SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 12, 2010
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ALABAMA DEF. PENN ST., 24-3 Greg McElroy has never lost a game as the Crimson Tide’s
quarterback (16-0) and has only five interceptions in 385 passing attempts. Next: Saturday at Duke.
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OHIO ST. DEF. MIAMI, 36-24 The Buckeyes got most of their scoring from Terrelle Pryor
(passing TD, rushing TD) and Devin Barclay (five field goals). Next: Saturday vs. Ohio University.
BOISE STATEWAS IDLE Virginia Tech did not do the Broncos any favors by losing to
James Madison on Saturday. Boise State’s win looks far less impressive now. Next: Saturday at Wyoming.
TCU VS. TENN. TECH, LATE The Horned Frogs rushed for 278 yards last weekend against
Oregon State, which gave up an average of just 114.4 rushing yards last season. Next: Saturday vs. Baylor.
TEXAS VS.WYOMING, LATE It’s the first game for the Cowboys since the death of freshman
linebacker Ruben Narcisse, who was killed in a car accident on Monday. Next: Saturday at Texas Tech.
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NEBRASKA DEF. IDAHO, 38-17 The Cornhuskers had four turnovers and committed 10
penalties for 123 yards, but also had six takeaways and seven sacks. Next: Saturday at Washington.
OREGON AT TENNESSEE, LATE It’s the first game for LaMichael James, the Pac-10’s leading returning rusher who was
suspended for the Ducks’ opener. Next: Saturday vs. Portland State.
FLORIDADEF. S. FLORIDA, 38-14 After another slow start, the Gators got 138 rushing yards and
a touchdown from Jeff Demps, part of a 21-point third quarter. Next: Saturday at Tennessee.
IOWA DEF. IOWA STATE, 35-7 Adam Robinson rushed for a career-high 156 yards and a
touchdown as the Hawkeyes scored their third straight win over the Cyclones. Next: Saturday at Arizona.
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OKLA. DEF. FSU, 47-17 After last week’s scare against Utah State, the
Sooners bounced back. QB Landry Jones had 380 passing yards, four touchdowns. Next: Saturday vs. Air Force.
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WIS. DEF. SJSU, 27-14 Running back John Clay rushed for 137 yards and two
touchdowns for the Badgers, who won their 15th straight home opener. Next: Saturday vs. Arizona State.
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MIAMI LOST TOOSU, 36-24 Jacory Harris threw four interceptions for the
Hurricanes, though three of them were the fault of his wide receivers Next: Sept. 23 at Pittsburgh.
VT LOST TO JMU, 21-16 The Hokies committed three turnovers as they fell to a
division I-AA team for only the second time, the last coming in 1985. Next: Saturday vs. East Carolina.
ARKANSAS VS. ULM, LATE The Warhawks, which is the only program in division I to
open against a ranked opponent for three straight years. Next: Saturday at Georgia.
G. TECH LOST TO KU, 28-25 One week after an embarrassing loss to North
Dakota State, the Jayhawks got three touchdown passes from Jordan Webb . Next: Saturday at North Carolina.
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USC VS. U-VA., LATE The Trojans gave up 36 points in a win over Hawaii
last week, the most given up by a USC team in a season opener since 1976. Next: Saturday at Minnesota.
FLA. ST. LOST TO OU, 47-17 The Seminoles had three turnovers — two of them interceptions by QB Christian
Ponder — had committed 12 penalties. Next: Saturday vs. Brigham Young.
PSU LOST TO ALA., 24-3 In his first road game, freshman quarterback
Robert Bolden threw two interceptions and was benched in the second half. Next: Saturday vs. Kent State.
LSU AT VANDERBILT, LATE In the last five games in the series, all LSU wins, Vandy
has scored a total of 28 points. The Tigers have won 10 of 11 in the series. Next: Saturday vs. Mississippi State.
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UTAH DEF. UNLV, 38-10 Terrance Cain passed for two touchdowns in his
first start in almost a year as the Utes won their 19th straight at home. Next: Saturday at New Mexico.
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AUBURN DEF. MSU, 17-14 Tigers QB Cameron Newton threw two TD passes and
ran for 70 yards on Thursday. Next: Saturday vs. Clemson.
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U-GA. LOST TO S.C., 17-6 The Bulldogs managed only 11 first downs and
didn’t reach the end zone for the first time since 2007. Next: Saturday vs. Arkansas.
WVU DEF. MARSH., 24-21 The Mountaineers rallied from a 15-point fourth
quarter deficit on Friday to improve to 10-0 all-time against Marshall. Next: Saturday vs. Maryland.
S. CAR. DEF. U-GA. 17-6 Marcus Lattimore rushed for 182 yards as the
Gamecocks improved to 2-0 for just the second time under Coach Steve Spurrier. Next: Saturday vs. Furman.
STANFORD AT UCLA, LATE The Cardinal hasn’t defeated the Bruins on
the road since 1996, and has been shut out in two of their last three trips to Pasadena. Next: Saturday vs. Wake Forest.
Robinson delivers clutch performance
QB totals 502 yards of offense during win over Fighting Irish
BY RICK GANO MATT SULLIVAN/REUTERS Running back DanielHerron had 14 carries for 66 yards and a touchdown during theNo. 2 Ohio State’s 36-24 win overMiami on Saturday.
Ugly rematch goes Buckeyes’ way 36 24
Pryor scores twice, Ohio State’s defense snags four picks
BY RUSTY MILLER Seven years later, the rematch
wasn’t nearly as close. Terrelle Pryor ran for 113 yards
and a touchdown and passed for another Saturday and No. 2 Ohio State intercepted Jacory Harris four times in a 36-24 victory over 12th-rankedMiami on Saturday. The last time the teams had
met was in the national champi- onship game at the 2003 Fiesta Bowl, with the Buckeyes taking a dramatic and controversial 31-24 victory in double-overtime.
This one was no work of art,
with numerous sloppy plays and bad tackling, but it kept the Buckeyes (2-0) perfect and pre- vented the Hurricanes (1-1) from making a case they belonged back among the nation’s elite. In what was billed as a Heis-
man showcase, Pryor completed just 12 of 27 passes for 233 yards but added 20 carries, scoring on a 13-yard run. Harris was 22 of 39 passing for 232 yards and a touchdown but had the four interceptions — three of which could easily have been caught. Trailing 26-17 at the half, Mi-
ami took the second-half kickoff and drove to a first down at the Ohio State 6. But on third and goal, Harris’s pass over the mid- dle was wide of the mark and intercepted by burly Buckeyes
defensive end Cameron Hey- ward, who rumbled 80 yards. That set up Pryor’s touchdown
run. He rolled right, looking to pass, then reversed field and scored untouched. The Hurricanes, whose earlier
scores both came on kick returns, scored on Harris’ 9-yard pass to Chase Ford on the first play of the fourthquarter, cutting the lead to 36-24. Devin Barclay tied an Ohio
State record with five field goals. The Buckeyes dominated, pil-
ing up 260 yards to just 104 with three turnovers for the Hurri- canes. ButMiami twice returned kicks for long scores. The first was LamarMiller’s 88-yard kick- off return. After Ohio State seemed to grab control at 20-10 on Dan
Jayhawks make quick turnaround, stun No. 15 Jackets for Gill’s first win
BY DOUG TUCKER
lawrence, kan. — Kansas fol- lowed one of the worst losses in school history with a big upset overNo. 15 Georgia Tech. A week after getting stung by
North Dakota State in Turner Gill’s coaching debut for the Jay- hawks, Kansas put Jordan Webb in at quarterback and promptly turned it around. Webb threw three touchdown
passes, Kansas beat the Yellow Jackets, 28-25, and all of a sudden that season-opening stinker is a memory. “There was a big sense of ur-
gency,” said wide receiver Day- mond Patterson, who caught a short pass and turned it into a tackle-breaking, 32-yard touch- down in the fourth quarter. “This week, every little thingweneeded to fix, we fixed it. We kept going over it and over it.” The defending ACC champion
Yellow Jackets (1-1) were favored by two touchdowns, but they dropped several passes and aided Kansas scoring drives with a 13-
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yard punt, a roughing-the-passer penalty and a kickoff that went out of bounds and let the Jay- hawks start on the 40. “They came out mad,” Yellow
Jackets quarterback Joshua Nes- bitt said. “You could tell that they came out mad from losing their last game.” Nesbitt scored on runs of nine
and four yards, giving him five rushing touchdowns in two games.TheYellow Jackets’ potent ground game amassed 291 yards and Nesbitt threw for 116 yards and a touchdown. “It was a matter of us beating ourselves today,” Georgia Tech running back Anthony Allen said. “We were doing the little things wrong. I feel like we came out flat.” The Jayhawks (1-1) rolled up
407 yards of total offense and brokeaneight-game losing streak that stretched to last year and former coachMarkMangino.
Freshman running back James
Simscarried 17 times for 101 yards and a touchdown. After Nesbitt connected with
Stephen Hill on a 40-yard touch- down pass and again on the two- pointconversion, theYellow Jack- ets closed to within three points with 7 minutes 48 seconds to go. In the final minutes, Georgia
Tech faced a fourth and three from its own 35. But a false start penalty pushed them back five yards and Nesbitt missed on a fourth-down pass. Webb’s scoring passes covered
15 yards to Bradley McDougald, two to Tim Biere and 32 to Patter- son, who took the ball in the flat, broke free from a pack of tacklers, then broke another tackle in the secondary and dived into the end zone for a 28-17 lead. Webb finished 18 of 29 for 179
yards. “It’s great for our staff, great for
our players, great for our alumni and great for our student body,” Gill said. “We’ll enjoy this one for about 24 hours and then we have to get ready for the next one.” —Associated Press
OHIO STATE MIAMI
Herron’s 4-yard touchdown run midway through the second quarter, Travis Benjamin brought a punt back 79 yards for another score. The Buckeyes tried to pooch kick or even kick the ball out of bounds the rest of the day to keep it away from the ‘Canes. Harris was intercepted three
times in the first half, but none was poorly thrown. Three times in the half, a Pryor pass was touched first by aMiami defend- er but none of them were inter- cepted.
— Associated Press
south bend—Denard Robin- son capped another electrifying performance Saturday by run- ning for a two-yard touchdown with 27 seconds left, sending Michigan to a 28-24 victory over Notre Dame. Robinson also had an 87-yard touchdown run and finished with 502 total yards of offense, easily eclipsing the Michigan quarterback record he set against Connecticut (383) a week earlier. He carried 28 times for 258 yards — also a Michigan quarterback mark — and two touchdowns while passing for another 244 with a touchdown.He completed 24 of 40 passes. Notre Dame’s Dayne Crist,
who missed most of the first half after being banged up on an opening scoring drive, hit Kyle Rudolph with a 95-yard touchdown pass to put the Irish ahead with 3:41 left. But Robinson then ledMichi-
gan (2-0) on a 12-play, 72-yard drive, scoring the game-win- ning touchdown himself — a fitting end. NotreDame(1-1) had one last
chance from theWolverines 27- yard line with six seconds left, but Crist threw the ball out of the end zone on the final play. His most spectacular mo-
ment came late in the second quarter, when Robinson took the snap from his own 13, went to the right side, made a little cut and sprinted past the Irish defense for the second-longest run ever by an opponent against Notre Dame (Dick Pa- nin broke off an 88-yarder for Michigan State in 1951) and the
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longest run ever at Notre Dame Stadium. It put the Wolverines up 21-7. Earlier, the strong-armed Robinson found a wide-open Martavious Odoms for 31 yards to the Irish 1, settingupStephen Hopkins’s one-yard run for a touchdown late in the opening quarter that made it 14-7. Crist led the Irish on a 71-
yard, 13-play drive to start the game, doing most of the work by completing 5 of 7 passes and carrying three times for 30 yards before sneaking in for the touchdown. But he spent the rest of the
half on the sideline before final- ly beginning to warm up with about six minutes to go after firstTommy Rees and thenNate Montana — neither of whom had ever played in a college game — struggled to get the offense going. Each threw an interception — the one by Rees leading to Michigan’s tying touchdown. On the very next play after the pick, Robinson hit a wide open Roundtree for a 31-yard touchdown. Montana, the son ofNFLHall
ofFamerJoeMontana, heaved a 37-yard pass to Theo Riddick to the Michigan 3 with three sec- onds to go in the half, a comple- tion upheld by video replay. But on the final play of the
half,Montana’s pass sailed way out of the end zone as the Wolverines held on for the two- touchdown lead. Crist came back in the third
quarter and on his second play threw a 53-yard touchdown pass to TJ Jones to get Notre Dame to within 21-14 before David Ruffer’s 24-yard field goal.
— Associated Press
ORLIN WAGNER/ASSOCIATED PRESS Kansas’s DrewDudley celebrates a fumble recovery with CalvinRubles, left, and Justin Springer.
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