Zeon Chriss threw for a landing and ran for some other Friday evening as Houston rebounded from consecutive shutouts to earn a 30-19 Giant 12 Convention win over TCU in Fortress Price, Texas.
Chriss finished 15 of 18 passes for 141 yards whilst operating for a game-high 97 yards on 11 carries. The Cougars (2-4, 1-2), who hadn’t scored some extent since Sept. 14 vs. Rice, rolled up 361 overall yards and saved the ball for nearly 37 mins.
Chriss sat out Houston’s next-to-last force with an obvious forearm damage however backup Donovan Smith got here in and led the workforce on a 66-yard march that lasted just about 7:27 and concluded with Jack Martin’s 3rd box purpose, a 27-yarder with 1:58 to play for a two-possession merit.
Josh Hoover finished 23 of 37 passes for 233 yards with two touchdowns and two interceptions for the Horned Frogs (3-3, 1-2). Hoover tossed a 29-yard scoring strike to Jack Bech with 9:25 final that were given them inside of a ownership, however he additionally absorbed 3 sacks, shedding a fumble after the general one with 48 seconds at the clock to finish it.
TCU got here into the sport as a 16 1/2-point favourite but it surely was once Houston that managed the primary half-hour with its highest offensive part of the 12 months.
Getting assist from a focused on penalty that ended in the ejection of the Horned Frogs’ Abe Camara and talented the Cougars a primary down on the 13, Houston scored first by means of Chriss’ 8-yard landing cross to Devan Williams on the 5:29 mark of the primary quarter.
Houston made it 14-0 lower than 90 seconds into the second one duration on a 2-yard run from Re’Shaun Sanford II, then were given a 34-yard box purpose from Martin with 4:55 left within the part.
Hoover were given TCU at the board simply earlier than the two-minute timeout on a 21-yard landing strike to Savion Williams.
Then again, Chriss responded again with 1:48 final on a 71-yard scoring jaunt, enabling the Cougars to take a 24-6 cushion to intermission.
–Box Degree Media
