• Denard Robinson Watch: After breaking eleven runs of at least 20 yards over Michigan's first five games, Robinson was held without a 20-yard gain for the second straight week in a 38-28 loss to Iowa. "Shoelace" also failed to score a touchdown as a runner for the first time. But his 105 yards against the nation's No. 2 rushing defense – all in the first three quarters – still made Robinson the first player this year over 1,000 yards rushing for the season.• Robinson's closest rival in spread lightning, Nebraska's Taylor Martinez, came into Saturday averaging 147 yards per game on the ground, on a national-best 10.8 per carry, with at least one 30-yard gain in each of the Cornhuskers' first five gains. He came out of Saturday with 34 yards on a long of 14 in a 20-13 loss to Texas, in which Martinez also completed just 4 of 16 passes and Nebraska didn't score an offensive touchdown.
• Arkansas quarterback Tyler Wilson's first four possessions in place of injured starter Ryan Mallett were four long touchdown drives, ending in scoring strikes of 34, 38, 24 and 23 yards to put the Razorbacks up 43-37 early in the fourth quarter at Auburn. Wilson's last four possessions ended in a fumble, two interceptions and a turnover on downs in a 65-43 Tiger win.
In the same game, Auburn quarterback Cameron Newton's 327 total yards and four touchdowns marked his third straight SEC outing with at least 300 yards and three scores.
• Virginia Tech rolled up 598 yards and 38 first downs in a 52-14 thrashing of Wake Forest, obliterating the Hokies' previous highs in both categories since joining the ACC in 2004 – and that was largely before calling off the dogs in the second half. Tech scored touchdowns on seven of eight first-half possessions for a 49-14 lead at the break.
• Oklahoma's offense exploded for 667 total yards in a 52-0 obliteration of Iowa State, including 335 and three touchdowns on 30-of-34 passing by Sooner quarterback Landry Jones. The blowout was the second straight week the Cyclones had been outgained by at least 250 yards in a 40-plus-point loss.
• Hawaii held Nevada's prolific running game to a season-low 191 yards, 123 yards below the Wolf Pack's season average, in a 27-21 upset in the islands. The Pack's first half possessions ended with four punts, two turnovers and a turnover on downs.
• Georgia founds its legs for the second straight week in a 43-0 blowout over Vanderbilt, outgaining the Commodores by nearly 400 yards, 547-165.
• Oklahoma State offensive coordinator Dana Holgorsen, a former Mike Leach protegé at Texas Tech, outgained and outscored his former team for the second year in a row in a 34-17 Cowboy win in Lubbock. Holgorsen's offense rang up 583 total yards (356 passing by Brandon Weeden), almost identical to the 579 it hung on the Red Raiders last year in a 29-28 upset when Holgorsen was the offensive coordinator at Houston.
• Down 6-3 with just 56 total yards at the half, Michigan State racked up 248 yards and scored on all five possessions in the second half en route to a 26-6 win over Illinois.
• Clemson scored 31 points on just 213 total yards against Maryland, thanks to an 87-yard kickoff return by Andre Ellington and a 61-yard interception return by Xavier Brewer, one of three Tiger picks in the fourth quarter of a 31-7 cruise.
• Texas A&M, averaging 35 points on 472 yards over its first five games, punted on seven of its first eight possessions and turned the ball over on downs on the eighth in a 30-9 home loss to Missouri.
• Pick-prone Miami quarterback Jacory Harris didn't throw any interceptions at Duke, but his Blue Devil counterpart, Sean Renfree, served up five picks of his own in a 28-13 Hurricane win – though none of them led directly to Miami points.
• Army outgained Rutgers by 150 yards, mounted two 90-yard scoring drives, forced the Knights to go three-and-out on six of their ten offensive possessions, and lost in overtime, 23-20. The Rutgers possessions that didn't end in an immediate punt in regulation went 60 yards for a field goal, 76 yards for a touchdown and 93 yards for another TD to tie.
• Four of Notre Dame's six touchdown drives in a 44-20 win over Western Michigan began in Bronco territory, and one of the two that didn't started at the Irish 47. The other was an 80-yard bomb from Dayne Crist to Michael Floyd on the first play of the game,
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