Kalel Mullings rushed for 111 yards and two touchdowns as No. 12 Michigan held on to the Little Brown Jug with a 27-24 win in the rain against Minnesota on Saturday.

Michigan led 24-3 going into the fourth quarter, but Minnesota scored three touchdowns to pull within 27-24 with 1:37 left.

The Gophers recovered the onside kick but were flagged for offsides. Mullings grabbed the second kick, allowing the Wolverines to run out the clock.

The Wolverines (4-1, 2-0 Big Ten) extended their school-record conference winning streak to 27 games. They haven’t lost a Big Ten game since Michigan State beat them in 2021.

Minnesota (2-3, 0-2) hoped to win the Little Brown Jug for the first time in a decade and only the third time in the 21st century.

Mullings made up for another weak performance from the passing game. Alex Orji completed 10 of 18 passes for 86 yards.

He did throw one touchdown pass, but his interception helped Minnesota’s fourth-quarter comeback.

Mullings finished Michigan’s first drive with an untouched 27-yard touchdown run, but both offenses bogged down in the wet conditions.

The Wolverines’ defense, though, forced a fumble early in the second quarter, giving them the ball at the Gophers 16. Mullings carried on the next three plays, bulling his way into the end zone from the 1 for a 14-0 lead.

Kechaun Bennett blocked a Minnesota punt later in the quarter. Orji hit Tyler Morris on the next play for an 11-yard touchdown to make it 21-0.

Minnesota got on the board on the last play of the half. Brosmer hit Nick Kallerup for 44 yards to the Michigan 1 and the field goal unit got onto the field in time for Dragan Kesich to kick a 20-yarder.

Dominic Zvada’s 53-yard field goal restored Michigan’s 21-point lead midway through the third quarter, but Orji’s interception on the next drive led to a 3-yard touchdown run by Darius Taylor.

After the Wolverines went three-and-out, freshman Koi Perich returned a punt 60 yards to the Michigan 17, and Taylor got his second touchdown to make it 24-17 with 11:05 to play.

Michigan ran 6:32 off the clock to set up Zvada’s second field goal and the 27-17 lead with 4:33 to go, but Brosmer hit Daniel Jackson for a 12-yard score to make it a three-point game.

The Miami-Virginia Tech ending won’t be forgotten by either side: There might be a FaceTime call on Sunday, as there is just about every week, in which Miami quarterback Cam Ward and Virginia Tech quarterback Kyron Drones connect to talk about their most recent games.

To say the two are close is an understatement. They’re cousins. They’re offseason training partners. They share a quarterback coach. They speak with the highest reverence for the other as both a person and as a player.

But this week’s call ... well, it might be a little weird.

Ward and the No. 7 Hurricanes (5-0, 1-0) held off Drones and the Hokies 38-34 on Friday night, a game that lasted for 60 minutes on the field and for 6 1/2 more minutes afterward as officials tried to figure out who actually won. Drones connected with Da’Quan Felton on a 30-yard desperation heave to — he thought — give Virginia Tech (2-3, 0-1) the win on the final play, only to see it wiped out after a long review by Atlantic Coast Conference officials.

“He might not answer the call,” Ward said. “I don’t blame him.”

They chatted briefly on the field when the game finally was declared over, even posed for a picture together. Ward — the favorite to win the Heisman Trophy, according to BetMGM Sportsbook — slung his arm over Drones’ shoulder as they walked together, and the Hokies quarterback even managed a bit of a smile in that moment. Drones thought he had just pulled off the first Hail Mary of his life.

Referees evidently agreed, because it was ruled a touchdown on the field. They changed their minds in the end. Drones did not.

“First reaction, I’d seen Miami fans go crazy, so I thought it was incomplete,” Drones said. “Then I’d seen our fans, they said it was a touchdown on the field. I don’t know how that call got overruled. I hope they made the right decision, but it is what it is.”

BYU needs a late pick to secure a win at Baylor: Crew Wakley had an game-clinching interception with 59 seconds left and No. 22 BYU held on for a 34-28 victory at Baylor on Saturday to remain undefeated, after the Cougars had twice built three-touchdown leads as Jake Retzlaff threw for two scores and ran for another one.

Wakley made a leaping interception near midfield along the sideline in front of the Baylor bench to secure the first Big 12 road victory for the Cougars (5-0, 2-0 Big 12).