Troy pulls off rare road upset of No. 25 LSU
Wyoming’s Allen passes for 3 TDs in win over Texas State.
Jordan Chunn ran for 191 yards and a touchdown, Troy’s defense forced four turnovers, and the surging Trojans upset No. 25 LSU 24-21 Saturday night in Baton Rouge, La.
Troy, which celebrated wildly with traveling fans in largely empty Tiger Stadium as time ran out, became the first team from outside the Southeastern Conference to win in LSU’s Death Valley since UAB in 2000. They snapped the Tigers’ streak of 49 straight home victories over nonleague opponents.
Although the Tigers (3-2) were three-touchdown favorites, the result wasn’t entirely unfathomable. LSU had looked vulnerable in a tense victory over Syracuse a week earlier, while Troy came in on a three-game winning streak and is among the favorites to win the Sun Belt Conference after a 10-victory 2016 campaign.
Troy (4-1) raced to leads of 17-0 and 24-7 before Danny Etling’s fourth-quarter touchdown passes to Russell Gage and Foster Moreau got LSU as close as a field goal with 1:59 left. But after failing to recover an onside kick, LSU had only 23 seconds to get into field-goal range, and any hope of that ended when Blace Brown intercepted Etling’s pass on the Troy 42 with 11 seconds to go.
No. 2 Clemson 31, No. 12 Virginia Tech 17: Kelly Bryant ran around and away from Virginia Tech in Blacksburg, Va., to lead Clemson to its third victory in three games against teams in the Top 25.
Making just his fifth start, the junior ran for 94 yards, hit Tavien Feaster with a pass the speedy running back took 60 yards for a score and avoided mistakes. He also kept alive a late scoring drive after scrambling right on a play that started at the 5, dodging three Hokies, shaking free from an ankle tackle and eventually turning back upfield at the 23. He zig-zagged all the way back to the 4.
No. 6 Washington 42, Oregon State 7: Jake Browning threw three touchdown passes, Myles Gaskin ran for 113 yards and a score, and Washington broke open a close game with a 21-point third quarter in Corvallis, Ore.
Browning completed 26 of 34 passes for 293 yards and had touchdown passes of 5, 15 and 34 yards to Dante Pettis, who had 12 catches for 105 yards. Browning has accounted for 12 touchdowns, 10 passing, in three career games against Oregon State.
No. 11 Ohio State 56, Rutgers 0: J.T. Barrett threw three touchdown passes and became Ohio State’s career passing yardage leader. Barrett finished 14 of 22 for 275 yards. He has 7,622 yards passing, surpassing Art Schlichter (7,547) for the top spot in Buckeyes history.
Mike Weber ran for a career-high three touchdowns, and Ohio State (4-1, 2-0 Big Ten) blanked Rutgers (1-4, 0-2) for the second straight year in Piscataway, N.J. The Buckeyes have won three straight after being upset by Oklahoma.
No. 13 Auburn 49, No. 24 Mississippi State 10: Jarrett Stidham passed for 264 yards and two touchdowns, and Kerryon Johnson ran for three scores for Auburn.
The Tigers (4-1, 2-0 Southeastern Conference) established themselves as the most likely challenger to No. 1 Alabama in the Western Division. The Bulldogs (3-2, 1-2) have lost two straight lopsided games since blowing out LSU.
No. 15 Oklahoma State 41, Texas Tech 34: Quarterback Mason Rudolph ran 16 yards for the go-ahead touchdown in the final two minutes, and Oklahoma State beat Texas Tech Saturday in Lubbock.
Rudolph’s second rushing score came after three TD tosses as the Cowboys (4-1, 1-1 Big 12) bounced back from a home loss to ninthranked TCU and avoided a second early conference loss in their pursuit of the revived Big 12 championship game.
Oklahoma State held the Red Raiders (3-1, 0-1) to 384 yards and stopped Texas Tech after Matt Ammendola missed an 18-yard field goal that would have given the Cowboys the lead with 5:30 remaining.
No. 22 Notre Dame 52, Miami (Ohio) 17: Brandon Wimbush threw for three touchdowns and ran for another, and Notre Dame beat Miami (Ohio) in South Bend, Ind., for the 900th victory in school history.
Josh Adams added touchdown runs of 72 and 59 yards in the first half before leaving with an injury to his left leg. Adams, who entered the game as the No. 9 rusher in the country, still led the Irish (4-1) with 159 yards on the ground despite the short night.
Wyoming 45, Texas State 10: Josh Allen threw for 219 yards and three touchdowns and moved into the top 10 on the Wyoming career passing yardage and total offense lists in a victory over Texas State in Laramie, Wyo.
Damian Williams found Elijah King on a 5-yard scoring pass with 3:11 remaining in the first half to pull Texas State (1-4) within 14-10, but Tyler Hall answered with a 95-yard kick return to put Wyoming up 21-10.
Williams was 10-of-19 passing for a season-low 91 yards for the Bobcats. Willie Jones III relieved and ran for 57 yards on five carries.