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UNT's press release after the Mean Green lost Saturday to UTSA:

Football Drops One-Score Game to UTSA
11/4/2023 6:27:00 PM | Football

DENTON – A second-half rally fell short on Saturday, as the Mean Green dropped their fifth one-score game on Saturday at DATCU Stadium with a 37-29 defeat at the hands of UTSA.

Junior quarterback Chandler Rogers threw for 272 yards and two touchdowns on 20-of-38 passing but was also intercepted twice – both on balls batted at the line of scrimmage – to end his nation-long streak of 288 pass attempts without an interception.

The Mean Green (3-6, 1-4 AAC) trailed 10-0 after the first quarter and 27-13 at halftime before they were shut out in the third quarter. In the fourth quarter, UNT scored two touchdowns and made good on two two-point conversions to pull within the final eight-point margin but would get no closer.

Junior running back Ayo Adeyi led the Mean Green on the ground with 105 yards on 17 carries to make him the 13th player in program history to eclipse 2,000 career rushing yards. It was his fifth 100-yard rushing day of the season and the seventh of his career.

UNT will return to action on Friday night in Dallas when it travels to SMU for a game at 8 p.m.

QUICK HITS
• The Mean Green loss in the teams' 12th all-time meeting takes UTSA's lead in the all-time series to 7-5.
• UNT's captains for the season are Stone Earle, Febechi Nwaiwu, Mazin Richards, Logan Wilson and JP Hadley.
• Junior quarterback Chandler Rogers (Mansfield, Texas) made his seventh start for the Mean Green and finished the day with 272 yards and two touchdown passes on 20-of-38 passing.
• Rogers entered the game with 264 straight pass attempts without throwing an interception and ran the number to 288 before a third-quarter interception. His streak was the longest for a UNT player since Mason Fine had 300 straight attempts without an interception in 2018 and was the nation's longest active streak.
• Rogers now has multiple touchdown passes in seven games this season, including six of his seven starts.
• Rogers' 19-yard touchdown pass to Trey Cleveland with 5:50 to play was the 45th of his career and 21st of the season, tying him with Steve Ramsey (1967) for ninth in program history in single-season passing touchdowns.
• Rogers' 20-yard touchdown pass to Blair Conwright with 14:01 left to play was the 44th of his career and 20th of the season.
• Junior running back Oscar Adaway III (North Little Rock, Arkansas) finished with 62 yards on 12 carries and a touchdown.
• His 32-yard touchdown run with 8:07 left in the second quarter was the fourth-longest touchdown run for UNT this season and was his fourth on the year and 12th of his career.
• Junior RB Ayo Adeyi (Mansfield, Texas) finished with 17 carries for 105 yards.
• With his 105 yards, Adeyi moved into 13th on the program's all-time career rushing list with 2,019 yards, moving him past Hut Allred (1994-98).
• A 9-yard carry in the fourth quarter put Adeyi over the 2,000-yard mark for his career, making him the 13th player in program history to hit the milestone.
• Adeyi hit the 100-yard mark in a game for the fifth time this season and seventh time in his career.
• Sophomore WR Ja'Mori Maclin (Kirkwood, Missouri) finished with five catches for 63 yards. Maclin saw his streak of eight games with at least one touchdown reception end – it was the nation's longest streak.
• Junior WR Trey Cleveland (Arlington, Texas) finished with two catches for 28 yards and a touchdown.
His 19-yard touchdown reception with 5:50 to play was the fourth of his career and his second this season.
• Junior WR Blair Conwright (Lubbock, Texas) finished with five catches for 75 yards and a touchdown.
His 20-yard touchdown reception with 14:01 to play was the fourth of his career and his first at UNT.
His 75 yards is a new single-game career high.
• Freshman WR Landon Sides (Denton, Texas) finished with four catches for 47 yards and saw his first action as a punt returner.
• Freshman DB Evan Jackson (Houston, Texas) finished with a team-high 11 tackles, including nine solo stops.
Jackson's 11 tackles are a season- and career-high total and he's the first true freshman to have double-digit tackles in a game since at least 2017.
J• unior DB Logan Wilson (Dallas) finished with six tackles, including four solo stops, a tackle for-loss and a pass breakup.
• Freshman DB Jayven Anderson (Houston) finished with six tackles, including three solo stops.
Redshirt freshman DB Patrick Smith (Sugar Land, Texas) finished with eight tackles, including six solo stops.
• Junior DB Phil Hill (Spring, Texas) finished with seven tackles, including four solo stops.
• Senior DL Mazin Richards (Burleson, Texas) finished with four tackles, including two solo stops, a half tackle for-loss and a QB hurry.
• Redshirt freshman LB Ethan Wesloski (McKinney, Texas) finished with six tackles, including three solo stops and a half-tackle for-loss.
• Senior kicker Noah Rauschenberg (Tulsa, Oklahoma) went 1-for-1 on extra points and was 2-for-2 on field goals with a long of 33.
• Rauschenberg now has 13 made field goals and needs one more to crack the single-season top 10 in program history.