The University of San Diego\u2019s football team put up 63 points last week, a high-water mark for an offense that\u2019s struggled to start the 2026 season.<\/p>\n
The Toreros\u2019 offense took a step back in Saturday\u2019s 41-10 to Butler in a Pioneer Football League matchup played in Indianapolis.<\/p>\n
In the first half, USD (2-4, 1-2 PFL) threw an interception and had consecutive drives end with turnovers on downs. One was a fourth-and-4 just from Butler\u2019s 38-yard line, just outside of field goal range for Emiliano Salazar; the other was a fourth-and-goal from the 2-yard line.<\/p>\n
USD quarterback Dom Nankil completed 28 of 42 passes for 295 yards but threw two picks. The senior quarterback salvaged his afternoon with a 30-yard touchdown pass to Omar Mbakwe. Mbakwe totaled nine carries for 12 yards as the Toreros only recorded 13 rushing yards compared to 262 rushing yards by the Bulldogs (5-1, 2-0).<\/p>\n
Elijah Taylor and Yosei Takahashi led the way for the Toreros with six catches each. Cole Monach logged five receptions for 79 yards.<\/p>\n
Butler was led by Sam Manna, who logged nine carries for 151 yards, including a 73-yard touchdown to open the scoring with 10:06 left in the opening quarter. Desmin Jackson also ran the ball nine times and totaled 44 yards, including scoring a 22-yard touchdown to extend Butler\u2019s lead to 17-3 with 12:50 left in the second.<\/p>\n
Bulldogs quarterback Gabe Passini completed 11 of 16 passes for 217 yards while carrying the ball 12 times for 56 yards and three touchdowns.<\/p>\n
USD returns to Torero Stadium next Saturday, where they\u2019ll host Valparaiso at 1 p.m.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The University of San Diego\u2019s football team put up 63 points last week, a high-water mark for an…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":491982,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[1327,181,74,76,75,127,3425],"class_list":["post-491981","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-diego","tag-college-sports","tag-latest-headlines","tag-san-diego","tag-san-diego-headlines","tag-san-diego-news","tag-sports","tag-toreros"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/491981","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=491981"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/491981\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/491982"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=491981"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=491981"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=491981"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}