Heisman Trophy winner Mark Ingram rushed for 151 yards and
two touchdowns in his season debut as Alabama routed Duke 62-13. It was the
Tide's highest-scoring game in 19 years.
Taylor Martinez, a redshirt freshman, ran for 137 yards and
three touchdowns, threw for another 150 yards and a score as Nebraska
overwhelmed Washington 56-21.
At Durham, North Carolina, the Tide drew an overflow crowd
39,042 to Wallace Wade Stadium and then quickly doused any hope of an upset for
the home team.
Ingram, who missed the first two games with a knee injury,
took his first carry 48 yards, surpassed the 100-yard mark two carries later
and scored on rushes of 1 and 17 yards.
Greg McElroy matched a career high with three scoring passes
for the Crimson Tide (3-0). Alabama led 28-0 roughly 10 minutes into the game.
With Ingram and defensive end Marcell Dareus back in the
lineup, the Tide won their 17th straight to roll into the SEC opener at No. 12
Arkansas next week.
At Seattle, Roy Helu Jr. rushed for 110 yards including TD
runs of 65 and 8 yards as the Cornhuskers gained 383 yards on the ground
against the Huskies' defense.
Nebraska (3-0) led 28-14 at halftime before Martinez took
the first play of the second half 80 yards for his second score. Washington
(1-2) never got closer than 14 after that. The 56 points tied the most ever
allowed by Washington at home.
At Columbus, Ohio, Terrelle
Pryor picked apart Ohio University's defense with a school-record 16
consecutive completions as Ohio State ran away from the Bobcats.
The victory over the turnover-prone Bobcats (1-2) improved
Ohio State (3-0) to 41-0-1 since it last lost to another Ohio college, a 7-6
setback against Oberlin in 1921.
At Laramie, Wyoming, Kellen
Moore threw for 370 yards and two touchdowns and Boise State's defense forced
three turnovers as the Broncos extended their winning streak to 16.
The Broncos (2-0) showed no signs of rust after a 12-day
rest, piling up 648 total yards. They scored 37 straight points to begin the
game, allowing Moore and amp; Co. to watch the final quarter from the sideline.
At Fort Worth, Texas, Ed Wesley ran
19 times for 165 yards and two touchdowns, and Andy Dalton completed 21 of 23
passes for 267 yards with two scores as TCU stretched its home winning streak
to 16 games.
The Horned Frogs (3-0) scored touchdowns on their first five
drives to build a 35-3 lead and had 335 of their 558 total yards by halftime.
At Eugene, Oregon,
LaMichael James ran for 227 yards on 14 carries with two touchdowns as Oregon
easily defeated Portland State in its final tuneup before Pac-10 play.
Oregon set a school record with 528 yards rushing,
surpassing the mark 465 set at Washington in 2007.
At Lubbock, Texas, Garrett
Gilbert threw for two touchdowns and 227 yards to lead Texas to a sloppy
victory.
Texas put the game out of reach in the fourth quarter after
draining more than nine minutes off the clock. The 22-play drive included a
risky and successful fake punt on fourth-and-1 on its own 29.
At Norman, Oklahoma,
DeMarco Murray gained a total of 148 yards and scored three touchdowns to help
Oklahoma hold off a late charge from Air Force's overpowering run game.
Murray ran for a 5-yard touchdown and scored on a 17-yard
screen pass in the third quarter as the Sooners (3-0) reeled off 17 straight
points to pull away after Air Force (2-1) had tied it early in the second half.
At Tucson, Arizona, Nick
Foles hit William Wright with a late 4-yard touchdown pass and Arizona bounced
back after blowing a big lead.
The Wildcats (3-0) jumped out to a 20-point halftime lead
behind a slew of big plays that included a blocked punt, Travis Cobb's 100-yard
kickoff return for a touchdown and an interception returned 85 yards by Trevin
Wade for another score.
At Knoxville, Tennessee,
Mike Gillislee ran for two touchdowns as Florida beat Tennessee for the sixth
straight time.
The Gators grabbed a third straight win in Knoxville for the
first time in the 40-game series after failing to pull of the feat in 1990,
1998 and 2004.
At Madison,
Wisconsin, Jay Valai blocked a game-tying extra point try and the 11th-ranked
Wisconsin held on.
Arizona State's Cameron Marshall scored on a 2-yard
touchdown run to cut Wisconsin's lead to 20-19 with 4:09 left in the game. But
Valai, a senior safety, burst through the line to block the kick.
At Athens Georgia, Ryan
Mallett threw a 40-yard scoring pass to Greg Childs with 14 seconds remaining
as Arkansas picked up a huge win on the road after blowing a two-touchdown lead.
At Columbia, South
Carolina, Stephen Garcia threw two touchdown passes and South Carolina beat
Furman.
Freshman Marcus Lattimore added 97 yards and his fifth
rushing touchdown this season for the Gamecocks, who opened 3-0 for the first
time in three years.
At Albuquerque, New Mexico,
Shaky Smithson went untouched on a 73-yard punt return touchdown, capping a
surge of three touchdowns in a span of 4:16 for Utah.
At Baton Rouge,
Louisiana, Josh Jasper set an LSU record with five field goals, and the Tigers
had five interceptions.
Stevan Ridley rushed for a 2-yard touchdown for LSU (3-0,
2-0 SEC).
At Auburn, Alabama, Wes Byrum
kicked a 39-yard field goal in overtime and Clemson's Chandler Catanzaro missed
a do-over kick to tie as No. 16 Auburn won.
No. 18 USC 32, Minnesota 21: At Minneapolis, Robert Woods
returned a kick 97 yards for a touchdown to jumpstart USC's sluggish offense
and the 18th-ranked Trojans pulled away.
At Stanford, California,
Andrew Luck threw four touchdown passes and ran 52 yards for another score for
Stanford to the end zone on all eight drives that he played.
At Ann Arbor,
Michigan, Denard Robinson accounted for 345 yards and three touchdowns to help
No. 20 Michigan overcome its poor defense to beat
At Morgantown, West
Virginia, Geno Smith threw four touchdown passes, Noel Devine rushed for a
season-high 131 yards and West Virginia beat Maryland.
At State College,
Pennsylvania, Evan Royster and freshman quarterback Rob Bolden each ran for
first-quarter touchdowns, and the Penn State defense capitalized on quarterback
Spencer Keith's shaky performance in a win over Kent State.
At Pasadena, California,
Johnathan Franklin rushed for 158 yards and three touchdowns as UCLA rolled
over No. 23 Houston, which lost star quarterback Case Keenum to an injury for
the second straight week.
At Corvallis, Oregon,
Jacquizz Rodgers ran for 132 yards and two touchdowns and James Dockery sealed
the game with an interception for Oregon State.
