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Fans didn’t let a little rain get in the way of their fun as thousands turned out Sept. 1 to tailgate and watch FIU begin its defense of the Sun Belt Conference title. The Panthers responded with a win against North Texas, 41-16, on Alfonso Field at FIU Stadium, backed [...]
FIU’s football team got everyone’s attention last season with its first championship and bowl win. Now they are hungry for more By Pete Pelegrin ’96 Walk into the FIU football offices and you are greeted by the sparkling gold 2010 Little Caesars Pizza Bowl Champions trophy and the 2010 Sun Belt [...]
By Pete Pelegrin ’96 Kyle Field in College Station, Texas – Home of the 12th Man — is one of the most hostile stadiums to play in for an opposing college football team. Yet that notion was lost on the FIU Panthers this past September. That night on Texas A&M’s home [...]
By Pete Pelegrin ’96 MAYBE THEY KNEW A boisterous, energetic, record crowd of 19,872 filled FIU Stadium for the season opener against Rutgers. The Panthers led the Scarlet Knights 14-13 in the fourth quarter before falling, but as nearly 20,000 would see, this was a different FIU team this season. [...]
With only four seconds left on the clock, a field goal by kicker Jack Griffin gave FIU a 34-32 win in its first-ever bowl game in the Little Caesars Pizza Bowl Dec. 26 at Ford Field in Detroit. Check out a slide show of the historic game: When it looked [...]
FIU earns 12 All-SBC nods. Junior wide receiver T.Y. Hilton has been named the 2010 Sun Belt Conference Player of the Year, Head Coach Mario Cristobal the conference Coach of the Year, while the Panthers landed a conference-best 12 All-Sun Belt nods, the conference announced today. Hilton, who becomes the first Panther to [...]
A fumble with under three minutes to play cost the Panthers as FIU dropped a 28-27 decision to Middle Tennessee, Sunday night at FIU Stadium. With a chance to win the game, senior quarterback Wayne Younger, in for an injured Wesley Carroll, appeared to be leading the Panthers to yet another [...]
FIU football clinched the Sun Belt Conference championship with a 31-24 victory over the Arkansas State Red Wolves, Nov. 27 at FIU Stadium. The come-from-behind victory was sparked by an 11-play game-winning drive capped off by a touchdown from a familiar face. With the Panthers down by one and less [...]
Led by a punishing and relentless ground game, FIU football had its most prolific offensive game ever on its way to a 52-35 victory over four-time defending Sun Belt champion Troy, Nov. 13 in Alabama. T.Y. Hilton, Darriet Perry and Darian Mallary all rushed for over 100 yards in the [...]
Rushing touchdowns by Darriet Perry and T.Y. Hilton gave the FIU defense a chance to win Saturday’s game in double overtime as the Panthers held on to a 7-point lead. A sack by Toronto Smith on second down and a fourth down stop by Ash Parker sent the Panthers and [...]
