No. 4 Michigan rallies past Indiana
No. 4 Michigan 31, Indiana 10: Cornelius Johnson’s 29-yard touchdown catch midway through the third quarter Saturday gave Michigan (6-0, 3-0 Big Ten) the lead and the jolt it needed to pull away from host Indiana (3-3, 1-2) in an emotional game in which a Wolverines’ coach was taken to a hospital.
Michigan improved to 6-0 for the second straight season, the first time they’ve achieved that feat since 1976-77.
Johnson’s big play came after assistant coach Mike Hart was carted off the field in the first quarter for an undisclosed medical issue.
Hart went down unexpectedly after Indiana tied the score at 7. Many Wolverines players dropped to one knee while coach Jim Harbaugh and other assistants watched trainers tend to Michigan’s running game coordinator.
The emotional toll appeared to hurt the defending Big Ten champs, who went into the locker room tied at 10 with the Hoosiers.
But after hearing Hart talk to the team at halftime, the Wolverines promised to win the game for their coach – and they didn’t disappoint.
No. 2 Georgia 42, Auburn 10: Stetson Bennett scrambled 64 yards for a touchdown, Daijun Edwards scored three times on the ground and host Georgia ran over rival Auburn. The Bulldogs (6-0, 3-0 Southeastern Conference) got two short touchdown runs by Edwards and one from Kenny McIntosh to build a 21-3 in the third quarter. Then Bennett found a huge swath of empty green grass and managed to beat a chasing pack of Tigers to the goal line to make it 28-3 on the first play of the fourth quarter.
No. 3 Ohio State 49, Michigan State 20: C.J. Stroud tied a school record with six touchdown passes and Ohio State coasted to a win over host Michigan State. The Buckeyes (6-0, 3-0 Big Ten) scored on their opening drive for the fifth straight game when Marvin Harrison Jr. caught his first of three touchdowns. TreVeyon Henderson ran for 118 yards and a touchdown before limping off the field with an apparent right leg
injury in the third quarter.
The Spartans (2-4, 0-3) have lost four straight after winning their first two games this season.
No. 7 Oklahoma State 41, Texas Tech 31: Spencer Sanders ran for two touchdowns and passed for another and host Oklahoma State beat Texas Tech.
Sanders passed for 297 yards and ran for 56, and Bryson Green had five catches for a career-high 115 yards for the Cowboys (5-0, 2-0 Big 12). Texas Tech redshirt freshman Behren Morton got his first career start in place of Donovan Smith. He completed 39 of 62 passes for 379 yards and two touchdowns for the Red Raiders (3-3, 1-2).
No. 8 Tennessee 40, No. 25 LSU 13: Hendon Hooker passed for two touchdowns, Jabari Small ran for 127 yards and two scores, and Tennessee (5-0, 2-0 SEC) punished host LSU (4-2, 2-1) for its mistakes. Hooker passed for 239 yards, with scoring passes of 45 and 14 yards to Jalin Hyatt.
No. 9 Mississippi 52, Vanderbilt 28: Jaxson Dart threw for a career-high 448 yards and three touchdowns, and Mississippi rallied from a 10-point deficit in routing host Vanderbilt for its first 6-0 start since 2014. The Rebels (6-0, 2-0 Southeastern Conference) won their fourth straight in the series after trailing 20-10 in the second quarter. Quinshon Judkins ran for the first of his two TDs just before halftime, then the Rebels added three more in the third quarter as part of 35 straight points.
Senior Jonathan Mingo caught nine passes for a career-high and national season-high 247 yards and two TDs, the last a short pass he caught at the line of scrimmage and took 71 yards to the end zone. The Rebels padded the lead with a 1-yard TD run by Matt Jones with 18 seconds left for the final margin.
No. 18 UCLA 42, No. 11 Utah 32: Dorian Thompson-Robinson passed for 299 yards and four TDs to become host UCLA’s career leader in passing touchdowns, Zach Charbonnet rushed for a career high 198 yards and the Bruins defeated Utah. Thompson-Robinson also had a rushing score for the Bruins, who are 6-0 overall for the first time since 2005, 3-0 in the Pac-12 and picked up the biggest victory in coach Chip Kelly’s five years in Westwood.
Cameron Rising passed for 287 yards and ran for a pair of scores for the Utes (4-2, 2-1), who had won five straight in the series by an average of 27 points.
No. 17 TCU 38, No. 19 Kansas 31: Max Duggan passed for three touchdowns in the second half, including the gamewinning 27-yarder to Quinton Johnston with 1:36 left, and TCU (5-0, 2-0 Big 12) beat host Kansas (5-1, 2-1 Big 12).
Duggan was 23 of 33 for 308 yards and outdueled Kansas backup quarterback Jason Bean in a wild second half. Jalon Daniels, who led the Jayhawks to five straight wins for their best start since 2009, suffered an apparent injury to his right (throwing) shoulder late in the first half.
Bean, who started the first 10 games last season, was 16 of 24 for 262 yards and he became the first Kansas quarterback to throw for four touchdowns in a half since Todd Reesling in 2008.
Arizona State 45, No. 21 Washington 38: Trenton Bourguet threw for three touchdowns after Emory Jones was injured, Xazavian Halladay accounted for two more scores and host Arizona State beat Washington for interim coach Shaun Aguano’s first victory. The Sun Devils (2-4, 1-2 Pac-12) lost their first two games after Herm Edwards was fired Sept. 18, though played No. 6 Southern California close last week before fading late.
Bourguet adeptly led the offense after Jones was injured in the second quarter against Washington, throwing for 182 yards on 15-of-21 passing with an interception. He hit Elijhah Badger for two touchdowns, including a 2-yarder in the fourth quarter to put the Sun Devils up 45-38. No. 23 Mississippi State 40, Arkansas 17: Dillon Johnson rushed for 100 yards and two touchdowns, Will Rogers broke the SEC record for career completions, and host Mississippi State (5-1, 2-1 SEC) beat Arkansas (3-3, 1-3).
Rogers was 31-of-48 passing for 395 yards and notched the record in the first quarter with the 922nd completion of his career, eclipsing the mark set by Georgia’s Aaron Murray in 52 games, Rogers has played in 28 games.
No. 24 Cincinnati 28, South Florida 24: Charles McClelland rushed for a career-high 179 yards and two touchdowns including the go-ahead score in the fourth quarter as host Cincinnati (5-1, 2-0 American Athletic Conference) held off South Florida (1-5, 0-2).