Century man: Max Borghi rushes for more than 100 yards in Washington State’s rout of New Mexico State
![Washington State Cougars running back Max Borghi (21) runs the ball against the New Mexico State Aggies during the first half of a college football game on Saturday, August 31, 2019, at Martin Stadium in Pullman, Wash. (Tyler Tjomsland / The Spokesman-Review)](https://thumb.spokesman.com/uO6q6eDqVn9RLDznlEJuDvMVKgE=/600x0/media.spokesman.com/graphics/2018/07/sr-loader.png)
PULLMAN – Running back Max Borghi began his sophomore season on Saturday by doing something rather rare in the Air Raid era of the Washington State football program: He ran for more than 100 yards.
Borghi finished the game against New Mexico State with 128 yards on 10 carries, the first time a Cougars player had eclipsed the 100-yard rushing mark since Gerard Wicks did so three years ago, in 2016. Against Cal that year, Wicks also ran for 128 yards – but on nine carries, with a long of 59.
That total is the most by a Cougars player since 2007, when Dwight Tardy had 214 rushing yards in a 27-7 victory over UCLA.
In 2018, James Williams set the team’s season-high rushing total with 82 in the opener against Wyoming, but then neither he nor Borghi got more than 65 in a single game the rest of the way. They did, however, have games will more than 100 yards from scrimmage: Williams had four, while Borghi had one (115 against Arizona).
The season before, in 2017, Jamal Morrow set the season-high single-game rushing total with 91 yards on six carries against USC.
![Washington State Cougars wide receiver Easop Winston Jr. (8) dives into the end zone for a touchdown during the first half of a college football game on Saturday, August 31, 2019, at Martin Stadium in Pullman, Wash. (Tyler Tjomsland / The Spokesman-Review)](https://thumb.spokesman.com/-ZKItiAQ4blhBwcY382f9Lg_4UA=/1200x800/smart/media.spokesman.com/photos/2019/08/31/WSUNM0172.jpg)