The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Murray's 5 TDs lift No.6 Oklahoma
Kyler Murray passed for three touchdowns and ran for two more as No. 6 Oklahoma defeated visiting UCLA 49-21 on Saturday despite losing star running back Rodney Anderson to a leg injury.
Anderson ran for 10yards on the final play of the fifirst quarter, and then got up slowly. He limped offff on his own, and trainers tended to the preseason All- Big 12 pick before he headed to the locker room. He was back on the bench later, out of uniform.
Murray picked up the slack with 306 yards passing and 69 yards rushing. Cee Dee Lamb had seven catches for 146 yards and Marquise Brown added 88 yards and a touchdown on four catches for the Sooners (2-0).
Oklahomaled 21-7 at halftime. The Sooners held the Bruins to 133 yards before the break and sacked UCLA freshman quarterback Dorian Thompson-Robinson five times. Thompson-Robinson started in place of the injured Wilton Speight.
In the third quarter, Lamb’s 66-yard punt return led to a 10-yard touchdown pass from Murray to A.D. Miller that put the Sooners up 35-7.
Thompson-Robinson completed 16 of 26 passes for 254 yards. Bolu Olorunfunmi ran for 56 yards and two touchdowns for UCLA, which fell to 0-2 under new coach Chip Kelly.
(At) Ohio State 52, Rutgers 3: Dwayne Haskins Jr. threw four touchdown passes, and No. 4Ohio State rolled to the 900th victory in program history.
Johnnie Dixon grabbed two of Haskins’ scoring strikes, and backup quarterback Tate Martell added another touchdown pass and a 47-yard scoring run on a gray, misty afternoon. The Buckeyes, playing in their second game without suspended coach Urban Meyer, piled up 579 offensive yards after amassing 721 in the opener.
The Buckeyes expect to get their fifirst real test of the season against the Horned Frogs in Dallas after a couple of cakewalks to start.
(At) No. 5 Wisconsin 45, New Mexico 14: Jonathan Taylor ran for a careerhigh 253 yards and three touchdowns, and Wisconsin asserted its dominance after allowing a score on the game-opening drive.
A.J. Taylor had 134 yards receiving and a score for the Badgers (2-0), who won their 41st straight home non-conference game. That’s the longest active streak inthe FBS.
(At) No. 8 Notre Dame 24, Ball State 16: Jalen Elliott had a pair of interceptions that No. 8 Notre Dame turned into touchdowns andthe Fighting Irish held offff stubborn Ball State on a day when its offense was frustrated much of the game.
The Irish (2-0), coming offff an emotional 24-17 season-opening victory over Michigan, looked lackluster against the Mid-American Conference foe whose campus in Muncie is a 2½-hour drive. The Cardinals ( 1-1) also played nothing like the 34 ½point underdogs theywere labeled in the schools’ fifirst meeting in football.
(At) No. 21Michigan 49, Western Michigan 3: Shea Patterson threw three touchdown passes, one in each of the fifirst three quarters, as Michigan coasted to a 49-3 win over Western Michigan.
Patterson, the heralded transfer from Mississippi, was 12 of 17 for 125 yards.
(At) No. 23 Oregon 62, Portland State 14: Justin Herbert threw for 250 yards and four touch downs before heading to the bench in the third quarter for Oregon.