SUN BELT CONFERENCE

Boise State 45, Louisiana Lafayette 10: Brett Rypien was 22 of 33 passing for 347 yards and two touchdowns, and Boise State cruised to a season opening win over Louisiana Lafayette on Saturday.

Thomas Sperbeck, Cedric Wilson, and Jeremy McNichols each caught touchdown passes, adding 130, 113, and 98 yards receiving, respectively. McNichols also had two rushing touchdows and Sperbeck threw for a TD.

Jennings finished with 186 yards passing for Louisiana-Lafayette. … Idaho 20, Montana State 17:

Aaron Duckworth ran for 108 yards and two touchdowns to help Idaho stave off a second-half charge from Montana State, in the season opener for each team on Thursday night.

Matt Linehan threw for 128 yards and Austin Rehkow kicked field goals

of 44 and 34 yards for the Vandals.

The Bobcats’ Chad Newell ran for 105 yards and a touchdown, and Tyler Bruggman threw for 191 yards and a 12-yard scoring toss to Justin Paige. Ball State 31, Georgia State

21: James Gilbert ran for 160 yards and two touchdowns to lead Ball State to a win over Georgia State in the season opener for both teams Friday night.

Georgia State struck in the first two minutes of the game when Jerome Smith intercepted a pass from Ball State’s Riley Neal and returned it 48 yards for a touchdown. The Panthers scored again with a 14-yard pass from Conner Manning to Penny Hart to open the second quarter but were kept out of the end zone until the final minutes of the game as Ball State piled up 17 straight points. … Toledo 31, Arkansas State 10: Logan Woodside passed for three touchdowns and a career-high 371 yards Friday night to lead Toledo to a win over Arkansas State in the season opener for both teams.

Kareem Hunt punched in a touchdown from the 1 and Jameson Vest had a 42-yard field goal as Toledo piled up 556 total yards to Arkansas State’s 266.

Arkansas State struck first with a 43-yard field goal set up by Chris Humes’ fumble recovery late in the first quarter, and got a touchdown in the fourth from Armond Weh-Weh. … Georgia Southern 54, Savannah State 0: Favian Upshaw accounted threw for two touchdowns and ran for two more as Georgia Southern collected 605 total yards in dominating Savannah State 54-0 on Saturday in the opener for both teams.

Georgia Southern (1-0) last topped 600 yards of total offense in 2014 amassing 660 at Georgia State.

Upshaw scored twice in less than a two-minute span on runs of 2 and 33 yards respectively. Wesley Fields’ 1-yard run before the end of the first quarter made it 21-0. The Eagles’ Demarcus Godfrey had 14 carries for 124 yards and Fields had 13 carries for 87 yards.

The Tigers (0-1) managed just 114 yards total offense and were 1-for-9 on third down conversions. Georgia Southern held a time of possession advantage by 38:06 to 21:54. Troy 57, Austin Peay 17:

Brandon Silvers threw for 229 yards and two touchdowns and Jordan Chunn rushed for 161 yards and one score to lead Troy to a dominating win over Austin Peay on Saturday.

Silvers completed 20 of 27 attempts, averaging 8.5 yards per completion. Sawyer Smith threw for 86 yards, completing all seven attempts, and one score.

Ismail Saleem grabbed four passes for 106 yards.

The Trojans racked up 706 total yards, 323 passing and 383 rushing, while limiting Austin Peay to 254 total yards.

The Governors made a game of it early, taking a 14-13 lead with 11:07 remaining in the second quarter when Tommy Hays passed to James Coleman from the 14 for a score. Coleman finished with 65 yards receiving and two touchdowns.

The Trojans retook the lead for good when Smith hit Hiram Velez in stride at the 5 for a 47-yard score with 9:35 left in the first half. Louisiana Monroe 38, Southern 21: Garrett Smith fired a touchdown pass to Marcus Green, then ran for another score as Louisiana Monroe broke open a close game after halftime while defeating Southern Saturday night.

Smith hit Green with a 28-yard pass, bumping the Warhawks’ lead to 21-12, Craig Ford added a 24-yard field goal and Smith scored from the 13, pushing the lead to 31-15. Smith hit 20 of 33 passes for 208 yards.

The Warhawks (1-0) led 14-12 at the half after Southern’s Raul Albuquerque capped a long drive with a 38-yard field goal in the final minute before the break. Albuquerque nailed field goals of 42, 38 and 28 yards but missed a point-after kick in the first half. Southern is 0-1.

Austin Vaughn capped the scoring with a 6-yard run in the final minute of play.