No. 1 Alabama blows past Ole Miss
OXFORD, Miss. — Tua Tagovailoa threw for 191 yards and two touchdowns, Jerry Jeudy caught two scoring passes and No. 1 Alabama buried Mississippi 62- 7 on Saturday night.
Alabama ( 3- 0) gave up a touchdown on the first play of the Southeastern Conference opener, but responded by scoring the next 62 points. The Tide’s offense had 516 total yards and was so effective that Tagovailoa’s evening was over by midway through the second quarter.
The left- handed sophomore completed 11 of 15 passes during his short time on the field. The Tide then turned to Jalen Hurts, who completed 7 of 10 passes for 85 yards, two touchdowns and one interception.
It was so lopsided that third- string quarterback Mac Jones was in the game before the end of the third quarter.
NO 2. CLEMSON 38, GA. SOUTHERN 7
Travis Etienne ran for 162 yards and two touchdowns for the Tigers ( 3- 0) and Trevor Lawrence threw for 194 yards, including a 57- yard score to fellow freshman Justyn Ross in their first meeting with Georgia Southern ( 2- 1) of the Sun Belt Conference, in Clemson, S. C.
Clemson was the lone major conference school in the Carolinas and Virginia to play on Saturday, although school officials did move the game up to noon instead of its planned 3: 30 p. m. start in deference to Florence, a one- time Category 4 hurricane that was a slow- moving tropical storm by Saturday.
At kickoff, though, the crowd of 79,844 had sunny skies and mild breezes for tailgates like many football Saturdays. Conditions changed by halftime with bands of grey clouds over the stadium and the wind picking up. Florence’s drenching rains were forecast to hit the area Saturday night.
NO. 3 GEORGIA 49, MID. TENNESSEE 7
Jake Fromm threw three touchdown passes and Elijah Holyfield ran for 100 yards, each playing only the first half, in Athens, Ga.
NO. 5 OKLAHOMA 37, IOWA ST. 27
Kyler Murray threw for 348 yards and three touchdowns in the Big 12 opener for both teams, in Ames, Iowa. Marquise Brown had 191 yards receiving and a TD for the Sooners ( 3- 0, 1- 0 Big 12), who extended the nation’s longest road winning streak to 17 games while avenging a stunning home loss to the Cyclones a year ago.
BYU 24, NO. 6 WISCONSIN 21
Squally Canada ran for 118 yards and two touch- downs and BYU handed mistake- prone Wisconsin its first nonconference home loss since 2003, in Madison, Wis.
NO. 12 LSU 22, NO. 7 AUBURN 21
Cole Tracy kicked a 42yard field goal on the final play in Auburn, Ala. Joe Burrow led LSU ( 3- 0) down the field in the final minutes with clutch plays and two pass interference calls against Auburn ( 2- 1).
NO. 8 NOTRE DAME 22, VANDERBILT 17
Jalen Elliott knocked the ball loose from Vanderbilt receiver Kalija Lipscomb with 1: 07 remaining to give Notre Dame a fourth- down stop in South Bend, Ind.
NO. 9 STANFORD 30, UC DAVIS 10
K. J. Costello overcame a rough start to throw two touchdown passes to JJ Arcega- Whiteside in Stanford, Calif. Costello threw interceptions on two of the first three drives of the game for the Cardinal ( 3- 0) before settling in a bit against the FCS- level Aggies ( 2- 1).
NO. 11 PENN ST. 63, KENT ST. 10
Trace McSorley accounted for five touchdowns and broke Penn State’s record for most rushing scores by a quarterback, in State College, Pa. The Heisman Trophy hopeful completed 11 of 22 passes for 229 yards with an interception and ran for three touchdowns for the Nittany Lions ( 3- 0).
McSorley also became the second Penn State quarterback to rush for 1,000 career yards, joining Michael Robinson with an 18- yard carry in the first quarter.
NO. 24 OKLAHOMA ST. 44, NO. 17 BOISE ST. 21
Taylor Cornelius ran for two touchdowns and passed for another in Stillwater, Okla. Justice Hill ran for 123 yards and a touchdown, and Tylan Wallace had five catches for 105 yards for the Cowboys
( 3- 0).
NO. 19 MICHIGAN 45, SMU 20
Shea Patterson threw three touchdown passes to Donovan Peoples- Jones in Ann Arbor, Mich. The Wolverines ( 2- 1) didn’t score until Ben Mason converted a fourth down with a 1- yard TD run midway through the second quarter.
NO. 20 OREGON 35, SAN JOSE ST. 22
Justin Herbert threw for 309 yards and three touchdowns in Eugene, Ore., in the Ducks’ final nonconference tuneup before opening the Pac- 12 season with Stanford next week.
NO. 21 MIAMI 49, TOLEDO 24
Malik Rosier threw for two touchdowns and ran for three more in Toledo, Ohio. The Hurricanes ( 2- 1) never trailed and led 21- 0 late in the first half, but Toledo ( 1- 1) twice pulled back to within a touchdown.