Colorado State at Nevada: Final Figures and Statistics

Stat(s) of the game: Nevada gained 631 total yards of offense; Colin Kaepernick threw for 241 yards while rushing for 161, thereby accounting for 402 of those 631 yards.

	1	2	3	4	T
CSU	3	0	3	0	6
NEV	17	17	7	10	51

Team Stat Comparison

	Colorado St	Nevada
1st Downs	18	33
3rd down efficiency	4-14	11-13
4th down efficiency	0-4	0-0
Total Yards	272	631
Passing	194	255
Comp-Att	23-36	23-33
Yards per pass	5.4	7.7
Rushing	78	376
Rushing Attempts	31	46
Yards per rush	2.5	8.2
Penalties	1-10	4-30
Turnovers	1	0
Fumbles lost	0	0
Interceptions thrown	1	0
Possession	26:46	33:14

Stats courtesy of espn.com

It was not all that long ago that Colorado State was a Top 25 team; oh, how the mighty have fallen.

The Wolf Pack defense made some significant strides in this game; granted the level of competition presented by the opponent is not nearly as telling as the next game will be, but we saw the defense getting more aggressive: they actually wrapped up the ball carriers and came up big when they needed to (CSU was 4-14 on 3rd down, and 0-4 on 4th).

They allowed Pete Thomas to complete 63.8% of his pass attempts, so they still have some work to do in the 'attack' department, but they did hold Thomas to 194 total yards, averaging 5.4 yards per reception.

Conversely, they allowed only 78 yards on 31 rushing attempts for an average of 2.5 yards; Nevada allowed only two rushes for more than ten yards, a 17-yard run by Chris Nwoke, and a 13-yard rush by Raymond Carter.

On the offensive side, Colin Kaepernick completed 21 of 29 attempts for 241 yards (avg. 8.3 YPC); Tyler Lantrip added 14 yards on 2 completions out of 3 attempts for 14 yards.  Together they accounted for 255 yards through the air.

Kaep would add another 161 yards on 11 carries, averaging 14.6 yards per carry, single-handedly accounting for 402 yards of offense out of 631.

Special teams didn't have too many opportunities to show their stuff, although they did allow some frightening returns.  Still, this is two games in a row where they managed to avoid fumbling kick/punt returns, so that can be taken as a victory in and of itself.

Nevada kicked off 10 times: of those ten, only four went into the end zone, and of those 4 only one went for a touchback.  Of the 9 kicks returned by the Rams only one was returned for fewer than 20 yards, and two were returned for over 30.  The ten kicks and their return yardage were, respectively:  23*, 23, 27, 21*, 27, 19, TB*, 31*, 47, 24 (asterisk indicates kick into the endzone).

The Wolf Pack also kept the penalties to a much more respectable 4 for a total of -30 yards.  Three of those penalties came in the 2nd quarter, and two of those came back-to-back (holding, ineligible receiver downfield).

Next up, of course, is California, who defeated Colorado 52-7 in Berkeley on Saturday, the same Colorado team who beat up on Colorado State 24-3 the week prior.