Miller, TCU run past Texas Tech
LUBBOCK — Kendre Miller rushed for 185 yards and three touchdowns, Zach Evans had 143 yards and two scores without a carry after halftime and TCU ran past Texas Tech 52-31 on Saturday night.
Evans didn’t have another carry after his 1-yard touchdown with 1:35 left in the first half that pushed the Horned Frogs (3-2, 1-1 Big 12) to a 35-10 lead.
It was his fourth consecutive 100-yard game, and his sixth in the last eight games going back to last season.
The Frogs, playing their first road game of the season, piled up 394 yards rushing.
They jumped out to a 14-0 lead midway through the first quarter on a 33yard score by Miller.
Henry Colombi, under intense pressure most of the night, completed 23 of 41 passes for 344 yards for Texas Tech (4-2, 1-2), which piled up 558 total yards. SaRodorick Thompson ran for 118 yards and three TDs.
Miller had two of his touchdowns after halftime, wigging through a hole on an off-tackle run and dashed down the sideline for a 75-yard TD.
He also broke free for a 45-yard touchdown with 4:51 left in the game to finally ice the victory after Tech failed on an onside kick attempt.
Tre’Vius Hodges-Tomlinson returned an interception 29 yards for a touchdown before halftime.
BAYLOR 45
WEST VIRGINIA 20
Gerry Bohanon had career highs of 336 yards passing and four touchdowns, including a 75yarder to Tyquan Thornton on the second play of the game, while also scoring on a 1-yard sneak in the Bear’s victory over the Mountaineers.
Thornton caught eight passes for a career-best 187 yards and two TDs as the Bears scored on four of their first five possessions a week after starting with eight consecutive punts in a 24-14 loss to Oklahoma State that knocked Baylor out of the Top 25 right after getting in.
With the Bears (5-1, 3-1 Big 12) celebrating the 10th anniversary of Robert Griffin III’s Heisman Trophy season by showing frequent highlights, Bohanon was 18 of 29 with no interceptions, giving the fourth-year junior 183 career attempts without a pick.
Jarret Doege was sacked six times, and the Mountaineers (2-4, 0-3) again couldn’t get the Big 12’s worst run game going. West Virginia, which had 90 mostly empty yards rushing, has lost its first three conference games for the second time since joining the league in 2012.
Thornton caught Bohanon’s first pass 7 yards from the line of scrimmage, split the defense and ran untouched on a play that was 3 yards shy of the longest of the senior’s career.
Doege was 24 of 37 for 272 yards with a score.