College Football Scores: Colt McCoy Leads #2 Texas Longhorns in Demolition of UTEP

Colt McCoy finished 28/35 passing for 286 yards and three touchdowns, Jordan Shipley had 122 yards receiving and a touchdown on ten catches and Vondrell McGee collected 104 yards on the ground with a TD as the #2 Texas Longhorns dismantled the UTEP Miners 64-7 on Saturday.

Texas jumped to a quick 7-0 lead when Tre’ Newton scored on a 3-yard run but after the Longhorns got the ball back off a turnover McCoy was picked off by Melvin Stephenson who went back 49 yards for a touchdown and the game was tied at 7-7. Texas wasted little time in snapping that tie though as D.J. Monroe took the ensuing kickoff back 91 yards for a touchdown and after the extra point was missed the score was 13-7. Hunter Lawrence added a 20-yard field goal to extend the Longhorns lead to 16-7 and then McCoy capped the scoring in the first quarter with a 36-yard touchdown pass to Dan Buckner to push the score to 23-7.

Things went from bad to worse for UTEP in the second quarter as Lawrence kicked a 19-yard field goal early in the frame to make it 26-7 and seven minutes later the Longhorns were putting seven more points on the board as McCoy hit Jordan Shipley on a 16-yard TD toss. Vondrell McGee tacked on a 23-yard touchdown run to extend the advantage to 40-7 and then McCoy finished off the first half with a15-yard touchdown pass to Buckner to head into the locker room in front 47-7.

Everything in the second half was mop up work for the Longhorns and in the third quarter Lawrence booted his third field goal of the game and that was followed b a Cody Johnson 18-yard touchdown run to make it 57-7. Foswhitt Whittaker ended the demolition with a 13-yard TD run on the opening playoff the fourth.

As dominant as the Texas offense was, collecting 639 yards, the Longhorns defense was just as impressive, allowing just 53 yards of offense to the Miners while forcing five turnovers.

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