JACKSONVILLE, Fla. – JoJo Binda, Jr. scored a school record-tying four touchdowns and the San Diego defense forced three key turnovers in the fourth quarter to give the Toreros their 37th straight conference win with a 47-28 victory over Jacksonville at D.B. Milne Field on Saturday.
 
The Toreros (9-2, 8-0 PFL), the first team to post four consecutive perfect PFL seasons in league history, rushed for 225 yards, led by Binda Jr.'s 147 to go with his four touchdowns. The Providence, Rhode Island product became the fifth Torero ever to score four rushing touchdowns and first since 2016.
 
The win also vaulted the 2019 PFL Champion Toreros into sole possession of the second-longest conference winning streak in FCS history at 37 games. USD will enter 2020 looking to match the longest, a 39-game streak set by Duquesne.
 
The Toreros led for the entire game, but the Dolphins (3-9, 1-7 PFL) scored on back-to-back drives in the third and fourth quarters to pull within three on two occasions. After a Brandon Eickert field goal made it 33-28 with 10:38 remaining in the game and Jacksonville driving on the ensuing drive, the Toreros came through with a fumble forced by Myles Wilson and recovered by Jacob Bergstrom.
 
San Diego went down and converted the turnover into points after Binda, Jr. rushed for 29 yards in a five-play, 37-yard drive that was capped by a Reid Sinnett rushing touchdown that made it 40-28 with 4:28 left.
 
Sinnett complemented Binda, Jr.'s day on the ground by scoring twice himself and netting 18 yards on the ground. He also went 14-of-21 passing with 266 yards.
 
The San Diego defense finished with four takeaways, including an interception by David Tolbert, his team-leading sixth of season, and a game-sealing pick by Kama Kamaka with 37 seconds left in the game. Victor Lopez had the first USD takeaway, a fumble recovered in the first quarter when USD was holding onto a 10-0 lead.
 
The Toreros jumped out to a 17-point advantage early in the game, thanks to scores on three of their first four drives. Binda, Jr. scored the first touchdown of the day, on the Toreros' opening drive of the game, while Sinnett rushed in from 20 yards out to make it 17-0 with just over eight minutes left in the second quarter.
 
The Dolphins made it close, though, when Calvin Turner scored on a five-yard rush to end a 13-play, 76-yard drive in the second quarter. After the Dolphins forced the Toreros to punt, Turner lofted a short pass to AJ Davis up the middle, which was then ran untouched into the end zone to make it a 17-14 Torero lead going into halftime.
 
In the second half, despite the Dolphin offense pulling the game close, the Torero offense was tough to contain as it scored four touchdowns and a field goal on its six drives. The only drive that did not end in a USD score was when the Toreros kneeled the ball following Kamaka's interception.
 
The Toreros finished the game by outgaining the Dolphins, 491-416. The 225 yards on the ground was their third straight game of crossing the 200-yard threshold and fourth time in the last five weeks.
 
Bennett Dondoyano led the team in receiving with 100 yards on three catches. Michael Bandy had five catches for 82 yards.
 
With the regular season over, the Toreros will learn their postseason fate on Sunday morning with the FCS Playoffs Selection Show (9:30 a.m. PT on ESPNU).
 
 
NOTES
USD's 37-game conference winning streak is the longest in FCS history since Duquesne set the record at 39 games from 1999 to 2006.
 
This decade, USD is 86-29 (.748 winning pct.).
 
San Diego has scored 24 rushing touchdowns in the last six weeks. Saturday's six was the second time this season it had half-a-dozen in a game this year.
 
JoJo Binda, Jr. has 577 rushing yards and 10 touchdowns in the last four games.
 
San Diego finished the regular season with its sixth straight PFL championship (11th overall) and will make its fourth consecutive trip to the FCS Playoffs.