UTSA Scores in the Final 15 Seconds to Beat South Florida 31-24
South Florida took the lead with 1:56 left, 24-23, and then gave it up in 1:41. That is the whole story, and it belongs to A'Marion Peterson, who ran it in from a yard out with 0:15 on the clock and watched Owen McCown throw the two-point conversion to David Amador II. UTSA won 31-24, and the two-point try took it from a five-point lead to a seven-point one.
It was a back-and-forth game. South Florida went up 7-0 on a 15-yard D.J. Crowther run, Peterson answered with a 53-yard run to tie it, and Michael Van Buren Jr. hit Bryson Rodgers from 42 yards just before the first quarter ended to make it 14-7. UTSA kicked a field goal, the Bulls kicked one back for 17-10 at the half, and then Peterson scored from three yards in the third to tie it at 17. Michael Petro's field goals of 41 and 31 yards made it 23-17, which set up the finish. The Roadrunners had trailed by seven at most, and the game was tied twice.
UTSA outgained South Florida 487 yards to 294 and ran for 278 on 42 carries, and neither team gave the ball away. The Bulls needed Van Buren's 11-yard touchdown pass to Crowther to get in front, and it lasted less than two minutes. Peterson had 92 yards on 12 carries and three touchdowns, and 53 of those yards came on one run.
UTSA moves to 5-1 and South Florida falls to 4-2.
Fantasy owners with Peterson got 27.2 points from a back who had 8.8 a game over his previous three. Crowther's 23.8 and Van Buren's 20.6 on the losing side were not bad either.