Quick start helps Georgia roll by Vandy

Georgia coach Kirby Smart spent the week talking about Mike Tyson, pushing his Bulldogs to start fast and play up to the standard he wants this season.

His Bulldogs did just that.

JT Daniels threw for 121 yards and two touchdowns playing only the first quarter as No. 2 Georgia dominated Vanderbilt 62-0 Saturday in the Bulldogs’ biggest win in a series that started in 1893.

This game was effectively over when Georgia (4-0, 2-0 Southeastern Conference) led 35-0 after the first quarter. The Bulldogs started three of four drives in Vandy territory. They recovered a fumble on a kickoff to set up one TD, then Christopher Smith intercepted a pass to set up a second TD less than 30 seconds later.

“You got to be elite all the time,” Smart said. “You can’t be some of the time. It’s not how elite teams play, and our guys embrace that and I was proud of them.”

Bulldogs’ fans turned this into their home away from Sanford Stadium in what Smart called an “incredible” turnout with Georgia red even in seats behind the Vanderbilt bench. They got to watch the Bulldogs post their first shutout this season, forcing Vandy three-and-out nine times. Georgia nearly had more points than Vandy managed yards, outgaining the Commodores 524-77 no matter how deep Smart substituted.

“We say nobody in our end zone,” Georgia linebacker Nolan Smith said. “That’s the standard, that follows for everybody.”

Coastal Carolina cruises: Both sides of the ball stood strong Saturday as 17th-ranked Coastal Carolina scored on eight of nine possessions for a 53-3 victory that sent UMass to its 15th consecutive loss.

Grayson McCall threw for two touchdowns and ran for a third. Jaivon Heiligh had five catches for 118 yards receiving, the fifth time in the past six games he’s surpassed the century mark. Backup receiver Tyson Mobley a touchdown catch and another on the ground.

The Chanticleers have won 15 of their past 16 games.

Thompson goes off to lead Texas: Casey Thompson threw five touchdowns and ran for another as Texas continued its offensive explosion since naming him the starting quarterback with a 70-35 rout of Texas Tech on Saturday.

With Thompson at the controls, the Longhorns have scored more than 40 points in the first half in consecutive games while mixing his ever-expanding role as a passer with a powerful running game led by tailback Bijan Robinson.

Johnson pushes LSU by Mississippi State: Max Johnson passed for 280 yards and four touchdowns to lead the Tigers to a 28-25 victory over the late-rallying Bulldogs on Saturday.

LSU (3-1, 1-0 Southeastern Conference) had only 343 yards offense and was 5 of 32 on third down but reeled off several big plays when needed.

“We say all the time, big plays build momentum,” LSU head coach Ed Orgeron said.

Mississippi State (2-2, 0-1) dominated the stat sheet with 486 yards offense and 12 third-down conversions, but turned the ball over twice inside the LSU 30-yard line and regularly squandered momentum-building drives.

BC tops Missouri in overtime: Denis Grosel threw a 10-yard touchdown pass to Zay Flowers in overtime, and Brandon Sebastian’s interception sealed the victory on Saturday as Boston College recovered after blowing two fourth-quarter leads to beat Missouri 41-34.

BC coach Jeff Hafley said he couldn’t see Sebastian come down with the ball to end the game. But he figured it out when the fans came streaming onto the field to celebrate the first-ever meeting between the schools, and the Eagles’ first 4-0 start since Matt Ryan led them to eight straight wins to start the 2007 season.

“The next thing I know I had like 5,000 people on my back,” Hafley said. “It was a blur.”

Travis Levy scored from 5-yards out to give BC a 34-31 lead with 25 seconds to play in the fourth, bouncing off one defender at the 1 and scampering in. But Connor Bazelak led the Tigers (2-2) to the Eagles’ 39 and Harrison Mevis barely cleared the crossbar with a 56-yard field goal as time expired in regulation.

Bowling Green stuns Gophers: Quarterback Matt McDonald ran for a pair of scores, and two late interceptions by the Bowling Green defense sealed the win as the Falcons shocked heavily-favored Minnesota 14-10 on homecoming.

The loss snapped Minnesota’s streak of 21 straight non-conference wins, the longest streak in the country entering Saturday’s game. The Gophers’ last non-conference loss was Sept. 3, 2015 against TCU. It also marked Minnesota’s first loss to a non-Power 5 conference opponent since losing to North Dakota State on Sept. 24, 2011.

“Give Bowling Green a lot of credit,” said Gophers head coach P.J. Fleck. “I know how excited they are, and they deserve it and they earned it. We did not deserve to win that football game whatsoever.”