Ollie Gordon II’s 12-yard touchdown run and two-point conversion catch in the second overtime pushed No. 16 Oklahoma State past Arkansas 39-31 on Saturday.

Gordon, last season’s Doak Walker Award winner as the nation’s best running back, was held to 49 yards on 17 carries.

His teammates picked up the slack. Alan Bowman passed for 326 yards and Brennan Presley had 91 yards receiving, caught a touchdown pass and ran for a score.

The Cowboys (2-0) overcame a 21-7 halftime deficit.

“Those are the games we talk about forever,” Bowman said. “Don’t want to be in those situations a lot. I think we started out really slow. But be able to kind of fight back and battle back and trust in it — it’s obviously a great win.”

Arkansas (1-1) outgained Oklahoma State 648 yards to 385. But the Razorbacks missed two of their three field goals and had three turnovers to one for Oklahoma State.

“It’s one loss,” Arkansas coach Sam Pittman said. “It’s not an SEC loss. It’s one that we’ll learn from it and and flush it and then come back. I feel like we’ve got a really good football team. We just — we can’t win games turning the football over.”

Taylen Green passed for 416 yards and ran for 61 for Arkansas. Ja’Quinden Jackson ran for a career-high 149 yards and three touchdowns and Andrew Armstrong had career bests of 10 catches and 164 yards for the Razorbacks.

Oklahoma State overcame a 21-7 halftime deficit.

“At halftime, our coaches were fantastic, the adjustments we made,” Oklahoma State coach Mike Gundy said. “Players were really good about absorbing information, not panicking, not pointing fingers, taking it back out on the field and executing it and playing much better.”

Kansas State defense comes up big to help Wildcats escape Tulane: Kansas State safety Jack Fabris returned Tulane quarterback Darian Mensah’s fumble 60 yards for a go-ahead touchdown in the fourth quarter, and VJ Payne’s interception in the end zone helped the 17th-ranked Wildcats hold on for a 34-27 victory over Tulane on Saturday.

Tulane appeared to have scored a potential tying touchdown with 17 seconds left when Mensah hit Yulkeith Brown near the left pylon, but receiver Dontae Fleming was flagged for offensive pass interference.

Payne’s interception came two plays later.

Avery Johnson passed for two touchdowns for Kansas State (2-0). DJ Giddens rushed for 114 yards, his sixth straight game hitting the 100-yard mark, and had 63 yards receiving, including a 45-yard touchdown catch on fourth down in the third quarter.

McCord passes for 4 TDs as Syracuse knocks off newly ranked Georgia Tech: Kyle McCord passed for 381 yards and four touchdowns, two each to Trebor Pena and Oronde Gadsden II, and Syracuse held on to knock off newly ranked No. 23 Georgia Tech on Saturday.

The Yellow Jackets (2-1, 1-1 ACC), ranked in the AP Top 25 last week for the first time since 2015, cut the lead to three with 2:31 to go on a 15-yard scoring run by Jamal Haynes. The Orange made sure Georgia Tech never got the ball back, running out the clock for their first win against a ranked opponent since October 2022 against North Carolina State.

Beck throws 5 TD passes and Georgia routs FCS school Tennessee Tech: In what amounted to a glorified scrimmage, Carson Beck needed a little more than a half to tie a Georgia record.

Beck threw five touchdown passes — to five players — before leaving the game less than three minutes into the third quarter, leading the No. 1 Bulldogs to a 48-3 rout against outmanned Tennessee Tech on Saturday.

“I thought our wide receivers had a really good day,” Beck said. “We have so many athletes on the field. They went out there and made plays. When guys are wide open, it makes my job really easy.”

Beck’s five TD passes matched a school record that had been done seven other times, most recently by Stetson Bennett against UAB in 2021.

Utah QB Rising leaves matchup with Baylor because of a right hand injury: Utah quarterback Cam Rising left in the first half of Saturday’s game against Baylor because of a right hand injury.

Rising got hurt with 1:55 left in the second quarter and went to the locker room for X-rays. He was ruled out for the rest of the game.

No. 11 Utah was leading 23-0 when Rising scrambled and released the ball just before going out of bounds. He was shoved into the water coolers on the Baylor sideline and broke his fall with his hand. The seventh-year QB immediately grabbed his fingers on his right hand. After a quick consultation, he went to the locker room with a towel draped on his throwing hand.