It's been an entertaining inaugural season for the UTSA Football team and Saturday was no different. The Roadrunners began the game off with a bang, as DE Jason Neill intercepted a pass on Minot State's first possession and returned it for a pick six. The Roadrunners got the ball back after a Minot State punt and extended their lead on their fourth offensive play, a 77 yard run by RB Evans Okotcha. By quarter's end, the Roadrunners held a 21-0 lead and were cruising to an easy victory. A Beaver second quarter touchdown wouldn't prevent the Roadrunners from rolling to victory. QB Eric Soza threw two second half touchdowns to set up their fourth victory of the season, a 49-7 victory in the season finale. Although the Roadrunners finished their inaugural season with a 4-6 record, UTSA played in two overtimes and set two attendance records during the season. Roadrunner fans set the single game attendance record (56,743) in the season opener and the average attendance record (35,521) for a start-up college football program.
In Austin, the #23 Longhorns faced a tough opponent as #13 Kansas State came to town. Texas was coming off a tough 17-5 loss in Columbia the week before and needed to get back on track. The Longhorn offense continued to struggle as the game began, but their defense kept them in the game, allowing only ten first half points to the Wildcats. The Wildcats extended their lead to fourteen halfway through the third quarter on a 3 yard TD run by QB Collin Klein, but were done scoring after that play. QB Case McCoy took over for the ineffective David Ash and kept the Longhorns in the game. In the third quarter, he threw the first Texas touchdown pass in two weeks and set up Texas' second field goal in the fourth. The once Kansas State fourteen point lead had shrunk to four with minutes to go in the game and the Texas 'D' gave Texas numerous opportunities to take the lead. McCoy was unable to complete the comeback victory and the Wildcats held on to a 17-13 victory in Austin on Saturday. Although the Longhorns lost their second consecutive game, the team's focus will be on their final conference match-up with the Aggies on Thanksgiving Night.
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