OSU rolls by Indiana, but hit by injury

Ohio State, ranked No. 2 in the College Football Playoff rankings, won big on Saturday but may have lost another star running back to an injury.

Miyan Williams has been carrying the running game with TreVeyon Henderson injured and already had 147 yards and a touchdown when he had to be carted to the locker room after being tackled late in the first half of Ohio State’s 56-14 rout of Indiana.

He returned to the sideline in the second half in street clothes with crutches.

“We’ll have to see, but it didn’t look like, based on what we saw here in the locker room, that it was going to be something that was going to be really long term,” coach Ryan Day said. “We’ll see how he feels overnight, and then you’re hoping to get (Henderson) back for next week.”

Freshman Dallan Hayden stepped into the No. 1 back role in the second half and carried 19 times for 102 yards and touchdown. Receiver Xavier Johnson lined up as a back and ripped off a 71-yard touchdown on his only carry.

Day said both are possibilities if Henderson and Williams can’t go next week, but the Buckeyes will be at a disadvantage if both experienced backs are still on the shelf for the showdown with No. 3 Michigan in two weeks.

C.J. Stroud threw five touchdown passes as the Buckeyes (10-0, 7-0 Big Ten, No. 2 CFP) got back on track after struggling to beat Northwestern on a windy day the previous week. They’d already piled up 377 yards by the time Williams left the game and finished with 662.

Clemson wins 39th straight at home

over Cards: DJ Uiagalelei threw for a touchdown and ran for another and Will Shipley hurdled Louisville’s M.J. Griffin on the way for a 25-yard score as No. 10 Clemson won its 39th straight at home,

31-16 over the Cardinals on Saturday night.

The Tigers (9-1, 7-0 Atlantic Coast Conference) had wrapped up the ACC Atlantic Division — and its spot in the league title game next month — a week ago before their demoralizing, 35-14 loss at No. 20 Notre Dame.

But Uiagalelei and the Clemson defense got back on track to improve to

8-0 all-time over Louisville (6-4, 3-4). The Cardinals, who came in with a fourgame win streak, played the second half without standout quarterback Malik Cunningham, who was hurt on the last play of the second quarter.

Uiagalelei completed 19 of 27 throws for 185 yards. Phil Mafah ran for 106 yards and Shipley 97 as the Tigers finished with

248 yards on the ground.

Vanderbilt stuns Kentucky to end 26-game SEC losing streak: Mike Wright ran 59 yards for a touchdown and completed an 8-yard touchdown pass to Will Sheppard with 32 seconds left for a 24-21 win over Kentucky on Saturday, snapping a 26-game Southeastern Conference losing streak.

Corum runs for 162 yards, Michigan beats Nebraska 34-3: Blake Corum ran for 162 yards and a touchdown, helping No. 3 Michigan stay undefeated with a 34-3 win over Nebraska on Saturday.

The Wolverines (10-0, 7-0 Big Ten) have won their first 10 games for the first time since 2006, when they closed the regular season as the second-ranked team with a loss to rival and top-ranked Ohio State.

In two weeks, Michigan will play the Buckeyes on the road with the Big Ten East Division title and likely spot in the College Football Playoff at stake.

Michigan was in control from the start against the Cornhuskers (3-7, 2-5) and opened with a 12-play, 80-yard drive that Corum capped with a 2-yard run for his 18th touchdown. The Heisman Trophy candidate had 100-plus yards rushing — in the first half — for the seventh straight game and pulled within a game of the school record set by current running backs coach Mike Hart.

O’Connell, Durham lead Purdue past Illinois: Aidan O’Connell and Purdue made a muddled mess of the Big Ten West and the Boilermakers are in decent shape to emerge from it as champions now.

O’Connell passed for 237 yards and three scores, two to Payne Durham, and Purdue beat No. 21 Illinois 31-24 on Saturday.

The win gives the Boilermakers (6-4, 4-3 Big Ten) a crucial head-to-head tiebreaker over the Illini (7-3, 4-3 Big Ten), who were firmly in control until losing their last two games.

The Boilermakers finish the season with favorable matchups against Northwestern and at Indiana.

Iowa, Wisconsin and Minnesota are still alive in the division, too, entering Saturday with 3-3 records. The Badgers and Hawkeyes were playing each other.

O’Connell and Purdue coach Jeff Brohm each played down the implications of the win, but recognized what it meant as the Boilermakers clinched a bowl appearance for the fourth time in six years.

“We’re not blind to those things,” O’Connell said.