No. 1 Alabama rallied from its deficit on the road and earned a tough 24-20 victory against No. 10 Arkansas, behind the hard running of Mark Ingram.

For No. 7 Texas, that 10-point hole only got worse as UCLA rolled to a 34-12 victory in Austin.

In the biggest game in Fayetteville, Arkansas, Ingram ran for 157 yards and scored the decisive touchdown on a 1-yard run with 3:18 to play for the defending national champions.

Robert Lester set up the score with his second interception of the day against Ryan Mallett. He returned it to the Arkansas 11, and Nick Saban gave the ball to his Heisman Trophy-winning running back on three straight plays to get the eventual winning score.

The Crimson Tide (4-0, 1-0 SEC) was able to run out the clock after Mallett threw his third interception, this time to Dre Kirkpatrick. Alabama faced fourth-and-inches in its own territory, but Greg McElroy picked up the first down with a sneak with less than a minute left.

That sent Arkansas (3-1, 1-1) and its record home crowd of 76,808 away disappointed.

Mallett threw for 357 yards on 25 of 38 passing against Alabama’s inexperienced secondary, but the two interceptions he tossed in the fourth quarter will overshadow all those other gaudy numbers and pretty throws.

Alabama is all but assured of going into next week’s big game, at home against No. 9 Florida, still No. 1.

Texas will drop in the rankings before it plays No. 8 Oklahoma in the Red River Rivalry and doesn’t look anything like the team that played Alabama in the BCS title game last season.

Johnathan Franklin rushed for 118 yards and a touchdown to lead UCLA to another stunning win in Austin, 13 years after the Bruins walloped the Longhorns 66-3 in the same stadium.

No. 2 Ohio State 73 Eastern Michigan 20: In Columbus, Ohio, Dane Sanzenbacher tied two school records by catching four touchdown passes from Terrelle Pryor, and the Buckeyes scored their most points in 60 years.

Ohio State (4-0) scored on its first six possessions against the 44 1/2 -point underdogs, who lost their 16th game in a row. Pryor completed 20 of 26 passes for 224 yards and the four scores, rushed seven times for 104 yards and a touchdown and also caught a 20-yard scoring pass from his former high school teammate, Jordan Hall, late in the third quarter.

No. 3 Boise State 37 No. 24 Oregon State 24: In Boise, Idaho, Kellen Moore threw for 288 yards and three touchdowns, Doug Martin rumbled for 138 yards and the Broncos overcame a bunch of mistakes to beat the Beavers.

With a national audience watching again, the Broncos (3-0) failed to put away the Beavers (1-2) multiple times thanks a combination of special teams flaws and costly penalties.

But Moore and the Broncos’ offense was able to make up for the miscues. Moore tossed two TD passes in the first half, then hit Tyler Shoemaker on a 21-yard scoring strike in the third quarter.

No. 5 Oregon 42 Arizona St. 31: In Tempe, Arizona, Darron Thomas threw for two touchdowns and ran for another, and the Ducks unleashed a big-play passing offense to pull away from the Sun Devils in the Pac-10 opener for both teams.

Arizona State (2-2) held the nation’s second-leading rushing team to 145 yards — 235 below its average — and used its up-tempo offense to build a 10-point lead late in a first half. But the Sun Devils committed seven turnovers.

No. 6 Nebraska 17 South Dakota St. 3: In Lincoln, Nebraska, Rex Burkhead and Kyler Reed scored on consecutive series in the first half, but the Cornhuskers turned in an uninspired performance in a win over the Jackrabbits.

The Cornhuskers (4-0) are off to their best start since 2005, but backups who figured to get lots of playing time against the Jackrabbits of the FCS watched while most of Nebraska’s starters went the distance.

Redshirt freshman Taylor Martinez, coming off three straight 100-yard rushing games, fumbled his first snap, threw two interceptions, was wildly off the mark with other passes and was flagged for taunting.

No. 8 Oklahoma 31 Cincinnati 29: In Cincinnati, Landry Jones ran an Oklahoma offense moving so fast that Cincinnati couldn’t even line up at times, throwing for 370 yards and two touchdowns, and the eighth-ranked Sooners withstood a late Bearcats rally to stay unbeaten.

Oklahoma (4-0) did a little of everything behind its sophomore quarterback, who completed a career-high 36 passes in 51 attempts with one interception.

No. 9 Florida 48 Kentucky 14: In Gainesville, Florida, Trey Burton scored six touchdowns, breaking former Heisman Trophy winner Tim Tebow’s school record, and the Gators beat the Wildcats for the 24th consecutive time.

Burton became the fourth player in Southeastern Conference history to score six times in a single game and first since Auburn’s Cadillac Williams in 2003.

His big night helped Florida end its first-quarter slump and gave coach Urban Meyer a memorable milestone.

Meyer became the sixth fastest coach in NCAA history to reach 100 career wins. He improved to 100-18 at Florida, Utah and Bowling Green, hitting the century mark faster than anyone except Gil Dobie (108 games), George Woodruff (109), Bud Wilkinson (111), Fielding Yost (114) and Knute Rockne (117).

No. 11 Wisconsin 70  Austin Peay 3: In Madison, Wisconsin, freshman James White rushed for four touchdowns and Scott Tolzien threw for three more scores for Wisconsin.

The Badgers (4-0) rolled in their final warmup for conference play, scoring touchdowns on all seven of their first-half possessions to take a 49-3 lead. It was a modern-era record for the Badgers, whose previous high was 69 points in a victory over New Mexico State in 1962.

No. 17 Auburn 35 No. 12 South Carolina 27: In Auburn, Alabama,  Cam Newton rushed for 176 yards and three touchdowns and passed for two more scores, leading the Tigers to another come-from-behind victory, this one against the Gamecocks.

The Tigers (4-0, 2-0 Southeastern Conference) overcame a double-digit halftime deficit for the second straight week after falling behind 20-7. Both of Newton’s scoring passes came in the fourth quarter after fumbles by South Carolina quarterback Stephen Garcia.

No. 13 Utah 56 San Jose St. 3: In Salt Lake City, Jordan Wynn threw for two touchdowns in his first game since the season opener and eight different players scored for the Utes in a rout of the Spartans.

Wynn completed 14 of 18 passes for 124 yards before heading back to the sidelines after just one series in the third quarter with Utah (4-0) already running away with its 20th straight home win.

No. 14 Arizona 10 California 9: In Tucson, Arizona, Nick Foles threw a 3-yard pass to Juron Criner with 1:11 to play for the only touchdown and the Wildcats escaped with a victory over the Bears in their Pac-10 opener.

The score was set up by Foles’ 51-yard pass to Criner, who had been questionable for the game because of a turf toe injury. Criner fought off California’s Darian Hagan to catch the pass.

The winning seven-play, 77-yard drive came after California’s Giorgio Tavecchhio missed a 40-yard field goal try with 2:37 to play.

No. 15 LSU 20  No. 22 West Virginia 14: In Baton Rouge, Louisiana,  Patrick Peterson returned a punt 60 yards for a score, and the Tigers held on for a victory over the Mountaineers.

The Tigers (4-0) again had to rely heavily on defense and special teams play to remain unbeaten. Jordan Jefferson had a third straight game throwing for fewer than 100 yards and no touchdowns. He was also intercepted twice and briefly pulled in the fourth quarter.

Jefferson’s second interception, picked by Eain Smith, set up Geno Smith’s 13-yard scoring strike to Jock Sanders, which got WVU (3-1) to within 17-14 in the third quarter. But the closest the Mountaineers came to scoring after that was Tyler Bitancurt’s missed 48-yard field goal in the fourth quarter.

No. 16 Stanford 37  Notre Dame 14: In South Bend, Indiana, Owen Marecic scored on a run and interception return 13 seconds apart and Nate Whitaker kicked a career-high five field goals, making the Cardinal 4-0 for the first time since 1986.

It was just the third victory in South Bend for Stanford, and its first since 1992. The Cardinal have now won two in a row against Notre Dame (1-3), a first in the series that dates to the 1925 Rose Bowl.

Notre Dame got only a field goal off three turnovers — including Andrew Luck’s first two interceptions of the year — as it dropped its seventh in eight games.

No. 18 Iowa 45 Ball State 0: In Iowa City, Iowa, Ricky Stanzi threw for 288 yards and three touchdowns as the Hawkeyes bounced back from last week’s loss at Arizona.

Adam Robinson added 115 yards rushing and a pair of TDs for the Hawkeyes (3-1), who quickly overwhelmed the Cardinals on a soggy afternoon at Kinnick Stadium.

No. 20 Southern California 50  Washington State 16: In Pullman, Washington, Matt Barkley completed 16 of 25 passes for 290 yards and three touchdowns as the Trojans looked like their old powerhouse selves.

Stanley Havili ran for 80 yards and caught five passes for 107 for USC (4-0, 1-0 Pac-10), which had been up and down in wins over Hawaii, Virginia and Minnesota. Allen Bradford rushed for 84 yards for the Trojans.

Lane Kiffin became the first USC coach since Jess Hill in 1951 to start 4-0.

The Trojans beat Washington State for the eighth straight time and have a 58-8-4 lead in the series.