Emeka Egbuka caught three touchdown passes and Jeremiah Smith made another one-handed grab for a score as No. 3 Ohio State sputtered early before burying Iowa 35-7 on Saturday.

Quarterback Will Howard was 21 of 25 for 209 yards passing and four touchdowns and ran for 28 yards and a score as Ohio State (5-0, 2-0 Big Ten) cleaned up its first-half mistakes and put up 21 unanswered points in the third quarter.

The Buckeyes, hanging on to a 7-0 halftime lead, seized the momentum right away in the second half.

Ohio State had a third-and-6 on their own 43 when Howard threw a long ball to Smith who had outrun two defenders.

Smith was tackled at the Iowa 3-yard-line, but that gave him a chance to really show off. On the next play, he leaped in the end zone and brought in Howard’s floating pass with his right arm while keeping defensive back Deshaun Lee at bay with his left.

On Iowa’s next drive, quarterback Cade McNamara fumbled, and linebacker Cody Simon recovered at the Iowa 19. Three plays later, Howard scurried around the left end for a TD to push the Ohio State lead to 21-0.

Ohio State turned a McNamara interception into a touchdown, capped by a 15-yard TD catch by Egbuka. Then McNamara fumbled the ball away again, this time deep in Iowa territory, and that ultimately resulted in Egbuka’s third TD catch.

“We really wanted to come out and have a great drive to start the third quarter,” Ohio State coach Ryan Day said. “And then we started getting the short fields and the turnovers, and the game just flipped there.”

The Buckeyes piled up 203 rushing yards. Quinshon Judkins ran for 78, and TreVeyon Henderson had 61.

Wisconsin 52, Purdue 6 >> Frustrated over their second-half collapse at Southern California a week earlier, Braedyn Locke and the Wisconsin Badgers wanted to make sure they delivered a more complete performance Saturday.

Did they ever.

Locke threw for 359 yards and connected with Trech Kekahuna on two of his three touchdown passes as Wisconsin trounced Purdue 52-6 on Saturday to snap a two-game skid.

The Badgers (3-2, 1-1 Big Ten) racked up the last 38 points of the game, reached the end zone on five consecutive drives and outscored Purdue 31-0 in the second half. The Badgers had been outscored 28-0 in the second half of their 38-21 loss to No. 11 USC.

“I was really just proud of our team for putting together four full quarters of football and never letting off the gas,” said Locke, whose 359 yards passing represented the seventh-highest total in school history.

Tawee Walker rushed for 94 yards and three touchdowns on 19 carries as Wisconsin beat Purdue for an 18th straight time. Purdue (1-4, 0-2) last defeated Wisconsin in 2003.

Since beating Football Championship Subdivision program Indiana State 49-0 in its opener, Purdue (1-4, 0-2) has lost four straight games by a combined score of 184-44.

No. 7 Penn St. 27, UCLA 11 >> Drew Allar threw for 237 yards with a touchdown and ran for another score to lead No. 7 Penn State over UCLA.

Playing without star running back Nick Singleton, Tyler Warren caught a touchdown pass in the last minute of the first half and Kaytron Allen ran one in from 1-yard out in the third quarter. Allar opened the scoring with a 1-yard run of his own in the second quarter. Ryan Barker made two field goals and the Penn State (5-0, 2-0 Big Ten) defense turned in another dominant second half to cap a four-game home stand.

“I think our third-quarter defense all year has been ridiculous,” coach James Franklin said — in a good way.

UCLA (1-4, 0-3) made it 7-3 on Mateen Bhaghani’s 25-yard field goal, and then Penn State burned nearly the rest of the first half with another long scoring drive that ended with Warren’s catch.

Washington 27, No. 10 MIchigan 17 >> Will Rogers threw for 271 yards and a pair of first-half touchdowns, Jonah Coleman’s 1-yard TD with 6:22 left gave Washington the lead, and the Huskies beat No. 10 Michigan in a rematch of last season’s College Football Playoff championship game.

This time around was far more competitive than that night in Houston last January when Michigan romped to its first national title since 1997. It also had a different outcome as the Huskies (4-2, 2-1 Big Ten) used an offensive outburst in the first half and two key turnovers in the fourth quarter to take down the Wolverines.

The loss snapped Michigan’s 24-game Big Ten regular season win streak.

Rogers threw touchdowns of 3 yards to Denzel Boston and 16 yards to Giles Jackson as the Huskies built a 14-0 lead early in the second quarter. That lead evaporated as Michigan (4-2, 2-1) finally found some offensive rhythm going to backup quarterback Jack Tuttle after Alex Orji was ineffective early in the game.

But Tuttle committed two turnovers in the final 10 minutes and Washington capitalized.

No. 23 Indiana 41, Northwestern 24 >> Kurtis Rourke threw for 380 yards and three touchdowns to help No. 23 Indiana stay unbeaten with a 41-24 victory over Northwestern on Saturday.

The Hoosiers (6-0) also had 158 yards on the ground with Justice Ellison (68 yards) and Ty Son Lawton (52 yards) each having a rushing TD. Elijah Sarratt had 135 yards on seven catches. The Hoosiers matched their best start to the season with the six wins, equaling the 1967 squad.

Jack Lausch had a bounce-back performance for Northwestern, throwing for 243 yards and two scores. Bryce Kirtz and A.J. Henning were his targets, combining for 195 yards on 16 catches.

Nebraska 14, Rutgers 7 >> Dante Dowdell and Janiran Bonner scored on 1-yard runs, and Nebraska leaned on its defense on a day Dylan Raiola struggled to beat Rutgers 14-7 on Saturday.

The Cornhuskers (5-1, 2-1 Big Ten) prevailed in the hottest conditions ever for an October game at Memorial Stadium and moved within one win of becoming eligible for their first bowl since 2016.

The Scarlet Knights (4-1, 1-1), whose offense scuffled for 3 1/2 quarters, made it a one-score game with 4:08 left when Athan Kaliakmanis hit Ben Black with an 11-yard touchdown pass.