UTSA Pulls Away from UT Rio Grande Valley 45-16
UTSA was up 21-0 with 12:40 left in the second quarter, and one of those touchdowns was not even scored by the offense. Ahamad Chapman took an interception 49 yards to the house, and the Roadrunners were off.
The final was 45-16. Owen McCown threw a 36-yard touchdown to AJ Wilson Jr. in the first quarter and a 7-yarder to Brandon Young Jr. early in the second, and Chapman's pick-six made it 21-0. UT Rio Grande Valley answered with a Brysen Gardner field goal, and Will Henderson III responded with a 75-yard touchdown run 11 seconds later. Gardner kicked another field goal before the half, and Michael Petro added one for UTSA, so it was 31-6 at the break.
The third quarter had no scoring at all, and the fourth brought the rest. McCown hit DJ Allen for 62 yards at 10:41, Gardner kicked a third field goal, A'Marion Peterson ran 53 yards for a score with 2:56 to go, and Atzel Chavez Jr. scored from a yard out with four seconds left for the final margin. UTSA outgained the visitors with 528 yards (275 passing and 253 rushing on only 28 carries) and lost no fumbles. The pick-six is the lone UTSA touchdown that came from the defense.
UTSA starts 1-0 and UT Rio Grande Valley 0-1. The visitors scored a touchdown with four seconds left, but every point they had before it came from a Gardner field goal.
McCown was 22 of 27 for 275 yards and three touchdowns, and his 29.5 Promethium points led all scorers. Allen turned three catches into 116 yards and a score.