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USF Football Post-Game Notes At UConn, Nov. 4, 2017

TEAM

- USF posted its 25th 30-plus point scoring game in the past 26 outings. - USF has won six straight games against UConn and five straight conference road games. - The Bulls are 18-4 in conference games over the last three seasons. - USF added to its nation-leading total with its 17th of the season.

OFFENSE

• QB broke his own school record with 516 yards of total offense. Flowers set the previous school record with 473 yards at Memphis on Nov. 12, 2016. It marked just the fourth 500-yard game in American Athletic Conference history. • Flowers threw for a career-high 385 yards, which marked the second-highest total in USF single- game history. B.J. Daniels threw for 409 yards against Cincinnati on Oct. 22, 2011. • Flowers became the seventh player in FBS history to reach 7,000 passing and 3,000 rushing yards with his USF record 16th career game with 300-plus yards. • Flowers posted his 13th-career 100-yard rushing game with 131 yards on 16 carries. • WR Marquez Valdes-Scanting posted his second straight 100-yard receiving game with six catches for 152 yards. Valdes-Scantling’s 95-yard touchdown catch on a pass from Quinton Flowers in the third quarter was a career-long connection for both players. It also matched the longest TD reception in school history. • Valdes-Scantling now ranks fourth on USF’s season records chart with 720 receiving yards. He’s up to 10th on school single-season history with 44 receptions. • RB D’Ernest Johnson rushed for his seventh TD of the season and 16th of his career in the first quarter. Johnson became USF’s all-time receptions leader by a running back with his 69th catch that moved into a tie for fourth with his 12th-career touchdown catches. • TE Mitchell Wilcox caught his first touchdown pass of the season and the third of his career in Santiag

DEFENSE • USF posted three sacks in the first quarter and finished with four. • S Jaymon Thomas posted a career-best 10 tackles. • LB Auggie Sanchez finished with three tackles and is three stops away from the school record set by former NFL linebacker Kawika Mitchell (367 tackles, 1999-2002). • Sanchez moved up to third on USF’s career starts list with 47, three away from George Selvie’s school record. • CB Deatrick Nichols intercepted his third pass of the season and the 11th of his career in the final minute of the first half. Nichols now has sole possession of third place on USF’s career list. • DT Bruce Hector grabbed sole possession of seventh on USF’s career sacks list with 16.5 after posting 1.5 sacks against UConn. Hector also forced the second of his career. • Hector is tied for the team lead of 5.5 sacks with DE Mike Love, who had a sack against UConn. • DE Kirk Livingstone posted his second sack of the season.

SPECIAL TEAMS

• K Emilio Nadelman’s 51-yard field marked a career-long. He went 3-for-3 on field goal attempts and scored seven points. • Nadelman ranks second on USF’s career scoring list with 259 points. • He now has 18 made field goal on the year, one short of the school record of 19 set by Maikon Bonani (2011) and Delbert Alvarado (2007). • Nadleman now has 40 career field goals, passing Santiago Gramatica (38) for second all- time at USF.