
Jeremiah Smith became Ohio State’s career receiving yardage leader, Ja’Kobi Jackson scored twice and the sixth-ranked Buckeyes rolled to a 59-3 victory over Kent State on Saturday.
Julian Sayin completed 18 of 22 passes for 242 yards and two touchdowns for Ohio State (2-1), which took control by scoring on its first four drives.
Smith had five receptions for 85 yards. The junior needed 26 yards to surpass Michael Jenkins’ 2,898 yards from 2000-03 and become OSU’s record holder and got it on his second catch of the game, when he hauled in a 23-yard pass from Sayin midway through the first quarter.
The Buckeyes had seven pass plays of at least 20 yards, including Chris Henry’s 75-yard TD on Luke Fahey’s pass during the fourth quarter.
Ohio State took the opening kickoff and scored 2:53 into the game on Jackson’s 11-yard run up the middle. The senior transfer from Florida also had a 1-yard TD in the third quarter.
Bo Jackson, the Buckeyes’ leading rusher with 73 yards on 11 carries, and Isaiah West also had rushing scores.
Kent State didn’t cross midfield until late in the first half, when Da’Realyst Clark connected with Wayne Harris for a 29-yard completion to the Buckeyes 21. The Golden Flashes came up empty on that drive through, turning it over on downs at the OSU 15 after an incomplete pass by Dru DeShields on fourth-and-4.
Kent State (1-2) avoided a shutout late in the fourth quarter on Sean Leonard’s 30-yard field goal. The score was set up when Tanner Mintz picked off a pass by Trevien St. Clair and ran it back 48 yards to the OSU 5.
Wisconsin 54, Eastern Michigan 10: Tyrell Henry caught 14 passes to set a Wisconsin single-game record and Colton Joseph threw for 362 yards and accounted for four touchdowns as the Badgers trounced Eastern Michigan.
Henry’s 14 catches included a 13-yard touchdown and totaled a career-high 160 yards. Matt Nyquist previously owned the single-game record with 13 receptions in a 33-20 loss to Iowa in 1995.
Joseph’s 362 yards passing rank seventh in school history. Joseph went 23 of 33 with three touchdowns and an interception, and he also rushed for a team-high 46 yards and one touchdown on nine carries.
Wisconsin (2-1) was playing without Abu Sama III, whose 107 yards rushing in a 36-9 victory over Western Illinois last week included a 72-yard touchdown. The Badgers gained just 117 yards on 30 carries.
The Badgers erased an early 7-0 deficit by scoring 41 straight points. Wisconsin got 35 of those amid a steady rain during a nine-minute span that ended in the first minute of the third quarter.
Three of Wisconsin’s five touchdowns during that stretch resulted from the Badgers’ first three takeaways of the season.
Penn State 55, Buffalo 13: Rocco Becht threw for 212 yards with two touchdowns, Koby Howard scored twice and No. 14 Penn State cruised past Buffalo.
Becht secured his Bowl Subdivision-leading 29th win and the Nittany Lions (3-0) capped their nonconference schedule in relatively easy fashion against an outmatched Mid-American Conference opponent that was outgained 305-80 in the first half.
Penn State’s defense forced three punts and a turnover in the first quarter while its offense scored on its first three drives to put the game out of reach before halftime.
Overall, D’Anton Lynn’s defense forced 10 punts and two turnovers and only allowed Buffalo’s Oliver Hautanen to kick a pair of field goals. The Bulls (1-2) crossed midfield just three times.
Howard, who was one of three Nittany Lions players to eclipse 100 all-purpose yards, ran for a 20-yard touchdown on a reverse and caught a 70-yard pass from Becht in the second quarter.
Georgia 45, Arkansas 17: Chauncey Bowens ran for three touchdowns and No. 2 Georgia held Arkansas to just 17 yards on the ground in a win.
Georgia (3-0, 1-0 SEC) led 21-3 at halftime and never truly needed to pass the football.
Quarterback Gunner Stockton finished the game 10-of-13 passing for 147 yards with a touchdown. He added a team-high 97 yards on the ground, including a 62-yard run on third down that set up Georgia’s third touchdown, Bowens’ second.
Late Friday
Miami 33, Wake Forest 20: It was well into the third quarter, and Darian Mensah was a perfect passer off to a record-setting night while having fifth-ranked Miami’s offense humming yet again.
In the fourth quarter, the Hurricanes’ defense had to take the lead.
Mensah connected on his first 24 passes on the way to setting Atlantic Coast Conference records for consecutive completions, while Miami’s defense came up with four straight fourth-quarter stops to beat Wake Forest.
The defense carried the Hurricanes home on a night that started with the offense rolling along with a vibe of near inevitability, starting with Mensah putting pass after pass on the numbers and hitting receivers in perfect stride to make big plays downfield.
Mensah completed 30 of 34 passes for 220 yards and three touchdowns, including a 9-yarder to Joshua Moore on the game’s first possession and a perfect-execution throw back to the left side on Elija Lofton’s 21-yard score.
Mensah added a short TD throw to star sophomore receiver Malachi Toney as Miami (3-0, 2-0) took a 31-7 lead midway through the third quarter, only to see its prolific offense grind to an abrupt halt with four straight three-and-outs while seeing multiple players get banged up.
Texas Tech 28, Houston 26: J’Koby Williams and Cameron Dickey ran for second-half touchdowns and defending Big 12 champion No. 13 Texas Tech held on for a victory when Houston quarterback Conner Weigman came up just short of a 2-point conversion in the final minute.
Weigman’s third TD pass, a 10-yarder to Patrick Overmyer with 49 seconds left, gave the Cougars (2-1, 0-1) a chance to tie in the conference opener for both teams. On the try for 2, Weigman took off to the left and lunged forward with the ball extended, though his knee came down before the ball broke the plane of the end zone.
The audience viewing on Fox Sports was able to watch and listen to the Big 12 replay officials at the conference headquarters reviewing and discussing that play before ruling that Weigman was short. That was one of several replays on which viewers got an inside look.
Will Hammond was 17-of-27 passing for 257 yards and a touchdown for the Red Raiders (3-0, 1-0), who were down 10-0 and had only one offensive snap 9 1/2 minutes into their first Friday home game since 1941.
Oregon 84, Portland State 0: Dante Moore threw for 280 yards and four touchdowns and No. 21 Oregon followed a stunning upset at Oklahoma State last weekend with an romp over Portland State.
The victory, coach Dan Lanning’s 50th in 59 games at Oregon (2-1) was the 40th in the Ducks’ nation-leading active nonconference home winning streak and the third-largest margin of victory in school history.
It was Oregon’s largest margin of victory in Autzen Stadium history, and Oregon’s 12 touchdowns are its most ever. Portland State’s 103 yards of offense was tied for third fewest allowed by the Ducks.
The 84 points were also the most in the modern day by the Ducks.


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