{"id":37086,"date":"2025-11-07T10:03:10","date_gmt":"2025-11-07T10:03:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/37086\/"},"modified":"2025-11-07T10:03:10","modified_gmt":"2025-11-07T10:03:10","slug":"defensive-tds-jumpstart-south-florida-to-55-23-win-over-utsa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/37086\/","title":{"rendered":"Defensive TDs jumpstart South Florida to 55-23 win over UTSA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>    <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"VideoPlayer-backgroundImage\" alt=\"default-cbs-image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/1762486331_621_video-slate.png\"\/><\/p>\n<p>TAMPA, Fla. (AP)  Quarterback Byrum Brown accounted for 348 total yards and three touchdowns and <a class=\"Annotation-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cbssports.com\/college-football\/teams\/SFLA\/south-florida-bulls\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">South Florida<\/a> recorded two defensive touchdowns and beat <a class=\"Annotation-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cbssports.com\/college-football\/teams\/TXSA\/utsa-roadrunners\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">UTSA<\/a> 55-23 on Thursday night.<\/p>\n<p>The win pushed the Bulls (7-2, 4-1) into a three-way tie in the American Athletic Conference with Memphis and North Texas, all a half-game behind Navy.<\/p>\n<p>Brown completed 14 of 15 passes for 239 yards and two touchdowns and ran for 109 yards on nine carries and scored a touchdown. Nykahi Davenport ran for 94 yards on seven carries and scored two touchdowns and Keshaun Singleton had 122 yards receiving on four catches for two touchdowns for South Florida.<\/p>\n<p>Tavin Ward started South Florida off with a 40-yard, pick-6 of UTSA&#8217;s Owen McCown on the first play from scrimmage. Midway through the first, Jarvis Lee sacked McCown for a 13-yard loss and forced a fumble. Fred Gaskin picked up the ball and ran it back 85 yards for a 14-3 lead.<\/p>\n<p>After UTSA got on the board with Michael Petro&#8217;s 33-yard field goal late in the first quarter, five seconds into the second, Brown ran it in from 13 yards out to make it 21-3. UTSA responded on its following drive when McCown threw a 45-yard touchdown pass to Patrick Overmyer but the Roadrunners (4-5, 2-3) never got closer.<\/p>\n<p>McCown threw for 200 yards and a touchdown and backup Brandon Tennison threw for 109 yards and a touchdown.<\/p>\n<p>&#8212; Get poll alerts and updates on the AP Top 25 throughout the season. Sign up here and here (AP News mobile app). AP college football: https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/ap-top-25-college-football-poll and https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/college-football<\/p>\n<p class=\"StatsincCopyright\">\n    Copyright 2025 STATS LLC and Associated Press. Any commercial use or distribution without the express written consent of STATS LLC and Associated Press is strictly prohibited.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"TAMPA, Fla. (AP) Quarterback Byrum Brown accounted for 348 total yards and three touchdowns and South Florida recorded&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":30844,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[143,28,30,29,6782,6764],"class_list":["post-37086","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-florida","tag-college-football","tag-florida","tag-florida-headlines","tag-florida-news","tag-south-florida-bulls","tag-utsa-roadrunners"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37086","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37086"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37086\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30844"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37086"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37086"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37086"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}