Troy 24, LSU 21

KNOXVILLE, Tenn. — There would be no frantic finishes or dramatic comebacks in the latest edition of the Georgia-Tennessee rivalry.

The seventh-ranked Bulldogs made sure of it.

Jake Fromm threw a touchdown pass and ran for two more scores Saturday as No. 7 Georgia rolled to a 41-0 blowout of Tennessee, which was shut out for the first time in nearly a quarter-century.

Nick Chubb added 109 yards rushing to help Georgia race to its first 5-0 start since 2012, the last year the Bulldogs reached the Southeastern Conference championship game. Georgia earned its 800th win in program history.

"Keep chopping wood and let's get some more," Georgia coach Kirby Smart said.

Before Saturday, none of the last six games in this series had been decided by more than eight points, including Tennessee's 3431 victory last season on a Hail Mary as time expired. Each of the last three years, the winning team had erased a double-digit deficit.

But Georgia took the suspense out of this one early. Georgia grabbed a 24-0 halftime lead and never allowed Tennessee to rally.

"You can't let your foot off their throat," Georgia outside linebacker Lorenzo Carter said.

Tennessee (3-2, 0-2) hadn't been shut out since a 31-0 loss to Florida in 1994. Georgia forced four turnovers, allowed just 142 total yards and limited SEC rushing leader John Kelly to 44 yards on 16 carries.

"It was as bad of an offensive performance as I've ever been a part of," Tennessee coach Butch Jones said. "It's inexcusable."

The Bulldogs got more good news in the fourth quarter when quarterback Jacob Eason made his first appearance since spraining his left knee in the season opener.

Fromm was 7 of 15 for 84 yards with an interception and a 12-yard touchdown pass to Javon Wims . He also rushed for 20 yards, including second-quarter touchdown runs from 9 and 4 yards out, before giving way to Eason with the game well in hand.

Florida 38, Vanderbilt 24

GAINESVILLE, Fla. — Feleipe Franks lifted his left arm and showed where he scribbled a name in black marker.

Sweat and heavy rain had washed off much of the ink, but the four letters were still faintly visible on his wrist: "Luke."

No. 21 Florida beat Vanderbilt despite losing starting quarterback Luke Del Rio for the season because of a broken left collarbone. It's a potential crushing blow for a team trying to get to the Southeastern Conference championship game for the third consecutive year.

The Gators (3-1, 3-0 SEC) will now shift back to Franks, who was benched in two of his first three starts, and rely heavily on an emerging rushing attack.

If Lamical Perine and Malik Davis play like they did against the Commodores (3-2, 0-2), the Gators should have a good chance to win the Eastern Division again. Perine scored three touchdowns, and Davis added two more as Florida defeated the Commodores for the 26th time in the last 27 meetings.

Perine finished with 58 yards on 15 carries. Davis, a freshman, ran 17 times for 124 yards. His final run was huge. On a fourthdown play, Davis broke through the line, stumbled and then regained his footing for a 39-yard score that sealed the victory with 1:42 remaining.

Texas A&M 24 South Carolina 17

COLLEGE STATION, Texas — Keith Ford ran for 70 yards and two touchdowns, including the go-ahead 17-yard score in the fourth quarter, to lift Texas A&M to a win over South Carolina.

Freshman Kellen Mond threw for 159 yards and ran for 95 to help the Aggies (4-1, 2-0 Southeastern Conference) rally for the victory.

Texas A&M trailed by a touchdown entering the fourth quarter before Ford tied it up with a 7-yard run.

Mond looked to have scored two plays earlier, but Camron Buckley delivered a helmet-to-helmet hit while blocking on the play and it was called back. Buckley, who was called for a holding penalty earlier in the drive, was ejected for targeting after the play was reviewed.

Otaro Alaka sacked Jake Bentley on third down on South Carolina's next drive to force a punt.

Ford put the Aggies on top on their ensuing possession when he dragged three defenders into the end zone for that 17-yard touchdown, which made it 24-17.

Bentley was sacked twice on South Carolina's next drive and the Aggies got the ball back and they used run after run to get the clock down to less than two minutes.

Bentley threw for 256 yards and two touchdowns for South Carolina (3-2, 1-2), but he was sacked seven times behind a line that often didn't give him enough time to make plays.

Alaka led the way on defense for the Aggies, finishing with nine tackles, including five for losses and two sacks.

Bentley pushed South Carolina's lead to 17-7 when he connected with OrTre Smith on a 13-yard touchdown pass with about nine minutes left in the third quarter.

BATON ROUGE, La. — Jordan Chunn ran for 191 yards and a touchdown, Troy's defense forced four turnovers and the surging Trojans upset No. 25 LSU.

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 non-league 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.

Arkansas 42, New Mexico State 24

FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. — Austin Allen has spent much of the season so far trying to regain his form, his coolness and — more tha anything — his fun on the football field.

A much-needed win did just that for the relieved Arkansas quarterback along with his teammates.

Even Razorbacks coach Bret Bielema took part in the postgame celebration following Arkansas' win over New Mexico State, taking part in some locker-room shenanigans by doing the Hokey Pokey for his players to watch.

Every bit of the fun — and relief — was understandable for a Razorbacks (2-2) team that entered the contest having lost four of its last five games, including an overtime defeat to Texas A&M a week ago.

Kentucky 24, Eastern Michigan 20

LEXINGTON, Ky. — Benny Snell scored on a 12-yard run early in the fourth quarter after the second of Kentucky's big special teams plays provided a cushion, and the Wildcats survived Eastern Michigan.

With both schools looking to get back on track after tough conference losses, the Wildcats (4-1) eventually succeeded despite uneven play throughout their inaugural non-conference meeting with the Eagles (2-2). A game that was tied at 14 at halftime began turning the Wildcats' way when Tristan Yeomans recovered a muffed punt at EMU's 42 and led to Austin MacGinnis' 39-yard field goal.

Josh Paschal's blocked punt early in the fourth was downed at EMU's 12, and Snell busted through on the next play for a 10-point lead that stood just a week after Kentucky yielded 14 unanswered fourth-quarter points in a 28-27 loss to No. 21 Florida.

"We found ways to win the football game when we didn't play our best," Kentucky coach Mark Stoops said. "There's no excuse for not playing our best at home. I appreciate 4-1 because it's better than 3-2."

Ian Eriksen's 2-yard TD run got EMU within 24-20 and gave the Eagles one last chance, but Brogan Roback's desperation pass was intercepted by Mike Edwards in the end zone in the final seconds.