{"id":477421,"date":"2026-09-27T14:00:08","date_gmt":"2026-09-27T14:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/477421\/"},"modified":"2026-09-27T14:00:08","modified_gmt":"2026-09-27T14:00:08","slug":"umass-beats-sacramento-state-35-6-to-move-to-4-0","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/477421\/","title":{"rendered":"UMass beats Sacramento State 35-6 to move to 4-0"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) \u2014 William \u2018Pop\u2019 Watson III threw a touchdown pass and ran for two more scores to lead Massachusetts to a 35-6 victory over Sacramento State on Saturday night.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Watson was 11-of-16 passing for 101 yards and he carried the ball seven times for 72 yards for UMass in their Mid-American Conference opener. The Minutemen are 4-0 for the first time since 2007.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">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 Max Dowling gave the Minutemen a 21-6 lead heading into the break.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">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=\"text | article-text\">Sharman was 24-of-43 passing for 221 yards for Sacramento State (1-4, 0-2).<\/p>\n<p>Up next<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">UMass: Hosts Eastern Michigan on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Sacramento State: At Bowling Green on Oct. 10.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2026 The Associated Press. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) \u2014 William \u2018Pop\u2019 Watson III threw a touchdown pass and ran for two more scores&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":477422,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[949,121,123,122,5481,96177],"class_list":["post-477421","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sacramento","tag-football","tag-sacramento","tag-sacramento-headlines","tag-sacramento-news","tag-sacramento-state","tag-umass"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/477421","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=477421"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/477421\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/477422"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=477421"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=477421"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=477421"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}