San Luis Obispo, Calif. -- The ninth-ranked Youngstown State football team concluded the regular season with a 35-13 win at Cal Poly in front of a crowd of 4,178 at Mustang Stadium on Saturday afternoon.

The Penguins, who finished the regular season with a 9-2 record, jumped out to a 21-0 lead at halftime and never looked back in their second victory over the Mustangs in as many years. Cal Poly ends the year with a 3-8 record.

Sophomore tailback P.J. Mays led the offensive charge for YSU running for a career-high 127 yards on 24 carries. Mays had touchdown runs of four and one yard, the third time this year he has scored two touchdowns in a game. Overall, the Penguins finished with 367 yards total offense, 255 of which came on the ground.

In the first quarter, YSU took a 7-0 lead when Jeff Ryan threw a 40-yard touchdown pass to Brandon Pedraza. With the touchdown completion, Ryan became the school's all-time leader in career touchdown passes breaking the mark of 40 held by Keith Snoddy and Trenton Lykes.

On the final play of the quarter, Mays scored on a four-yard run to make the score 14-0. Pedraza and Ryan hooked up again with 1:02 left before the half on an 18-yard score. The play capped an 80-yard 10-play drive that put the Penguins ahead by 21 points at the intermission. Ryan finished the day completing six passes for 112 yards and two touchdowns.

He ran for 74 yards on nine carries, his second-best outing of the season.

Cal Poly cut into the YSU lead in the third quarter when Kasim Osgood caught a 17-yard touchdown pass from backup quarterback Kevin Cooper that cut the YSU lead to 21-7. Cooper replaced starter Seth Burford who was knocked out of the game in the first half with a concussion.

The Penguins answered on their next possesion moving 70 yards on 10 plays to rebuild a 21-point advantage when Eric Lockhart bulled his way into the end zone from a yard out.

Osgood caught his second touchdown pass of the game from Cooper when the two connected on a 21-yard touchdown pass with 1:31 left in the third. The extra-point attempt failed leaving the Penguins with a 28-13 lead. Osgood finished the game with 13 catches, two touchdowns and 164 yards.

In the fourth, the YSU defense held Cal Poly in check and had a big hand in the Penguins' final touchdown of the game when Bob Sivik intercepted a Cooper pass and returned it 37 yards to the Cal Poly four-yard line. From there, Mays had two carries and scored on a one-yard run with 3:53 left.

YSU senior middle linebacker Tim Johnson had a team-best 14 tackles and defensive back Chris Conwell recorded a career-high 10. The Penguins intercepted two passes in the game.

The win marked the ninth time in 15 seasons that Head Coach Jim Tressel has guided YSU to nine-or-more wins in a year.