UTSA Beats Colorado State 59-45 After Falling Behind 14-0
Colorado State scored twice in the first two minutes of the game. Mel Brown took the opening kickoff back 94 yards, and Ksaan Farrar hit Terrence Smith for 74 yards on the next possession. That was 14-0, and it lasted until UTSA remembered it had an offense.
Brandon High ran in from 16 yards, Will Henderson III from 13, and Owen McCown found David Amador II from 27 for a 21-14 lead before the first quarter ended. DJ Allen caught a 58-yarder early in the second, and A'Marion Peterson's five-yard run made it 35-14. Colorado State got back to 35-21 at the half and then 28-35 early in the third, which is when Mekhi Anderson returned the next kickoff 100 yards, 13 seconds after that Colorado State touchdown. Yes, each team had a kickoff return touchdown. Only one of them stayed ahead.
Colorado State kept coming. Durell Robinson's second short run made it 35-42 late in the third, RJ Vick got it to 42-49 in the fourth, and a 51-yard Kali Nguma field goal with 2:09 left made it 45-52. Then Peterson ran 47 yards for a touchdown with 2:00 left and that was that, 59-45.
UTSA had 545 total yards (242 rushing on 38 carries) to Colorado State's 500, and the Roadrunners threw no interceptions while Farrar threw one. A combined 104 points will do that to a box score.
UTSA is 3-1 and Colorado State is 2-2. Fantasy owners got two quarterbacks over 26 points, and McCown's 31.8 led them.