So you think you're set for the week because you can recite the Top 25 results? Let ESPN.com give you the rest of the story from Saturday's action.
STARS |
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Josh Heupel Oklahoma |
Threw for a school-record 429 yards and tied
another mark with five touchdown passes as Oklahoma beat Louisville 42-21. It was the third game in a row Heupel set a single-game passing record.
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LaDainian Tomlinson TCU |
Rushed for 269 yards on 40 carries in TCU's 24-21 win over Arkansas State. He dashed 79 yards for a TD on his first carry and converted two big first downs late in the game as the Horned Frogs held on to win. |
Adrian Peterson Georgia Southern |
Rushed for 222 yards and four touchdowns in
Georgia Southern's 49-10 victory over Chattanooga. It was his 19th straight 100-yard game.
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Brad Smith Nicholls State |
Had 428 yards of offense and five touchdowns in
Nicholls State's 45-42 victory over Jacksonville State.
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BUZZER-BEATERS |
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Or was it? |
Keith Smith's desperation 42-yard pass to Bobby Wade with no time left gave Arizona a 30-24 victory over Washington State. Replays appeared to show the ball hit the turf before Wade had possession.
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STREAKING |
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End of a long run |
Wake Forest right guard Sam Settar was sidelined by a sprained left knee in the first quarter of a 31-7 victory over No. 24 North
Carolina State. The injury meant that the Demon Deacons' offense had to operate without Settar on the field for the first time since 1997 -- a streak of 1,729 consecutive plays.
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RECORD-SETTERS |
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Passing is a Brees |
Purdue's Drew Brees and Vinny Sutherland connected on a 99-yard touchdown pass -- the longest scoring play in 112 years of Purdue football -- as the Boilermakers squeaked by Northwestern 31-23. Brees was looking short on the play but scrambled and found Sutherland at the Purdue 40-yard line, who had gotten behind the Wildcats defense. |
Cardinal connection |
Filling in for injured starter Todd Husak, Stanford QB Joe Borchard knew exactly what to do -- get the ball to Troy Walters. Borchard threw for 324 yards in Stanford's 42-32 win over No. 18 UCLA, 278 of which went to Walters -- a Stanford single-game record. Three of Borchard's five TDs went to Walters, including a 98-yarder that was a Pac-10 record. |
Road-weary Aztecs |
San Diego State snapped an 18-year non-conference road drought with a 41-13 win over Kansas. Jack Hawley threw for 343 yards and three touchdowns for the Aztecs, whose last non-conference road win was a 38-20 victory at Nevada-Las Vegas on Nov. 14, 1981. Since then, they had lost 26 straight.
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GRUDGE MATCHES |
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Tommy can you see me? |
We bet Tommy Tuberville is wishing he could have brought Romaro Miller with him to Auburn. In the coach's first game against his old Mississippi squad, he saw Miller hit Corey Peterson on a 23-yard TD for a 24-17 overtime win over Tuberville's Tigers. |
Neuheisel gets first laugh |
The first chapter of the Rick Neuheisel-Gary Barnett saga was written on the field Saturday, with Neuheisel's Washington squad taking a 31-24 victory over Colorado and Barnett. The Buffaloes get another crack at their former coach when the Huskies come to Boulder next year. |
QUOTE OF THE DAY |
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Purdue coach Joe Tiller, on calling a pass on third-and-11 from his own one-yard line which turned into a 99-yard TD. |
"We said, 'Hey, we've got to try and make a first down,' so we called for a pass. I saw the ball floating in the air. It was going slowly like it was in slow motion. Vinny (Sutherland) made a nice move to get open and I was thinking is he
or is he not going to catch it. Once he did, I didn't think anyone would catch him because of his speed." |