Green and Hodge rally Prairie View past Texas Southern 29-25

PRAIRIE VIEW, Texas (AP) Trey Green threw two touchdown passes to KhaDarel Hodge and Prairie View A&M opened the season and its new stadium with a 29-25

PRAIRIE VIEW, Texas (AP) Trey Green threw two touchdown passes to KhaDarel Hodge and Prairie View A&M opened the season and its new stadium with a 29-25 victory over Texas Southern on Sunday night.

Prairie View briefly surrendered its fourth-quarter lead when Averion Hurts' 2-yard TD run put Texas Southern up 25-22 with 8:55 left. The Panthers retook the lead and capped the scoring less than two minutes later on Green's second TD pass to Hodge.

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Prairie View scored 16 straight points in the first six minutes of the second half - Green threw a 9-yard TD pass to Hodge, Damond Jackson sacked Texas Southern's Hurts for a safety. and Green scored on a 1-yard keeper - for a 22-17 lead with 9:08 left in the third quarter.

Derrick Griffin had six catches for 90 yards and a touchdown for Texas Southern. Tigers starting quarterback Jay Christophe left the game with a leg injury late in the first half.

The game was delayed twice for more than two hours in the first half because of lightning in the area.