Saturday, January 07, 2012

SMU 28 - Pitt 6

Got another prediction wrong.

The Southern Methodist Mustangs routed the Pittsburgh Panthers Saturday afternoon in the BBVA Compass Bowl by a score of 28-6.

J.J. McDermott opened the scoring with a 50 yard TD pass to Darius Johnson early in the first quarter, ran one yard for the next TD, and then Rishaad Wimbley scored the first of his two rushing TDs…still in the first quarter. And the Mustangs led 21-0 at the end of the first quarter.

After that it was strong defense on the part of SMU that sacked, rushed and limited Pitt’s Tino Sunseri. By the time Sunseri was pulled late in the fourth quarter, he had just 33 yards on 13 carries and had completed just 19 of 28 passes for 183 yards and one INT. Pittsburgh was limited to just two Kevin Harper field goals.

Pitt’s defense didn’t do too poorly after that first quarter either. The Panthers limited SMU to just 61 yards on the ground. McDermott did complete 16 of 25 passes for 238 yards, however 100+ of that came in the first quarter.

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