Sacramento State vs Fresno State Picks and Prediction – 9/8/2024

Sacramento State will be facing the Fresno State team on Saturday night. The game is taking place at 10:00 PM EST at Valley Children’s Stadium in Fresno, California. Make sure you are ready for all the football action with our college football picks.

Sacramento State heads to the game here after losing in the opening week. The loss for the Hornets came against the San Jose State Spartans. The final score in the losing effort ended up being 42-24.

In the losing effort the Hornets used 2 quarterbacks, Kaiden Bennett and Carson Conklin. Bennet went 17/32 for 134 yards and 2 picks, but Conklin went 4/9 for 45 yards and a touchdown. The rushing offense for the Sacramento State team picked up 177 yards and 2 touchdowns on 41 carries. Defensively the Hornets allowed 324 yards and 4 touchdowns in the air, but did get a pick. The rushing defense gave up 63 yards with 2 touchdowns on a total of 31 carries faced. 

Fresno State heads to the game here after dropping their opening game of the week as well. The loss for the Bulldogs came against Michigan by a score of 30-10. The loss was expected, but it was definitely not as big of a loss as was expected.

The Bulldogs in the losing effort seen Mikey Keene go 22/36 for 235 yards and a touchdown, but he was picked off 2 times. The rushing offense was stuffed with only 9 yards picked up on 22 carries. The defense allowed 121 yards and 2 touchdowns in the air, but did get a pick. The Bulldogs defense gave up 148 yards on 34 carries as well.

This game here is one which the Bulldogs should be able to bounce back and get the win in. The Fresno State offense is playing decent so far and the rushing attack is better than the 9 yard showing in the opening week. The Hornets defense will have their hands full and will be overwhelmed in this game here as the Bulldogs secure the win. Final Score Prediction, Fresno State Bulldogs win 35-10.