For the second time in four weeks, Texas Southern University quarterback Bobby Reid (6-3, 230) was named the Southwestern Athletic Conference’s offensive player of the week for the week ending Oct. 4.

Texas Southern University

Bobby Reid

Reid accounted for 535 yards of the teams 623 total against Texas State on Saturday.  He threw for 481 yards and had four touchdown passes.  On the ground, Reid had 18 rushes for 54 net yards. The senior from Houston (North Shore High School) completed 38-of-64 passes with no interceptions.  He had scoring passes of 21, 15, 28 and 10 yards and a 10-yard touchdown run.

In his performance, Reid broke two TSU single game records set by Sean Cook against Texas A&I (now Texas A&M–Kingsville) in 1986.  He surpassed Cook’s single net yards passing of 446 and 30 pass completions. 

Reid’s passing yards total is the second highest in the FCS this season.  It is the highest total in the SWAC since Grambling State’s Bruce Eugene passed for 507 yards against TSU on Oct. 29, 2005.

“This is a great honor, not just for Bobby but for our football team, especially our offense,” said first-year head coach Johnnie Cole.  “Being that we started off really slow, this shows the progress that he’s made individually and what our offense has done as a unit.  We want to be consistent and put up those kind of numbers every week.”