{"id":418161,"date":"2026-10-04T02:28:18","date_gmt":"2026-10-04T02:28:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/418161\/"},"modified":"2026-10-04T02:28:18","modified_gmt":"2026-10-04T02:28:18","slug":"florida-atlantic-routs-texas-southern-66-10-behind-leonard-farrow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/418161\/","title":{"rendered":"Florida Atlantic routs Texas Southern 66-10 behind Leonard Farrow"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BOCA RATON, Fla. (AP)  Leonard Farrow returned two kickoffs for touchdowns, Caden Veltkamp threw for four scores &#8211; three of them to Kelby Valsin &#8211; and <a class=\"Annotation-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cbssports.com\/college-football\/teams\/FAU\/florida-atlantic-owls\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Florida Atlantic<\/a> routed Football Championship Subdivision-member <a class=\"Annotation-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cbssports.com\/college-football\/teams\/TXSO\/texas-southern-tigers\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Texas Southern<\/a> 66-10 on Saturday night.<\/p>\n<p>Farrow returned the opening kickoff 98 yards for a score, then after a Texas Southern field goal he returned that kickoff 92 yards for a touchdown. Wilky Denaud returned a fumble 31 yards for a score on Texas Southern&#8217;s next possession and the Owls led 21-3 before their offense took the field.<\/p>\n<p>Not to be outdone by the defense and special teams, Veltkamp led the Owls to touchdowns on each of their first four possessions, building a 49-10 lead at halftime. All four drives culminated in TD passes by Veltkamp, including throws of 19, 55 and 8 yards to Valsin.<\/p>\n<p>The Owls (4-1) had 323 yards passing, 130 rushing and 214 on kick and punt returns.<\/p>\n<p>Veltkamp was 13-for-16 passing for 247 yards and Valsin caught seven passes for 126 yards.<\/p>\n<p>Athean Renfro Jr. had 101 yards rushing for the Texas Southern (1-4).<\/p>\n<p>The FAU record for points in a game is 69, set against North Texas in a 69-31 win in 2017.<\/p>\n<p>The last Division I player to return two kickoffs for touchdowns was Ja\u2019briel Mace of Villanova last season against William &amp; Mary.<\/p>\n<p>Texas Southern: vs. Mississippi Valley State next Saturday<\/p>\n<p>Florida Atlantic: at Army on Oct. 17<\/p>\n<p>&#8212;<\/p>\n<p>Sign up for Top 25 poll alerts here, visit the Top 25 here and see AP\u2019s full college football coverage here<\/p>\n<p class=\"StatsincCopyright\">\n    Copyright 2026 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":"BOCA RATON, Fla. (AP) Leonard Farrow returned two kickoffs for touchdowns, Caden Veltkamp threw for four scores &#8211;&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":418162,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[143,28,9944,30,29,71518],"class_list":["post-418161","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-florida","tag-college-football","tag-florida","tag-florida-atlantic-owls","tag-florida-headlines","tag-florida-news","tag-texas-southern-tigers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/418161","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=418161"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/418161\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/418162"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=418161"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=418161"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=418161"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}