Ervin leads San Jose State past Fresno State, 49-23

Head coach Tim DeRuyter will be available for comments after the game.

“I’ve been around teams that started off slow and bounced back”, he said.

San Jose State is a slight favorite although starting quarterback Kenny Potter might not play because of an ankle sprain.

Tyler Ervin, who had never carried the football more than 22 times in a game, lugged it 42 times.

Ervin rushed 42 times and scored three touchdowns to break Nathan Dupree’s mark of 286 yards at UNLV in 1992. He was taken to a hospital after the team arrived back in Fresno.

They have not run the ball particularly well yet, either.

San Jose State (2-2, 1-1) posted its first Mountain West Conference victory after losing its conference opener and has won three of its last four against Fresno State (1-3, 0-1).

Ervin has the nation’s top single-game rushing and all-purpose running effort in 2015. He was sacked six times in the game.

It hasn’t always been that way. This was Ervin’s second three touchdown game of the season, as he accomplished the feat against New Hampshire in the season’s opening week. Greenlee was arrested for public drunkeness just hours after Virgil was injured and did not play in the game against San Jose State. “Our guys were able to put our past two losses behind us and execute”.

“If you are looking to pass you might run more than you would”, he said. “We got hit in a blitz or two that was something we thought should be effective, but we didn’t execute it well”.

Greenlee is expected to start next week against San Diego State, according to the Fresno Bee.

Just read this the market, it’s going be the one to fail. His third touchdown came on the Spartans’ first second half possession – a 30-yard burst through the Fresno State defense.

The Bulldogs gave the Spartans a scare during the third quarter after back-to-back scoring drives. Instead of biting on the fake, not one, but two San Jose State defenders snuffed out the play and were about to tackle Jamire Jordan nine yards behind the line of scrimmage.

Ervin’s career-defining performance overshadowed another outstanding offensive game, as senior quarterback Joe Gray picked apart the Bulldogs’ defense throughout the night.