Houston Erases a 17-point Deficit and Beats UCF 27-17
UCF led 17-0 in the third quarter. Houston won 27-17. Houston scored the last 27 points of the game, and Conner Weigman ran for all three of its touchdowns.
UCF did all of its scoring early. Keyone Jenkins hit Joshua Derry for a 13-yard touchdown in the first quarter, Will Stone kicked a 30-yard field goal late in the second, and Jenkins ran in from five yards at 6:01 of the third for 17-0. Houston had nothing on the board at that point.
Then Weigman took over. He ran 19 yards for a score at 3:38 of the third quarter, then scored from a yard out at 1:11 to make it 17-14, and added another 1-yard run at 10:15 of the fourth for a 21-17 lead, Houston's first. Jonathan Dimas kicked a 40-yard field goal with 4:14 left and a 46-yarder with 1:56 to go for the 27-17 final. Weigman did not throw a touchdown pass; all three of his scores came on the ground.
Houston ran 43 times for 156 yards and totaled 395 yards to UCF's 332, and UCF threw an interception while Houston lost one fumble. UCF actually threw for 259 yards, so the passing was fine. It just stopped scoring after the third-quarter touchdown, and Houston took the last 27 points, all of them in the final 21 minutes of the game. UCF falls to 3-2, and Houston improves to 4-1.
For fantasy owners, Weigman's 32.6 points were enough to win a week, and Derry's 23.1 made him the best UCF scorer of the day.