Mordecai earns AAC Player of the Week, national honors

[PonyPride]

From SMUMustangs.com:

Mordecai Named AAC Offensive Player Of The Week; Picks Up National Honors

IRVING, Texas (The American/SMU) – Tanner Mordecai was today named the American Athletic Conference Offensive Player of the Week for his record-setting performance in SMU's 77-63 win over Houston Saturday.

Mordecai has also already been named the College Football Performance Award National Performer of the Week and a Walter Camp Award National FBS Player of the Week.

Against Houston, Mordecai went 28-37 passing for 379 yards and nine TDs, while also going 8-54 rushing with a TD for 433 yards of total offense. The nine TD passes and 10 total TDs responsible for were both AAC and SMU records, while the seven passing TDs in the first half tied the NCAA record. According to ESPN Stats and Info, he is the only player in FBS history to have seven passing TDs and a rushing TD in a half.

He currently ranks in the top-10 nationally for points responsible for per game (6th, 20.2), passing TDs (8th, 25), passing yards per game (8th, 312.5) and points responsible for (10th, 162).

Mordecai now has an SMU-record 13 300-yard passing games and is top-10 in career passing TDs (2nd, 64), passing yards (6th, 128), completions (6th, 496) and total offense (6th, 6,429).

As a team, the Mustangs also set the SMU and tied the AAC records for points in the first half (56), set the AAC record for most combined points in a game and set the NCAA FBS record for combined points in regulation.

Mordecai and the Mustangs travel to Tampa, Florida, Saturday for an 11 a.m. CT match-up with USF.

[Charleston Pony]

All those honors are well deserved. His performance was just incredible Saturday. Kudos to the OL for keeping him upright and giving him enough time and the throwing lanes he needed to put up those kind of video game numbers. Just an outstanding job by the offense all around including some really good receptions and some strong running, aided by a few gaping holes the OL opened.

[AusTxPony]

"gaping holes" - because of Oline blocking or refined schemes? Seemed like their linebackers were out of position often. I couldn't tell, but they were there alright.

[DiamondM75]

Tanner needs to learn how to avoid hits by sliding. We need him healthy the rest of the season and there were a couple of plays where he could have gone into a slide and avoided some big hits.

Other than that, great game.

[Hilltopper]

He probably had those awards won by halftime

[Mustangs_Maroons]

Well deserved! heck of a game. if he had played like this in the other games, we'd be in the talk for a big 6 bowl. The offense can be that good, in spite of our D.