• South Carolina freshman Marcus Lattimore finished with 248 total yards and three touchdowns on 46 touches in the Gamecocks' division-clinching, 36-14 upset at Florida, 21 yards and two touchdowns more than the Gators' entire offense managed in another depressingly tepid effort.• Hallelujah! The weekly prayer for Washington State has been answered. The hapless Cougars rose up and walked all over Oregon State in Corvallis, outgaining the Beavers by 117 yards to snap a 16-game Pac-10 losing streak, 31-14. Among other milestones, the upset was the first time in coach Paul Wulff's three-year Wazzu tenure that the Cougars have...
• Won a road game;
• Won a game by more than three points;
• Scored 30 points in a Pac-10 game;
• Held a I-A/FBS offense below 300 total yards; or
• Rushed for more than 200 yards against a I-A/FBS defense.
• Wisconsin rolled up 598 yards of total offense, produced two 100-yard rushers and scored on all 12 offensive possessions in its record-breaking, 83-20 obliteration of Indiana – all of it without All-Big Ten running back John Clay. Five of the Badgers' ten touchdown drives began in Hoosier territory.
• Purdue defensive end Ryan Kerrigan was credited with 10 tackles, four sacks and two forced fumbles in the Boilermakers' 27-16 loss to Michigan, leading the second-best effort in terms of yards and points that any defense has managed against the Wolverine attack this season. (The only defense to fare better: Michigan State on Oct. 9.)
• Oklahoma State quarterback Brandon Weeden passed for 411 yards with seven completions covering at least 20 yards in the Cowboys' 33-16 win at Texas, but only connected for one touchdown, a 67-yard bomb to top target Justin Blackmon in the second quarter.
• Baylor quarterback Robert Griffin and running back Jay Finley combined for 275 yards and four touchdowns rushing, including scoring runs of 71 and 69 yards, in the Bears' 42-30 loss to Texas A&M in Waco. They were matched by A&M running back Cyrus Gray, who broke the century mark for the fourth week in a row with 134 yards and four touchdowns of his own.
• Georgia wide receiver A.J. Green set new career highs with nine catches for 164 yards and two touchdowns in a losing effort at Auburn, giving him nine touchdowns in seven games since retuning from a four-game suspension to open the season.
• Alabama receiver Julio Jones had more yards rushing than receiving for the first time in his career, thanks to a 56-yard touchdown run that left him as the Crimson Tide's leading rusher in a 24-10 win over Mississippi State.
• Penn State's first four offensive possessions netted 243 yards and two touchdowns for a 14-3 halftime lead at Ohio State. The Nittany Lions' next seven possessions netted 54 yards, five punts and two interceptions returned for touchdowns in a 38-14 Buckeye cruise.
• Oklahoma quarterback Landry Jones passed for 319 yards and five touchdowns in a 45-7 rout over Texas Tech, three of the scores landing in the hands of Ryan Broyles for his third multi-touchdown game of the year.
• Kentucky's Randall Cobb and Derrick Locke combined for 407 yards and four touchdowns in the Wildcats' 38-20 win over Vanderbilt, leading UK's highest single-game output in total yards (580) since 2006.
• Opposite a 324-yard, three-touchdown effort by Tennessee freshman Tyler Bray in his first SEC start, Ole Miss quarterback Jeremiah Masoli completed 7 of 18 passes with three interceptions in the Rebels' 52-14 flop in Knoxville, his worst effort of the season.
• Navy's prolific triple-option attack piled up over 400 yards rushing for the second week in a row, churning out 427 yards on the ground – 203 by slotback Kriss Proctor alone – in a 38-37 thriller over Central Michigan. CMU quarterback Ryan Radcliff passed for 396 with three touchdowns in a losing effort, but missed on a two-point conversion to win with 12 seconds left.
• Maryland scored three unanswered touchdowns in the fourth quarter, two on touchdown passes by redshirt freshman Danny O'Brien, to turn a 23-21 deficit into a 42-23 win at Virginia.
• Wake Forest had its tattered respectability card revoked and burned with 186 total yards, nine first downs and a long gain of 18 in a 38-3 beating at the hands of N.C. State, the Demon Deacons' seventh consecutive loss.
• A week after winning over Miami fans with a game-winning touchdown drive against Maryland, true freshman quarterback Stephen Morris passed for 230 yards on just 10 completions in the 'Canes' 35-10 win over Georgia Tech, highlighted by a 79-yard touchdown strike to Leonard Hankerson.
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