College football roundup

Local interest

• Host Denison topped Oberlin, 52-27. They Yeomen fell to 1-3 (1-2 NCAC). Zach Taylor passed for 341 yards and three touchdowns for Oberlin.

• Benny Snell Jr. rushed for four touchdowns to break a Kentucky career record, including two in the fourth quarter, and the host Wildcats held No. 14 Mississippi State to 56 yards rushing for a 28-7 upset. C.J. Conrad (Keystone) caught two passes for 22 yards.

• Host Hillsdale scored 27 unanswered points from the middle of the second quarter on to beat Lake Erie (0-4), 41-7.

• Vasean Davis rushed for three touchdowns, and Jale McLaughlin rushed for 132 yards and two scores as visiting Notre Dame College (4-0, 4-0 MEC) beat Concord, 47-22.

• Baldwin Wallace (3-1, 2-1 OAC) played its first road game of the season and beat Heidelberg, 34-10. Jake Hudson was 18 of 27 for 256 yards and two ouchdowns.

• Zeb Noland threw for 233 yards and a touchdown, David Montgomery had 107 yards rushing and a score and Iowa State (1-2) held off Akron (2-1), 6-13.

• Alonzo Smith ran for 164 of the visiting RedHawks’ season-high 289 yards rushing and Miami (Ohio) (1-3, 1-0) defeated Bowling Green (1-3, 0-1), 8-23, in a Mid-American Conference opener.

• Jordan Ta’amu threw for 442 yards, two touchdowns and ran for another score to lead host Mississippi (3-1) over Kent State (1-3), 38-17. Desmond Ridder led host Cincinnati on a 92-yard fourth-quarter drive to take the lead then stopped Ohio at the Bearcats 1-yard line with 52 seconds left on James Wiggins’ interception for a 34-30 win. • Mitchell Guadagni passed for four touchdowns and ran for two more and host Toledo (2-1) outscored Nevada (2-2), 63-44.

Top national

• Blake LaRussa came off the bench to throw for 495 yards and four touchdowns to lead Old Dominion (1-3) to a 49-35 upset of visiting No. 13 Virginia Tech (2-1) in the Hokies’ first game at the cross-state school that restarted its football program in 2009.

• Tua Tagovailoa passed for 387 yards and four touchdowns and ran for another score to lead host No. 1 Alabama (4-0, 2-0 SEc) past Texas A&M (2-2, 0-1), 45-23.

• Jake Fromm threw three touchdown passes and visiting No. 2 Georgia (40, 2-0) had a defensive touchdown and returned a blocked punt for a score in a 43-29 win over Missouri (3-1, 0-1).

• Freshman Trevor Lawrence took a leading role in Clemson’s quarterback rotation, coming off the bench to throw four touchdown passes against Georgia Tech, and the No. 3 Tigers (4-0, 1-0) beat the Yellow Jackets (1-3, 0-2), 49-21.

• Kyler Murray threw a 10-yard touchdown pass to CeeDee Lamb in overtime, and Parnell Motley intercepted Kelvin Hopkins’ fourth-down pass to help No. 5 Oklahoma (4-0) escape with a 28-21 victory over visiting Army (2-2).

• Sam Ehlinger passed for two touchdowns and ran for a score, all in the second half, and visiting Texas (3-1) ended a four-game losing streak to No. 17 TCU (2-2), 31-16, in the Big 12 opener for both teams.

• Karan Higdon ran for 136 yards and a touchdown in the first half for No. 19 Michigan (3-1, 1-0 Big Ten), and visiting Nebraska (0-3, 0-1) stumbled to its worst start since 1945, 56-10.