UTSA head coach Jeff Traylor almost had a perfect night in his squad’s dominant 57-20 win over Florida International at the First Responder Bowl at Gerald J. Ford Stadium Friday. 

Why wasn’t it a perfect night for Traylor? He couldn’t avoid getting drenched. 

Traylor, 57, knew what was coming as the clock was winding down in the fourth quarter. He was about to get doused with water by his players.

So, the head coach took off toward the end of the sideline, hoping to escape the oncoming shower.

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The attempt to escape was futile as Traylor made it to the end of the sideline, turned around and saw wide receiver Jamel Hardy Jr. coming after him. Traylor was held up by a reporter and then got drenched. 

In a last-ditch effort to avoid the water, Traylor fell down onto a ServPro mat near the sideline, which ended up being costly. Traylor was mobbed by his players and found himself at the bottom of an impromptu dogpile, creating a hilarious scene. 

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UTSA Roadrunners head coach Jeff Traylor gets a Gatorade bath from UTSA Roadrunners wide receiver Jamel Hardy (13) after the ServPro First Responder Bowl between the FIU Panthers and the UTSA Roadrunners at Gerald J. Ford Stadium in Dallas, Texas, Dec. 26, 2025. (Matthew Pearce/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images)

While at the bottom of the dogpile, Traylor got another bucket of water dumped on him by defensive lineman Kaian Roberts-Day. 

Aside from unsuccessfully evading his players in celebration, Traylor had a good night. UTSA won handily in its sixth consecutive bowl appearance. 

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FIU went up 14-0 early, but UTSA stormed back to tie at 14 before the first quarter ended, and it never looked back. 

UTSA had a 310-93 advantage in total yards in the first half. Quarterback Owen McCown threw three touchdown passes, and running back Will Henderson III scored three times. 

The Associated Press contributed to this report. 

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Japan’s unbeaten Naoya Inoue said he was exhausted after defeating Mexico’s Alan Picasso by unanimous decision in Riyadh on Saturday for his fourth win of 2025.

The fighter nicknamed “Monster” successfully defended his undisputed world super-bantamweight titles for the sixth time in his first fight in Saudi Arabia.

But it was not enough to knock out the gritty Picasso, as Inoue settled for a unanimous decision win for the second fight in a row.

The 32-year-old has had a jam-packed schedule this year and he blamed fatigue for a performance that he described as “not good”.

“To be honest, I’m tired,” he said, after taking his record to 32 wins, 27 by knockout.

“It wasn’t so much having four fights in a year as having to work hard to prepare for those four fights.

“You can put up with it at the time because you’re only thinking about the fight, but now that it’s over I can see that I really gave all I had,” he added.

Inoue’s win paved the way for a mouthwatering potential showdown with compatriot Junto Nakatani next year in Tokyo.

Nakatani beat Mexico’s Sebastian Hernandez by unanimous decision earlier on the same card in his super-bantamweight debut.

Inoue stressed that nothing had yet been decided but said he would “love to make a fight happen that would get everyone in Japan excited”.

 ‘Monster’ frustrated 

Inoue had a height disadvantage of 8cm against Picasso, who also went into the fight with an unbeaten record, which included one draw among 32 wins.

Inoue’s superior class began to tell from the opening bell, with the champion landing a series of hard shots in the early rounds.

Inoue wobbled Picasso with another concussive salvo at the start of the sixth round, before the Mexican finally began to come out of his shell and land a few punches of his own.

Picasso dug in to take the fight past the 12th and final round, although the judges’ decision was by then a foregone conclusion.

It was the second straight fight that Inoue had been taken the distance, following his unanimous decision win over Uzbekistan’s Murodjon Akhmadaliev in September.

“No disrespect to Picasso, but I wanted to show the difference between us a little more and to knock him down,” said Inoue.

“I wasn’t able to meet expectations or to box the way I wanted to.”

Nakatani was given a tough lesson in the realities of the super-bantamweight division in his bout against Hernandez.

The 27-year-old looked comfortable in the first half of the fight but Hernandez refused to be beaten and slugged his way back into contention.

Nakatani did just enough to get the decision and take his unbeaten record to 32 wins with 24 knockouts.

He said the fight had been “an experience” and targeted a bout against Inoue for his next outing.

“I moved up to this division to win world titles, so if I get that chance then I want to take it,” said Nakatani.