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WKU Football vs. UTEP
Postgame Notes
Nov. 8, 2014
Houchens Industries-L.T. Smith Stadium; Bowling Green, Ky.
FINAL SCORE: WKU 35, UTEP 27
Team Records and Series Notes
- WKU improved to 4-5 overall and 2-4 in Conference USA action with its victory over the Miners. UTEP's three-game winning streak was snapped as it fell to 5-4 and 3-2 in C-USA.
- The Hilltoppers are now 51-29-3 all-time in homecoming games.
Team Notes
- WKU's game captains were Cameron Clemmons, Gavin Rocker, Willie McNeal and Terran Williams.
- WKU won the coin toss and elected to receive.
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- The Hilltoppers failed to score on their opening possession for just the fourth time this season
- WKU hung 35 points on a Miner defense that had only allowed 14 points the past two weeks
- WKU overcame a 13-point deficit to win the contest, marking its first double-digit comeback since overcoming a 10-point deficit at Army on Nov. 9, 2013
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- The comeback was WKU's largest since overcoming a 14-point deficit versus North Texas on Nov. 24, 2012
- WKU has scored at least 30 points in 11 of its last 12 games dating back to Nov. 23, 2013
- The Hilltopper defense allowed a season low 394 yards and did not allow a point in the fourth quarter for the second-straight home game
- With Wonderful Terry's 90-yard interception return for a TD in the fourth quarter, WKU now has five defensive touchdowns in 2014.
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- WKU leads the country with four defensive scores of 80+ yards in 2014
- WKU's five defensive TDs are the most since registering five during the 2007 season
- With their 35 points against the Miners, the Hilltoppers have now scored at least 35 points in all four home games
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- WKU is averaging 49.8 points per game at home this season
- The Hilltoppers have forced a turnover in six-consecutive games
- Attendance for the contest was a season high 18,472
- Senior quarterback Brandon Doughty threw for 324 yards, completing 23-of-34 passes in the game with three touchdown passes.
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- Doughty extended his single-season record for TD passes to 28 after throwing three versus the Miners
- Doughty's 23 completions moved him to 268 in 2014, which establishes a new WKU single-season record
- Doughty became the fourth quarterback in WKU history to eclipse the 40-touchdown mark in his career. He's now at 42 -- WKU's all-time mark stands at 51
- Doughty has eclipsed the 300-yard passing mark in seven of nine games this season
- Doughty has now thrown for at least 250 yards in nine of his last 10 games and at least 300 in six of his last seven
- Doughty has thrown at least one touchdown pass in nine-straight games and multiple touchdown passes in nine of his last 10 games
- Junior running back Leon Allen posted career highs in catches (8) and receiving yards (88) and added 2 touchdowns, one via the run and one via reception.
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- Allen scored a rushing and receiving touchdown for his fourth-career multi-TD game
- Junior defensive back Wonderful Terry recorded his third defensive TD of the season with a 90-yard interception return for a go-ahead fourth quarter score
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- Terry is the first WKU defensive player with three TDs in a season since Bobby Sippio had three in 2000
- Terry's return was the fourth longest interception return for a TD in school history
- Terry is one of eight Hilltoppers with at least three touchdowns in 2014
- Redshirt senior wide receiver Joel German racked up a career high 92 receiving yards on three catches
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- German has two career TD grabs, both coming in 2014 and both gaining at least 45 yards
- German hauled in a career long 50-yard reception for a first-quarter TD
- Redshirt senior wide receiver Willie McNeal's five receptions moved him to 152 for his career, making him the third wideout in WKU history to tally 150 receptions in his career
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- McNeal's third-quarter TD grab moved his career total to 18, which ranks fifth in WKU history
