Tanner Trosin got the record by a mile, but the team hoisting the blue banner was a mob of football players clad in black and orange.

Getting the one stop it had to have, upstart Vacaville held Folsom and Trosin on downs on its 40 with 2:28 to play and then ran out the clock to seal an edge-of-your-seat 39-35 triumph Saturday at Sacramento State to win the Sac-Joaquin Section Division II championship.

Seedings wise, this was no upset as the Bulldogs of Solano County came in rated fourth in the field, and Vacaville was coming off a 27-17 win over unbeaten and top-seeded Buhach Colony. Vacaville (13-1) fully expected this.

But the expressions on the No. 6 Bulldogs of Folsom (11-3) told a different story. The defending section and state champions craved a repeat here and a bowl shot, and with Trosin at the reins, there was hope down to the last minute.

Trosin certainly did his part in becoming the first player in state history to eclipse 5,000 passing yards in a season with a national record-tying 99-yard touchdown strike to Carson McMurtrey for a 14-7 lead in the second quarter.

Trosin passed for 407 yards, giving him 5,185 yards on the season. He hit J'Juan Muldrow 13 times for 177 yards and three touchdowns and found McMurtrey 12 times for 224.

Trosin rushed for 101 yards and a touchdown, and he became the state's all-time single season all-purpose leader with 6,349 yards.

Trosin has 49 touchdown passes this season and 20 rushing, and his style of play prompted Vacaville coach Mike Papadopoulos to say this week that Folsom "plays perfect offensive football."

Vacaville has no offensive dynamos like Trosin, but these Bulldogs present a bruising offensive line, a staple of speed backs out of the wing-T and a defense that tightened with a fourth-quarter shutout.

Most of all, Vacaville refused to be bullied and battered the way it was last season against Folsom in a playoff game, losing 75-6 in the driving rain.

Papadopoulos said Vacaville fumbled 10 times in that game, yet used that same ball in practices this season, cursed that ball and finally buried it.

For Vacaville, Curtis Goins rushed for 132 yards and two touchdowns on 25 carries, Melvin Mason had111 yards and two scores on 23 carries, and Terrance Trueblood had 100 yards and a touchdown on 12 carries. Vacaville rushed 65 times for 335 yards.

So now what? Can Vacaville, the winner of 12 consecutive games, receive a bowl bid?

This week will be one of anxiety and waiting. The state's 10 section commissioners meet next Sunday to vote on the state bowl teams.

Vacaville's argument includes a nonleague victory over Granite Bay, which beat Pleasant Grove in the D-I title game earlier Saturday.

Vacaville has lost only at Marin Catholic of Kentfield, a team that could secure a D-III bowl bid.

"Just a great win," said Papadopoulos, whose program won its second section title since 2006. "Can't be more proud."

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