{"id":434573,"date":"2026-09-13T08:28:38","date_gmt":"2026-09-13T08:28:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/434573\/"},"modified":"2026-09-13T08:28:38","modified_gmt":"2026-09-13T08:28:38","slug":"utep-rolls-past-texas-southern-in-home-opener-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/434573\/","title":{"rendered":"UTEP rolls past Texas Southern in home opener"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>EL PASO, Texas (KFOX 14, CBS4) \u2014 EJ Colson threw for 239 yards and four touchdowns to lead the UTEP Miners to a 51-10 victory over the Texas Southern Tigers on Saturday night at the Sun Bowl. <\/p>\n<p>UTEP moves to 1-1. Texas Southern falls to 1-2. <\/p>\n<p>On the Miners&#8217; first offensive play of the game, Colson connected with Kam Thomas for an 83-yard touchdown to give UTEP a 7-0 lead. However, the Tigers responded with a touchdown from Athean Renfro and a field to lead 10-7. In the second quarter, everything flipped. The Miners took complete control of the game and led 21-10 at the half.  In the second half, the UTEP defense pitched a shutout. The Miner offense ran up 51 points, the most in 10 years for UTEP. <\/p>\n<p>Next week, UTEP travels to Ann Arbor to take on the Michigan Wolverines. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"EL PASO, Texas (KFOX 14, CBS4) \u2014 EJ Colson threw for 239 yards and four touchdowns to lead&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":434574,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[138,140,139],"class_list":["post-434573","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-el-paso","tag-el-paso","tag-el-paso-headlines","tag-el-paso-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/434573","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=434573"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/434573\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/434574"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=434573"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=434573"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=434573"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}