North Texas beat UTSA 55 to 17 at Saturday’s game. <\/p>\n
UTSA (3-3) at North Texas (5-1), Oct. 18 at 3:30 p.m. EDT.<\/p>\n
How to watch: ESPN+<\/p>\n
Key stats<\/p>\n
North Texas Offense<\/p>\n
Overall: 434.7 yards per game (36th in FBS)<\/p>\n
Passing: 268.2 yards per game (33rd)<\/p>\n
Rushing: 166.5 yards per game (56th)<\/p>\n
Scoring: 43.3 points per game (6th)<\/p>\n
North Texas Defense<\/p>\n
Overall: 360.2 yards per game (67th in FBS)<\/p>\n
Passing: 158.8 yards per game (16th)<\/p>\n
Rushing: 201.3 yards per game (127th)<\/p>\n
Scoring: 27.2 points per game (93rd)<\/p>\n
UTSA Offense<\/p>\n
Overall: 394.2 yards per game (67th in FBS)<\/p>\n
Passing: 213.3 yards per game (87th)<\/p>\n
Rushing: 180.8 yards per game (46th)<\/p>\n
Scoring: 34.5 points per game (39th)<\/p>\n
UTSA Defense<\/p>\n
Overall: 365.8 yards per game (69th in FBS)<\/p>\n
Passing: 235.8 yards per game (87th)<\/p>\n
Rushing: 130.0 yards per game (52nd)<\/p>\n
Scoring: 26.8 points per game (87th)<\/p>\n
North Texas ranks 128th in FBS in defensive third down percentage, allowing opponents to convert on 46.7% of third downs.<\/p>\n
North Texas ranks 5th in the FBS with a +7 turnover margin.<\/p>\n
UTSA ranks 93rd in the FBS averaging 61.3 penalty yards per game, compared to North Texas\u2019 35th-ranked 45.3 per-game average.<\/p>\n
UTSA ranks 124th in FBS in red zone defense, allowing opponents to score on 94.4% of trips. North Texas\u2019 red zone offense ranks 22nd, scoring on 94.3% of red zone opportunities.<\/p>\n
Team leaders<\/p>\n
North Texas<\/p>\n
Passing: Drew Mestemaker, 1,573 yards, 13 TDs, 3 INTs, 66.7 completion percentage<\/p>\n
Rushing: Caleb Hawkins, 356 yards on 57 carries, 7 TDs<\/p>\n
Receiving: Miles Coleman, 320 yards on 30 catches, 1 TD<\/p>\n
UTSA<\/p>\n
Passing: Owen McCown, 1,221 yards, 12 TDs, 4 INTs, 64.1 completion percentage<\/p>\n
Rushing: Robert Henry, 730 yards on 92 carries, 8 TDs<\/p>\n
Receiving: Devin McCuin, 341 yards on 31 catches, 4 TDs<\/p>\n
Last game<\/p>\n
North Texas fell to South Florida 63-36 on Friday, Oct. 10. Mestemaker passed for 326 yards on 30-of-48 attempts (62.5%) with two touchdowns and three interceptions. He also carried the ball four times for 0 yards and one rushing touchdown. Hawkins had 49 rushing yards on 15 carries, adding two receptions for 15 yards. Coleman recorded 101 yards on seven catches with one touchdown.<\/p>\n
UTSA won 61-13 over Rice on Saturday, Oct. 11. McCown led UTSA with 236 yards on 15-of-21 passing (71.4%) for three touchdowns and no interceptions. Will Henderson III had 115 rushing yards on five carries and two touchdowns. AJ Wilson recorded 77 yards on two catches with one touchdown.<\/p>\n
Next game<\/p>\n
North Texas plays at Charlotte on Oct. 24. UTSA hosts Tulane on Oct. 30.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"North Texas beat UTSA 55 to 17 at Saturday’s game. UTSA (3-3) at North Texas (5-1), Oct. 18…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":10402,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[261,9353,9350,430,9354,9352,82,84,83,9351,3439],"class_list":{"0":"post-10401","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-san-antonio","8":"tag-college-football","9":"tag-drew-mestemaker","10":"tag-fbs-stats","11":"tag-north-texas","12":"tag-owen-mccown","13":"tag-red-zone","14":"tag-san-antonio","15":"tag-san-antonio-headlines","16":"tag-san-antonio-news","17":"tag-turnover-margin","18":"tag-utsa"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10401","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10401"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10401\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10402"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10401"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10401"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10401"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}