{"id":477209,"date":"2026-09-27T07:10:12","date_gmt":"2026-09-27T07:10:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/477209\/"},"modified":"2026-09-27T07:10:12","modified_gmt":"2026-09-27T07:10:12","slug":"rice-falls-to-fresno-state-38-24","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/477209\/","title":{"rendered":"Rice Falls To Fresno State, 38-24"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>                    &#13;<br \/>\n                        Story Links&#13;<br \/>\n                        &#13;<\/p>\n<p data-path-to-node=\"0\">FRESNO, Calif. \u2014 Rayshon Luke rushed for 167 yards and a touchdown, including a game-clinching 52-yard score in the fourth quarter, as Fresno State pulled away for a 38-24 victory over Rice on Saturday night at Valley Children&#8217;s Stadium.<\/p>\n<p data-path-to-node=\"1\">Jayden Mandal passed for 210 yards and three touchdowns for Fresno State (3-1), which scored 24 second-half points to erase a halftime deficit and secure its second home win of the season.<\/p>\n<p data-path-to-node=\"2\">Rice (1-3) seized early momentum when Ben Grice ripped off an 88-yard touchdown run in the first quarter. Grice finished with 109 yards on seven carries, while quarterback Jacurri Brown added 141 rushing yards and a touchdown on 19 carries. Brown also threw a touchdown pass but threw one interception and lost a fumble.<\/p>\n<p data-path-to-node=\"3\">The Owls led 17-14 at halftime after an Enock Gota field goal late in the second quarter.<\/p>\n<p data-path-to-node=\"4\">Fresno State dominated the third quarter to take control. Mandal threw touchdown passes to Jahlil McClain and Ezekiel Avit, giving the Bulldogs a 24-17 advantage entering the final period. Julius Gillick added a short touchdown run in the fourth quarter before Luke sealed the win with his 52-yard burst down the sideline with 7:37 remaining.<\/p>\n<p data-path-to-node=\"5\">Mandal finished 17-of-31 passing, connecting with Josiah Freeman six times for 66 yards and a touchdown. The Bulldogs produced 459 total yards and didn&#8217;t commit a turnover.<\/p>\n<p data-path-to-node=\"6\">Rice racked up 344 yards on the ground but was hindered by two second-half turnovers and failed to slow down Fresno State&#8217;s big plays down the stretch.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#13; Story Links&#13; &#13; FRESNO, Calif. \u2014 Rayshon Luke rushed for 167 yards and a touchdown, including a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":477210,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[112,114,113],"class_list":["post-477209","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fresno","tag-fresno","tag-fresno-headlines","tag-fresno-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/477209","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=477209"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/477209\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/477210"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=477209"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=477209"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=477209"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}