Dalvin Cook ran for two touchdowns, including the go-ahead score late in the fourth quarter, and No. 2 Florida State continued its season of rallies by erasing a 16-point deficit and topping Miami, 30-26, on Saturday night in Miami Gardens, Fla.
Jameis Winston completed 25 of 42 passes for 304 yards for the Seminoles (10-0, 7-0 Atlantic Coast Conference), who extended their winning streak to 26 games and beat Miami for the fifth straight time.
The Seminoles clinched the ACC’s Atlantic Division title earlier in the day when Clemson lost. They were down, 16-0 and 23-7, before outscoring the Hurricanes, 23-3, over the final 2½ quarters.
Brad Kaaya threw for 316 yards and two touchdowns for Miami, which got to the Florida State 43 on its final drive but fell short when Jalen Ramsey intercepted a fourth-down pass with 39 seconds left.
Duke Johnson rushed for 130 yards and a touchdown for the Hurricanes (6-4, 3-3), who were eliminated from the ACC’s Coastal Division race.
Down 13 at the half, Florida State got a huge break to make it a one-possession game.
Facing a third down at the Miami 11, Winston dropped back and had his throw deflected by the Hurricanes’ Tyriq McCord, whose hand sent the ball flying high into the night. Karlos Williams caught the carom in stride, waltzed into the end zone, and just like that it was a one-possession game, Miami’s lead down to 23-17.
Wisconsin 59, Nebraska 24 — Melvin Gordon rushed for a major college-record 408 yards and four touchdowns on 25 carries and the No. 22 Badgers overcame three early turnovers to take control of the Big Ten West Division with a home rout of the No. 11 Cornhuskers.
Gordon eclipsed the single-game mark by 2 yards, setting the new standard on a 26-yard TD run on the last play of the third quarter. It was his final carry. TCU’s LaDainian Tomlinson had held the record since 1999.
‘‘Yeah, I didn’t even know I was close to the record,’’ Gordon said. ‘‘I was kind of just running away.’’
Outdueling Nebraska’s Ameer Abdullah in a matchup of star running backs, Gordon overcame two fumbles to help the Badgers (8-2, 5-1) roar past the Cornhuskers (8-2, 4-2).
Gordon delivered an emphatic statement in the Heisman race. Abdullah finished with 69 yards on 18 attempts.
Gordon didn’t play a down in the fourth quarter with his team up by five scores. The most action he got was when he danced on the field with teammates while the song ‘‘Jump Around’’ echoed through the stadium, a Wisconsin tradition before the fourth quarter.
The win gave the Badgers sole possession of first in the West.
Gordon never played a down in the fourth quarter with his team leading by five scores. About the most action he got was when he danced on the field in the snow with his teammates while the song ‘‘Jump Around’’ echoed through the stadium, a Wisconsin tradition before the fourth quarter.
Michigan State 37, Maryland 15
— Jeremy Langford ran for 138 yards and two TDs, and the No. 12 Spartans (8-2, 5-1 Big Ten) bounced back from their loss to Ohio State with a rout of the host Terrapins (6-4, 3-3).
‘‘Melvin Gordon! Melvin Gordon,’’ the crowd roared in the second half.
It was hard to believe that Nebraska actually led, 17-3, with 14:12 left in the second quarter on quarterback Tommy Armstrong’s 5-yard touchdown run. The Cornhuskers’ early scores came on short fields because of Wisconsin turnovers.
Nebraska fell apart from there. Gordon powered the offense, while the Wisconsin defense applied non-stop pressure.
Georgia 34, Auburn 7 — Nick Chubb shared the spotlight in Todd Gurley’s return, with both backs rushing for more than 100 yards in the No. 16 Bulldogs’ rout of the ninth-ranked Tigers in Athens, Ga.
Georgia (8-2, 6-2) dominated the latest edition of the Deep South’s oldest rivalry, handing the Tigers (7-3, 4-3) their second straight loss and finishing off any hopes they had of repeating as Southeastern Conference champions.
Gurley returned to Georgia’s backfield after serving a four-game suspension for taking more than $3,000 for autographs. He made a splash the first time he touched the ball, returning a kickoff 105 yards to the end zone. The play didn’t count, however, wiped out by a holding penalty.
Everything else pretty much went Georgia’s way. Chubb broke off a 9-yard touchdown run that gave the Bulldogs the lead for good midway through the second quarter. Gurley strolled in for a 3-yard touchdown that stretched the margin to 24-7 in the third quarter.
Chubb finished off the stunningly easy victory with an 11-yard touchdown run, capping a 98-yard drive after Amarlo Herrara picked off a fourth-down pass from Nick Marshall in Auburn’s last gasp.
Chubb rushed for 144 yards on 19 carries and went over 1,000 yards for the season. Gurley carried 29 times for 138 yards, though he hobbled off in the fourth quarter after taking a shot to his left knee.
TCU 34, Kansas 30 — Aaron Green ran for 128 yards and two touchdowns, Cameron Echols-Luper returned a punt 69 yards for another score, and the No. 5 Horned Frogs (9-1, 6-1 Big 12) turned back a spirited upset bid by the host Jayhawks (3-7, 1-6) to stay in playoff contention.
Trevone Boykin added 330 yards passing and a TD for TCU (9-1, 6-1 Big 12), which trailed, 27-17, midway through the third before a big finishing kick.
Michael Cummings had 332 yards and two touchdowns passing for the Jayhawks (3-7, 1-6), who were trying for their first regular-season win over a top-five team since beating Colorado in 1995.
The Horned Frogs won their fifth straight, even without top running back B.J. Catalon. And with a trip to Texas followed by a home game against lowly Iowa State, they may have the easiest road standing between them and the inaugural four-team playoff.
Jimmay Mundine had 137 yards and a touchdown receiving, and Nigel King had 128 yards and a score, as the Jayhawks nearly gave a sparse crowd of about 10,000 fans a reason to celebrate.
Still, Kansas made another strong statement in support of interim coach Clint Bowen, who has steadied the program after Charlie Weis was fired and become a strong pick for the full-time job.
TCU did what most expected on the game’s opening drive, going 67 yards in just over two minutes for a touchdown. But after that, nothing went as expected for quite some time.
After holding Kansas, TCU was flagged for roughing the punter. Later in the drive, the Jayhawks attempted a field goal and holder T.J. Millweard dropped the snap,and threw a pass for a first down instead. Then, a TCU player batted a third-down pass and it was caught by the Jayhawks’ Nick Harwell for another first down. Finally, Corey Avery capped the 17-play drive with a 2-yard touchdown run.
The Horned Frogs quickly went the other way, but Kansas held on fourth-and-1 at its 11 to get the ball back. The Jayhawks promptly headed 89 yards the other way, Mundine hauling in a 13-yard touchdown pass to give Kansas the lead.
By that point, the few thousand fans in Memorial Stadium sat in stunned silence.
Not everything went perfectly for Kansas. A 22-yard pick-six was wiped away by an illegal substitution penalty, and a 16-yard pass into the red zone for first down was taken away by a review that showed the ball had skipped off the turf. The Jayhawks wound up punting.
Still, they headed into the locker room clinging to a 13-10 lead.
Kansas pushed the lead to 20-10 with an 82-yard drive to start the second half, and the Horned Frogs answered with a 72-yard drive that Green capped with a short TD run.
That set up Cummings’s pass to NigelKing down the sideline, and the big receiver caught the ball after three bobbles and ran 78 yards for a score. There was still plenty of time, though, and the Horned Frogs showed plenty of poise.
Trailing, 27-17, in the third quarter, Green’s 24-yard touchdown run pulled TCU within 27-24. And after the Horned Frogs’ defense forced a punt, Echols-Luper sliced through the coverage for his big return.
TCU held on through a tense fourth quarter to avoid the upset bid.
Ohio State 31, Minnesota 24 — J.T. Barrett threw for three touchdowns and ran for a school quarterback-record 189 yards and another score, helping the eighth-ranked Buckeyes (9-1, 6-0 Big Ten) overcome three turnoversto beat the host Golden Gophers (7-3, 4-2).
Barrett completed 15 of 25 passes for 200 yards and one interception. Barrett’s rushing total topped Braxton Miller’s 186 yards against Nebraska on Oct. 6, 2012, and Ohio State stayed in pursuit of a playoff berth.
Jalin Marshall had 107 total yards for the Buckeyes, but he lost two fumbles to give the Gophers a chance to come back.
David Cobb ran 27 times for 145 yards and three touchdowns, but Minnesota didn’t quite do enough to avoid a 37th loss in 39 games in the series since 1966.
Briean Boddy-Calhoun forced two turnovers for the Gophers in the coldest kickoff, 15 degrees, in six seasons at TCF Bank Stadium. The lowest temperature in more than a half-century for a Buckeyes game featured snowflakes collecting on coach Urban Meyer’s uncovered head on the sideline.
Northwestern 43, Notre Dame 40 — Jack Mitchell kicked a 45-yard field goal with 19 seconds left to force overtime and then kicked a 41-yarder to give the visiting Wildcats (4-6) a come-from-behind upset of the No. 15 Fighting Irish (7-3).
Northwestern closed to 40-37 with 4:10 left on a 6-yard TD run by quarterback Trevor Siemian and a 2-point conversion run by Warren Long after Notre Dame was called for pass interference.
Both teams turned the ball over four times in a sloppy game. Notre Dame’s final turnover occurred with 1:28 left, when the Irish were trying to run out the clock and the usually reliable Cam McDaniel fumbled at the Northwestern 33.
Northwestern (4-6), which had minus-9 yards rushing last week against Michigan, rushed for 263 yards and had 547 total yards, both season highs.
Arizona 27, Washington 26 — Casey Skowron kicked a 47-yard field goal as time expired to give the No. 17 Wildcats (8-2, 5-2 Pac-12) a home win over the Huskies (6-5, 2-5).
Skowron, who also had an 18-yard touchdown run on a fake field goal, missed a first attempt wide right but the Huskies called timeout just before the kick and he got a second try. The kicker gained redemption after missing the go-ahead 36-yarder in the final minute of a loss to USC.
Washington was running out the clock when Tra’Mayne Bondurant knocked the ball out of running back Deontae Cooper’s hands and Derrick Turituri recovered at the Washington 45 with 1:23 to go, setting up Skowron’s winning kick.
Arkansas 17, LSU 0 — Brandon Allen threw for 169 yards and the host Razorbacks (5-5, 1-5) snapped a 17-game Southeastern Conference losing streak with a shutout of the No. 20 Tigers (7-4, 3-4). It was coach Bret Bielema’s first SEC win after 13 straight losses.
Marshall 41, Rice 14 — Rakeem Cato threw four TD passes, Devon Johnson rushed for 199 yards and a score, and the No. 21 Thundering Herd (10-0, 6-0 Conference USA) routed the visiting Owls (6-4, 4-2) .
Utah 20, Stanford 17 — Travis Wilson threw a 3-yard touchdown pass to Kenneth Scott in the second overtime, sending the No. 25 Utes (7-3, 4-3 Pac-12) past the host Cardinal (5-5, 3-4), who lost consecutive games for the first time since October 2009.