TCU shuts down nsas

Washington State blanks Colorado; WVU edges Baylor.

TCU’s KaVontae Turpin went backward to set up a dazzling 90-yard punt return for a touchdown.

The Kansas offense just mostly went backward.

Kenny Hill matched his career high with five touchdown passes, Turpin’s return after backtracking to the 3 capped the scoring in the third quarter and the TCU defense dominated the overmatched Jayhawks in the fourth-ranked Horned Frogs’ 43-0 victory Saturday night in Fort Worth, Texas.

Kansas (1-6, 0-4) had 21 yards of total offense while tying an 81-year-old NCAA record with its 44th straight loss in a true road game.

With severe weather approaching, both coaches agreed to a running clock from the 12:49 mark of the fourth quarter with TCU leading by the final margin.

“We started hot, slowed down for a m inute a nd picked it back up,” Hill said. “The defense was locked down all day. I thought we played well. We played really well.”

John Diarse had a 67-yard catch-and-run touchdown for a 24-0 lead in the second quarter and finished with 130 yards on four receptions to help the Horned Frogs (7-0, 4-0 Big 12) improve to 19-0 at home as a Top 10 team under coach Gary Patterson.

TCU out-gained Kansas 305-3 in the first half, finished with 475 yards and was never challenged. Western State of Colorado set the record for consecutive true road losses from 1926 to 1936.

Washington State 28, Colorado 0: Faced with driving rain, winds and low temperatures, the Air Raid offense of No. 15 Washington State converted to a ground game.

The Cougars rushed for 194 yards and quarterback Luke Falk threw for three touchdowns to defeat Colorado in Pullman.

Jamal Morrow rushed for 73 yards and a touchdown for Washington State (7-1, 4-1 Pac-12), which rebounded from a 34-point loss at California that coach Mike Leach called the worst game the Cougars have played in his six years there.

Phillip Lindsay rushed for 98 yards for Colorado (4-4, 1-4), which was coming off its first Pac-12 win. Lindsay came in needing five yards to top 1,000 for the season.

“That was the worst offensive performance we’ve had since I’ve been a coach here,” Colorado coach Mike MacIntyre said.

West Virginia 38, Baylor 36: Nobody has to tell West Virginia coach Dana Holgerson that Baylor can put up points in a hurry. The Mountaineers gave up 62 and 73 points in their first two trips to Waco.

But Holgerson d idn’t expect his team would need to stop a two-point conversion and recover an onside kick to win after carrying a 25-point lead into the fourth quarter while facing a freshman quarterback.

Xavier Preston sacked Charlie Brewer on a twopoint try with 17 seconds left and No. 23 West Virginia withstood a furious fourth-quarter Baylor rally.

Former Florida QB Will Grier threw for five touchdowns to pad his national lead to 26 for the Mountaineers (5-2, 3-1 Big 12), who led 38-13 at the start of the fourth quarter against the winless Bears (0-7, 0-4).

That’s when Brewer entered the game and began to turn things around with his scrambling. He was 8-for13 passing for 109 yards and two touchdowns and Treston Ebner had 109 yards and two touchdowns receiving and a 40-yard scoring run.