Stunner at K-State: Fresno State upsets No. 13 team in nation
Bryson Sumlin added two TD runs in Fresno State’s biggest win ever over a ranked team — and the Wildcats’ worst regular-season nonconference loss in 13 years. Fresno State (2-0) also earned its second road win over a team from a Bowl Championship Series conference in seven days.
The Bulldogs’ 45 points were the most given up by the Wildcats in a regular-season nonconference game since a 56-3 loss to Washington in 1991. Fresno State’s previous most decisive win over a ranked team was a 44-24 defeat of Oregon State, then ranked 10th, in 2001.
That season the Bulldogs, from the Western Athletic Conference, also knocked off Colorado and Wisconsin on the road.
Kansas State (1-1) led 7-0 before it took a snap, but the Wildcats couldn’t do much right after Bret Jones’ 42-yard interception return for a touchdown less than 3 1/2 minutes into the game. They had only 2 yards of offense in the first quarter and trailed 31-14 at the half.
No. 16 Iowa 17,
Iowa State 10
IOWA CITY, Iowa (AP) — Ed Hinkel made a diving, fingertip catch for a key touchdown and No. 16 Iowa stiffened on defense when it needed to most to beat Iowa State.
Iowa (2-0) forced Iowa State to kick field goals four times after the Cyclones had driven deep into Hawkeye territory. But Brian Jansen, a freshman walk-on, missed three of those kicks and Iowa held on for its second straight victory over the Cyclones after losing five in a row.
Drew Tate was 16 of 22 for 220 yards for Iowa. He was intercepted once and sacked four times by an aggressive Iowa State defense.
No. 18 Auburn 43,
Mississippi State 14
STARKVILLE, Miss. (AP) — Carnell Williams ran for 122 yards and two touchdowns, and Ronnie Brown added 147 yards rushing to lead Auburn.
Jason Campbell threw two of his three touchdown passes to Anthony Mix, and Auburn scored on three of its first four possessions to give Sylvester Croom a loss in the first SEC game for the league’s first black head football coach.
Auburn won its fourth straight in the series, the last three by an average of nearly 30 points. The Tigers rushed for 283 rushing yards, more than three times the Bulldogs’ rushing total.
No. 21 Wisconsin 18,
UNLV 3
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Jim Leonhard returned a blocked field goal 86 yards for a score and the Badgers came up with two safeties.
The Badgers (2-0) hadn’t recorded two safeties in a game since 1951 and they’re the first Big Ten team to do it in 23 years, since Minnesota had two at Indiana in 1981. The first came on a high snap out of the end zone on a punt by UNLV and the second on linebacker Mark Zalewski’s sack in the end zone.
Without star running back Anthony Davis, who is out indefinitely with an eye injury, the Badgers’ offense sputtered and needed 10 possessions to get into the end zone on John Stocco’s 5-yard touchdown toss to Darrin Charles with 12 minutes left.
No. 25 Purdue 59,
Ball State 7
WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. (AP) — Kyle Orton threw for a career-high five touchdowns and ran for another to lead No. 25 Purdue to a second straight dominating performance to open the season.
Orton completed his first 15 passes and threw for 329 yards in just over two quarters of work. Taylor Stubblefield had five catches for 88 yards and three touchdowns for the Boilermakers, who routed Syracuse 51-0 last week.
This one was equally one-sided. The Boilermakers scored touchdowns on six of their seven possessions in the first half, kicking a field goal on the other, to take a 45-0 lead at the break.