No. 5 Texas A&M gets past Colorado
Backup quarterback Zach Calzada threw an 18yard touchdown pass to Isaiah Spiller with 2:41 remaining and fifth-ranked Texas A&M escaped Empower Field at Mile High with a 10-7 win over Colorado on Saturday.
Spiller’s TD gave the Aggies (2-0) their first lead on a day in which they lost freshman QB Haynes King to a lower right leg injury and eight of their first nine drives were three-and-outs.
Colorado’s hopes of an upset over the 17-point favorite Aggies ended when Brendon Lewis’ pass to Dimitri Stanley on fourthand-13 from his 22 covered just 12 yards.
The Aggies, whose 10game winning streak is second-longest in the nation to Alabama, took over with 1:39 left and ran out the clock on the Buffs (11), who managed just one first down after taking a 7-3 halftime lead.
The former Big 12 adversaries hadn’t played each other since 2009 before the Aggies bolted to the Southeastern Conference and the Buffs headed to the Pac-12.
The old rivals put on a dazzling defensive performance, but an offensive dud in front of 61,203 fans at the home of the Denver Broncos.
The Buffs had a chance to pull off their first win over a top-five team in 14 years when Joshka Gustav forced a fumble inches from the goal line and cornerback Mekhi Blackmon recovered it in the end zone to prevent a touchdown by the Aggies midway through the fourth. TCU 34, CAL 32 >> Quentin Johnston caught two of Max Duggan’s three touchdown passes, with the goahead score coming on a nifty catch-and-run as the Horned Frogs beat the visiting Golden Bears to remain undefeated against Pac-12 teams under coach Gary Patterson.
Johnston put the Horned Frogs (2-0) ahead to stay with the 45-yard TD catch with 9:53 left.
Zach Evans ran for 183 yards on 22 carries, with a 51-yard TD just before halftime for the Horned Frogs. Duggan completed 17 of 31 passes for 234 yards and added 71 yards rushing on 19 carries with a 9-yard keeper for a TD with 5:47 left for a 34-26 lead.
Chase Garbers threw for 309 yards and two touchdowns for Cal (0-2). He had 235 yards passing in the first half, with 199 of that coming on only four plays (49, 54, 28 and 68 yards).
The Bears have 0-2 starts in consecutive seasons for the first time since 1994 and 1995.
MICHIGAN 31, WASHINGTON 10 >> Blake Corum ran for 171 yards and three touchdowns, including a 67-yarder in the second quarter, and the Wolverines (2-0) beat the Huskies (0-2), who have lost their first two games for the first time since 2008 when they finished 0-12.
WASHINGTON STATE 44, PORTLAND STATE 24 >> Jayden de Laura threw three TD passes and ran for another score as the Cougars beat the Vikings.
Deon McIntosh rushed for 64 yards and a touchdown and Max Borghi added 59 yards and a TD for Washington State (1-1).
NORTH DIVISION Conf. W L
Oregon 0 0 Wash. St. 0 0 Oregon St. 0 0 Stanford 0 0 Cal 0 0 Washington 0 0
SOUTH DIVISION Conf. W L
0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Saturday’s results
Oregon 35, Ohio St. 28 Texas A&M 10, Colorado 7 TCU 34, Cal 32
Wash. St. 44, Portland St. 24 Michigan 31, Washington 10 San Diego St. at Arizona, late Utah at BYU, late UNLV at Arizona St., late Stanford at USC, late Hawaii at Oregon St., late
Saturday, Sept. 18 Overall W L
UCLA Arizona St. USC Utah Colorado Arizona
2 1 0 0 0 0
2 1 1 1 1 0
0 0 0 0 1 1
0 1 1 1 2 2
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Minnesota at Colorado, 10a.m. USC at Wash. St., 12:30p.m. Idaho at Oregon St., 12:30p.m. Sacramento St. at Cal, 1p.m. Arkansas St. at Washington, 1:15 p.m.
Utah at San Diego St., 4p.m. Stony Brook at Oregon, 4:30 p.m.
Stanford at Vanderbilt, 5p.m. N. Arizona at Arizona, 7 p.m. Arizona St. at BYU, 7:15 p.m. Fresno St. at UCLA, 7:45p.m.