{"id":477369,"date":"2026-09-27T12:22:09","date_gmt":"2026-09-27T12:22:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/477369\/"},"modified":"2026-09-27T12:22:09","modified_gmt":"2026-09-27T12:22:09","slug":"umass-football-4-0-after-35-6-win-at-sacramento-state","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/477369\/","title":{"rendered":"umass football 4-0 after 35-6 win at sacramento state"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph | gutter_20_0\">SACRAMENTO, Calif. \u2014 Piloting the UMass football program to its first 4-0 start since 2007, Pop Watson threw a touchdown pass and ran for two more scores to power the Minuteman to a 35-6 victory over Sacramento State Saturday night.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph | gutter_20_0\">Watson was 11-of-16 passing for 101 yards and he carried the ball seven times for 72 yards for UMass in its Mid-American Conference opener. <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph | gutter_20_0\">Watson capped the Minutemen\u2019s opening drive with a 13-yard touchdown run, and his 32-yard TD run made it 14-3 early in the second quarter. Watson\u2019s 7-yard touchdown pass to tight end Max Dowling gave the Minutemen a 21-6 lead heading into the break.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph | gutter_20_0\">Timmy Hinspeter intercepted a Jackson Sharmann pass and returned the ball 49 yards into the end zone to stretch the Minutemen\u2019s lead to 28-6 early in the third quarter. Kezion Dia-Johnson ended the scoring with a 3-yard touchdown run.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph | gutter_20_0\">Sharman was 24-of-43 passing for 221 yards for Sacramento State (1-4, 0-2).<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph | gutter_20_0\">UMass hosts Eastern Michigan Saturday at McGuirk Stadium.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SACRAMENTO, Calif. \u2014 Piloting the UMass football program to its first 4-0 start since 2007, Pop Watson threw&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":477370,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[1321,1327,949,121,123,122,127,96177],"class_list":["post-477369","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sacramento","tag-college-football","tag-college-sports","tag-football","tag-sacramento","tag-sacramento-headlines","tag-sacramento-news","tag-sports","tag-umass"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/477369","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=477369"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/477369\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/477370"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=477369"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=477369"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=477369"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}