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INGLEWOOD — Years from now, Utah State volition beryllium the reply to a trivia question astir who won the archetypal assemblage shot crippled played astatine SoFi Stadium.
Utah State bushed Oregon State 24-13 connected Saturday successful beforehand of 29,896 astatine the inaugural Jimmy Kimmel LA Bowl.
Led by backup backmost Cooper Legas — who entered the crippled successful the 2nd 4th aft an evident wounded to starter Logan Bonner — Utah State finished the play tied for a schoolhouse grounds with 11 wins and 2 wins implicit Power 5 opponents.
Legas, a sophomore who entered the time without a walk effort successful his career, came into the crippled and instantly changed that. Legas was knocked down, but not earlier releasing a 62-yard onslaught to Deven Thompkins for a touchdown. Thompkins streaked past Oregon State’s Jaydon Grant down the near sideline and past coasted into the extremity portion to necktie the crippled astatine 7-7.
Legas completed 11-of-20 passes for 171 yards, making a beardown lawsuit to perchance vie for the starting occupation adjacent season. Thompkins finished with six catches for 115 yards and acceptable the single-season schoolhouse grounds with 101 receptions.
Legas’ 2nd touchdown walk went to Brandon Bowling precocious successful the 3rd quarter, uncovering the unfastened wide receiver connected a 5-yard onslaught to grow the Utah State pb to 24-10.
Oregon State scored little than a infinitesimal into the crippled connected a 20-yard tally by Jesiah Irish, capping disconnected a speedy three-play, 71-yard opening drive.
But the Aggies soon took power of the game, clamping down connected a potent Oregon State offense. In the 4th quarter, the Utah State defence — led by Nick Heniger, who had a vocation precocious 3 sacks and 5 tackles for nonaccomplishment — forced a fumble, an interception and a turnover connected downs to support a double-digit lead.
Utah State took a 14-7 pb into halftime connected a 15-yard rushing touchdown by Calvin Tyler Jr.
This was the archetypal assemblage shot crippled played astatine SoFi Stadium and the archetypal vessel to beryllium named aft a surviving figure.
Kimmel, who welcomed some teams to a taping of his amusement during the week, made respective cameos connected the field. He attempted to play the clarinet with the Oregon State band, past was joined by his sidekick, Guillermo, and the game’s mascot, “Jimmy Kammel” connected the field.
The urinals successful the men’s bathrooms astatine SoFi Stadium had Matt Damon’s look connected them, a motion to Kimmel’s long-running feud with the movie star.
The Pac-12 ends the play 5-6 against the Mountain West league and falls to 13-13 all-time against the Mountain West successful vessel games. Utah State besides bushed Washington State 26-23 successful September successful Pullman.
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