SportsDirect Inc. staff
Sep 21, 2013
No. 20 Washington 56, Idaho State 0: Keith Price passed for three touchdowns and rushed for another in one half of play as the host Huskies routed the FCS Bengals.
Washington (3-0) scored three touchdowns in each of the first two quarters and finished with 680 offensive yards while winning its opening three games for the first time since 2001. Idaho State (2-1) had just 164 yards and lost its 40th consecutive road game dating to a 2006 victory over Northern Colorado.
Bishop Sankey, the nationกฏs leader in rushing yards per game, gained 77 yards and scored a touchdown on four first-quarter carries in the one-sided matchup before calling it a day. Price was 16-of-21 for 213 yards before exiting.
Washington began the assault with short first-quarter rushing touchdowns from Sankey, Jesse Callier and Price. The second quarter featured three scoring passes from Price จC a 1-yarder to Joshua Perkins, a 6-yard aerial to Austin Seferian-Jenkins and a 5-yard toss to Dwayne Washington.
Backup quarterback Cyler Miles threw a 57-yard touchdown pass to John Ross midway through the third quarter to increase the margin to 49 and Deontae Cooper added a 4-yard scoring run on the first play of the final quarter.
GAME NOTEBOOK: Huskies MLB John Timu, the teamกฏs leading tackler, sat out with a shoulder injury. กญ Idaho State has lost 19 straight games against FBS programs since beating Utah State in 2000. กญ Sankey, a junior, went over 2,000 career yards before departing. His total stands at 2,072.