North Texas Quarterback Joins Exclusive Club With 600-yard Outing Vs. Charlotte

There are bully passing nights, and location are really bully passing nights, and location is nan nighttime North Texas backmost Drew Mestemaker had against Charlotte Friday successful a 54–20 blowout win.

In helping nan Mean Green tally their grounds to 7-1, Mestemaker completed 37 of 49 passes for 608 yards done nan air. He added 4 touchdowns against 1 interception successful nan victory.

Mestemaker deed 2 milestones Friday. First, his 608 yards group an American Conference record. Second, his full made him conscionable nan 22nd backmost successful FBS history to propulsion for 600 aliases much yards successful a game.

He is only nan 3rd backmost to do truthful successful nan 2020s, joining K.J. Costello of Mississippi State against LSU and Dillon Gabriel of UCF against Memphis—both successful 2020.

The FBS grounds for passing yards successful a crippled is 732, jointly group by Connor Halliday of Washington State against California successful 2014 and Patrick Mahomes of Texas Tech against Oklahoma successful 2016.

Mestemaker, a redshirt freshman, entered Friday having thrown 17 touchdowns against 3 interceptions this season. Thanks to his efforts, North Texas is (per College Football Reference's database) connected gait for its highest winning percent arsenic a major school.

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