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Melvin Gordon, Wisconsin, ran for 408 yards to break the single-game major college football rushing record before sitting out the final quarter in a 59-24 rout over Nebraska.
J.T. Barrett, Ohio State, threw for three touchdowns and ran for a school quarterback-record 189 yards and a score, helping the eighth-ranked Buckeyes beat Minnesota 31-24.
Keenan Reynolds, Navy, ran for a career-high 277 yards and six touchdowns and passed for another score in a 52-19 victory against Georgia Southern.
Samaje Perine, Oklahoma, ran for 213 yards and three touchdowns, as the Sooners beat Texas Tech 42-30.
Troy Mitchell, Western Carolina, accounted for 448 yards and six touchdowns, including five passing, in a 42-27 win over the Virginia Military Institute.
Carson Wentz, North Dakota State, tied a school record with five touchdown passes in a 45-10 victory over Missouri State.
Kyle Snyder, Southeast Missouri State, passed for career-highs of 334 yards and five touchdowns in a 42-7 win over Austin Peay.
Morgan Roberts, Yale, threw for a career-high 405 yards and two touchdowns in a 44-30 win over Princeton.
Taylor Reynolds, James Madison, returned two interceptions for 101 yards and two touchdowns in a 55-20 victory over Richmond.
Jer Garman, North Dakota, rushed for a career-high 235 yards in a 30-28 win over Northern Arizona.
Paul Stanton Jr., Harvard, ran for a career-high 235 yards and three touchdowns in a 34-24 win over Pennsylvania.
Numbers
15: Completions in 15 attempts by Furman’s P.J. Blazejowski in a 31-14 victory over Wofford.
117: Career touchdown passes by Marshall’s Rakeem Cato, breaking the school record of 115 set by Chad Pennington from 1995 to 1999.
400: Career games coached by William & Mary’s head coach Jimmye Laycock, who also has 100 career conference victories.
31: Penn State beat Temple 30-13, the Nittany Lions’ 31st consecutive victory against the Owls, dating back to a tie in 1950. Temple’s last victory against Penn State was 1941.
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Wisconsin’s Melvin Gordon ran for 408 yards in three quarters against Nebraska, to break LaDainian Tomlinson’s single-game major college football rushing record with 15 minutes still to go.
Gordon set the mark on a 26-yard touchdown on the final play of the third quarter to give the 22nd-ranked Badgers a 52-17 lead on the 11th-ranked Cornhuskers. It was Gordon’s fourth touchdown run of the night. He had 25 carries.
Gordon did not re-enter the game when Wisconsin started its first series of the fourth quarter.
The record had stood since Nov. 20, 1999, when Tomlinson had 406 yards on 43 carries for Texas Christian against Texas-El Paso.
Associated Press
