Horseshoe shootout
No. 3 Ohio State holds off comeback by Penix, Indiana
COLUMBUS, Ohio — Master Teague ran for a career-high 169 yards and two touchdowns, Justin Fields accounted for three scores and No. 3 Ohio State held off a comeback bid by Michael Penix Jr., Ty Fryfogle and No. 9 Indiana to win 42-35 on Saturday.
The Hoosiers (4-1) rallied from a four-touchdown deficit in the second half and made it a onescore game with 10:26 left, when Penix and Fryfogle connected on a 56-yard touchdown.
Penix was 27 for 51 for a career-high 491 yards and five touchdown passes for Indiana.
The Buckeyes (4-0) put up 607 yards and led 35-7 early in the second half, but struggled to contain Penix and Fryfogle, who caught seven passes for 218 yards and three touchdowns.
Fields was 18 for 30 for 300 yards and two touchdown passes, but he also threw his first three interceptions of the season and was sacked five times.
“Of course I made bad decisions,” Fields said. “I ended up with three picks but we got the W today. That's all that matters. We got the W, and we're 4-0.”
Garrett Wilson had seven catches for 169 yards — his fourth straight game of 100-plus yards — and two scores for the Buckeyes.
The running game helped Ohio State maintain control when things were getting dicey.
Penix passed for four touchdowns in the second half but also made a critical error, tossing an interception that Ohio State's Shaun Wade returned for a touchdown at the end of the third quarter.
Indiana had climbed its highest ranking in the AP
Top 25 in more than a hal f- cent ury, and the Hoosiers had pumped up their confidence by beating conference rivals Penn State, Michigan and Michigan State in the same season for the first time in program history.
No. 19 Northwestern 17, No. 10 Wisconsin 7:
Peyton Ramsey threw two touchdown passes and No. 19 Northwestern shut down Graham Mertz and No. 10 Wisconsin for a victory that put the undefeated Wildcats in control of the Big Ten West.
Northwestern forced five turnovers — four in the first half — and sacked Mertz three times in its first win over a top-10 team since a 28-25 victory over No. 9 Nebraska on Nov. 5, 2011. Ramsey, a graduate transfer from Indiana, was 23 for 44 for 203 yards, and Ramaud Chiaokhiao-Bowman had four receptions for 95 yards.
The Wildcats improved
to 5-0 for the first time since 2015. They also moved to 5-0 in the Big Ten for the first time since 1996.
Illinois 41, Nebraska 23:
Brandon Peters threw for one touchdown and ran for another in his first game in nearly a month, Illinois had two rushers go over 100 yards, and the Illini beat turnove r- plagued Nebraska for their second straight win.
The Cornhuskers won at Illinois last year despite committing four turnovers. They couldn't survive five, though, as the Illini won in Lincoln for the first time since 1924.
Luke McCaffrey, making his second start at quarterback, committed the first of his four turnovers on the first play from scrimmage. Wa n ' Da l e Ro b i n s o n coughed up the ball as the Huskers (1-3, 1-3 Big Ten) tried to come back in the second half.
Nebraska officials like to boast that they led the
charge to bringing back football after the Big Ten originally decided to push the season back to spring.
Minutes after the game, the Illinois athletic department expressed its gratitude.
“Good game Nebraska. Thanks for bringing back B1G football,“the department tweeted on its official account.
Iowa 41, Penn State 21:
Spencer Petras completed 18 of 28 passes for 186 yards and ran for a touchdown to lead Iowa over Penn State at Beaver Stadium.
Mekhi Sargent and Tyler Goodson combined for 179 rushing yards and three t o u c h d ow n for the Hawkeyes (3-2, 3-2 Big Ten), who won their third straight and snapped a sixgame losing streak to Penn State (0-5, 0-5).
Iowa had a 31-7 lead midway through the third quarter before Sean Clifford replaced Will Levis at quarterback for Penn State.