Badgers baffled by BYU
No. 6Wisconsin has nonconference win streak snapped
Squally Canada ran for 118 yards and two touchdowns as Brigham Young handed mistake prone Wisconsin its first nonconference home loss since
2003, giving the No. 6 Badgers fits with its motion offense in a 24-21victory Saturday.
The Cougars (2-1) tossed in a trick play, too, when receiver Aleva Hifo found open tight end Moroni Laulu-Pututau for a 31-yard touchdown pass in the second quarter.
Wisconsin (2-1) had one last chance to avoid an upset with a drive that started with 3:55 left at the 8. But normally reliable senior kicker Rafael
Gaglianone’s 42-yard field 0 goal attempt to tie with 41seconds to go went wide left.
BYU’s last victory over a top-10 team came in 2009 with a 14-13 win over third-ranked Oklahoma.
The Badgers’ 41-game nonconference winning streak— the longest active in the nation— came to an end. Their hopes to make the College Football Playoff probably did, too.
No. 3 Georgia 49, Middle Tennessee 7: Jake Fromm threw three touchdown passes and Elijah Holyfield ran for 100 yards, each playing only the first half in Athens, Ga.
Georgia (3-0) led the Blue Raiders (1-2) 42-7 at halftime.
No. 5 Oklahoma 37, Iowa State 27: Kyler Murray threw for 348 yards and three touchdowns for the visiting Sooners in the Big 12 opener for both teams.
Marquise Brown had 191 yards receiving and a TD to help the Sooners (3-0), a year removed froma stunning home loss to the Cyclones (0-2), extend the nation’s longest road winning streak to 17 games.
Murray also ran for a teamhigh 77 yards.
Iowa State rallied from a 14-point halftime deficit to make it 34-27 late in the third quarter. But the Sooners killed nearly eight minutes on a drive that ended with a 42-yard field goal from Austin Siebert with 2:51 left, and Parnell Motley’s interception with1:11 to go sealed the decision.
No. 12 LSU22, No. 7Auburn 21: Cole Tracy kicked a 42-yard field goal on the final play to give the Tigers a road victory in their Southeastern Conference opener.
Joe Burrow led LSU(3-0) down the field in the final minutes with clutch plays and two pass-interference calls against Auburn (2-1). That set up Tracy’s field goal, whichwas almost right down the middle, and sent LSU players swarming onto the field to celebrate.
Burrow hit Derrick Dillon over the outstretched arms of Auburn linebacker Deshaun Davis for a 71-yard touchdown strike with 8:18 left. Burrow’s 2-point attempt failed, leaving Auburn up 21-19.
The LSU defense held to set up another chance with 5:38 remaining. The result was a 14-play, 52-yard drive. Pass interference against Jeremiah Dinson on third-and-11kept the drive alive. Then Burrow hit Stephen Sullivan for 9 yards on fourthand-7 to keep the offense on the field.
No. 8 Notre Dame 22, Vanderbilt 17: Jalen Elliott, from
L.C. Bird High in the Richmond area, knocked the ball loose from Vanderbilt receiver Kalija Lipscomb with1:07 remaining to give the host Irish a fourth-down stop and the victory.
Kyle Shurmur threw for 326 yards and a touchdown for Vanderbilt (2-1), rallying his team froma 16-3 halftime deficit. His fourth-and-4 pass fromthe Notre Dame 31 to Lipscomb, who caught11 passes, was nicely thrown, and the receiver almost made a reaching catch at the 11. But Elliott, with some help from the ground, knocked the ball loose and incomplete.
Tony Jones Jr. finished with 118 yards on17 carries for Notre Dame (3-0). He also caught two passes from quarterback Brandon Wimbush for 56 yards.
No. 9 Stanford 30, UC Davis 10: K.J. Costello overcame a rough start to throw two touchdown passes to JJ Arcega-Whiteside for the host Cardinal.
Costello threw interceptions on two of the first three drives of the game for the Cardinal (3-0) before settling in a bit against the overmatched Aggies (2-1), who are No. 23 in the FCS.
No. 11Penn State 63, Kent State 10: Trace McSorley accounted for five touchdowns and broke Penn State’s record for rushing scores by a quarterback.
McSorley completed 11 of 22 passes for 229 yards with an interception and ran for three touchdowns for the host Nittany Lions (3-0). He has 24 rushing TDs, two more than Daryll Clark’s previous mark.
McSorley also became the second Penn State quarterback to rush for 1,000 career yards, joining Varina High product Michael Robinson with an1 8yard carry in the first quarter.
DeAndre Thompkins caught four passes for 101yards and hauled in 40-yard touchdown pass to begin the rout. Miles Sanders rushed for 86 yards on 14 carries.
The Golden Flashes dropped to 1-2.
No. 19 Michigan 45, SMU20: Shea Patterson threw three touchdown passes to Donovan Peoples-Jones, helping the host Wolverines pull away fromthe Mustangs.
Michigan (2-1) didn’t score until Ben Mason converted a fourth down with a 1-yard TD run midway through the second quarter. SMU(0-3) responded with Ben Hicks’ 50-yard pass to James Proche to tie it.
No. 24 Oklahoma State 44, No. 17 Boise State 21: Taylor Cornelius ran for two touchdowns and passed for another to help the host Cowboys.
Justice Hill ran for 123 yards and a touchdown, and Tylan Wallace had five catches for 105 yards for Oklahoma State (3-0). Itwas one of the most important nonconference wins in Mike Gundy’s 14-year tenure as coach.
Boise State’s Brett Rypien passed for 380 yards and three touchdowns, butwas sacked seven times and pressured throughout the day. Jordan Brailford had three sacks, Jarrell Owens had two and Devin Harper had1.5. Oklahoma State held the Broncos (2-1) to 34 yards rushing on 31 attempts.