 4 games this weekend and will be looking to pull even in away games this season at 3-3.  Fresno State has lost their last 2 road games, each by 7 points or less.
• WR Josiah Freeman had a career-high 8 receptions for 114 yards last week in a game where the Bulldogs had only 278 yards of total offense.  It was Freeman’s 2nd 100-yard game of the season and the 3rd of his career.  The last Bulldog receiver with multiple 100-yard games in a season was Mac Dalena in 2024 who also had 2 that year.
• The Bulldog defense had one of their better performances on the season, allowing just 269 total yards to the Utah State offense.  It was the 3rd time this season that Fresno State has held their opponent under 300 total yards and just the 3rd time in the last 30 seasons the Bulldogs have allowed under 270 yards in a game and lost (2024 at Michigan- 269, 2006 at Utah State- 267).

Oregon State

• WR Jesse Legree had 8 receptions for 99 yards against Texas State, just 1 yard short of his 8th 100-yard game of the season.  The true freshman has gone 2 straight games without a touchdown but still leads the nation with 14 TD, just 2 short of tying Brandin Cooks’ single-season OSU record set in 2013.  Legree also leads the country in receiving YPG (134.3) and receiving yards (1,209) which is the 8th most in Oregon State’s single-season history.
• QB Braden Atkinson announced this week he would be returning to Oregon State for the 2027 season.  Atkinson, the nation’s leading passer, had his streak of 8 straight games with 300+ yards snapped on Saturday after going 20-of-36 for 192 yards, 0 TD and an interception against Texas State.  It was his first game of the season without a touchdown pass and his 1st INT since Week 4 and just his 3rd of the season.  Atkinson left the game in the 3rd quarter after hitting his hand on a helmet during a throw.
• EDGE Takari Hickle picked up a sack and tackle for loss against Texas State and leads the Pac-12 in both categories.  Hickle has 7.0 sacks and are the most by a Beaver since Andrew Chatfield had 9.5 in 2023.  He has at least 1 TFL in 8 of the Beavers’ 9 games this season and his 12.5 are Oregon State’s most since Hamilcar Rashed Jr. led the country with 22.5 in 2019.

San Diego State

• The Aztecs are 4-1 at home this season and 10-1 in the Sean Lewis Era.  SDSU has won their last 3 home games by a combined 11 points.  The offense has been much better at home this season with 29.8 PPG and 193.0 rush YPG compared to 22.3 PPG and 110.3 rush YPG in their 4 road games.
• Lewis announced this week that QB Stone Saunders would be the starter for the rest of the season with former starter Jayden Denegal missing the last 2 games due to injury.  In Saunders 2 starts, the Kentucky transfer has completed 64.8% of his passes with 8.72 yards per attempt.  Denegal, who will be available to play, has a completion percentage of 55.0 and 5.95 yards per attempt this season, both down from his 2025 campaign.
• RB Lucky Sutton will be playing in his likely final game at Snapdragon Stadium on Senior Night.  Sutton has 1,970 career rush yards and 17 rushing touchdowns, both in the top 16 in school history.  Over the last 3 games, Sutton has rushed for 323 yards and 2 touchdowns with a pair of 100-yard games.

Texas State

• The Bobcats picked up 600 yards of total offense against Oregon State with 386 of them coming on the ground, the 4th time this season GJ Kinne’s offense has run for more than 300 yards in a game.  Torrance Burgess Jr. had a season-high 28 carries for 196 yards and a score, the 3rd time this season he’s topped 190 rush yards to become the 14th player in school history to rush for 1,000 yards in a season.  Burgess Jr. ranks 6th in the country in rush yards (1,118), rush YPG (124.2) and rush yards per carry (7.12).  RB Davian Jackson had his best game with a career-high 107 rush yards and matching his career-high with 3 rush touchdowns.  Jackson added 3 receptions for 45 yards, also both career-highs.
• QB Brad Jackson was efficient in the win over Oregon State, completing 16-of-20 passes for 214 yards and a touchdown while rushing for 87 yards and another score. It was the 2nd time this season Jackson has completed at least 80% of his passes and his 68.3 comp % on the season is 18th best in FBS.  Jackson has 4 games this season with at least 1 pass TD and 1 rush TD and now ranks in the top 5 in school history in both career pass TD (41, 5th) and career rush TD (28, t-5th).
• WR Chris Dawn Jr. had 7 catches for 48 yards against Oregon State to become the 4th player in Bobcat history to have 2,000 career receiving yards.  This week Dawn Jr. looks to again hit another milestone, as he needs just 1 reception to tie the school’s career receptions mark of 160 held by Johnny Parker (1969-71).  The 4th year WR leads the Bobcats this season in receptions (48), receiving yards (515) and receiving TD (5).

Utah State

• The Aggie defense is in the middle of an historic run right now, holding their last 4 opponents all under 300 total yards.  It’s the first time in at least the last 30 years that Utah State has held 4 straight opponents under 300 yards.  Bronco Mendenhall’s team has now won 4 of their last 6 games and Mendenhall picked up his 150th career win in the 17-10 victory over Fresno State.
• Utah State was able to pull out the win over the Bulldogs despite being held to just 269 yards of total offense.  It’s the 2nd time this season the Aggies have been able to win a game with under 300 yards of total offense (236 vs Washington State).  They are 1 of 9 FBS teams this season to have multiple wins in games with less than 300 total yards.  The last time Utah State had multiple wins in a season with less than 300 yards was 2017.  
• LB Asher Cunningham has been a star on defense for the Aggies with 5.5 TFL over the last 4 games with at least 0.5 TFL in each of those games.  Cunningham’s 73 tackles this season rank 3rd in the conference and his 17 tackles against Washington State remain the most by a Pac-12 player this season and tied for 7th most in FBS.

Washington State

• In his 3 games as a starter, QB Owen Eshelman is averaging 259.7 pass YPG and 67.7 rush YPG.  No FBS quarterbacks this season are currently averaging both over 250 yards a game passing and 60 yards per game rushing.  Eshelman has at least 40 pass attempts in each of his 3 starts, becoming the first WSU QB since Cameron Ward in 2023 to attempt 40 or more passes in 3 straight games.  The Cougars had 4 games total with 40+ pass attempts in the 2024 and 2025 seasons.
• Eshelman has been a boost to the numbers of Washington State’s top 2 wide receivers.  In the last 3 games, Branden Ganashamoorthy has 19 receptions for 263 yards and a score after having 15 catches for 196 yards and 2 scores in the previous 6 games.  Daniel Blood has 18 receptions for 207 yards and a touchdown in those same 3 games after compiling 20 catches for 207 yards and no touchdowns in the first 6 games of the season.
• Washington State’s defense has held 3 of their last 4 opponents to 150 or less passing yards and 5 of their 9 opponents on the season under 200 yards.  The Cougars lead the Pac-12 in pass defense at 202.6 YPG allowed.

	Boise St	Colorado St	Fresno St	Oregon St	San Diego St	Texas St	Utah St	Wash St
Pre	RV/RV	-	-	-	- /RV	-	-	-
Sept. 8	RV/RV	-	-	-	- /RV	-	-	-
Sept. 13	RV/RV	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
Sept. 20	RV/RV	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
Sept. 27	22/RV	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
Oct. 5	23/RV	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
Oct. 12	23/24	-	-	RV/RV	-	-	-	-
Oct. 19	21/22	-	-	RV/RV	-	-	-	-
Oct. 26	20/22	-	-	RV/RV	-	-	-	-
Nov. 3	20/21/25	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
Nov. 10	17/18/24	-	-	-	-	-	-	-

	Boise St	Colorado St	Fresno St	Oregon St	San Diego St	Texas St	Utah St	Wash St
Pre	49/21/43	107/115/101	73/57/75	89/116/94	65/43/71	77/82/85	96/104/97	86/83/88
Sept. 8	51/21/31	98/101/79	100/81/95	90/111/94	58/44/65	101/83/96	108/137/102	79/77/82
Sept. 13	48/23/27	95/101/77	75/82/76	84/85/71	72/47/54	90/87/88	99/133/96	97/83/99
Sept. 20	47/22/26	96/102/76	71/77/95	79/66/59	78/78/56	91/69/79	106/133/94	89/83/98
Sept. 27	47/17/28	87/103/77	70/74/95	65/62/59	100/99/69	76/69/79	105/118/94	106/83/98
Oct. 5	40/19/25	103/106/76	60/66/95	58/55/50	100/84/65	73/85/78	107/119/94	108/98/98
Oct. 12	42/18/31	103/107/115	58/69/50	51/30/37	109/102/109	70/84/91	105/117/119	111/120/123
Oct. 19	37/22/27	111/107/118	59/86/61	39/30/33	104/83/97	62/84/77	108/117/121	117/120/124
Oct. 26	30/22/25	103/94/120	61/91/59	50/26/29	104/95/101	65/84/74	105/121/123	121/129/126
Nov. 3	31/21/21	111/94/120	51/82/60	49/50/38	103/95/100	61/83/78	97/93/117	123/131/127
Nov. 10	27/20/21	111/110/122	51/91/63	57/58/65	102/99/97	48/57/61	91/90/115	123/132/126