SAN DIEGO (AP) — Lucky Sutton, Jayden Denegal and Christian Washington scored rushing touchdowns to help San Diego State beat San Jose State 25-3 on Saturday night.
San Diego State (9-2, 6-1 Mountain West Conference) can clinch the regular-season conference title with a win at New Mexico on Friday. The Lobos are tied for second place in the Mountain West with Boise State and UNLV. The conference championship game will take place on December 5th.
Denegal was 8 of 16 passing for 81 yards, and Sutton finished with 79 yards rushing on 21 carries.
On the third play from scrimmage, Dwayne McDougle threw a pass – the first of his two interceptions – and returned it 25 yards to the 20. Six plays later, Sutton's 1-yard touchdown run opened the scoring less than four minutes into the game.
Denis Lynch missed a 43-yard field goal attempt in the first quarter, and Matthias Brown, whose 37-yard field goal put the Spartans on the board about five minutes into the second, missed from 39 yards with 3:17 left before halftime.
Denegal threw a deep pass down the right sideline to Donovan Brown to extend the 52-yard lead to 4, and then Denegal, on fourth-and-goal, ran in a 1-yard touchdown run that capped a 10-play, 79-yard drive and gave San Diego State an 18-3 lead with a second-and-goal in the first half.
San Jose State's Walker Eget, who entered the game this season ranked No. 2 in the country in passing yards (3,015) and passing yards per game (301.5), left the game with an apparent leg injury late in the first quarter and finished 4-of-8 passing for 32 yards with an interception. Tama Amisone, a 5-foot-11, 184-pound freshman, replaced Eget and completed 15 of 27 passes for 104 yards with an interception and added 75 yards on 13 carries.
San Jose State (3-8, 2-5) has lost three straight, marking the program's longest losing streak since 2023.
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