Fresno State gets fried in Potato Bowl in overtime loss to NIU

FRESNO, Calif. (KFSN) -- On Monday, the Fresno State Bulldogs fell to the Northern Illinois Huskies successful the Famous Idaho Potato Bowl connected the bluish successful Boise.

In the 4th fourth and overtime alone, the crippled saw 2 missed go-ahead tract goals (one from each team), 3 speedy overtime touchdowns, endless overtime trickeration from NIU and, eventually, a crushing, game-winning fourth-down sack from Jordan Hansen to springiness the Huskies a 28-20 win.

Both teams had chances to prehend the crippled successful regulation. Fresno State led 13-3 astatine halftime, but NIU scored 10 points aboriginal successful the 2nd fractional -- including six connected a beauteous 26-yard touchdown drawback from Grayson Barnes -- to necktie the crippled heading into the 4th quarter.

NIU drove the magnitude of the tract precocious but settled for a 35-yard tract extremity connected fourth-and-1 (violating the swashbuckling tone of the Potato Bowl) and missed with 3:02 left. Then Fresno State missed a 34-yarder astatine the buzzer, too.

Fresno State was playing without respective cardinal players, including backmost Mikey Keene, who announced conscionable earlier kickoff that helium would beryllium going to Michigan State for his Senior season.

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It was besides the last crippled for Tim Skipper arsenic interim caput coach. He volition beryllium replaced successful 2025 by Matt Entz, the erstwhile caput manager astatine North Dakota State University.

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ESPN's Bill Connelly contributed to this report.