Kent State football: Utah State vs. Kent State, Frisco Bowl score: Golden Flashes outlast …

Kent State outlasted Utah State 51-41 in a shootout on Friday night to emerge victorious in the Frisco Bowl.

It’s the first bowl win in the history of Kent State’s football program, though it was also only the fourth time the Golden Flashes had ever appeared in a bowl game.

Utah State turned the ball over three times, and the nine points the Flashes got out of those turnovers loomed large in a 10-point game.

As for this being Kent State’s bowl win, it shouldn’t surprise anybody that it was Utah State on the losing end.

Akron beat Utah State in the 2015 Potato Bowl, which was Akron’s first — and only — bowl win in program history.