Here is a repost of TheDerisoReport’s live tweets from Thursday night’s ESPNU game between Grambling and Texas Southern at Robinson Stadium. Read from bottom up. Follow TDR on Twitter here — http://twitter.com/thederisoreport.
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Doug Williams (2000-02) and Eddie Robinson (1992-94) had tied for the previous record of 9, which Broadway passed against Valley. #Grambling
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Broadway has now extended his school record of home wins, to 11. #Grambling
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… in 1989-90, and then in 2004-05 — over the last 20 seasons. #Grambling
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GSU won last season, but has strung together consecutive victories over its in-state SWAC rival just twice … #Grambling
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Same goes, of course, for the Bayou Classic. #Grambling
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… a guy who recruited a number of GSU’s standouts, there was a second level to this game that went beyond the SWAC race.
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From the emotional display before the game to the strange visage of former nine-year coach Melvin Spears on the other sideline …
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Second, there is a point of pride. Grambling has beaten a team tonight that was clearly gunning for them. #Grambling
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Still, winning its two final games is important for Grambling. First, they are both on TV. That helps with recruiting. #Grambling
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Thoughts turn to next year for two teams out of the divisional race. Grambling has only five senior starters, and Anthony isn’t one of them.
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A final play by TSU finishes things. Grambling wins 47-33, as the band launches into I THOUGHT YOU KNEW!
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Johnson’s XP makes it Grambling 47, Texas Southern 33, with 33 seconds left. Grambling got 34 points off six TSU turnovers. #Grambling
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Anthony has five tackles, an interception and two forced fumbles — and for the second time this year was inches away from scoring.
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TSU offensive lineman trips him up at the 3. First and goal, with 37 seconds left, for Grambling. Walker skids off the edge for a score.
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Nelson is tripped up Anthony on a designed QB running play. :51 left. Nelson then intercepted by Anthony who makes a diving run for TD.
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Exama goes down. 1:14 left. Grambling up 40-33. Cliff jogs off on his own.
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Nelson hits on five yard pass. 1:40 left. Gilbert reception to TSU 30. 1:31 left. Nelson runs to 39. Tackled. #Grambling
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Fabian Carter to punt. Still time for Texas Southern, with one time out remaining. Goes out of bounds at the TSU 10. #Grambling
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Third and 17, two minutes left. Grambling at midfield. Dillon dives on option play, gets maybe one. #Grambling
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Grambling’s offense is falling apart just when it has a chance to put a bow on this. #Grambling
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Offsides. Second and 17. Delayed handoff goes nowhere. Another flag. Tripping on Grambling. Declined. Third down. #Grambling
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2:45 left in the game. Grambling up 40-33 over Texas Southern at The Rob. A flag, this time on GSU. #Grambling
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Longest run of the year for Dillon, who has had a bum ankle since the Oklahoma State loss. #Grambling
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Third and 5 already. But Dillon runs and runs and run — all the way inside the TSU 40. 36 yard dash. #Grambling
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TSU punts into the end zone. Grambling will get the ball back at its own 20. A score now could finally put this one away. #Grambling
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TSU at third and 7, on their own 45. 6 minutes left. Castleberry knocks the ball down on a Nelson attempt. Fourth down. #Grambling
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Famously, they jumped on the G — chanting “we own the SWAC.” #Grambling
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GSU proceeded to hand Jackson its first loss of the year, and one of just three wins during Spears’ final campaign in Grambling.
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That’s ironic, since Texas Southern assistant Melvin Spears was coach at Grambling in 2006 when an undefeated Jackson State did same thing.
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Texas Southern players wouldn’t leave field for Grambling’s senior day presentation. Some were seen jumping on the G logo at midfield.
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More scuffling on the kickoff. This has been a chippy game from the start. #Grambling
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GSU has 27 points off turnovers. Warren has been the player of the game, with three TDs — two on the ground and one just now receiving.
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All of a sudden, it’s like Grambling is in a nightly horse race. What ever happened to the ball control offense Broadway favored? #Grambling
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Grambling goes for two, with Dillon hitting Maxwell. Now Grambling 40, Texas Southern 33 with 8 minutes left. #Grambling
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On third and 20 at TSU 25, Dillon hits Warren short of first down, but he shakes and bakes free and then zips into the end zone. #Grambling
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Grambling has the ball at the TSU 17.Blitz crushes Dillon. Third down.
42 minutes ago from web
Cliff Exama picks off Nelson again, knocking the ball into the air with a one-handed deflection and hauling in Grambling’s fifth turnover.
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Texas Southern, once down 23-6, has the ball, a one-point lead and the ball with 10 minutes left in this game. #Grambling
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Incomplete pass to the sideline. Third and 18. Chased all over the field, Dillon lets it go to the sidelines, again incomplete. #Grambling
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Penalty on Grambling. Back to second down, and the TSU 48. #Grambling
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12:48 left in the game, Warren runs for 12. Screen pass for another 11. But flags fly. #Grambling
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GSU has turned each of its turnovers into points thus far. Can they stop a surging Texas Southern? #Grambling
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Nelson is picked off on a third and 24 play, again by T.J. McCord. A key moment, if Grambling can convert. #Grambling
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No sense in getting cute right now. Grambling is well back on its heels. #Grambling
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Reverse play, and a pitch back to Nelson, is expertly read by Grambling defense. QB nailed to leave TSU with second and 24.
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An 88-yard play drive, then a failed two-point conversion try, leaves it Texas Southern 33-32. TSU, incredibly, then converts onsides kick.
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Gilbert scores a touchdown on an off-tackle run to put Texas Southern up by 1 point, before the XP. #Grambling
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As third quarter ends, Texas Southern down by 5, with the ball and driving toward midfield. #Grambling
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Nelson hits on a 40-something yard pass right up the soft middle of the Grambling defense. This is far from over.
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Flags fly as the punt is returned by Texas Southern. TSU called for block in the back, and is pushed back to their own 11. #Grambling
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Fourth and 12. Grambling punts. #Grambling
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Long pass to Maxwell falls to the turf. Then Dillon is sacked. #Grambling
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Short kick barely gets across midfield for Texas Southern. A play alter, GSU is at its 40. #Grambling
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… has, thus far, altered things immeasurably. GSU risks losing control of this game if it can’t score on the next possession. #Grambling
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XP makes it a 5-point ball game. GSU’s lead cut to 32-27, with 3:35 left in the third. The momentum shift from late in the second quarter…
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Texas Southern catches Grambling in a blitz. 32 yards by TSU’s Warren to the GSU 11. Nelson looks to run, then hit Anderson for score.
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Big hit by Bruna Foster, but 10 yard gain on Nelson pass. Second and 4 at midfield for TSU. #Grambling
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Johnson is good. Grambling 32, Texas Southern 20, with 6 minutes left in the third quarter at The Rob. #Grambling
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Dillon complete to Maxwell, but short of the first down, on a crossing route. Johnson returns for field goal, after having two XPs blocked.
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Dillon barely gets a long pass out to Van Phillips in the corner of the end zone — but it goes through his bands. Third down and 11.
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Grambling return goes and does and goes. Bell to inside the TSU 30. 59 yards on a series of terrible tackling misses.
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Pass falls to ground. Grambling 29, Texas Southern 20 after that impressive 80-yard drive. With 8:04 left in the third. #Grambling
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TSU makes it one-score game with two-point conversion, but it’s called back on flag. That puts them back to the Grambling 13.
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Nelson runs it all the way in, 31 yards, on a broken play. Grambling defenders going every which way.
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Third and 3, at the Grambling 25. TSU’s Nelson is pulled down when the pocket crumbles around him. 4 and 11, going for it. #Grambling
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15 points isn’t insurmountable, especially after last late touchdown and two-point conversion changed the emotion of the game. #Grambling
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TSU is using the quick, overpowering Nelson to make this drive go, and Grambling isn’t getting to him. #Grambling
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Anthony overpursues, then Exama misses on a Nelson scramble. First and 10 for TSU at the GSU 29. 9:31 left in the third.
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The defense was never quick the same. They make some eye-popping plays, but then similar mistakes. #Grambling
about 2 hours ago from web
There is talent all around, not least of which is Anthony. But then injury bug hit, taking Anio out for year — and McCord out for while.
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Second, nobody on this team has the emotional presence of Jack, the ability to goad this team from the huddle. #Grambling
about 2 hours ago from web
First, Matthews — along with Otis Young — ate up blockers, freeing the ends to do even more damage. #Grambling
about 2 hours ago from web
In retrospect, the loss of Melvin Matthews in the middle and — I think more critically — the departure of Jeffery Jack was devastating.
about 2 hours ago from web
This is precisely the game this defense needed after falling apart at Arkansas-Piune Bluff. #Grambling
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Second defensive touchdown by Grambling, then another blocked field goal, makes it Grambling 29, Texas Southern 14 with 12:15 left in third.
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TSU quickly pushed to another fourth down. Again, they go for it. On the GSU 44, Nelson is picked off and McCord takes it all the way for TD
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Anthony has retaken the field, as Texas Southern opens the second half with the ball.
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Grambling 23, Texas Southern 14 at halftime inside Robinson Stadium. #Grambling
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Grambling kneels on it to end the half, after scoring 23 unanswered points — then inexplicably giving up eight points within last minute
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Anthony has two forced fumbles already. He’s going to the lockerroom, as TSU lines up to kick off.
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He’s helped up after getting tripped up on an edge rush. He walks off the field with a slight limp.
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Worst still: Christian Anthony is down. #Grambling
about 2 hours ago from web
On TSU. Still going for it. Lined up at GSU 10, Texas Southern’s Nelson passes to back of endzone. Good. Grambling’s lead cut to 23-14.
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TSU going for 2, and flags fly with :23 seconds left. #Grambling.
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Dillon is intercepted for a pick six. Defensive back Glasper for TSU is mobbed in the endzone. That’s a momentum change.
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Grambling fair catches at its own 40. 1:02 left int he first half. Up 23-6 at The Rob. #Grambling
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Third down sack for Grambling. Christian Anthony gets another. TSU punts, with about a minute left in the half. GSU 23-6. #Grambling
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Mixing and matching, a nicely called offensive drive. Johnson has an XP blocked, though. Grambling 23 ,TSU 6, with 2:34 before the half.
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Walker has the ball go off his hand on a Dillon pass, then catches his own tip. An amazing play to the TSU 20. Walker scores on next play.
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Two running plays by Warren set up a go route, and the defender falls down. But Dillon didn’t make the throw. Third and 7 for Grambling.
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Dillon hits on a nice throw over the middle for 21 yards, Grambling declines an offside penalty. Grambling is at midfield. #Grambling
about 2 hours ago from web
Three passes, and three incompletions. The last pass was into heavy coverage, and Bruna Foster almost picked it off. TSU punts. #Grambling
about 2 hours ago from web
Grambling forced to punt when drive goes nowhere. Still Grambling 17-6. #Grambling
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TSU goes for it on fourth and 3, inside of the Grambling 30. Incomplete. TSU turns the ball over on downs. 8:30 left in the half.
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Johnson’s XP makes it GSU 17, Texas Southern 6. Nelson ran into his lineman, jarring the ball loose. Mistakes are killing TSU. #Grambling
about 3 hours ago from web
Nelson fumbles when the defense floods in, and Derrick Johnson recovers on the goal line. Touchdown Grambling. #Grambling
about 3 hours ago from web
Texas Southern fumbles on resulting punt, and there’s a mad scramble. But TSU somehow gets it back — at about the TSU 10. #Grambling
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A sneak try does nowhere, as Grambling line gets blown back. Fourth down. #Grambling
about 3 hours ago from web
Warren on a pitchout to the flat, with 11:40 left in second quarter. Measuring for another first down. It’s short. Third down.
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Kiare Thompson gains 9, then a rushing play converts for first down. Warren to midfield. #Grambling
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Illegal substitution call on Texas Southern gives Grambling a first down. Now, Cole is calling for a timeout before this goes off the rails.
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GSU forced to punt. He’s short by an eyelash. #Grambling
about 3 hours ago from web
Dillon, after a pair of penalty flags on penalty, scrambles Grambling to a 3rd and 8. Then appears to convert on another rush. #Grambling
about 3 hours ago from web
Texas Southern again is forced into a punt, and it’s nearly blocked. Fair catch at the GSU 30 by Kiare Thompson. End of the 1st. #Grambling
about 3 hours ago from web
Anthony has the ability to change the game at any time. He might have done it again.
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Grambling leads Texas Southern 10-6, with 1 minute left in the first quarter. #Grambling
about 3 hours ago from web
Anthony stripped ball, and was thinking 6 points. Warren runs it in for him one play later. That’s 5 rushing touchdowns for Frank this year.
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Then Christian Anthony knocks the ball out of Nelson’s hand, rumbling down field — trying for a score.
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Kendall Robinson knocks the ball out of the air.
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Nelson’s pocket collapses, but he falls forward to the line of scrimmage. #Grambling
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TSU drops the ball on the ensuing kickoff. Joe Anderson recovers at the Texas Southern 30. #Grambling
about 3 hours ago from web
Texas Southern has great speed on defense. The edge plays aren’t working.
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Dillon is run down on another failed side to side run. Ari Johnson puts 3 on the board for Grambling. TSU leads 6-3, with 2:05 left in first
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Another offsides by TSU, which leads the SWAC in penalties. #Grambling
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On second and 7, Dillon runs on a designed play, but TSU sniffs it out from the start. No gain. Shomari Clemons, the LSU transfer, on stop.
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Second down, flags fly. Offsides on Texas Southern. No huddle has TSU on edge. #Grambling
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GSU ball at the TSU 21. Walker is stopped for no gain. #Grambling
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Chased out of the pcket, Dillon finds Ryan Allen for Grambling’s first earned first down of the night. #Grambling
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Dillon doesn’t see anything, so he rips off an 7-yard run. #Grambling
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Grambling’s Dillon misses on pass. Flag on the play. Texas Southern called for pass interference. First down now. #Grambling
about 3 hours ago from web
Warren is stopped for big loss on play that started at GSU 48. Now, second and 19. Nearly 5 minute mark in first period.
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TSU kicker finally stops return by Grambling just before midfield.
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Bad snap on the XP. TSU holder brought down for big loss. Texas Southern 6, Grambling 0 with 6:14 left in the first. #Grambling
about 3 hours ago from web
A laser from Nelson to the goal line, and Anderson brings it down for a touchdown in front of Lenard. Touchdown. #Grambling
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TSU, at the Grambling 48, changes the play. Nelson nails an over-the-shoulder pass down the sideline to the GSU 25. #Grambling
about 3 hours ago from web
Texas Southern-Grambling, 7:09 left in the first quarter, with the score still 0-0. #Grambling
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Nelson tucks the ball and runs up the middle. There was nobody anywhere around. First down.
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Screen pass goes nearly to midfield. The underneath passes are there tonight.
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Nelson misses on first down.
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But Nelson converts. First down TSU at its own 40.
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Texas Southern, at second and 4, gets a couple from Nelson’s scramble. Third and 1. 8:44 left in the first. Hits a big pile up the middle.
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Grambling punts again. Two possessions, no points.
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Incomplete pass from Dillon; came out a little hot.
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Pitchout to Batiste around the left side. Grambling is now at the TSU 25. Third down and 5.
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The previous record for wins at The Rob, which opened in 1983, was 9 in a row — most recently during the 2000-02 seasons under Doug Williams
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Texas Southern goes for it, but Christian Anthony knocks the ball out of Nelson’s hands. 10:22 left in the first. Grambling takes over.
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Nelson slips, then is brought down by Exama to force fourth down. #Grambling
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Second and 10 for TSU. Running play by Gilbert goes nowhere, though.
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Texas Southern’s Nelson runs to midfield for a first down.
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A win tonight would put Grambling at 11 consecutive victories at home.
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Grambling is working on its third consecutive undefeated run of home games.
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With this year’s homecoming victory, Broadway set a new school record for consecutive wins at Robinson Stadium.
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Grambling punts on its first possession.
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Dillon is hit almost as soon as the ball gets there, as a safety slips through.
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Dillon chased out of the pocket, looking for Van Phillips but forced to throw it away. Third and 10.
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Dillon on swing pass to Dante Cheek. Incomplete.
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Dominic Bell to the GSU 25, as the first quarter gets underway at Robinson Stadium.
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Grambling gets the ball first, as Texas Southern kicks. #Grambling
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TDR will be live tonight from Grambling’s Thursday ESPNU game against Texas Southern at The Rob.
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