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2021 Football Roster

7 Ulysses Bentley IV

  • Position RB
  • Cl-Exp SO-1L
  • Height 5-11
  • Weight 197
  • Hometown Houston, Texas
  • Previous School C.E. King

Biography

Sophomore (2021): Saw action in 11 games, making eight starts... Was second on the team with 96 carries for 610 yards and four TDs... Posted a pair of 100-yard rushing games (UNT, at TCU)... Added 19 catches for 90 yards and a TD... Had five kick returns for 128 yards...Was second on the team with 838 all-purpose yards... Registered four 100-yard all-purpose games including three straight from UNT-TCU... AWARDS: Second-Team All-AAC... Maxwell Award Watch List... Doak Walker Award Watch List... CFPA Award Watch List... Earl Campbell Tyler Rose Award Watch List... PFF All-AAC First Team... AAC Weekly Honor Roll (Sept. 27, Sept. 13)... Earl Campbell Tyler Rose Award Weekly Honor Roll (Sept. 28, Sept. 14)... Preseason: Athlon Sports First-Team All-AAC... Dave Campbell’s Texas Football All-Texas Second Team... Phil Steele All-AAC First Team... CFN All-AAC, Top 30 AAC Players: No. 3... PFF All-AAC First Team.

Freshman (2020): Played in all 10 games, starting six... Named the Co-Rookie of the Year in The American and to the conference first team... Led the league with 913 rushing yards (18th NCAA, 1st AAC) off 170 attempts and 11 rushing TDs (17th NCAA, 3rd AAC)... His 11 rushing TDs set the SMU freshman single-season record... His 913 rushing yards in the regular season were over 200 more than any other player in the conference.... Scored his first seven TDs in the opening three games of the season, which tied for the sixth most in a three-game span at SMU... Added 21 receptions for 174 yards and one TD... One of only two freshman in the country with 10+ TDs (12)... Led the Mustangs with 1,087 all-purpose yards (4th AAC)... Had a career-high 227 rushing yards at North Texas... Registered 149 yards and two TDs in the win over Navy, giving him his fourth game of the season with multiple rushing TDs, and his 217 all-purpose yards gave him his second game of the season with 200+ (248 yards at UNT)... In the game at Tulsa, he posted his fourth 100-yard rushing game of 2020 (UNT, Navy, SFA)... AWARDS: AAC Co-Rookie of the Year... All-AAC First Team... FWAA Freshman All-America... Dave Campbell's All-Texas College Second Team... Doak Walker Watch List... CFPA Watch List... Earl Campbell Tyler Rose Award Honorable Mention (Nov. 3, Sept. 22)... AAC Weekly Honor Roll (Sept. 28, Sept. 21).

2019: Redshirted... Saw action in four games... Registered seven carries for 36 yards... Added one reception for 30 yards.

Prep: A three-star recruit by 247sports.com and Rivals.com... Had 50 carries for 510 yards in 2018... Team went 8-3 and advanced to the first round of the Texas 6A D2 playoffs... Chose SMU over offers from Houston, Syracuse and others.

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Historical Player Information

  • 26

    2019FR

    RB
    5'10" 184 lbs
    26
  • 26

    2020FR

    RB
    5'10" 184 lbs
    26
  • 7

    2021SO

    RB
    5'11" 197 lbs
    7