Senior running back Rashaad Penny rushed 24 times for 222 yards (9.2 avg.) with two touchdowns, caught a 6-yard pass, returned two kicks for 131 yards (65.5 avg.), including a 100-yard touchdown, and returned a punt 70 yards for a touchdown.
Penny totaled 429 all-purpose yards, tied for the ninth most in a game in NCAA FBS history. His 429 all-purpose yards broke Marshall Faulk’s San Diego State record of 422 vs. Pacific on Sept. 14, 1991.
Penny became just the second FBS player since at least 1996 with a rushing touchdown, kick return touchdown and punt return touchdown in the same game (also Missouri’s Marcus Murphy vs. Florida on Oct. 18, 2014) and the only player since 1996 with two rushing touchdowns, one kick return touchdown and one punt return touchdown.
Penny recorded his seventh kick return touchdown in school history, tying Clemson’s C.J. Spiller (2006-09) and Houston’s Tyron Carrier (2008-11) for the most in NCAA FBS history. It was his fourth career 100-yard kick return for touchdown, one shy of tying an NCAA FBS record.
Penny became just the second player in FBS this season with a rushing touchdown, receiving touchdown, kick return touchdown and punt return touchdown (also TCU’s KaVontae Turpin).
Penny became the first Aztec in program history with at least 200 yards rushing in three consecutive games, the first by an NCAA FBS player since LSU’s Leonard Fournette in 2015 and tied for the fifth-longest streak since at least 1996.
In the San Diego State record book, he is now ranked first in SDSU single-season history in all-purpose yards (2,462) and fourth in rushing yards (1,824). He remained fifth all-time at San Diego State with 3,232 rushing yards.
Credits:
Ernie Anderson, Derrick Tuskan