Grambling Defeats Texas Southern for 8th Straight Win

The Grambling Tigers travelled to Houston to take on Texas southern in an exciting game for both teams. Both Grambling and Texas Southern would play great on offense and defense and would make a few mistakes as well. The game would end with Grambling on top with a score of 47-28. This is also the 8^th straight win for the Tigers, and they are currently 9-1 on the season and sit at #16 on the FCS national rankings.

The first quarter of play would not see much scoring but each team would score a touchdown before the quarter would end. Most of the first quarter would not see much scoring at all, until Martez Carter ran in a 3 yard touchdown to give Grambling the first ones on the board. A few minutes later, Hurts would complete a pass to Watts of Texas Southern for a 44 yard touchdown. This score tied the game at 7-7 at the end of the first quarter.

The second quarter was electric and exciting as both teams would score plenty of times through the course of the quarter. After 2 minutes into the second quarter, Burney of Texas Southern would run 14 yards for a touchdown that would give them the lead over Grambling. Shortly after, Hurts would complete a pass to Webb for a 50 yard touchdown. With the ball back in Grambling’s hands, the ball would be given to Jestin Kelly, who would fumble the ball and it would be recovered by Moore of Texas Southern. Moore would score on that fumble recovery and at this point Texas Southern would have a 3 score lead over Grambling. After that large scoring run by Texas Southern, Grambling would get into gear and begin to produce some offense of their own.

Grambling would get the ball back and Kincade would throw a 34 yard pass to Hunter for a touchdown. Shortly after that score, Kincade would get the ball again and throw another touchdown pass to Hunter, this time for 72 yards. That score put Grambling 7 points behind. After a few more drives down the field, Wallace of Grambling would score two field goals to cut the lead of Texas Southern down to just one point. With seconds left in the first half. Kincade would complete a pass to Leake for a 32 yard touchdown. The point after was blocked but Grambling would retake the lead over Texas Southern with a halftime score of 33-28. Kincade would throw for 3 touchdowns on this quarter alone and the tigers would score 26 unanswered points in the second quarter.

Early in the third quarter, Grambling would miss a field goal on their first drive, but later once they got the ball back, Martez Carter would run in a 10 yard touchdown to give the tigers a 40-28 lead. The defenses of both teams would play well at this point, as well as the entire game. A majority of the drives in the third and fourth quarters would end in punts, until late in the fourth quarter when Texas Southern threw an interception to give Grambling the ball with great field position. It did not take too long for Grambling to score at this point when Jestin Kelly ran a 4 yard score to give the tigers the lead even further at 47-28. That was the final score of the game which gave Grambling its 8^th straight win.

Grambling would gain 461 yards of total offense  in this game and two turnovers compared to Texas Southern’s 4 turnovers. Grambling also had 19 first downs in this game. The next game for Grambling is one that many fans have been waiting for. The Bayou Classic between Grambling and Southern is always a good game and this year it will be even more exciting. Both teams are in the top of the SWAC and have not lost a game in any conference game they have played. Both teams have won 8 straight games and they have both not lost a game this season since September 10^th. This instate rivalry looks to be a great one.