Top 25 Overview - Week 1
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| Marqise Lee took a short pass 75 yards for a score on USC's first play from scrimmage. | Heisman candidate (favorite?) Matt Barkley threw for 377 yards and four TDs. | 100 yards. That was the length of Lee's kickoff return for a TD. That kind of night for USC. | ||
| Up Next: Hawaii's regular season completed. No. 1 USC's regular season completed. | ||||
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| Alabama running back Eddie Lacy's 9-yard TD made it 21-0 with 1:24 left in the first quarter. | Alabama DC Kirby Smart, who called a near-perfect game against Michigan. | 41. Bama scored 41. Michigan didn't give up more than 40 points in any game last season. | ||
| Up Next: No. 8 Michigan's regular season completed. No. 2 Alabama's regular season completed. | ||||
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| Kenny Hilliard's 5-yard run gave LSU a 21-0 lead on the first play of the 2nd quarter. | Hilliard, who had a game-high 141 yards, including a 60-yard run, and two touchdowns. | 508. It wasn't always pretty, but LSU's 508 yards of offense was impressive. | ||
| Up Next: North Texas regular season completed. No. 3 LSU's regular season completed. | ||||
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| The Sooners scored 14 in the final quarter to get some breathing room. | Landry Jones passed for 230 yards and two scores to rescue Oklahoma. | 7-7. The halftime tie with UTEP was not the kind of opener Oklahoma expected. | ||
| Up Next: No. 4 Oklahoma's regular season completed. UTEP's regular season completed. | ||||
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| Oregon opened with a 29-0 first quarter. The rout was on. The Ducks had 50 by halftime. | De'Anthony Thomas caught two touchdowns and ran for another. | 3. Marcus Mariota passed for 3 scores in his debut as Oregon quarterback. | ||
| Up Next: Arkansas State's regular season completed. No. 5 Oregon's regular season completed. | ||||
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| Aaron Murray opened the 2nd half with a 38-yard TD strike after UGA led by just eight. | Freshman tailback Todd Gurley took it to the house three times, including a 100-yard kick return. | 31-1. Under Mark Richt, the Bulldogs are 31-1 playing nonconference foes in Athens. | ||
| Up Next: Buffalo's regular season completed. No. 6 Georgia's regular season completed. | ||||
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| The game started? Murray State was down 14-0 at the end of the first quarter. | DE Bjoern Werner. He had four sacks, five tackles for loss and forced a fumble that set up a TD. | 7. That's the number of rushing touchdowns for Florida State's offense Saturday. | ||
| Up Next: Murray State's regular season completed. No. 7 Florida State's regular season completed. | ||||
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| Injured South Carolina QB Connor Shaw came back onto the field in the second half. | Marcus Lattimore, who led the Gamecocks with two TDs and looked healthy again. | 205. That's South Carolina's rushing total, which made a big difference as the game wore on. | ||
| Up Next: No. 9 South Carolina's regular season completed. Vanderbilt's regular season completed. | ||||
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| By halftime, after Arkansas scored 28 to break a first-quarter tie. | Arkansas QB Tyler Wilson, who passed for 367 yards and three touchdowns. | 1-0. The record of John L. Smith, who replaced the disgraced Bobby Petrino. | ||
| Up Next: Jacksonville State's regular season completed. No. 10 Arkansas regular season completed. | ||||
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| After completing 32 of 36 passes in 3 1/2 quarters, Geno Smith let some friends have turns. | Smith, who threw for 323 yards and 4 TDs to lead WVU to its 12th straight win over Marshall. | 655. The Mountaineers piled up 655 yards of total offense in the school's highest-scoring opener. | ||
| Up Next: Marshall's regular season completed. No. 11 West Virginia's regular season completed. | ||||
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| Ethan Hemer tipped the ball at the line of scrimmage to stop Northern Iowa's last chance. | Montee Ball. The Heisman hopeful didn't star but he picked up 120 yards and a score. | 13-0. This game was too close for the Badgers as they almost blew a 13-point halftime lead. | ||
| Up Next: Northern Iowa's regular season completed. No. 12 Wisconsin's regular season completed. | ||||
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| Michigan State converted two third downs deep in Boise State territory and ran out the clock. | Le'Veon Bell, who ran for 210 yards and 2 scores and helped save shaky QB Andrew Maxwell. | 50. That's how many touches Bell had, with 44 carries and another six receptions. | ||
| Up Next: No. 24 Boise State's regular season completed. No. 13 Michigan State's regular season completed. | ||||
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| Clemson end Vic Beasley sacked Auburn QB Kiehl Frazier with about 10 seconds left. | WR DeAndre Hopkins, who had 13 catches, without the suspended Sammy Watkins. | 71 percent. That's how much of Clemson's running game Andre Ellington accounted for. | ||
| Up Next: No. 14 Clemson's regular season completed. Auburn's regular season completed. | ||||
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| Texas' defense showed after allowing 178 yards and nine points in the first quarter. | QB David Ash, for what he didn't do. He kept his composure and limited his mistakes. | 27. Ash threw 27 passes without an INT, a sign of progress for the sophomore. | ||
| Up Next: Wyoming's regular season completed. No. 15 Texas regular season completed. | ||||
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| Cody Journell punched a 17-yard FG through the uprights to seal the win. | Logan Thomas. He made big throws when he needed to, ending with 230 yards and 2 TDs. | 35, 42. Thomas gave the Hokies a boost with consecutive completions late. | ||
| Up Next: Georgia Tech's regular season completed. No. 16 Virginia Tech's regular season completed. | ||||
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| Nebraska pulled away in the third quarter by outscoring Southern Miss 14-0. | QB Taylor Martinez, who threw for a career-high 354 yards and five touchdowns. | 632. Nebraska's total yards more than doubled the 260 for Southern Miss. | ||
| Up Next: Southern Miss regular season completed. No. 17 Nebraska's regular season completed. | ||||
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| Braxton Miller broke off a 65-yard TD run to start the second half. | Miller, who passed for 207 yards and 2 TDs, and rushed for 161 yards and another score. | 4-0. Urban Meyer is 4-0 in his first game with a new school in his coaching career. | ||
| Up Next: Miami (OH)'s regular season completed. No. 18 Ohio State's regular season completed. | ||||
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| They scheduled the game? The 84-point shutout was never in doubt. | Jeremy Smith and Desmond Roland each ran for three touchdowns. | 35. That was the Cowboys' first-quarter points total. It only got worse for Savannah State. | ||
| Up Next: Savannah State's regular season completed. No. 19 Oklahoma State's regular season completed. | ||||
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| Stanford turned a San Jose State fumble into a fourth-quarter field goal. | Cardinal RB Stepfan Taylor, who gained 124 yards on 26 carries with a touchdown. | 2-of-13. Stanford was third in the nation last year in 3rd-down conversions, but not on Friday. | ||
| Up Next: San Jose State's regular season completed. No. 21 Stanford's regular season completed. | ||||
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| Kansas State scored 35 in the fourth quarter to break things open. | Kansas State QB Collin Klein, who threw for 169 yards and two touchdowns. | 324. Kansas State dominated on the ground with 324 yards rushing. | ||
| Up Next: Missouri State's regular season completed. No. 22 Kansas State's regular season completed. | ||||
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| This one stayed close for three quarters, but Jeff Driskel's 50-yard TD in the 4th sealed it. | Senior RB Mike Gillislee ran for a career-high 148 yards and two touchdowns. | 23. The Gators hold the longest wins streak in openers in the SEC at 23. | ||
| Up Next: Bowling Green's regular season completed. No. 23 Florida's regular season completed. | ||||
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| Jeremy Wright scored his second touchdown of the game with just over four minutes remaining in the first half. | Wright. The junior running back scored three touchdowns in total, compiling 105 yards on the ground. | Two. That's the number of incompletions Louisville QB Teddy Bridgewater had on Sunday. | ||
| Up Next: Kentucky's regular season completed. No. 25 Louisville's regular season completed. | ||||


