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SALT LAKE CITY On paper, Dixie State shouldn t be competitive with any team in the Football Bowl Subdivision.
A newcomer to the Football Championship Subdivision a year removed from their last season in Division II, the Trailblazers 63 full scholarships haven t even seen the ink dry on all of them by the start of the truncated spring season.
Compare it to the 85 scholarship limit of any FBS team, and its easy to see why any bigger school even New Mexico State, the Trailblazers opponent Sunday would have an advantage. It s the reason why, while they do happen, upsets between the two sides are rare.
EL PASO, Texas (AP) â Jonah Johnson rushed for two first downs to keep a final drive alive and Juwan Price scored the winning touchdown from 13 yards out as New Mexico State won a see-saw battle with Division I newcomer Dixie State 35-29 on Sunday.
Price took a handoff straight up the middle, finishing with 165 yards on 20 carries for the Aggies (1-1). Johnson finished with 171 yards passing and picked up 28 of his 53-yards rushing on the game-winning drive.
Where New Mexico State may have been thunder, pounding out 329 yards on the ground, Dixie State (1-1) was lightning, coming from eight points down into a 29-29 tie in a single play from scrimmage.
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The Jazz were well-represented in Atlanta. Mitchell, who played for Team Durant, had 15 points, four rebounds and four assists in 28 minutes; Rudy Gobert had 10 points and seven rebounds in 13 minutes for Team LeBron; and Mike Conley, who made his long-awaited All-Star debut, had 3 points and two assists in 12 minutes for Team Durant.
Freshman Quali Conley poured in 193 all-purpose yards and two touchdowns to lead the Trailblazers (1-1), including 95 yards and a touchdown on the ground. The 6-foot, 190-pounder from Fresno, California, also broke free for a 75-yard touchdown from quarterback Kody Wilstead with 5:52 remaining that tied the game at 29-29 after a 2-point conversion.
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New Mexico State’s Juwan Price, with the ball, gains yardage Sunday against Dixie State during the Aggies’ win at the Sun Bowl in El Paso. (NMSU Athletics)
EL PASO – Jonah Johnson rushed for two first downs to keep a final drive alive and Juwan Price scored the winning touchdown from 13 yards out in the closing seconds as New Mexico State won a see-saw battle with Division I newcomer Dixie State 35-29 on Sunday at the Sun Bowl.
After being the lone Football Subdivision team in the nation not to play at all last fall, the win concludes NMSU’s brief spring season at 1-1. It came two weeks after a 43-17 loss to Tarleton State, after which Aggies coach Doug Martin promised the team would rebound.