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BOZEMAN, Mont. -- - Tommy Mellott threw for 300 yards and four touchdowns and top-seeded Montana State tied a school record with its 13th straight win, dominating Tennessee-Martin 49-17 last Saturday in the second round of the FCS playoffs.
Scottre Humphrey ran for 102 yards and a touchdown, one of three rushing touchdowns for the Bobcats (13-0), who are home Friday night against Big Sky rival Idaho.
MSU, which has scored at least 30 points in every game this season, won 13 games in 1975-76.
Mellott threw for 178 yards and three touchdowns in the first half and the Bobcats rolled to a 28-10 lead.
Mellott had touchdown passes of 24 yards to Hunter Provience and 12 yards to Taco Dowler in the first quarter and 39 yards to Ty McCullouch in the second. McCullouch also had a 6-yard touchdown run. The pass to McCullouch ended a six-play, 73-yard drive that took just 53 seconds, and came immediately after Trevonte Rucker took a pass from Kinkead Dent 78 yards to the end zone that made it 21-10.
The Bobcats only allowed only 10 total points in the first half of home games in the regular season.
Humphrey had a 36-yard TD run and Mellott hit Dowler for a 29-yard score in the third quarter Adam Jones contributed a 30-yard scoring run in the fourth.
Mellott finished 22-of-25 passing and the Bobcats had 501 total yards.
Dent threw for 167 yards and two touchdowns, both to Rucker, who had six receptions for 107 yards. The Skyhawks (9-6) finished with 264 yards.
The Bobcats play Idaho at 7 p.m. this Saturday at Bobcat Stadium in Bozeman. The game can be seen on ESPN.
Griz lose to Jackrabbits
ByAP
BROOKINGS, S.D. -- - Mark Gronowski ran for two touchdowns and passed for two more and two-time defending national champion South Dakota State dominated No. 14 Montana 35-18 in a second-round FCS playoff game on Saturday.
While Gronowski was leading an offense that piled up 399 yards, the third-seeded Jackrabbits' defense held the 14th-seeded Grizzlies to 306 yards - but 160 came on two fourth-quarter touchdown drives after the lead reached 35-3. Adam Bock contributed a 30-yard interception return in the fourth quarter.
South Dakota State (11-2), which beat Montana 23-3 in the national championship game in January, is home next weekend against sixth-seed Incarnate Word (11-2).
Gronowski was 12-of-16 passing for 151 yards. He hit Griffin Wilde for a pair of touchdowns covering 34 and 24 yards in the second quarter and scored on a pair of 1-yard sneaks in the first and fourth. He also had a 21-yard reception to set up his first quarter run that put the Jackrabbits on top 7-3.
Wilde had seven catches for 114 yards. Amar Johnson had 103 yards on 16 carries and Angel Johnson totaled 91 yards on 13 rushes.
Keali'i Ah Yat was 19 of 32 for 231 yards but had two critical interceptions for Montana (9-5). In addition to the pick-6, Tucker Large had a goal-line interception when the Grizzlies could have pulled within four points. The Jackrabbits were 7 of 12 on third down, while the Grizzlies went 5 of 13 - 2 of 9 through three quarters.
The Grizzlies, who graduate 26 seniors, finished the season 9-5 and wound up just fifth in the Big Sky after being picked to win the league championship back in August.
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