November 22nd, 2025 8:20pm
PUEBLO, Colo. (November 22, 2025) – Kanon Gibson and Traylen Suel connected for two receiving touchdowns in the first quarter to highlight a dominant first half, and Gibson totaled five touchdowns for the game (3 passing, 2 rushing) as the No. 10 nationally-ranked University of Texas Permian Basin football team earned its first playoff win in program history with a 37-24 victory at No. 10-ranked and No. 3-seeded Colorado State University Pueblo on Saturday at the CSU Pueblo ThunderBowl.
Just two plays into the game, Gibson went downfield for 23 yards on a back-shoulder catch by Suel. Two plays later, Gibson found Ben Patterson in the middle of the field for 11 yards and another first down, and then Gibson and Patterson hooked up on the very next play for 25 yards. A defensive holding penalty got the Falcons down to first-and-goal from the 10-yard line, but after a sack on third down from the five-yard line, UTPB sent out the field goal unit, and Angel Diaz converted from 28 yards out to open the scoring (3-0).
Gibson was 3-for-3 for 59 yards on UTPB's nine-play, 77-yard opening possession, but the drive stalled out after back-to-back running plays on first and second down with the goal to go.
Fortunately, after going 40 yards in three plays on its first possession of the game, CSUP's Jackson Smith missed wide right on his 36-yard field goal attempt to try and tie the game.