The Cal Poly football team will take on the only FBS opponent the Mustangs will face this year when they play Utah at Salt Lake City Saturday.<\/p>\n
Kickoff is set for 3 p.m. Pacific Time (4 p.m. Mountain Time). The game will air on ESPN+. Links to the broadcast as well as live stats can be found on the Cal Poly football schedule page. Cal Poly football can be followed on Instagram and on X at @calpolyfootball for live updates during the game and behind the scenes content.<\/p>\n
The Mustangs (1-0) beat San Diego 41-17 at San Diego last week. Utah (1-0) trounced UCLA 43-10 at UCLA.<\/p>\n
The Cal Poly offense totaled 469 yards against the Toreros, 335 passing and 134 rushing. Pitt transfer Ty Dieffenbach was 18-for-27 passing for 263 yards and two touchdowns. Dieffenbach also rushed for 69 yards and a score.<\/p>\n
Redshirt senior wide receiver Michael Briscoe had seven catches for 110 yards and two touchdowns. Dieffenbach was the Big Sky Conference Offensive Player of the Week last week.<\/p>\n
Linebacker Mikey D’Amato led the Cal Poly defense with a team-high 18 tackles, and linebacker Kenny Olson had 10 tackles and two sacks.<\/p>\n
Utah quarterback Devin Dampier was 21-for-25 passing for 206 yards, with two touchdown passes and no interceptions last week. Dampier led the Utah rushers with 87 yards and a touchdown.<\/p>\n
Dampier was one of three Utah ball carriers who rushed for more than 60 yards. Utah out-gained UCLA 492-220.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Cal Poly football team will take on the only FBS opponent the Mustangs will face this year…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":204999,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43],"tags":[8019,13580,43096,50664,109153,13578,1428,19045,13583,13579,1318,44842,15549,9338,1317,11145,1315,1316,61588,11143,50641,62,27063,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-204998","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ncaa-football","8":"tag-american-football","9":"tag-american-football-bowls","10":"tag-american-football-competitions","11":"tag-american-football-playoffs","12":"tag-cal-poly-mustangs-football","13":"tag-champion-seasons-in-american-football","14":"tag-college-football","15":"tag-college-football-bowl-champion-seasons","16":"tag-college-football-bowls","17":"tag-college-football-conference-seasons","18":"tag-football","19":"tag-gridiron-football","20":"tag-gridiron-football-variants","21":"tag-national-football-league","22":"tag-ncaa","23":"tag-ncaa-division-i-fbs-football-teams","24":"tag-ncaa-football","25":"tag-ncaafootball","26":"tag-nfl-seasons","27":"tag-seasons-in-american-football","28":"tag-seasons-in-american-sport","29":"tag-sports","30":"tag-team-sports","31":"tag-united-states","32":"tag-unitedstates","33":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":"Validation failed: Text character limit of 500 exceeded"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204998","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=204998"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204998\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/204999"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=204998"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=204998"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=204998"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}