Boise State junior working again Ashton Jeanty retains constructing on his season-long Heisman Trophy marketing campaign and nonetheless owns the highest odds to win it, per BetMGM. And he had one other standout efficiency late Saturday within the No. 17 Broncos’ 28-7 highway win towards Hawai’i.
Jeanty ran for 217 yards and a landing on 31 carries, together with 20 receiving yards and one other landing, towards the Rainbow Warriors. It was his third time breaking 200 dashing yards this season, and if he retains it up, he may do greater than contend for the Heisman, assist his staff get to a Mountain West Convention title and combat for a School Soccer Playoff spot.
Jeanty entered Week 7’s sport towards Hawai’i on tempo to interrupt two Barry Sanders data from 1988 and his days with the Oklahoma State Cowboys: the single-season dashing complete of two,628 yards and 37 single-season dashing touchdowns. And he’s nonetheless on observe after Saturday, but it surely gained’t be simple.
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Via 5 video games after Boise State’s Week 6 win over Utah State, Jeanty had 1,031 dashing yards on 95 carries for 16 touchdowns.
After the Broncos topped Hawai’i on Saturday, Jeanty now has 1,248 complete dashing yards this season with 126 carries and 17 touchdowns. He’s averaging 9.9 yards per carry.
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The reward Jeanty will get is so effectively deserved as he continues to impress.
“Ashton is an elite human being and one of the best soccer participant within the nation,” Broncos coach Spencer Danielson mentioned, through Boise’s CBS affiliate. “He’s a generational expertise, each on and off the sphere, and among the finest leaders I’ve ever been round.”
Jeanty is now 1,380 dashing yards and 20 touchdowns away from Sanders’ single-season data.
Boise State has six remaining regular-season video games and — barring a Broncos meltdown of epic proportions — it’ll certainly have at the very least a bowl sport, if not a spot within the School Soccer Playoff.
To interrupt Sanders’ dashing yards and dashing touchdowns data within the common season, Jeanty must common 230.17 yards and three.5 touchdowns per sport. Solely twice thus far this season has he completed with fewer than three touchdowns.
To interrupt Sanders’ data with the assistance of a convention title or bowl sport, Jeanty must common 197.29 yards and three touchdowns per sport for the remainder of the yr. Once more, not simple, however a star like Jeanty may pull it off.
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Other than Hawai’i, Jeanty has had two different video games with greater than 200 yards on the bottom: first working for 267 yards towards Georgia Southern (with six touchdowns) after which placing up 259 yards towards Washington State (with 4 touchdowns).
Even in Boise State’s lone loss thus far this season — a 37-34 heartbreaker towards Oregon in Week 2 — Jeanty nonetheless completed with 192 dashing yards and three touchdowns on 25 carries.
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