The Miners amassed 491 total yards in their home opener, backed by Tavorus Jones’ 104 yards on the ground and an 83-yard connection to Kam Thomas, while the defense limited the visiting Tigers to 211 yards.<\/p>\n
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EL PASO, Texas (AP) EJ Colson Jr. threw four touchdown passes and ran for a score and UTEP<\/a> breezed to a 51-10 victory over FCS-member Texas Southern<\/a> on Saturday night.<\/p>\n Colson completed 14 of 21 passes for 239 yards for UTEP (1-1) in its home opener. He added 49 yards on 12 rushes.<\/p>\n Colson and Kam Thomas connected for an 83-yard touchdown on UTEP’s first play from scrimmage and the Miners (1-1) grabbed a 7-0 lead.<\/p>\n Athean Renfro Jr. answered with a 16-yard touchdown run at the end of a 12-play drive to pull Texas Southern (1-2) even after the first quarter.<\/p>\n The Tigers took a 10-7 lead on Miguel Arana III’s 43-yard field goal, but Colson followed with a 3-yard touchdown run and a 13-yard scoring toss to Cash Cheeks for a 21-10 halftime advantage.<\/p>\n Cheeks picked up a fumble by Miners receiver Jeremiah Nash – after a 29-yard reception – and ran for a touchdown early in the third. Colson hit Cheeks for a 13-yard score less than two minutes later, and Tavorus Jones tacked on a 33-yard touchdown run for a 42-10 advantage heading to the final quarter. Jones finished with 104 yards on 16 carries.<\/p>\n Carlos Arreola had a 35-yard field goal and Raymond Moore III scored on a 79-yard run to cap the scoring with 48 seconds remaining.<\/p>\n Cam’Ron McCoy passed for 85 yards with an interception for Texas Southern as the Tigers managed just 211 yards of offense while surrendering 491.<\/p>\n Texas Southern: At Alcorn State on Sept. 26.<\/p>\n UTEP: At Michigan on Saturday.<\/p>\n —<\/p>\n Sign up for Top 25 poll alerts here. Visit the Top 25 here and see AP\u2019s full college football coverage here.<\/p>\n \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":"The Miners amassed 491 total yards in their home opener, backed by Tavorus Jones’ 104 yards on the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":434506,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[261,27,29,28,20703,5076],"class_list":["post-434505","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-texas","tag-college-football","tag-texas","tag-texas-headlines","tag-texas-news","tag-texas-southern-tigers","tag-utep-miners"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/434505","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=434505"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/434505\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/434506"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=434505"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=434505"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=434505"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}