Tulsa’s Brewer Rushes for 255 Yards in Season Finale

Saturday, November 25

H.A. Chapman Stadium

3:00 pm

Tulsa

2-10 , 1-7

Temple

6-6 , 4-4

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Tulsa’s Brewer Rushes for 255 Yards in Season Finale

11/25/2017 7:56:00 PM | Football

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By: The University of Tulsa copyright

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Tulsa's D'Angelo Brewer had his third career 200+ rushing game, but the visiting Temple Owls (6-6, 4-4 AAC) clinched bowl eligibility Saturday with a 43-22 victory over the Golden Hurricane (2-10, 1-7 AAC).

Brewer finished the game with 255 rushing yards, giving him a school record three career 200+ rushing games, his 8^th 100+ game of the year and a school record 17^th 100+ game of his career. The senior surpassed 100 yards rushing in the first half for the 4^th time this season with 146 yards.

Brewer, Tulsa's all-time rushing leader, completed his career with 3,917 yards, while finishing the season with 1,517 yards to rank third on the school's single-season rushing list.

Tulsa was without starting quarterback Luke Skipper going into the game, and lost backup Chad President in the 2^nd quarter. Sophomore Will Hefley III saw his first playing time for the Hurricane when he replaced President and finished the game as Tulsa's signal-caller.

The Hurricane gained 314 yards rushing, but threw for just 55 yards on six completions, the first sub-100-yard passing game since Nov. 14, 2014 against UCF.

Tulsa gave up 31 first-half points, while holding the Owls to 12 second-half points. Tulsa's defense held Temple to 110 second-half yards after giving up 341 yards in the first 30 minutes.

After holding Temple to 4 plays on the game's first possession, President guided the Tulsa offense 90 yards in eight plays on the subsequent possession and capped the drive with a 35-yard touchdown pass to Justin Hobbs for an early 7-0 lead.

The Owls scored the next 17 points on a field goal, a 28-yard pass play and nine-yard run to take a 17-7 lead at the 12:08 mark of the 2^nd quarter. A 28-yard Redford Jones field goal snapped Tulsa's scoreless streak, cutting its deficit to 17-10 with 7:44 left on the first-half clock.

The Owls added a touchdown at the 5:40 mark of the 2^nd quarter for a 24-10 lead after a 65-yard pass play set-up a one-yard touchdown run. Just before halftime, an interception under one minute by Temple's Derrek Thomas returned to the Tulsa 2-yard line saw the Owls take a 31-13 lead one play later.

At halftime, Temple held a 341 to 254-yard advantage in total offense, while 214 of Tulsa's yards came on the ground.

Tulsa opened the second half with a 9-play, 72-yard drive and it was Brewer's 14-yard run that cut the Temple lead to 31-20 at the 10:19 mark of the 3^rd period. After a 3-and-out on Tulsa's next possession, Temple's Isaiah Wright took back a punt 72 yards to increase its lead to 37-20.

The Owls added a touchdown after a fumble recovery late in the 4^th quarter, while the PAT was blocked by Diamon Cannon and returned by Christian Williams for two points, making the final score 43-22.

Tulsa suffered three turnovers in the game, as two of those led to 13 points for the Owls.

NOTES FROM TODAY'S GAME
D'ANGELO GETS ANOTHER SCHOOL RECORD … For the 4^th time this season, D'Angelo Brewer surpassed the 100-yard rushing mark in the first quarter with 119 yards on 15 carries. It also marked the 17^th time in his career that he rushed for over 100 yards in a game, breaking the previous record of 16 games held by Micheal Gunter (1980-83) and Tarrion Adams (2005-08). It was also Brewer's 8^th 100-yard rushing game of the season, the most since the 2013 season by Trey Watts, who also had 8 100-yard rushing games.

THE QBs … Tulsa began the game without the services of red-shirt freshman quarterback Luke Skipper, who had started the last 5 games, due to an injury. Sophomore Chad President received his 7^th start of the season. President left the game in the 2^nd quarter with an injury, and sophomore Will Hefley III made his first appearance in a Golden Hurricane uniform at quarterback.

19 SENIORS SAY GOODBYE … Nineteen Tulsa seniors have played their last game in a Golden Hurricane uniform. Six of those seniors did not play in the game, including 4 due to injury.

BLOCKS … Tulsa had 3 blocks in the game, including a 51-yard field goal attempt and 2 PATs. The field goal block came from Cooper Edmiston, while the blocked PATs were by Tyarise Stevenson and Diamon Cannon. Cannon's blocked PAT resulted in a defensive score with Christian Williams running near the length of the field for the two points.