Sept. 26, 2004
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FINAL SCORE: SDSU 27 Nevada 10
Nevada At San Diego State
Saturday, Sept. 25, 2004
Qualcomm Stadium/San Diego, Calif.
With the SDSU victory: San Diego State has won five of its last seven games dating back to last season. That is the best seven-game mark for SDSU since posting a similar seven-game mark from Oct. 24, 1998 through Sept. 4, 1999 ...San Diego State is 2-0 at home this season and has won four straight games at Qualcomm Stadium. The four-game home field winning streak is the longest since claiming five straight in 1998-99 (last four home games of '98 and first game of '99). From the end of the five-game winning streak in 1999, until the current four-game winning streak, the Aztecs were 7-17 at Qualcomm ... San Diego State is 2-1 after the first three games of the season for the second consecutive season. The last time SDSU had a winning record after the first three games of consecutive seasons was 1993 and 1994.
More SDSU Victory notes: San Diego State will enter the Oct. 2 game with UCLA with a 3-1 record, two games above .500. It will mark the latest date on the calendar the Aztecs have been two game above .500 since ending the 1998 campaign with a 7-5 record. Since the 1998 season, SDSU has only owned a two-game above .500 record on one occasion, last season when SDSU entered the UCLA game with an identical 3-1 mark. That game was played on Sept. 27 ... SDSU evened the all-time series with Nevada at 2-2, winning each of the last two contests (both in San Diego).
With tonight's attendance of 33,429, SDSU has surpassed the 30,000 mark in back-to-back home contests for the first time since the 1999 season. SDSU drew 30,508 versus New Mexico (Oct. 9, 1999) and 40,836 fans against Brigham Young (Nov. 6, 1999).
SDSU linebacker Kirk Morrison became just the fourth player in SDSU history to record more than 300 career tackles. Morrison, who tallied his 13th career game in double-figure tackles, now has 308 tackles in his career to rank fourth in the Aztec record books. Morrison's 15 tackles tonight matches his career high (15 vs. BYU in 2003, vs. Utah in 2001), while he had a career best for most solo tackles in a game with 10 (prev. nine at Hawai'I).
SDSU Career Total Tackles Record Book1. Whip Walton 407 2. Rico Curtis 355 3. Jason Moore 328 4. Kirk Morrison 308
With nine catches for 101 yards tonight, SDSU's Jeff Webb has at least one reception in each of his last 13 outings and at least two catches in his last nine games. Webb also recorded his fourth career game with 100 or more yards receiving and his second straight of the year.
Aztec running back Michael Franklin ran for 100 yards on 23 carries, his fourth game with 100 or more yards on the ground in his last five outings.
With his pair of touchdown passes tonight and five on the year, SDSU quarterback Matt Dlugolecki has already exceeded his season and career total of four from 2003.
With his pair of picks tonight, Marviel Underwood became the sixth Aztec to intercept at least one pass this season. The Aztecs already have eight INTs in 2004, including two each by Underwood and fellow safety Josh Dean. The last time an Aztec intercepted two or more passes in a game was Sept. 13, 2003, when Jacob Elimimian had two at Texas El-Paso. Underwood now has seven career INTs.
Garrett Palmer converted his longest career field goal of 50 yards with 3:33 left in the first half. Palmer's 50-yarder marks the second straight season in which an SDSU kicker has converted on an attempt of 50 yards or greater (J.C. had a 51-yarder at Colorado State in 2003).
The Aztec defense kept Nevada off the scoreboard in the first quarter, marking the fifth time in the last six games that an SDSU opponent has failed to score in the first quarter. Aztec opponents have also gone scoreless in the first 15-minute period in six of the last seven and 10 of the last 13 outings dating back to the 2003 campaign ... SDSU has only given up three second-quarter points in three games this year.
SDSU opponents have failed to score a first-half touchdown in each of the Aztecs' last four home games. The last time an opponent scored a first-half touchdown at Qualcomm was Oct. 18, vs. New Mexico. During that span, SDSU has outscored its opponents 63-9 in the first half.
SDSU has led at the half in each of its three games this season. The last time the Aztecs were ahead at the half in three straight games was in 1998 (Nov. 7 - Nov. 21), when SDSU led UTEP 21-17, were up on San Jose State 21-0 and blanked Fresno State 10-0.
On Fourth Down: SDSU converted on a trio of fourth downs in the first quarter on fourth and inches, fourth and eight and fourth and one. Both of the latter conversions led to SDSU touchdowns. For the season, SDSU is now 5-for-8 on fourth-down conversions (63 percent).
Nevada entered tonight's game ranked 17th nationally in scoring offense with 39.3 points per game. The Wolf Pack had scored 21 or more points in each of their first three games.
The Aztecs have scored 21 or more points in four straight games, including the season finale with Air Force a year ago. The last time SDSU turned that trick was in 1999 (Sept. 18 - Oct. 9).
Other Aztec notes: SDSU put together a pair of 12-play scoring drives in the first quarter, the team's longest in terms of number of plays in 2004 ... the 81-yard drive capped by Brandon Bornes' TD matched the Aztecs' season long drive, tying the three-play, 81-yard drive at Michigan ... Brandon Bornes' 35-yard run for a TD in the first quarter is the longest run of his SDSU career ... Sophomore Ramal Porter caught his first career TD in the fourth quarter ... The Aztecs had a player record three sacks in a game for the second consecutive outing (Blake Lobel had 3 vs. Michigan; Heath Farwell had 3 vs. Nevada).