Burgess, Jackson help Texas State rush for school-record 503 yards in 66-27 romp over Colorado State

Read the original at Toronto Star ↗
Cite

The Associated Press. (2026, October 16). Burgess, Jackson help Texas State rush for school-record 503 yards in 66-27 romp over Colorado State. Toronto Star. https://www.thestar.com/sports/football/burgess-jackson-help-texas-state-rush-for-school-record-503-yards-in-66-27-romp-over-colorado-state/article_0fa0be0b-3b65-5a73-9b5b-687daa8bb6bb.html

Dated from the outlet's own feed. Check the original for its byline.

Toronto Star · collected 2026-10-16 · by The Associated Press

Quick Summary

Torrance Burgess Jr. and Brad Jackson led Texas State to a school-record 503 rushing yards in their 66-27 victory over Colorado State on Thursday night. Burgess rushed for 224 yards and four touchdowns, while Jackson added 181 rushing yards and three scores along with a touchdown pass. The Bobcats also set a record with 716 total offensive yards, scoring on six consecutive possessions to build a commanding lead early in the game.
Written locally by qwen2.5:14b on 2026-10-16, using this article's own text rather than the other coverage of the same event (that is the story summary below).

AI analysis runs on qwen2.5:14b, locally

Story summary

On Thursday night, Texas State defeated Colorado State in a game that saw Torrance Burgess Jr. rush for a career-high 224 yards and four touchdowns, while quarterback Brad Jackson threw one touchdown pass and ran for a career-high 181 yards with three more rushing touchdowns. The Bobcats rushed 55 times to set a school record of 503 yards on the ground, leading to their 66-27 victory. Texas State scored touchdowns on six straight possessions before halftime, jumping out to an early lead and never looking back in this Pac-12 Conference matchup played at San Marcos, Texas.

Written for “Texas State Sets Rushing Record” on 2026-10-16, grounded in this article and the 0 other(s) covering the same event.

Story

📰 Texas State Sets Rushing Record
Sports · 1 article(s) covering the same event.

Compared with similar articles

Nothing to compare against. No article is close enough to this one for the pipeline to have linked or judged the pair.
How this article was measured signals, leaning charts, publisher record, byline, topics and claims

Signals How these are calculated →

Claims extracted
14
sentences that state something as happening or true
Uncertain
0%
0 of 14 hedged ("reportedly", "may", "according to")
Leaning
not political
takes no side on a contested political question
Publisher signals
63/100
Toronto Star's corrections and hedging, across everything collected from it. Not a measure of accuracy.
Outlets on this story
1
Sports
Same framing elsewhere
1
articles that frame the event the way this one does
Analyzed 2026-10-16 · how these are computed

How this is being covered How these are calculated →

Article leaning vs. publisher reliability
Source leaning vs. consistency

Publisher

Toronto Star · 7487 article(s) · 20 correction(s) detected
Running correction rate · 20 correction(s)
2026-10-07
Correction
2026-09-24
Correction

Who wrote this

The Associated Press
1218 article(s) here · 0 carrying a prediction
🔮 Word of the barn owl family didn't get around until last week, when Elisabeth Williams, an Upper West Side resident, notified a local news outlet on Oct. 6 that she and her husband saw multiple owls at the water tower atop a building on West 75th Street close to Central Park West.
🔮 "They may have a bunch of Hall of Famers, but we've got a bunch of gamers — and the gamers won this week," Murphy said. "
🔮 The deciding second leg will be hosted at the iconic Maracanã Stadium in Rio de Janeiro on Oct. 22.
🔮 Will Smith doubled to right and was safe at third when the ball got away from Sal Frelick for an error in the eighth before Ashby got Tucker to fly out and Teoscar Hernández to strike out.
🔮 East Carolina (3-3, 1-1 American Conference) used 14 plays to march 75 yards on the game’s opening drive, scoring on Emory Williams’ 3-yard touchdown toss to Ray Ray Joseph Jr. for a 7-0 lead that held through the first quarter.
🔮 Johannson is the third Scandanavian rookie to score his first career goal this season for Detroit, joining fellow Swede William Wallinder and Norwegian Michael Brandsegg-Nygard.
🔮 “We will make every resource they need available,” he wrote.
🔮 NEW DELHI (AP) — Eugenio Chacarra boosted his Race to Dubai prospects with a five-under-par effort and Rory McIlroy was three shots behind him at the DP World India Championship on Thursday as a five-hour delay for lightning meant the first round could not be completed.
🔮 He would be named champion if the final two scheduled rounds of the season in Qatar and Abu Dhabi can’t go ahead and no replacement is scheduled.
🔮 Formula 1 will “polish the image of an authoritarian leader” if it goes ahead with plans to hold an African Grand Prix in Rwanda, the foreign minister of neighboring Congo, Thérèse Kayikwamba Wagner, said Thursday.
Wire or desk byline, not an individual reporter.
Also by The Associated Press
Nothing else under this byline is closely related to this article, so these are simply their most recent.
All 1218 articles by The Associated Press →

Topics

Bobcats Colorado State SAN MARCOS Texas Texas State

Subjects

Texas State ORG · 5× Bobcats ORG · 3× Colorado State ORG · 3× Brad Jackson PERSON · 1× Burgess PERSON · 1× Jackson PERSON · 1× SAN MARCOS GPE · 1× Texas GPE · 1× Torrance Burgess Jr. PERSON · 1× Ty Stamey PERSON · 1×

Narrative

Torrance Burgess Jr. rushed for career highs of 224 yards and four touchdowns, Brad Jackson threw a touchdown pass and ran for career highs of 181 yards and three scores and Texas State steamrolled Colorado State 66-27 on Thursday night.
framing: assertive · carried by 1 article(s) · first seen 2026-10-16

Claims (14 extracted, 0 hedged)

Torrance Burgess Jr. rushed for career highs of 224 yards and four touchdowns, Brad Jackson threw a touchdown pass and ran for career highs of 181 yards and three scores and Texas State steamrolled Colorado State 66-27 on Thursday night. asserted
State → rush → night
Texas State (3-3, 1-1 Pac-12 Conference) rushed 55 times in setting school records with 503 yards on the ground and 716 yards of offense. asserted
State → rush → offense
Burgess did his damage on 24 carries for Texas State. asserted
Burgess → do → State
He had scoring runs of 2 and 51 yards in the first quarter as the Bobcats jumped out to a 28-0 lead. asserted
Bobcats → have → lead
The senior added a 6-yard score in the second quarter and a 19-yarder with 22 seconds left in the third to set the final margin. asserted
senior → add → margin
Jackson completed 14 of 19 passes for 213 yards. asserted
Jackson → complete → yards
He had a 22-yard scoring toss to Ty Stamey that put the Bobcats up 35-7 with 5:37 left before halftime. asserted
that → have → halftime
The sophomore had two touchdown runs covering 4 yards to go along with a 3-yarder. asserted
sophomore → have → yarder
He also had a 63-yard run that set up Jaylen Jenkins’ 1-yard scoring plunge for a 59-27 lead. asserted
that → have → lead
Texas State scored touchdowns on six straight possessions before Jacob Bonilla’s 23-yard field goal gave the Bobcats a 45-21 lead at halftime. asserted
goal → score → halftime
K’saan Farrar finished with 282 yards on 26-for-41 passing with two touchdowns for Colorado State (2-4, 0-2). asserted
Farrar → finish → State
Terrance Smith Jr. and Nader Chirchi had eth touchdown catches, while Durell Robinson added two touchdown runs. asserted
Robinson → have → runs
Up next Colorado State: Hosts San Diego State on Oct. 24. asserted
State → host → Oct.
Texas State: Hosts Utah State on Oct. 24. asserted
State → host → Oct.
💬Give feedback
🕘History 🎫Support