{"id":475818,"date":"2026-10-24T23:26:09","date_gmt":"2026-10-24T23:26:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/475818\/"},"modified":"2026-10-24T23:26:09","modified_gmt":"2026-10-24T23:26:09","slug":"texas-southern-football-ends-losing-streak-with-win-over-southern","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/475818\/","title":{"rendered":"Texas Southern football ends losing streak with win over Southern"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Texas Southern snapped its five-game losing streak Saturday, defeating Southern 24-21 at Reliant Stadium.<\/p>\n<p>Miguel Arana\u2019s 46-yard field goal as time expired gave the Tigers (2-5, 1-3 SWAC) their first win since beating North Carolina Central in their season opener.<\/p>\n<p>Jacob Washington,\u00a0Athean Renfro and Cam\u2019Ron McCoy each ran for touchdowns as TSU built a 21-7 lead midway through the third quarter. Renfro finished with a team-high 135 yards on 23 carries, while McCoy added 71 on 16 rushes.<\/p>\n<p>But Southern (3-5, 1-3) tied the\u00a0score on Trey Holly\u2019s 2-yard TD run with 4:24 left in the fourth quarter.<\/p>\n<p>TSU then took the ball and drove to the Southern 29 in nine plays, setting up Arana\u2019s winning kick.<\/p>\n<p>TSU hosts Grambling next Saturday at\u00a0Thorne Stadium.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Texas Southern snapped its five-game losing streak Saturday, defeating Southern 24-21 at Reliant Stadium. Miguel Arana\u2019s 46-yard field&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":475819,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[27,29,28],"class_list":["post-475818","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-texas","tag-texas","tag-texas-headlines","tag-texas-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/475818","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=475818"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/475818\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/475819"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=475818"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=475818"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=475818"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}