This was one of five non-conference D1A games around the country.
Ohio State played a series of 20-minute periods against Illinois and outscored the Illini 60-19 over those periods (D1A records this as a 48-5 result.
GCU beat Utah. Details here:
GCU Impressive in Victory Over Utah
St. Thomas defeated Queens 48-36 in a clash between the 2025 D1AA champs and the 2025 fall NCR D1 finalist. To be fair, Queens uses the spring to test their likely gameday 23 for the coming fall. Even so, this was an excellent win for St. Thomas, which, like San Diego (who we talk about here: Big Win for San Diego Changes California Conference Picture) has been adjusting to D1A play.
Queens scored early and Jabari Young answered right after. Two tries from wing Nokutenda Mukumba and one from power-running center George Ditima got STU going.
Owen Phillips and Taonaishe Mapani added tries in the second half, and Welton Charumbira's playmaking and goalkicking (six conversions and two late penalties) iced it.
Cal beat BYU 64-21 in Berkeley. The 4-5-6 grouping of Byron Finley, Talae Tuimaunei, and Brice Muller were outstanding in this game and generally overall these positions have been excellent for the season.
BYU scored in the first three minutes through Malae Tanuvasa for a 7-0 lead. But Muller, Filip Edstrom, and Solomon Williams all scored before the game was 20 minutes old. Edstrom converted all. By halftime Cal led 40-7 and held BYU scoreless until the closing minutes, which Spencer Torgerson and Strider Fountaine touched down.
Lewis ended with two tries and he was the only Cal player to score more than one as Oliver Sinclair, Nate Comiskey, and Michál de Beer also crossed the tryline.
"I just want to thank BYU for making the trip," said Cal captain and flyhalf Rand Santos. "We weren't very happy with the three tries we allowed, and the turnovers we had, but I think getting a win matters, we'll look to build on the match."
"We knew that the standard was going to be high coming into here, and obviously our performance wasn't up to that standard," said BYU Head Coach Steve St. Pierre. "All credit to Cal for coming out here and playing a good game. We'll take the development areas and learning opportunities from this game and hopefully be better going forward because of it."
Cal 64
Tries: Muller, Edstrom, Solomon, Lewis 2, Koi, Teague, Sinclair, Comiskey, de Beer
Convs: Edstrom 4, Saint 3
BYU 21
Tries: Tanuvasa, Toregerson, Fountaine
Convs: Fountaine 3
Lindenwood took on Mary Washington and Tennessee in two matches. They beat Tennessee 59-0, which was not surprising, and had to fight for it 22-13 over Mary Washington.
UMW were pretty tenacious on defense and made Lindenwood work for their points. This was a nice, tense matchup and forced Lindenwood to fight for space.
So this is the ranked-vs-ranked games over the weekend:
#1 Navy 52 - #11 Mount St. Mary's 8
#2 Cal 64 - #8 BYU 21
#5 Lindenwood 22 - #14 Mary Washington 13
#13 Grand Canyon 55 - #21 Utah 5
#17 San Diego 40 #10 UCLA 19
