Aggie Football Opens Season with 59-7 Win Over NSU

COLLEGE STATION, Texas (AP) — Trayveon Williams ran for 240 yards and three touchdowns in just more than two quarters as Texas A&M routed Northwestern State 59-7 in coach Jimbo Fisher‘s debut with the Aggies on Thursday night.

Williams scored Texas A&M’s first touchdown on a 73-yard run, and a 2-yard scamper made it 21-0 in the second quarter. The junior pushed the lead to 42-0 when he burst through the line and simply outran everyone else for a 40-yard score early in the third quarter in his last play of the night.

It was the second-best rushing performance in school history behind the 297 yards Bob Smith ran for against SMU on Nov. 11, 1950, and Williams became the 20th player in Texas A&M history to reach 2,000 career yards rushing (2,095). Kwami Etwi added 83 yards rushing and a score to help the Aggies rush for more than 400 yards (503) for the first time since 2003.

Kellen Mond started at quarterback for the Aggies after vying with Nick Starkel for the job throughout camp and threw for 184 yards and touchdown passes of 7 and 8 yards and added a score on a 1-yard run. Starkel took over in the third quarter with the game out of hand and threw for 63 yards and a touchdown.

The Aggies handled business easily against Northwestern State, an FCS school which plays in the Southland Conference, to help Fisher to a victory in his first game since leaving Florida State for a 10-year, $75 million contract.

Northwestern State split plays at quarterback between Shelton Eppler and Clay Holgorsen. Eppler started and threw for 105 yards and Holgorsen finished with 125 yards passing and touchdown.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Aggie head coach Jimbo Fisher

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Aggie quarterback Kellen Mond

 

 

 

 

 

 

Aggie running back Trayveon Williams

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Aggie defensive end Landis Durham

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Aggie defensive end Kingsley Keke

 

Story courtesy of Texas A&M Athletics

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