ATHENS, Ga. (AP) — Gunner Stockton threw five touchdown passes, tying a school record, and No. 2 Georgia gained more momentum for its Southeastern Conference schedule by overwhelming Western Kentucky 70-20 on Saturday.
Wearing all-white uniforms for the first time in team history, Georgia (2-0) led 49-0 in the first half — matching the most productive half in school history — as it prepared for next week’s SEC opener at Arkansas.
Stockton completed 13 of 16 passes for 234 yards while throwing touchdown passes to five different targets. Stockton has eight touchdown passes and no interceptions in two games. He left each game in the second quarter.
Tyriq Green had a 91-yard kickoff return for a touchdown and recovered a fumble in the end zone for another score for the Bulldogs.
Stockton utilized one of Georgia’s deepest positions — tight end — by throwing a 7-yard touchdown pass to Ethan Barbour about 1 minute into the game. Stockton also threw scoring passes to running back Chauncey Bowens and receivers London Humphreys, Sacovie White-Helton and Talyn Taylor. Nate Frazier ran for 55 yards and a touchdown.
Stockton’s five TD passes matched the school record shared by several players, most recently Carson Beck against Tennessee Tech and Georgia Tech in 2024.
Landon Roldan’s 9-yard scoring run gave Georgia a 49-0 lead in the second quarter, tying the school record for most points in a half.
NO. 5 INDIANA 55, HOWARD 0
BLOOMINGTON, Ind. (AP) — Josh Hoover threw four touchdown passes, three to wide receiver Charlie Becker, and Indiana routed Howard.
Hoover was 6 of 11 for 145 yards, has four TDs in each of his first two games with Indiana and has thrown for 10,006 yards in his career. Becker had 81 yards, finishing one TD catch short of matching the school’s single-game record.
Neither played in the second half, and the two coaches agreed to shorten the fourth quarter to 10 minutes.
Lee Beebe Jr. and Turbo Richard each topped 100 yards as Indiana (2-0) rushed for 301 yards. The defending national champs extended the Football Bowl Subdivision’s longest active winning streak to 18 and the FBS’ longest active home winning streak to 17.
Indiana coach Curt Cignetti is still unbeaten at Memorial Stadium and his 28-2 record after 30 games is the second best in FBS history. Fielding Yost started his Michigan tenure at 29-0-1.
Howard (1-2) dropped its second straight. The Football Championship Subdivision school’s only victory over an FBS opponent came in 2017 against UNLV.
NO. 10 TEXAS A&M 48, ARIZONA ST. 20
COLLEGE STATION, Texas (AP) — Marcel Reed had three touchdown passes and the defense scored twice in the fourth quarter as Texas A&M pulled away late for a victory over Arizona State.
The Aggies led by 4 before Reed threw a 33-yard touchdown pass to Mario Craver on the second play of the fourth quarter to make it 31-20.
Tyler White fumbled before a punt later in the fourth and Arizona State recovered on the Texas A&M 34. But A&M’s T.J. Searcy hit Cutter Boley as he threw on the next play and 261-pound defensive end Marco Jones grabbed the ball and rumbled 55 yards for the score.
A&M led 41-20 later in the fourth when Julio Humphrey intercepted Boley and returned it 45 yards for another score.
Texas A&M’s offense struggled to get going and was inconsistent at times, with Reed going 15 of 25 for 163 yards with an interception before the defense turned this game into a blowout.
Isaiah Horton had two touchdown receptions after scoring once in his Texas A&M debut last week following his transfer from Alabama.
MICHIGAN 17, NO. 11 OKLAHOMA 10
ANN ARBOR, Mich. (AP) — Jordan Marshall scored on a tiebreaking 1-yard run set up by an interception midway through the fourth quarter and Bryce Underwood ran for a 38-yard touchdown to help Michigan bounce back and beat Oklahoma.
The Wolverines (2-0) were the butt of jokes all week after a lucky break put a second on the clock and gave Underwood another chance to complete a game-winning Hail Mary against Western Michigan last weekend.
They responded with a signature win under first-year coach Kyle Whittingham, who said Underwood had to show signs of improvement to keep his job.
He did.
Underwood ran for 87 yards, including his touchdown run late in the first quarter, and threw for 111 yards without a turnover.
The Sooners (1-1) were favored to win by nearly a touchdown and never led. They were scoreless until John Mateer threw a 22-yard touchdown to Mackenzie Alleyne midway through the third quarter.
They had the ball at the 50 with 3:05 left to play and turned the ball over on downs after gaining just 3 yards. They had another opportunity at their 15 with 1:06 to go and ran out of time after gaining just 10 yards.
NO. 16 PENN ST. 27, TEMPLE 9
PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Rocco Becht threw for 268 yards and three touchdowns, with two of those scores to tight end Benjamin Brahmer, to help Penn State beat Temple.
The Nittany Lions (2-0) survived a first half loaded with failed shots at the end zone and a missed field goal that kept the score close and stirred memories of one of the program’s great losses against an unranked team when former Temple coach Matt Rhule led the Owls to the upset victory in 2105 at Lincoln Financial Field.
Rhule was back Saturday — well, at least on the big screen at halftime as part of a videotaped message to Temple’s 2016 American Conference title team. There was just no repeat result for Temple in this series matchup 11 years later.
Penn State — playing in front of a crowd of 61,714 fans mostly dressed in white — needed a half in first-year coach Matt Campbell’s second game to get some offensive rhythm against the Owls (1-1).
Penn State partially blocked Carl Hardin’s 52-yard field goal early in the third quarter and then scored on Becht’s 16-yard TD pass to Chase Sowell for the 17-3 lead.
Ryan Barker added a 39-yard field goal later in the third quarter for a 20-3 lead as the Nittany Lions started to show why they were a 24-point betting favorite entering the game. Becht connected on a 23-yard TD pass to Brahmer in the fourth that made it 27-3 with 7:48 left and sent Temple students to the parking lots.
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