Torrance Burgess Jr. rushed for 214 yards to help the Bobcats secure their first victory of the season in a matchup featuring 1,181 combined yards of offense. Tayven Jackson passed for a career-high 483 yards and three scores for the Mean Green.<\/p>\n
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SAN MARCOS, Texas (AP) Davian Jackson scored four touchdowns including a 57-yarder late in the fourth quarter to ensure Texas State<\/a>‘s 49-35 win over North Texas<\/a> for the Bobcats’ first win of the season on Saturday.<\/p>\n Jackson, not finding any room inside, broke around the right side untouched for the game’s final points with 3:07 remaining. Brad Jackson threw four touchdown passes, including a 13-yarder to Jackson midway through the fourth quarter for a 42-28 lead.<\/p>\n The Mean Green (1-2) had closed within seven on Taven Jackson’s 18-yard pass to Jaheim White with 5:24 to go.<\/p>\n The teams combined for 1,181 yards of offense. The Bobcats (1-2) had 337 rushing yards, led by Torrance Burgess Jr. with 214 on 25 carries and Davian Jackson’s 77 yards on 10 carries with three TDs. Brad Jackson was 16-of-22 passing for 268 yards.<\/p>\n North Texas’ Tayven Jackson was 43-of-57 passing for a career-high 483 yards, three touchdowns and an interception. Justin Stevenson had 122 yards receiving on 10 catches.<\/p>\n Texas State led 21-7 after one quarter and North Texas matched that in the second quarter for a 28-all halftime tie.<\/p>\n North Texas: Host to Houston Christian next Saturday.<\/p>\n Texas State: Host to Incarnate Word next 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":"Torrance Burgess Jr. rushed for 214 yards to help the Bobcats secure their first victory of the season…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":441392,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[261,14660,27,29,28,9327],"class_list":["post-441391","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-texas","tag-college-football","tag-north-texas-mean-green","tag-texas","tag-texas-headlines","tag-texas-news","tag-texas-state-bobcats"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/441391","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=441391"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/441391\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/441392"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=441391"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=441391"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=441391"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}