Orlando beat Dallas 31-24 at Fort Hood on May 15, 2026, and locked up a playoff berth in its inaugural season in the same game that became the first professional football contest ever played on a military base.

The win sent Anthony Becht to his third straight UFL postseason and did it with a balanced attack that never let Dallas settle in. Orlando scored four rushing touchdowns, converted 11 of 16 third-down attempts and leaned on Jack Plummer for an efficient night. Chris Rowland sparked the offense with a 25-yard run after a three-and-out, and Michael Lantz’s 51-yard field goal try drifted wide into the Fort Hood wind before he later hit from 43 yards to cut the gap to 10-3. Dallas had opened with Colton Theaker’s 31-yard field goal, then Austin Reed found Emmanuel Butler for the first touchdown scored at Fort Hood to put Dallas ahead 10-0.

Orlando answered in the second quarter when Pheldarius Payne sacked Reed, KJ Hamler brought back a punt 26 yards to set up good field position and Plummer finished the drive with a quarterback sneak-style rushing touchdown to tie it at 10. He ended the half with 135 passing yards and a 70 percent completion rate, then broke the game open in the second half by racing 71 yards for a touchdown, the longest rush by any player in the UFL this season. Dallas fought back with Reed’s 36-yard touchdown strike to Seth Green in the third quarter, Green’s first score of the season, and at that point Orlando was 8-for-12 on third down. But the closest Dallas got was within reach; Orlando kept finding answers, and the expansion club walked out of Fort Hood with a playoff spot and a win that will sit in league history for as long as the schedule does.

For Orlando, the result did more than fill out the Ufl Schedule. It turned a first-year team into a postseason entrant and left Becht with another chance to extend a run that has now reached three straight UFL postseasons.