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- 0:05Number thirteen. Texas Tech survives number twenty two Houston as a late
- 0:08two point try comes up short. This article is being read by
- 0:13an automated voice, generated by Everlet. Lubbock, Texas, the AP. Shoby
- 0:20Williams and Cameron Dickey ran for second half touchdowns and defending Big
- 0:24Twelve champion No. Thirteen. Texas Tech held on for a twenty eight
- 0:28twenty six on Friday night when No. Twenty two, Houston quarterback Connor
- 0:31Weigman, came up just short of a two point conversion in the
- 0:34final minute. Wiegmann's third T D pass, a ten yarder to Patrick
- 0:39Overmeyer with forty nine seconds left, gave the Cougars two one zero
- 0:43one, a chance to tie in the conference opener for both teams.
- 0:46On the try for two, Wigman took off to the left and
- 0:49lunged forward with the ball extended, though his knee came down before
- 0:53the ball broke the plane of the end zone. Will Hammond was
- 0:5617 of 27 passing for 257 yards and a touchdown for the
- 1:01Red Raiders. 3-0-1-0 who were down 10-0 with just one offensive snap,
- 1:07only 9 12 minutes into their first Friday home game since 1941.
- 1:12Wegman finished twenty seven of thirty-eight for two hundred and eighty two
- 1:16yards. After only two carries for five yards before halftime, Williams had
- 1:21consecutive runs of nineteen, five and twenty nine yards, the last a
- 1:25burst through the left side and pretty much untouched to the end
- 1:29zone to make it twenty one seventeen, only two and a half
- 1:31minutes into the second half. Dickey had a one yard scoring run
- 1:35with seven thirty six left. Five Miami thirty three, Wake Forest twenty.
- 1:40Winston Salem, North Carolina the AP. Darien Mensa connected on his first
- 1:45twenty four passes on the way to setting Atlantic Coast Conference records
- 1:49for consecutive completions, and Miami's defense came up with four straight fourth
- 1:53quarter stops to beat Wake Forest. Mensaw completed thirty of thirty four
- 1:58passes for two hundred twenty yards and three touchdowns, including a nine
- 2:02yarder to Joshua Moore on the game's first possession, and a perfect
- 2:06execution throwback to the left side on Elijah Lofton's twenty one yard
- 2:10score. Mena added a short TD throw to Star Sophomore receiver, Malachi
- 2:15Tony, as Miami, three zero two zero, took a thirty one seven
- 2:19lead midway through the third quarter, only to see its prolific defense
- 2:23grind to an abrupt halt with four straight three and outs, while
- 2:26seeing multiple players get banged up. That ultimately gave the Hurricane's defence
- 2:31its chance to step up as Wake Forest tried to rally. Joe
- 2:35Lopez threw for three hundred and twelve yards
- 2:38and three touchdowns for the Demon Deacons, two one zero one, including
- 2:42a perfect throw to the back right corner of the end zone
- 2:45for Carlos Hernandez on a seventeen yard strike that pulled Wake Forest
- 2:49to thirty one twenty with fourteen fifty six left. But from there
- 2:53Miami's defense pressured Lopez in the end zone to draw a holding
- 2:56penalty for a safety. Then, after Wake Forest drove all the way
- 3:01to the Miami thirteen, the Hurricanes again pressured Lopez into an inaccurate
- 3:04throw on fourth down in the end zone. Number twenty one, Oregon
- 3:08eighty four, Portland State Zero. Eugene the AP, Dante Moore threw for
- 3:13two hundred and eighty yards and four touchdowns and Oregon followed a
- 3:16stunning upset at Oklahoma State last weekend with a romp over Portland
- 3:20State. The victory, coach Dan Lanning's fiftieth in fifty nine games at
- 3:25Oregon 2 1, was the fortieth in the Ducks Nation, leading active
- 3:29non conference home winning streak, and the third largest margin of victory
- 3:33in school history. Portland State 04 has lost seven consecutive games dating
- 3:38to its 111-2025 season. Portland State quarterback Gabe Downing was eight for
- 3:44twenty for one hundred and one yards and threw three second half
- 3:47interceptions, two to Ducks freshman Jet Washington. Oregon freshman Messiah
- 3:53Hampton entered while junior receiver Jeremiah McClellan, who led the Ducks in
- 3:58receiving yards through the first two games, didn't play after warming up
- 4:02with the team. Hampton caught six passes for seventy one yards and
- 4:06two touchdowns as Oregon built a forty nine zero lead by halftime
- 4:10in what amounted to a get right game before it enters conference
- 4:13play next week with a trip to number twelve Southern California. Oregon's
- 4:18opening salvo took just 312, an eight-play 72-yard drive that ended in
- 4:22the first of Jordan Davison's two U touchdowns. Davison finished with eighty
- 4:27one yards and two U touchdowns. Moore added a pair of long
- 4:31passing touchdowns, one to an uncovered Dakorian Moore on a busted coverage,
- 4:35and another down the sideline to Stewart to complete a twenty eight
- 4:39point first quarter.