Ashton Jeanty surpassed the 200-yard mark for the sixth time this season as No. 10 Boise State defeated No. 20 UNLV 21-7 in the Mountain West Football Championship at Albertsons Stadium on Friday night.

It is the second consecutive MWC title for the Broncos, who also secured a spot in the College Football Playoff with the victory. Boise State is expected to receive a first-round bye when the final CFP rankings are released Sunday at 10 a.m. Mountain Time.

The Broncos will enter the CFP on an 11-game winning streak.

Here are three takeaways from Boise State (12-1)’s third win over UNLV (10-3) in 12 months.

Jeanty entered Friday’s game as a major underdog in the Heisman Trophy race against Colorado’s Travis Hunter.

Playing in a spotlight game while the Hunter’s Buffaloes were at home, Jeanty recorded 32 carries for 209 yards and a touchdown against a strong UNLV rushing defense. The Rebels, who ranked 10th nationally with 101.1 yards allowed per game entering Friday, held Jeanty to 128 yards and a touchdown in the previous meeting.

Jeanty scored on a 75-yard touchdown run late in the second quarter to give Boise State a 21-0 lead at halftime. It was his 12th rush of 50 yards or more this season; No FBS team has more than seven.

One run short of the long TD run, Jeanty passed USC’s Marcus Allen for fourth place on the FBS all-time single-season rushing list. Allen ran for 2,342 yards in 1981.

Jeanty’s 2,497 rushing yards and 29 touchdowns are both school records. On the all-time list, he trails only Oklahoma State’s Barry Sanders (2,628 yards, 1988 season), Wisconsin’s Melvin Gordon (2,587, 2014) and UCF’s Kevin Smith (2,567, 2007).

Jeanty will need 132 yards in the College Football Playoff to break Sanders’ record.

While Jeanty did his usual thing, Boise State’s defense had an outstanding performance against the Rebels.

The Broncos held UNLV to 327 total yards, 86 of which came on a burst up the middle by Kylin James. He was pulled down by a pushing Seyi Oladipo at the 4, and the Rebels eventually turned it over on downs.

Oladipo, a senior safety, led Boise State with 10 total tackles (two for loss) and a sack. The Broncos had 11 tackles for loss as a team, including six sacks by star quarterback Hajj-Malik Williams.

Williams struggled all game, completing just 13 of 28 passes for 110 yards with one interception while completing them 21 times for 56 yards. He faced near-constant pressure from the likes of Marco Notarainni, Sheldon Newton, Rodney Robinson, Andrew Simpson, Jayden Virgin-Morgan and Oladipo.

Few people have been more committed to UNLV than Big 12 commissioner Brett Yormark.

Earlier this week, Yormark criticized the College Football Playoff selection committee for ranking Boise State above Big 12 Championship representatives No. 15 Arizona State (10-2) and No. 16 Iowa State (10-2).

Friday’s win likely gave the Broncos a first-round bye, while the winner of Arizona State/Iowa State gets the No. 12 seed.

The top five ranked conference champions will automatically receive a bid to the new 12-team College Football Playoff. The top four champions receive a bye in the first round.

The Broncos could move up to No. 3 if No. 17 Clemson (9-3) beats No. 8 SMU (11-1) in the ACC Championship on Saturday. If SMU wins, Boise State will likely get the No. 4 seed, much to Yormark’s chagrin.