• Nebraska was penalized 16 times for 145 yards in a 9-6 loss at Texas A&M, compared to two penalties for 10 yards against the Aggies. The 135-yard disparity was easily the widest in college football this year, and the grand total against the 'Huskers was the most in the Big 12 since Texas Tech was flagged 18 times for 169 yards in its 2008 opener against Eastern Washington. Nebraska fans, predictably, were feeling conspiratorial after the loss, but coach Bo Pelini wisely reined in his visible fury for the microphones: "I'm not talking about penalties. You all watched the game. You make your own deductions. ... All you have to do is look at the numbers."
On the other side of the ball, Wisconsin went over 300 yards rushing with two 100-yard rushers, James White and Montee Ball, and six touchdowns on the ground ... for the second week in a row.
• Cincinnati running back Isaiah Pead finished with 249 yards and five touchdowns in the Bearcats' 69-38 rout over Rutgers, the highest-scoring game in Big East history. The Bearcats' 661-yard outburst also featured 366 yards and four touchdowns passing from quarterback Zach Collaros.
In the same game, Rutgers receiver Mark Harrison hauled in 10 catches for 240 yards and four touchdowns in a losing effort, the second-best individual receiving effort by anyone this season. The Scarlet Knights' 38-point total in defeat was more than any of the afternoon's other three Big East games managed between both teams combined.
• Boise State's 51-0 blowout over Fresno State on Friday night made the Broncos the first team to hold Fresno below 27 points this season, and the first team to shut the Bulldogs out since 1998.
• Ole Miss and LSU combined for six touchdowns on seven possessions over the final 24 minutes of the second half, each one shifting the lead in an eventual 43-26 Tiger escape.
• Mississippi State got off 100 snaps, 70 of them runs, in a 38-31, double overtime loss to Arkansas. The Bulldogs are only the fourth team this year to crack 100 plays on offense, and the first that doesn't play in the Big 12 South.
• North Carolina quarterback T.J. Yates passed for 411 yards and two touchdowns with no interceptions in a 29-25 loss to N.C. State, his third 400-yard game of the season. He was also sacked seven times, and the Tar Heels settled for field goals on four straight trips inside the Wolfpack 30-yard line in the second and third quarters.
• Southern Miss quarterback Austin Davis accounted for 404 yards and six touchdowns in the Golden Eagles' 59-41 win over Houston, a game featuring 1,133 yards, 100 points, 51 first downs and 11 plays covering at least 25 yards. USM running back Kendrick Hardy added 205 yards rushing and two touchdowns, and Houston quarterback David Piland passed for 467 with four scores in a losing effort.
• South Carolina's 69-24 rout over Troy represented the most points the Gamecocks have scored in six years under Steve Spurrier, and matched a 52-7 win over Middle Tennessee State in 2006 for the widest margin of victory. Freshman running back Marcus Lattimore cracked 100 yards with three touchdowns on just seven carries, all in the first quarter.
• Rice ripped East Carolina's hapless defense for 639 total yards, 410 on the ground, in a 62-36 Owl upset. Rice running back Jeremy Eddington tied a school record with four rushing touchdowns, one from 88 yards out, and quarterback Taylor McHargue accounted for 313 yards and four more scores in the upset.
• Colorado rolled up 476 yards in a 44-36 win over Kansas State, the Buffaloes' highest single-game total since 2007. More than half of that number came via running back Rodney Stewart, who added 49 receiving yards to a career-high 195-yard, two-touchdown effort on the ground, putting him over 1,000 yards rushing for the season.
• Central Florida ran the opening kickoff back for a touchdown and scored 31 points on 16 offensive snaps in the first quarter of a 61-14 blowout at Tulane.
• Miami's true freshman quarterback, Stephen Morris, opened the game by throwing a touchdown on the Hurricanes' first possession, and finished by throwing three straight interceptions on the 'Canes' final possessions in a 31-17 loss to Virginia Tech.
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