Third-ranked Baylor overpowers Kansas, wins 66-7

LAWRENCE, Kan.—Seth Russell wanted to keep playing. So did Corey Coleman and Shock Linwood.

Baylor coach Art Briles is certain they’ll see more of the field in the coming weeks.

Russell tossed three touchdown passes, two of them to Coleman, and Linwood ran for 135 yards and a score as third-ranked Baylor romped to 66-7 victory over Kansas on Saturday.

All three stars sat the entire second half, resting for what Baylor (5-0, 2-0 Big 12) hopes is a national title push. They’ve blown out every opponent so far, but still have a tough road ahead, including Oklahoma, Oklahoma State and TCU in consecutive weeks to finish the regular season.

TEXAS TECH 66, IOWA STATE 31

LUBBOCK, Texas—Patrick Mahomes threw for 428 yards and five touchdowns, two to Jakeem Grant, to lead Texas Tech past Iowa State 66-31 on Saturday for the Red Raiders’ first Big 12 win.

Grant had a career-high 166 yards on nine catches. He caught TD passes of 75 and 37 yards for Texas Tech (4-2, 1-2). It was Grant’s third 100-plus-yard game this season.

DeAndre Washington had a receiving and a rushing TD, while Justin Stockton scored on a 54-yard rush.

SEC NO. 7 LSU 45, SOUTH CAROLINA 24

BATON ROUGE, La.— Leonard Fournette had an 87-yard touchdown run, Brandon Harris passed for a career-best 228 yards, and LSU beat South Carolina in a game moved to Tiger Stadium because of flooding in South Carolina.

Fournette finished with a season-low 158 yards on 20 carries in three quarters. Freshman Derrius Guice rushed for 161 yards and a TD, fellow running back Darrel Williams scored twice and the Tigers (5-0, 3-0 Southeastern Conference) piled up 396 yards rushing.

Travin Dural had 109 yards receiving for LSU, highlighted by a 62-yard TD catch. Malachi Dupre also had a touchdown reception.

With quarterback Lorenzo Nunez nursing a sore shoulder, Perry Orth started for South Carolina (2-4, 0-4). He passed for 200 yards and two TDs. Rashad Fenton returned a kickoff 96 yards for a touchdown.

TENNESSEE 38, NO. 19 GEORGIA 31

KNOXVILLE, Tenn.—Joshua Dobbs threw for 312 yards, ran for 118 more and accounted for five touchdowns and Tennessee overcame a 21-point deficit to beat Georgia.

Georgia (4-2, 1-2 Southeastern Conference) lost star running back Nick Chubb to a left knee injury on the first play from scrimmage.

Georgia’s Reggie Davis scored on a 70-yard punt return and 48-yard catch, but dropped a potential tying 56-yard pass with less than 4 minutes left. The Bulldogs got to Tennessee’s 27 in the final seconds, but Brian Randolph broke up Greyson Lambert’s pass to Malcolm Mitchell in the end zone.

Dobbs was 25 of 42 with three touchdown passes for Tennessee (3-3, 1-2). He ran for two touchdowns, including a 5-yarder that broke a 31-all tie with 5:48 left.

NO. 14 OLE MISS 52, NEW MEXICO ST. 3

OXFORD, Miss.—No. 14 Mississippi overpowered another non-conference opponent with points and yards galore.

The final result was a lopsided 52-3 victory over New Mexico State that included Chad Kelly’s 384 yards passing and an acrobatic one-handed touchdown grab by Laquon Treadwell.

The highlights were certainly a welcome sight for the Rebels after last week’s sobering 38-10 loss to Florida. But there wasn’t a whole lot of celebrating considering they still had sloppy moments—including three turnovers—and much tougher games coming up.

MISSISSIPPI ST. 45, TROY 17

STARKVILLE, Miss.—Nick Fitzgerald, filling in for an under-the-weather Dak Prescott, had three touchdowns and 170 yards of total offense to lead Mississippi State to a 45-17 victory over Troy on Saturday.

MSU (4-2) had 336 yards of total offense, 211 of that through the air.

Troy (1-4) dominated the time of possession (40:25) in the game, but managed only two trips to the red zone against MSU’s physical, bend-but-don’t-break defensive scheme.

Fitzgerald, a redshirt freshman who had thrown a combined four passes in two previous games this season, was 6 of 7 for 141 yards passing and two touchdowns. He also rushed for 29 yards and another touchdown.

De’Runnya Wilson, Fred Ross and Donald Gray each caught touchdown passes.

GAC ARKANSAS TECH 30, OUACHITA 12

The Ouachita Tigers saw their four-game win streak against the Wonder Boys of Arkansas Tech come to end on Saturday. The Tigers fell 30-12 in Russellville after being held to 258 yards of total offense. Ke’Vontae Pope had the Tigers lone touchdown, which came late in the fourth quarter.

Ouachita opened the first quarter with a seven-play, 35 yard drive but came away empty handed after a fourth and five conversion attempt ended in an interception on a tipped pass. Brandon Marks had three carries 21 yards and Evian Hill had one reception for 11 yards on the drive.

The Wonder Boys scored on two of their three first quarter possessions to take a 10-0 lead over the Tigers. Tech added another field goal early in the second quarter to increase their lead by 13.

Cole Antley connected on a 20-yard field goal attempt to get Ouachita on the scoreboard. With 4:39 remaining in the first half, the Tigers trailed 13-3. The Wonder Boys added another field goal, third of the half, to take a halftime lead of 16-3.

It was a battle of defense in the third quarter. Neither offense could move the ball effectively, with the longest drive for either team going for 26 yards. Ouachita’s defense forced a Tech turnover late in the third, when Ricardy Joseph recovered a fumble on the Arkansas Tech 12 yard line.

An interception returned for a touchdown by Tech on the Tigers first possession of the fourth quarter increased Tech’s lead to 17 points. Down 30-6 with 7:44 remaining, the Tigers put together an eight play, 75-yard drive. Warford completed 4-5 passes for 44 yards on the drive, finding Ke’Vontae Pope in the end zone for the touchdown.

SOUTHERN ARKANSAS 38, OKLAHOMA BAPTIST 20

MAGNOLIA, Ark.—The Southern Arkansas defense allowed just 151 total yards of offense to GAC-newcomer Oklahoma Baptist on Saturday afternoon to help propel the Muleriders to a 38-20 win over the visiting Bison on Homecoming.

The Muleriders’ (4-2, 4-2 GAC) victory against the Bison (1-5, 1-5 GAC) pushes their Homecoming Day winning streak to eight games overall with the last seven coming under head coach Bill Keopple.

In Saturday’s game, neither team would light up the scoreboard in the first quarter, but early in the second quarter, the Muleriders struck first as Barrett Renner hooked up with a wide open Tanner Hudson from nine-yards out. Later in that second quarter, SAU’s Deandre Jenkins would find pay dirt from seven-yards out to put the Muleriders up 14-0 heading into halftime.

HENDERSON STATE 22, HARDING 17

Andrew Black’s first career touchdown run helped propel Henderson State to a 22-17 win over No. 22 Harding, Saturday in Searcy.

The win kept Henderson State atop the Great American Conference standings tied with Arkansas Tech.

Trailing 17-16, the Reddie defense forced a Tristan Parsley punt midway through the fourth quarter.

Darion Gray then made the most of his first punt return of the season returning the ball 46 yards down to the Bisons 9-yardline.

On 3rd-and-goal from the 10, Black faked a handoff and scooted into the end zone to put Henderson on top 22-17. The Reddies would fail on the two point conversion attempt.

Henderson’s defense forced another punt on Harding’s next possession with the Reddies setting up shop on their own 33.

The Reddies, 5-1 on the season, would advance the ball down to the Harding 30-yardline on nine plays. The drive would stall and Evan Lassiter’s punt would just roll into the end zone giving the ball back to the Bisons at the 20 with 1:05 left to play.