K-state stuns No. 3 Oklahoma
Thompson leads big rally by the Wildcats with three TD runs
Skylar Thompson threw for 334 yards and ran for three touchdowns and Kansas State rallied from 21 points down to stun No. 3 Oklahoma 38-35 on Saturday.
Freshman Deuce Vaughn caught four passes for 129 yards and ran for a touchdown in the Wildcats’ first road victory over a top-three team in the AP poll. They rebounded from an opening loss to Arkansas State.
Oklahoma freshman Spencer Rattler passed for 387 yards and four touchdowns, but threw three interceptions.
Kansas State upset Oklahoma 48-41 in Manhattan last year.
Kansas State said earlier in the week it was struggling to have enough players available at all position groups to play the game because of COVID-19.
Two short rushing touchdowns by Thompson got the Wildcats back in the game. Nick Allen blocked Reeves Mundschau’s punt, and the Wildcats took over at the Oklahoma 38. Vaughn’s 38yard touchdown run on the Wildcats’ second offensive play and the extra point tied it at 35 with 8:17 to play.
Kansas State’s Blake Lynch hit a 50-yard field goal with 4:32 remaining. Jahron Mcpherson intercepted Rattler’s pass in the final minute.
Oklahoma is 1-1.
Alabama 38, Missouri 19:
Mac Jones threw for 249 yards and two touchdowns in less than three quarters of work, many of his throws landing in the capable hands of Jaylen Waddle, and Alabama began its Southeastern Conference-only schedule with a romp over rebuilding Missouri.
Georgia 37, Arkansas 10:
Stetson Bennett threw two touchdown passes in the third
quarter and Georgia rallied to beat Arkansas in the season opener for each school. Bennett replaced D’wan Mathis in the second quarter and finished 20-for-29 for 211 yards. Bennett put the Bulldogs ahead to stay when he tossed a 19-yard touchdown pass to George Pickens and ran in the two-point conversion to make it 13-10 with six minutes left in the third. Feleipe Franks was 19-for-36 for 200 yards and a touchdown in his first start for Arkansas.
Florida 51, Mississippi 35: Kyle Pitts caught four of Kyle Trask’s six touchdown passes and No. 5 Florida spoiled coach Lane Kiffin’s Mississippi debut. Trask completed 30 of 42 passes for 416 yards, throwing touchdown passes of 1, 16, 71 and 17 yards to Pitts. The star tight end had 170 yards receiving in the season and Southeastern Conference opener for both teams.
Mississippi St. 44, LSU 34: K.J. Costello passed for an SECrecord 623 yards and threw five touchdown passes in the Mississippi State debut of coach Mike Leach’s “Air Raid” offense, and the Bulldogs knocked off defending national champion LSU. Costello’s passing yardage in his first game since transferring from Stanford to Starkville, Miss., eclipsed the
544 yards Georgia’s Eric Zeier had against Southern Mississippi in 1993 to set the Southeastern Conference record. LSU became the first defending national champion to
lose its opening game since Michigan in 1998 lost at Notre Dame.
Texas A&M 17, Vanderbilt
12: Isaiah Spiller had 117 yards rushing and Ainias Smith ran for a touchdown to help No. 10 Texas A&M overcome three turnovers in a mistake-filled game to beat Vanderbilt in the season-opener for both teams.
Central Florida 51, East Carolina 28: Dillon Gabriel threw for 408 yards and four touchdowns to help No. 13 Central Florida beat East Carolina to open its American Athletic Conference schedule. Jaylon Robinson and Marlon Williams each had huge games as Gabriel’s top targets for the Knights (2-0, 1-0). Robinson had nine catches for 150 yards and two touchdowns, and Williams had a career-best 13 catches for 136 yards.
Miami 52, Florida State 10: D’eriq King threw for 267 yards and two touchdowns in three quarters and No. 12 Miami beat Florida State.
Cincinnati 24, Army 10: Desmond Ridder passed for 258 yards and two touchdowns as No. 14 Cincinnati defeated No. 22 Army in the first matchup of ranked teams at Nippert Stadium since 2008.
Oklahoma St. 27, W. Virginia 13: Chuba Hubbard scored on a 23-yard run with 1:17 remaining to salvage a difficult afternoon and help Oklahoma State beat West Virginia. Sidelined for a number of key plays after fumbling on consecutive
second-half possessions, Hubbard ended up with 101 yards on 22 rushes for his 12th 100-yard performance in his past 13 games. Hubbard’s backup, L.D. Brown, gained 103 yards on 11 carries, including a 66-yard touchdown run, for Oklahoma State (2-0, 1-0 Big 12).
Tennessee 31, S. Carolina 27: Jarrett Guarantano threw a tiebreaking touchdown pass to Josh Palmer with 9:35 left and Tennessee won its seventh straight game.
Louisiana-lafayette 20, Georgia Southern 18: Nate Snyder hit a 53-yard field goal on the final play to lift No. 19 Louisiana-lafayette past Georgia Southern. The Ragin’ Cajuns (3-0, 2-0 Sun Belt) looked on the way to their first loss when Georgia Southern quarterback
Shai Werts hit Khaleb Hood with a 28-yard touchdown pass and Dalton Anderson with a two-point conversion with 54 seconds left to give the Eagles (1-1, 0-1) an 18-17 lead.
Pittsburgh 23, Louisville 20: Kenny Pickett threw for 220 yards and two touchdowns and No. 21 Pittsburgh sacked No. 24 Louisville quarterback Malik Cunningham seven times. The Panthers moved to 3-0 for the first time since 2014 behind a relentless defense that kept the Cardinals (1-2, 0-2 Atlantic Coast Conference) in check for most of the afternoon. Senior defensive end Patrick Jones II had three sacks for the Panthers (3-0, 2-0).