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Postgame Stats and Records | Texas 64 – UTEP 7

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Sep 27, 2009

Texas 64, UTEP 7
September 26, 2009
Royal-Texas Memorial Stadium – Austin, Texas

TEXAS TEAM NOTES

  • Texas’ 47 points in the first half is the most in a half since taking a 52-0 lead against Kansas on Nov. 12, 2005. It marked the first time UT scored 40 or more points in a first half since scoring 41 against Rice on September 22, 2007.
  • Texas amassed 300 or more rushing yards and 300 or more passing yards in a game for just the second time in school history. The only other time Texas accomplished the feat was against Houston in 1990.
  • Texas rushed for 244 yards on 27 carries in the second half.
  • Texas allowed just 53 yards, the fewest yards allowed by a UT defense since 1990.
  • Texas allowed just nine rushing yards and has yielded a combined three rushing yards over the last two games.

    • Vondrell McGee

  • McGee logged his first career 100-yard rushing game.
  • McGee’s 51-yard rush in the third quarter was a career long.
  • McGee’s 23-yard TD run was his second of the season and the 14th of his career.D.J. Monroe
  • With Monroe’s 91-yard kickoff return for a TD, he became the first player in school history to return two kickoffs for TDs in a career.

    • Jordan Shipley

  • Shipley became the first player in school history to record 10 or more receptions in back-to-back games. His 21 receptions in the last two games was two shy of his own record of 23 set against Missouri (8) and Oklahoma State (15) last season.
  • Shipley recorded 10 or more receptions for the second consecutive game and the fifth time in his career.

    • Earl Thomas

  • Thomas’ two INTs gave him three for the season and five for his career.
  • It marked Thomas’ second two-INT game. He also snagged INTs in last year against Oklahoma.

    • Colt McCoy

  • McCoy became the 15th player in NCAA Football Bowl Subdivision history to amass over 12,000 yards of total offense in a career. He passed Brady Quinn (11,944), Byron Leftwich (12,084) and Chris Redman (12,129) to move into 13th place on the career list with 12,161 yards.
  • McCoy ended the game with 1,284 career rushing yards passing Terry Orr (1,279) and Priest Holmes (1,276) for 30th place on the Texas career rushing list.
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