Stamford Advocate (Sunday)

Ohio State survives against Indiana

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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 for a 42-35 victory Saturday.

The Hoosiers (4-1) rallied from a fourtouchd­own deficit in the second half and made it a one-score game with 10:26 left, when Penix and Fryfogle connected on a 56-yard touchdown strike.

Penix was 27 for 51 for a career-high 491 yards and five touchdown passes.

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.

Garrett Wilson had seven catches for 169 yards — his fourth straight game of 100plus yards — and two scores for the Buckeyes.

NO. 6 FLORIDA 38, VANDERBILT 17

NASHVILLE, Tenn. — Kyle Trask passed for 383 yards and three touchdowns and Florida overcame an early deficit to beat Vanderbilt.

The Gators (6-1, 6-1 Southeaste­rn Conference) pulled into Vanderbilt Stadium an hour before kickoff already in uniform, hoping to avoid the visitors locker room as a coronaviru­s precaution. The Commodores (0-7, 0-7) opened the game by driving for a touchdown, but Trask helped get Florida on track for its seventh consecutiv­e win in the series.

Trask completed 26 of 35 passes to nine receivers. He’s the first quarterbac­k in SEC history with 30 touchdown passes in seven games.

NO. 8 BYU 66, NORTH ALABAMA 14

PROVO, Utah — Tyler Allgeier ran for a career-high 141 yards and two touchdowns and BYU routed overmatche­d North Alabama to improve to 9-0.

Allgeier had his fourth 100-yard game of the season. Zach Wilson threw for 212 yards and four touchdowns before halftime and added 33 yards rushing. He had a seasonhigh 256.3 QB rating.

BYU scored touchdowns on all six firsthalf drives. The Cougars rolled up 394 total yards and averaged 11.3 yards per play before halftime.

Rett Files threw for 198 yards and a touchdown for the Lions (0-4). Files played during the second and fourth quarters while starting quarterbac­k Blake Dever took snaps in the first and third quarters. Dever threw for 107 yards.

NO. 15 COASTAL CAROLINA 34, APPALACHIA­N STATE 23

CONWAY, S.C. — Reese White scored on a 3-yard run with 2:24 to play and Coastal Carolina improved to 8-0 with its first victory over Appalachia­n State.

The Chants (6-0 Sun Belt Conference) had lost all six previous games to the fourtime defending Sun Belt champion Mountainee­rs.

 ?? Jamie Sabau / TNS ?? Ohio State’s Garrett Wilson catches a 9-yard pass in the endzone as Indiana’s Bryant Fitzgerald defends in the third quarter on Saturday.
Jamie Sabau / TNS Ohio State’s Garrett Wilson catches a 9-yard pass in the endzone as Indiana’s Bryant Fitzgerald defends in the third quarter on Saturday.

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