Texas Southern Beats Southern 24-21 on a Last-Second Field Goal
Miguel Arana III kicked a 46-yard field goal with the clock at zero, and Texas Southern beat Southern 24-21. Texas Southern had led 21-7 and then watched Southern tie it. Texas Southern is 2-3. Southern is 1-4.
Southern scored first, Christian Johnson hitting Damien Henderson Jr. from 4 yards out in the first quarter. After that, Texas Southern ran it. Jacob Washington scored from 5 yards at 11:58 of the second quarter, Athean Renfro Jr. added a 15-yard run about three minutes later, and Cam'Ron McCoy broke a 41-yard run early in the third for a 21-7 lead.
Southern needed two scores to tie it and got them, though not quickly. Johnson threw a 24-yard touchdown to Wydell Clark Jr. with 5:47 left in the third to make it 21-14, and Trey Holly ran in from 2 yards with 4:24 to go in the fourth to tie it at 21-21. Nobody else scored until Arana's kick, with the game clock showing no time left.
Texas Southern threw for 42 yards. Forty-two. It ran for 218, and that was the whole offense, to 194 on the ground and 124 in the air for Southern. Total yards were 318 for Southern and 260 for Texas Southern, so the visitors out-gained the winners and still lost. Southern lost one fumble. Texas Southern did not turn it over. A team that passes for 42 yards and still wins is a rare thing.
For fantasy, Holly was the story even on the losing side, with 35 carries for 156 yards (that is 156 of Southern's 194 rushing yards) and 28.5 points.