Tech’s Kingsbury setting more records

Lubbock, Texas Texas Tech’s Kliff Kingsbury now owns 50 records after throwing for 487 yards and five touchdowns in last week’s 48-47 victory against Texas A&M.

The breakdown is 37 school records, 12 Big 12 Conference records and one NCAA record highest completion rate (minimum 40 attempts).

Kingsbury completed 49 of 59 passes for 83.05 percent, breaking the previous mark of 83.02 percent set by Kentucky’s Tim Couch.

On Saturday, Texas Tech plays No. 11 Iowa State, which has a pretty fair quarterback of its own in Seneca Wallace.

Nebraska’s Dukes going to red-shirt

Lincoln, Neb. Arriving at Nebraska a semester early didn’t get quarterback Curt Dukes into a game any quicker.

Dukes, who worked with the top offensive units last spring and this fall, decided last week to sit out the rest of the season and take a red-shirt, giving him four years of eligibility starting next fall.

He didn’t play in the Cornhuskers’ first six games, and unless there’s an injury to starter Jammal Lord or Mike Stuntz, Dukes won’t play in the final seven.

Dukes, a 6-foot-1, 205-pound right-hander from Stony Point, N.C., finished high school early and came to Nebraska in January, hoping to establish himself as the Huskers’ next great option quarterback. He drew comparisons to former Husker Scott Frost as a strong runner who could throw when needed.

Notre Dame hampered by costly penalties

South Bend, Ind. Penalties are slowing No. 8 Notre Dame’s already sluggish offense.

The Fighting Irish had 10 penalties for 109 yards in last week’s victory against Stanford, stalling four drives. One penalty put the Irish out of field-goal range, another led to a missed field-goal attempt and another forced them to punt instead of going for a first down on fourth-and-1.

That doesn’t even count a 92-yard punt return for a TD that was called back because of a personal foul.

At this rate, the Irish will finish the season with 94 penalties for 770 yards their highest totals in 15 years.

Hurricanes have shot at inaugural Florida Cup

Miami Miami has a chance to win the “state championship” Saturday and the inaugural Florida Cup, a trophy given to whichever school Florida, Florida State or Miami beats the other two.

Miami already defeated Florida, so the Hurricanes could clinch the title with a win over the Seminoles. Florida State would need to beat Miami and Florida (Nov. 30) to win it. Should there be a tie with all three teams finishing 1-1 the award will go to the team that allows the fewest points.

Tech coach Beamer pleased with team

Blacksburg, Va. Entering tonight’s Big East conference opener against Boston College, No. 4 Virginia Tech is “a good 5-0,” says coach Frank Beamer.

“This is a good 5-0 here,” Beamer said. “It’s not a sloppy 5-0, and it’s not a lot of crazy-penalties 5-0, or a laying-the-ball-on-the-ground 5-0. We played well.”

They have. The Hokies already have non-conference victories over LSU, Marshall and Texas A&M all Top 25 teams when Virginia Tech played them.

Badgers want revenge for Hoosiers’ rout

Madison, Wis. Brooks Bollinger didn’t spend much time this past summer watching tape of Indiana’s 63-32 rout of Wisconsin last year.

“It puts you in a bad mood pretty quick,” the Badgers quarterback said as his team prepares to avenge that loss on Saturday when the Hoosiers visit Camp Randall Stadium.

Wisconsin (5-1, 0-1) is coming off a 34-31 loss to Penn State in last week’s Big Ten opener.