Texas Longhorns vs Texas Tech Red Raiders Match Player Stats On Nov 05, 2016

The Sports Xchange
Nov 5, 2016

LUBBOCK, Texas -- D'Onta Foreman ran for 341 yards and three touchdowns and Texas outlasted Texas Tech 45-37 on Saturday in a Big 12 Conference game on a cool and overcast afternoon at Jones AT&T Stadium.

Foreman rushed 33 times and scored on runs of 4, 38 and 74 yards. He is the first Texas player to run for 300-plus yards since Ricky Williams racked up 350 yards against Iowa State in his Heisman Trophy season in 1998 and the first Longhorn running back with back-to-back 200-yard games since Hodges Mitchell in 2000.

With all Foreman accomplished, it was barely enough to earn the Longhorns (5-4, 3-3 in the Big 12) the victory.

Da'Leon Ward's 9-yard touchdown run for Texas Tech (4-5, 2-4) after a Texas fumble got the Red Raiders to within 45-37 with 10:50 left in the game.

After the teams traded failed fourth-down conversions deep in Texas Tech territory in the final four minutes, the Red Raiders drove to the Texas 20 in the final minute.

But on third down, quarterback Patrick Mahomes, forced to scramble to his left to avoid the Texas rush, lofted a pass to the end zone that was intercepted by the Kris Boyd, cementing the Texas win.

Mahomes passed for 367 yards and three touchdowns while leading the Red Raiders to 482 yards of total offense on 100 plays. Texas countered with 658 yards of total offense and got 244 yards and two touchdowns from freshman quarterback Shane Buechele.

One of the craziest plays of the season in college football also featured Foreman and gave the Red Raiders a 23-14 lead midway through the second quarter.

Texas drove from its 1-yard-line to the Tech 19 before Foreman took a handoff and plowed his way through the defense, carrying as many as eight players with him toward the end zone.

Just as he was making his final lunge for touchdown, Tech defensive back Douglas Coleman reached into the pile, wrenched the ball from Foreman and sprinted 100 yards to the opposite end zone for a jaw-dropping touchdown and a huge reversal of fortune for the Red Raiders.

Replays were not conclusive enough to overturn the call that was made on the field, and because the officials were still in chase mode from the far end of the field they didn't see Coleman step out of bounds on the 2-yard-line while being collared by Texas wide receiver Devin Duvernay.