Throwback Thursday: D’Onta Foreman’s monster day in Lubbock

In this week’s Throwback Thursday, we travel back to 2016. D’Onta Foreman has a monster game in Lubbock as Texas holds on late.

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In this week’s throwback Thursday, Longhorns Wire travels back four years. The Texas Longhorns came into Lubbock with a 4-4 record and 2-3 in conference. In fact both teams had the same record up until this point. The quarterback battle featured Shane Buechele and future Super Bowl and NFL MVP Patrick Mahomes. At the time Mahomes was a junior and it would mark the final time that he would play in this series as he left for the NFL following the season.

Tech opened the game with nine-play drive going 75 yards for the opening score of the game. After Buechele found Jake Oliver for a 52-yard pass, D’Onte Foreman finished off the drive to tie the game up. He wouldn’t be done in this one. In the weirdest play of the game, Texas drove 99 yards for a go ahead score but a fumble prior to crossing the goal line ended up as a 99-yard fumble recovering for a touchdown.

The Longhorns would eventually take the lead prior to halftime 24-23 after a Collin Johnson touchdown reception and a field goal from Trent Domingue with just 0:26 left to go.

The teams traded touchdowns as the second half kicked off and the Longhorns would find themselves ahead 38-30 as they headed to the final quarter of play clinging to an eight-point lead. As the quarter opened, Texas called a run play on third and three from their own 26. That is when Foreman went right up the middle for a 74-yard touchdown to give them the 14 point lead.

A fumble deep in their own territory gave the Red Raiders new life as Da’Leon Ward scored from nine yards out to cut the lead to just 7. A drive late in the fourth quarter for Tech came down to fourth and three. Mahomes found his high school teammate Dylan Cantrell for the conversion. On third and ten from the Texas 20-yard line Mahomes heaved the ball to the endzone but it was Kris Boyd who caught the ball intended for Cameron Batson.

On this day, D’Onta came oh so close to matching Ricky Williams single game record. Foreman ran the ball 33 times for 341 yards and three touchdowns. Buechele threw two touchdown passes to Collin Johnson and Texas held on 45-38 in Lubbock.