Latavius Murray rushed for 155 yards and two touchdowns and caught another score as Central Florida rolled past Southern Methodist 42-17 Saturday night.<\/p>\n
Quarterback Blake Bortles also accounted for three touchdowns — two through the air and one on the ground — to help the Knights (7-2, 5-0) secure their fifth straight victory and remain on track to host the Conference USA championship game.<\/p>\n
SMU (4-5, 3-2), which entered with the league’s top-rated rushing defense, fell back under .500 and deeper behind West Division-leading Tulsa.<\/p>\n
The Mustangs briefly closed within four points in the second quarter, but never found consistency on either side of the ball.<\/p>\n
After posting a career passing effort in last week’s win over Memphis, SMU quarterback Garrett Gilbert was sacked three times and never got into a rhythm.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Latavius Murray rushed for 155 yards and two touchdowns and caught another score as Central Florida rolled past Southern Methodist 42-17 Saturday night. Quarterback Blake Bortles also accounted for three touchdowns — two through the air and one on the ground — to help the Knights (7-2, 5-0) secure their fifth straight victory and remain on track to host the…","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":30707,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"template-twocol.php","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"lazy_load_responsive_images_disabled":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":"","_wp_rev_ctl_limit":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[503,1810,1939,5305,2757,3346,3847,6343,202],"tu_author":[],"class_list":["post-42748","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports","tag-blake-bortles","tag-football","tag-george-oleary","tag-jj-worton","tag-latavius-murray","tag-ncaa","tag-quincy-mcduffie","tag-storm-johnson","tag-alumni"],"yoast_head":"\n