| Week 4 Recaps |
| (25) BYU 34, (23) Colorado State 13 |
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38:36: Time of possession for Brigham Young.
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Lucas Staley, RB, BYU. Freshman followed up his great debut with three touchdowns -- two on the ground and one in the air.
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| The first game in the Mountain West Conference was not much of a contest. BYU nearly pitched a shutout, bolting out to a 31-0 lead before easing up on things. |
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| (14) Purdue 58, Central Michigan 16 |
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38: The number of points Purdue led by in the second quarter before the Boilermakers turned down the tempo. |
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Vinny Sutherland, WR, Purdue. Sutherland returned a punt 64 yards for a TD, had a career-high 134 yards on seven receptions and contributed another 30 yards on three end-around runs.
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Like you actually expected Central Michigan to make a game of this. With its running game crippled by injuries, Central Michigan had no chance to slow down Purdue's passing attack, and this one was over shortly after kickoff. |
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| (4) Nebraska 20, Southern Miss 13 |
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293-183: Yards by which Southern Miss outgained the favored Huskers. |
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Julius Jackson, LB, Nebraska. Defense bailed out offense big time, led by Jackson's interception and fumble returns for touchdowns. |
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| It was an ugly day for the quarterbacks, what with the Eagles' Jeff Kelly throwing four interceptions and Nebraska's newly annointed starter Eric Crouch heaving two picks of his own. The panic attacks are likely high in Lincoln right now, but Southern Miss is an athletic team, and the Huskers were hurt by the departure of I-back DeAngelo Evans this week -- replacement Dan Alexander fumbled twice.
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| Michigan State (2-0) at (24) Notre Dame (1-2) |
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0-3: Notre Dame's record against the Big Ten - the conference it spurned over the summer. |
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Gari Scott, WR, Michigan State. More specifically, Scott had the play of the game, somehow staying in bounds and racing 80 yards for the winning TD. |
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| Same old story for the Irish (minus the time out problem this week): Jarious Jackson looks super at points, awful at others; the defense plays admirably but loses on a few big plays. MSU, meanwhile, is emerging as a Big Ten contender behind QB Bill Burke and a great running game.
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| Cincinnati 17, (9) Wisconsin 12 |
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231: Rushing yards, on 28 carries, by Ron Dayne, enough to break Archie Griffin's Big Ten rushing record but not to win the game. |
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Robert Cooper, RB, Cincinnati. There was another "33" in the house, and this one ran for 143 yards, 51 of them on a key touchdown sprint. |
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How big is this upset? Until this game, the Bearcats were ranked 112th of 112 in nearly every defensive category last year. They lost to I-AA Troy State just last week. And you can't say UW didn't have chances to win -- it had two touchdowns called back by penalty and Dayne lost a fumble as he was about to enter the end zone. The Badgers' passing was absolutely brutal as well.
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| (3) Penn State 27, (8) Miami 23 |
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4: Interceptions thrown by Miami QB Kenny Kelly. |
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Askari Adams, S, Penn State. With the exception of one long bomb to Santana Moss, Adams and the PSU secondary were phenomenal.
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Give the Nittany Lions credit: They made the big plays on offense that many said QBs Kevin Thompson and Rashard Casey were incapable of - chief being the 79-yard TD pass to Chafie Fields. And the secondary recovered from last week's Pitt shellacking to contain WR Santana Moss and shut down Reggie Wayne.
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