While You Were Tailgating: 5 Things You Have To See From The Weekend

While You Were Tailgating: 5 Things You Have To See From The Weekend

Five things you need to see from the past weekend of football action, including Mater Dei's first scare of the season, Mason Fine's stellar play at North Texas, and the Hilltoppers' return to form.

Oct 16, 2017 by Kolby Paxton
While You Were Tailgating: 5 Things You Have To See From The Weekend
If you were a little busy trying to figure out how Clemson ​and ​Washington State were getting upset on Friday night, you're forgiven. But, in the meantime, a rock star sophomore quarterback was pushing the top-ranked high school team in the country harder than anyone else has this season.

Oh, and on Saturday? Mason Fine put the team on his back and Aubie the Tiger jinxed the absolute hell out of the Auburn offense. Here's all of that and more of what you missed while you were trying to shotgun a beer without getting it on your shirt.

St. John Bosco Swings Hard -- No. 1 Mater Dei Swings Harder

In one of the biggest high school games on planet Earth this season, No. 1 Mater Dei (CA) withstood its biggest test to date to beat sixth-ranked St. John Bosco (CA) 31-21 on the road.



The host Braves rallied from an early 14-0 hole and trailed the top-ranked Monarchs just 28-21 at the break before a second-half slugfest resulted in just one field goal -- and another Mater Dei win.

St. John Bosco sophomore DJ Uiagalelei went 12 of 22 for 256 yards and two touchdowns and added 55 yards rushing.

Meanwhile, Mater Dei's stars starred. JT Daniels finished 17 for 23 for 324 yards and two touchdowns. Amon-Ra St. Brown had eight catches for 212 yards and two touchdowns and a punt return for a score.

Mason Fine Absorbs & Delivers Knockout Blow Simultaneously

Stop us if you've heard this before: Mason Fine continues to defy expectations. Through six games this season, the North Texas sophomore leads C-USA in passing yards (1,796), touchdowns (14), and passing yards per game (299).



Against UTSA on Saturday, Mason Fine passed for 354 yards and three touchdowns with one interception. On the game-winning drive, Fine was 5 of 6 for 98 yards -- marching the Mean Green the length of the field with about a minute left and no timeouts to steal the 29-26 win.

Oh, and on the game-winning play, he delivered a strike to Rico Bussey Jr. while taking a huge shot.

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(North) Texas forever. Mason Fine forever.

Hilltoppers Finally Score Like Hilltoppers

Watching Western Kentucky struggle on offense is weird.

After the Tops led the nation in scoring in 2016, head coach Mike Sanford's 2017 squad entered Saturday's homecoming matchup with Charlotte averaging nearly 24 fewer points per game and two fewer yards per play.



Unfortunately for the 49ers, the WKU O was feeling like its old self again on Saturday, ringing up 607 total yards and 38 first half points en route to a 45-14 demolition of Charlotte.



Reigning C-USA Offensive Player of the Year Mike White had his best game of the season, completing 33 of 47 passes for 398 yards and five touchdowns in the win.

Auburn Mascot Dresses Up As Trojan, Jinxes Tigers

Auburn was rolling. The Tigers raced out a 20-0 second-quarter lead at LSU, and anyone who had AU -7.5 was feeling great about life. (Not that I'd know anything about that -- just making an assumption…)

Then, inexplicably, Aubie the Tiger poked Mike the Tiger by dressing up as a Troy Trojan.

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Not coincidentally, LSU outscored Auburn 27-3 the rest of the way, destroying AU's playoff aspirations -- and my, ahem, someone's six-team parlay in the process.

Kenny Hill Is 5-0 Again

TCU's quarterback is putting the "Thrill" back in Hill.

Three years removed from a 5-0 run as the quarterback at Texas A&M, Kenny Hill is again leading a Texas program -- this time, the Horned Frogs -- to an undefeated start and a surprising mid-October top 10 ranking.



After dominating Kansas State in a 26-6 win on Saturday, Hill and the Frogs have now dispatched Oklahoma State, West Virginia, and the Wildcats in successive weeks.

Hill didn't handle the success so well last time around, but if you're surprised by Hill and the Horned Frogs in 2017, well, you should spend more time on FloFootball.com.