University of North Texas
2-2 , 1-0
UNLV
2-1 , 0-0
Football Falls at UNLV
9/17/2022 6:16:00 PM | Football
LAS VEGAS (AP) — Austin Aune was 17-of-29 passing for 305 yards and two scores, and Kaylon Horton had a 99-yard kickoff return for North Texas in a 58-27 loss to UNLV on Saturday.
Doug Brumfield accounted for four touchdowns, and Aidan Robbins rushed for 227 yards and three scores to lead UNLV to the win.
Brumfield was 21-of-27 passing for 211 yards and two scores and he rushed for 100 yards including two more scores for UNLV (2-1).
Robbins a graduate transfer from Louisville, has seven touchdowns — six rushing — through three games. His 227 yards Saturday ranks eighth in UNLV single-game history. The Rebels had 365 yards rushing and outgained the Mean Green 576-467.
UNLV led 23-20 at halftime. Brumfield ran 8 yards for a touchdown that gave the Rebels a 10-point lead midway through the third quarter before UNLV secured the win in the final quarter with Robbins' third touchdown, Brumfield's 9-yard pass to Ricky White that completed a 99-yard drive and Cameron Oliver's 20-yard pick-6.
Postgame Notes
North Texas at UNLV
Saturday, Sept. 17, 2022
- The Mean Green loss drops them to 1-5 all-time against UNLV.
- The captains for UNT for the game were Manase Mose, KD Davis, Cole Brown and Sean-Thomas Faulkner.
- Senior DB Zahodri Jackson and redshirt freshman DL Fatafehi Vailea both made their first starts at UNT.
- UNT trailed 23-20 at the end of the first half but were outscored 35-7 in the second half.
- UNT allowed a block punt and a safety on the same play in the first quarter. It was the first blocked punt allowed by the Mean Green since the 2018 New Mexico Bowl against Utah State and the first safety by a UNT opponent since UAB registered one Oct. 20, 2018.
- Junior QB Austin Aune finished the game 17 for 29 with 305 yards and two touchdowns.
- Aune now has nine touchdown passes this season to eight different receivers
- The 54-yard strike to Gumms was the second 50+ yard TD pass for Aune this season (70 yards to Burns against TSU)
- His nine passing touchdowns matches his total from the 2021 season and he has 25 passing TDs in his career.
- Aune produced his fifth career 300-yard passing game, the first off 2022.
- Redshirt freshman DL Fatafehi Vailea made his first career start.
- Vailea made three tackles in the game.
- Senior DB Zahodri Jackson started at corner for his first start at UNT and the 11th of his career.
- Jackson finished the contest with four tackles, playing his second career game inside Allegiant Stadium (Utah St., 2021).
- Junior DB Kaylon Horton had a 99-yard kickoff return for a touchdown for his fourth career touchdown (Two PR, one KR, one receiving) and his first with the Mean Green.
- It was the first kickoff return for a touchdown by a UNT player since Deion Hair-Griffin had a 96-yard touchdown on August 31, 2019 against Abilene Christian.
- His 99-yard touchdown is tied for the fourth-longest kick return for a touchdown in UNT history and the fourth longest return by any FBS player this season.
- The return was the second career kickoff return for Horton with the second of his career, with the first coming at Tarleton State in 2020.
- Junior WR Roderic Burns caught a season-high five passes for 98 yards in the contest.
- Burns has now caught at least one pass in 20 consecutive games for the Mean Green.
- Finished just two yards shy of recording his fourth career 100-yard games.
- Sophomore DL Roderick Brown recorded a sack in the first quarter for his first sack of the season and the fourth of his collegiate career.
- Recorded a total of four tackles.
- Sophomore TE Jake Roberts had one catch eight yards.
- This season, Roberts has eight catches and seven of them have gone for either a first down or a touchdown.
- Junior DB Deshawn Gaddie produced eight tackles in the contest, setting a new career-high.
- Senior DB Quinn Whitlock finished the game with a career-high nine tackles.
- Whitlock had seven assisted tackles and two solos as well as a tackle for loss.
- Junior WR Jordan Smart made his UNT debut in the game.
- Sophomore RB Oscar Adaway scored a receiving touchdown in the second quarter for his first career receiving TD.
- Adaway has now scored a touchdown in four consecutive games to start the season and has five overall (four rushing, one receiving).
- He is the first UNT player to score a touchdown in four straight games to start a season since Jaelon Darden found the endzone in every game of the 2020 season.
- The catch was just the third of Adaway's career overall and his first of the season.
- On the ground, Adaway finished with 73 yards on 14 carries with a long rush of 16 yards.
- Freshman TE Var'Keyes Gumms caught a career-long 54-yard touchdown pass from Aune in the second half for his second career touchdown.
- It is the second straight game Gumms has caught a touchdown pass.
- Gumms finished the contest with two catches for 71 yards.
- Junior WR Jyaire Shorter set a new season-high with four catches for 90 yards.
- Senior DB Sean-Thomas Faulkner led the team with 11 tackles.
- Faulkner set a new season-high with his 11 tackles, five of which were solo stops.
- Sophomore RB Ayo Adeyi rushed for 73 yards on 11 carries.
Team Stats
UNT 0, NLV 7
NLV - Williams,Kyle 23 yd pass from Brumfield,Doug (Gutierrez,Daniel kick) 7 plays, 65 yards, TOP 03:16
UNT 7, NLV 7
UNT - Horton,Kaylon 99 yd kickoff return (Mooney,Ethan kick)
UNT 7, NLV 9
NLV - 0 yd safety
UNT 10, NLV 9
UNT - Mooney,Ethan 31 yd field goal 12 plays, 70 yards, TOP 03:27
UNT 10, NLV 16
NLV - Robbins,Aidan 2 yd run (Gutierrez,Daniel kick), 17 plays, 75 yards, TOP 08:06
UNT 10, NLV 23
NLV - Robbins,Aidan 33 yd run (Gutierrez,Daniel kick), 1 plays, 33 yards, TOP 00:09
UNT 17, NLV 23
UNT - Adaway III,Oscar 7 yd pass from Aune,Austin (Mooney,Ethan kick) 11 plays, 75 yards, TOP 04:30
UNT 20, NLV 23
UNT - Mooney,Ethan 20 yd field goal 10 plays, 82 yards, TOP 01:23
UNT 20, NLV 30
NLV - Brumfield,Doug 29 yd run (Gutierrez,Daniel kick), 6 plays, 61 yards, TOP 01:48
UNT 27, NLV 30
UNT - Gumms,Var'Keyes 54 yd pass from Aune,Austin (Mooney,Ethan kick) 3 plays, 75 yards, TOP 00:46
UNT 27, NLV 37
NLV - Brumfield,Doug 8 yd run (Gutierrez,Daniel kick), 8 plays, 75 yards, TOP 04:01
UNT 27, NLV 44
NLV - Robbins,Aidan 1 yd run (Gutierrez,Daniel kick), 15 plays, 82 yards, TOP 06:43
UNT 27, NLV 51
NLV - White,Ricky 9 yd pass from Brumfield,Doug (Gutierrez,Daniel kick) 6 plays, 99 yards, TOP 03:23
UNT 27, NLV 58
NLV - Oliver,Cameron 20 yd interception (Gutierrez,Daniel kick)
