Oct. 4, 2003
Recap?|? Final Stats
SAN DIEGO -
POSTGAME NOTES -
Brigham Young at San Diego State
Saturday, October 4, 2003
(Qualcomm Stadium/San Diego, Calif.)
Final Score: BYU 44, SDSU 36
With the loss, the Aztecs fell to 6-21-1 all-time against the Cougars ... BYU has won each of the last three meetings between the two schools and owns a four-game winning streak in San Diego ... the loss is just SDSU's second in five MWC openers with the only other setback coming in 1999 against Air Force (23-22) ... the two sides combined for 80 points, the seventh time the schools have scored 80 or more points in the 28-game all-time history ... BYU and SDSU have combined for exactly 80 points three times, including tonight.
Aztec split end Jeff Webb had a career night versus BYU. Webb caught the first three career TD's of his career, had the longest reception of his career (70 yards) and easily beat his previous career game high for receiving yards (71 vs. Eastern Washington, 2003) with 253. The 10 catches match his previous career high after also tallying 10 against the Eagles in the season-opener.
Webb becomes the 11th different Aztec in program history to have over 200 yards receiving in a game, while it is the 18th time an SDSU player has gone over the 200-yard milestone. Webb's 253 yards receiving ranks eighth in SDSU single-game history and is the top single-game total in 2003 by a NCAA Div. I player entering tonight's game (Okla. St.'s Rashaun Woods - 13-232, 7TDs vs. SMU).
The 253 yards is the most by an Aztec since J.R. Tolver had 296 yards on 12 catches against Arizona State in 2002. Webb's yardage total eclipses any Aztec receiver's season total entering tonight's game (Devin Pitts had 195 yards in 2003 prior to tonight). Webb also had three receptions for over 40 yards against BYU (70 yards, 55 yards, 42 yards).
The 352 yards passing is a season-high for the Aztecs (prev. 234 vs. Samford) and Adam Hall's sixth career game with over 300 yards passing.
With Brook Miller's 44-yard fumble return for a touchdown, San Diego State has been the first team to score in each of its last eight games, dating back to the 49-21 loss to Colorado State on November 15, 2002.
Brook Miller's fumble return for a touchdown is the Aztec defense's first since Sept. 5, 1998, when Jerome Haywood returned a fumble nine yards for a TD at Wisconsin.
For the sixth straight game, the Aztec defense held its opponent off the scoreboard on its opening possession of the game. In 2003, SDSU has allowed just two first downs and 20 total yards on its opponents' opening drives (0 FD, 9 yards vs. EWU; 0 FD, 0 yards at Ohio State; 1 FD, 6 yards at UTEP; 1 FD, 12 yards vs. Samford; 0 FD, -2 yards at UCLA; 0 FD, -5 yards vs. BYU).
BYU's first-quarter touchdown marks the first time SDSU has allowed a first-quarter score by an opponent this season since the Ohio State game on Sept. 6 (No 1st quarter pts. vs. UTEP, Samford, UCLA).
The Aztec defense's streak of not allowing a rushing touchdown this season came to an end in the first quarter when BYU's John Beck scored from four yards out. SDSU had entered tonight's game as the only NCAA Division I-A team to have not allowed a rushing TD in 2003.
Jeff Webb's 70-yard touchdown reception from Adam Hall in the first quarter is SDSU's longest offensive play of the season ... the 70-yard pass is the Aztecs' longest pass play since J.R. Tolver threw 87 yards to Kassim Osgood in the 2002 season finale versus Hawai'i ... the 70-yard pass by Hall ties as his longest of his career (70-yard TD to Osgood versus Idaho in 2002).
Reynaldo Brathwaite's 95-yard TD giving BYU the 21-14 lead in the second quarter, marked the first time SDSU has trailed at home this season, a span of 142 minutes and 20 seconds.
SDSU placekicker J.C. Mejia is now 9-for-11 on field-goal opportunities this season. Mejia's only two misses of the season have come from over 50 yards (51-yard miss vs. UTEP, 54-yard blocked vs. BYU), making him 8-for-8 on field goal attempts under 50 yards. Mejia has made at least one field goal in all six games this season.
With points in every quarter, SDSU has now scored in 21 of 24 quarters this season. In fact, dating back to 2002, SDSU has now scored in 27 of 30 quarters.
BYU notes - Brigham Young's point total tonight is a season high, beating the previous high of 24 points against Georgia Tech in the opener.
With John Beck's touchdown in the first quarter, BYU extended its NCAA-record streak to 356 games without being shutout ... the four-yard score was BYU's first rushing touchdown in 30 quarters, dating back to its game with Wyoming in 2002.
SDSU's touchdown just 54 seconds into the game was the fastest score by a BYU opponent since Hawai'i scored in just 23 seconds in 2001.
BYU's Brett Cooper returned the opening kick-off 49 yards, the team's longest kick-off return since 2001.
BYU's Naufahu Tahi's 35-yard touchdown in the second quarter is his first TD in nearly four years, dating back to Oct. 16, 1999, against New Mexico. Tahi, a sophomore, spent two of those seasons on a church mission.
The 95-yard touchdown run by BYU's Reynaldo Brathwaite is the longest run in school history and ties as the longest run in MWC history (Nate Scott, Jr. of Wyoming vs. Central Michigan on Sept. 16, 2000).