Florida Atlantic Runs past UTSA 60-29 Behind 342 Rushing Yards
Sixty points. Florida Atlantic hung that on UTSA, and the 29 UTSA put up in reply was never going to be enough.
FAU opened with three touchdowns in the first quarter, 21-7 by the 1:11 mark, and the lead only got fatter. UTSA made it interesting for a minute: a 52-yard run by A'Marion Peterson and a 45-yard Owen McCown touchdown pass to Mekhi Anderson cut it to 28-19 with 10:03 left in the second quarter. FAU answered with Leonard Farrow's 18-yard catch with 0:50 left in the half, and UTSA's 54-yard field goal on the final tick only made it 35-22 at the break. Entering the fourth it was 50-29, and the only scoring after that was a six-yard Easton Messer catch and a 37-yard field goal.
The stat sheet explains the rest. FAU ran 46 times for 342 yards (Farrow alone had 12 carries for 126, 59 of them on one third-quarter touchdown), added 224 through the air, and finished with 566 total yards against UTSA's 425. FAU also sacked McCown six times and lost no fumbles, while UTSA put two on the ground. UTSA's offense was fine. It just kept handing the ball back to a team that scores in bunches.
FAU moves to 6-3 and UTSA drops to 7-2, which is a strange pair of records to attach to a 31-point result.
For fantasy, this was the Messer and Caden Veltkamp show again, with Anderson holding up the losing side. Veltkamp threw four touchdowns on 17-of-25, three of them to Messer, who also threw a touchdown pass of his own to AJ Johnson (1-for-1, 14 yards). Yes, the receiver threw one. No, I am not over it.