{"id":519104,"date":"2026-11-05T05:06:09","date_gmt":"2026-11-05T05:06:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/519104\/"},"modified":"2026-11-05T05:06:09","modified_gmt":"2026-11-05T05:06:09","slug":"toledo-leans-on-ground-game-to-hold-off-sacramento-state-20-17","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/519104\/","title":{"rendered":"Toledo leans on ground game to hold off Sacramento State 20-17"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP)  CJ Miller ran for 135 yards, Autavius Ison had 101 yards and a touchdown, and <a class=\"Annotation-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cbssports.com\/college-football\/teams\/TOLEDO\/toledo-rockets\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Toledo<\/a> defeated <a class=\"Annotation-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cbssports.com\/college-football\/teams\/SACST\/sacramento-state-hornets\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Sacramento State<\/a> 20-17 on Wednesday night.<\/p>\n<p>The Rockets (7-2, 4-1 Mid-American Conference) climbed into a tie for second-place and remain in the running for the MAC championship game.<\/p>\n<p>After trailing 10-7 at halftime, the Rockets scored 13 points in the second half. Ison scored on a 19-yard run late in the third quarter and Reice Griffith kicked two field goals.<\/p>\n<p>Toledo led 20-10 deep into the fourth quarter. Sacramento State&#8217;s Jamar Curtis scored on a 3-yard run that capped off a 12-play, 75-yard drive but it left only two minutes on the clock. The Hornets got the ball back at their own 16-yard line with 55 seconds remaining but they gained only a few yards before being stopped on fourth down.<\/p>\n<p>Quarterbacks Jackson Sharman and Brian Salazar Jr. combined for 216 yards passing for Sacramento State (2-8, 1-6) but the Hornets had only eight yards rushing.<\/p>\n<p>John Alan Richter passed for only 60 yards for Toledo and the Rockets had a total of 230 yards rushing.<\/p>\n<p>Sacramento State honored Native American Heritage Day by wearing uniforms specially created in consultation with the Wilton Rancheria tribe.<\/p>\n<p>It was Senior Day for Sacramento State and the team recognized 27 seniors before the final home game of the season.<\/p>\n<p>Toledo: vs. UMass on Nov. 11.<\/p>\n<p>Sacramento State: at Central Michigan on Nov. 11. &#8212;<\/p>\n<p>Sign up for Top 25 poll alerts here, visit the Top 25 here and see AP\u2019s full college football coverage here<\/p>\n<p class=\"StatsincCopyright\">\n    Copyright 2026 STATS LLC and Associated Press. Any commercial use or distribution without the express written consent of STATS LLC and Associated Press is strictly prohibited.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) CJ Miller ran for 135 yards, Autavius Ison had 101 yards and a touchdown, and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":519105,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[1321,121,123,122,17685,13609],"class_list":["post-519104","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sacramento","tag-college-football","tag-sacramento","tag-sacramento-headlines","tag-sacramento-news","tag-sacramento-state-hornets","tag-toledo-rockets"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/519104","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=519104"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/519104\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/519105"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=519104"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=519104"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=519104"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}