College football roundup

Local interest

• Visiting Notre Dame College (2-0, 2-0MEC) rode a 20-point second quarter to a 27-17victory over Glenville State. Chris Brimm was 19of 26for 132 yards and two touchdowns. Jale McLaughlin rushed for 179yards and a score. Marvelle Ross (VASJ) caught five passes for 66yards. • Host Malone held Lake Erie College (0-2, 0-1 GMAC) scoreless in the second half on the way to a 42-12 victory. Cameron Cobb had seven catches for 75 yards and a touchdown. • Jo-El Shaw ran for 105 yards and three touchdowns to help host Kent State (1-1) roll to a 54-14 victory over Howard (0-2). Kent State surpassed 50 points for the first time since 2008 and has beaten Howard in consecutive home openers. • Thanks to some untimely penalties, visiting Maryland (2-0) found itself down 14-10 at halftime to MidAmerican Conference team Bowling Green (0-1). Then the Terps’ running game took over. Maryland ripped off 35 unanswered points in the second half to cruise to the 45-14 win over the Falcons. • Kato Nelson passed for three touchdowns, Van Edwards ran for two and host Akron rolled to a 41-0 win over Morgan State (0-2) in the Zips’ season opener. Nelson was 16 for 26 for 232 yards and Edwards rushed 17 times for 109 yards.

Top national

• Kelly Bryant threw for 205 yards and a touchdown and ran for another score to help visiting No. 2Clemson (2-0) escape with a 28-26victory over Kellen Mond and Texas A&M (1-1). Mond was spectacular in the second half, throwing for three touchdowns, with a 14-yard pass to Kendrick Rogers cutting the lead to 28-26with 46 seconds left. • Kyler Murray threw three touchdown passes and ran for two more scores, and No. 6 Oklahoma (2-0) lost star running back Rodney Anderson to a leg injury in a 49-21 victory over visiting UCLA (0-2). Anderson ran for 10 yards on the final play of the first quarter, and then got up slowly. • Tua Tagovailoa passed for three first-quarter touchdowns and Jalen Hurts added two more before halftime for No. 1 Alabama (2-0) in a 57-7 rout of Arkansas State. The Crimson Tide racked up big plays on the way to a 40-0 halftime lead while rotating the quarterbacks who battled for the job throughout the offseason. • Jake Fromm threw for 194 yards and a touchdown, and No. 3 Georgia (2-0, 1-0 SEC) routed host No. 24 South Carolina (1-1, 0-1), 41-17. Fromm was 15-of-18 passing, including a 34-yard TD pass to Mecole Hardman. • Jonathan Taylor ran for a career-high 253 yards and three touchdowns, and host No. 5 Wisconsin (2-0) asserted its dominance over New Mexico (1-1), 45-14, after allowing a score on the game-opening drive. • Jalen Elliott had two interceptions that No. 8 Notre Dame turned into touchdowns, and the Fighting Irish (2-0) held off stubborn Ball State (1-1), 24-16. •Trace McSorley threw for two touchdowns and ran for another and visiting No. 13 Penn State (2-0) pulled away against sloppy Pittsburgh (1-1). • Shea Patterson threw three touchdown passes, one in each of the first three quarters, to help host No. 21 Michigan (1-1) beat Western Michigan (0-2), 49-3. • West Virginia’s Gary Jennings caught three touchdown passes from Will Grier to lead host No. 14 West Virginia (2-0) to a 52-17 victory over Youngstown State (0-2). • Visiting Kentucky (2-0) ended one of college football’s longest losing streaks by upsetting No. 25 Florida (1-1), 27-26. Terry Wilson accounted for three touchdowns, Benny Snell ran for 175 yards and the Wildcats beat the Gators for the first time since 1986.