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UNDATED (AP) — California and Arizona State have moved into the AP Top 25 college football poll to give the Pac-12 six ranked teams, the most for the conference in almost four years. A weekend filled with blowouts left the top half of the media poll mostly unchanged this week.
COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — Alabama quarterback Tua Tagovailoa threw for a career-high 444 yards and tied his personal best with five touchdowns as the second-ranked Crimson Tide opened SEC play with a 47-23 victory over South Carolina on Saturday. The win also wiped away some bad memories of the last time these teams played here under coach Nick Saban when the top-ranked Tide were beaten. Tagovailoa wouldn't let that happen this time, hitting for TD passes of 24 and 81 yards in the opening quarter to start the rout.
LEXINGTON, Ky. (AP) — Kyle Trask relieved an injured Feleipe Franks and rallied No. 9 Florida with three fourth-quarter touchdown drives, including his go-ahead, 4-yard scoring run with 4:11 remaining that lifted the Gators to a 29-21 victory over Kentucky. Franks, the Gators' third-year starter, was carted off with a right leg injury late in the third quarter with his team trailing 21-10.
BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — Joe Burrow completed 21 of 24 passes for 373 yards and two touchdowns, and fourth-ranked LSU pulled away in the second half for a 65-14 victory over Northwestern State. Burrow also rushed for 30 yards and a TD in what was LSU's 800th victory in the program's 126 year history. Burrow has completed 83.3 percent of his passes for 1,122 yards and 11 TDs in his first three games this season. That's despite not playing through the third quarter twice because of lopsided scores.
COLLEGE STATION, Texas (AP) — Freshman Isaiah Spiller ran for 116 yards and two touchdowns and Kellen Mond threw for 317 yards with a touchdown pass and a run in three quarters to lead No. 16 Texas A&M to a 62-3 rout of Lamar. Spiller shined in the first game since Jashaun Corbin sustained a season-ending hamstring injury last week at Clemson, running for touchdowns of 1 and 34 yards. Mond was 20 of 28 with an interception.
AUBURN, Ala. (AP) — JaTarvious Whitlow rushed for 135 yards and two touchdowns and Bo Nix ran and passed for scores to lead No. 8 Auburn to a 55-16 victory over Kent State. The Tigers piled up 467 rushing yards _ and three 100-yard rushers _ in their final tune up before Southeastern Conference play.
KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Jarrett Guarantano threw three touchdown passes and Tennessee trounced Chattanooga 45-0 as the Volunteers began digging their way out of their slowest start in over three decades. Tennessee (1-2) is trying to bounce back from its first 0-2 start since 1988. The lopsided victory provides Tennessee a momentum boost before the start of Southeastern Conference competition.
STARKVILLE, Miss. (AP) — Skylar Thompson threw for 123 yards and a fourth-quarter touchdown to lead Kansas State 31-24 over Mississippi State. KSU (3-0) led 17-14 at halftime but trailed 24-17 in the fourth quarter.
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