Huskers grind past Iowa State

? No. 22 Nebraska went Old School to pick up its first road win of the season.

Cody Glenn rushed 148 yards and two touchdowns, Brandon Jackson added 116 yards and a score and the Cornhuskers defense did the rest in a 28-14 victory over Iowa State on Saturday night.

Nebraska’s defense, which was lit up by Kansas for 574 yards a week ago, looked more like the Blackshirts of old Saturday. The Cornhuskers (5-1, 2-0 Big 12) held the Cyclones to just 53 yards rushing.

Iowa State (3-3, 0-2) fell to 0-3 against ranked teams and two games back in the Big 12 North standings, with a trip to Oklahoma looming next week.

Facing a Cyclones defense ranked 108th in the nation against the pass, Nebraska found its groove running the ball early – then stuck with it once it had the lead. The Cornhuskers used their running part of the West Coast offense to build a 21-7 halftime lead.

Glenn’s five-yard TD run with 1:33 left pushed Nebraska’s lead to 28-7. Todd Blythe caught a 13-yard TD pass with six seconds left to round out the scoring.

Iowa State had chances to cut the lead in the second half, but twice failed to convert fourth downs in Nebraska territory – and missed a third when it was stopped on a faked field goal try. Quarterback Bret Meyer, who finished 18-of-39 for 262 yards, also threw an interception that sailed 10 yards over his receivers’ head.

Zac Taylor, who threw for a Nebraska-record 431 against the Cyclones last year, finished an efficient 17-of-21 for 131 yards.

Baylor 34, Colorado 31, 3OT

Boulder, Colo. – The Buffaloes matched their longest losing streak in 117 years, falling to the Bears in triple overtime for their 10th straight defeat.

Ryan Havens made a 22-yard field goal for the lead and linebacker Joe Pawelek clinched the win with a leaping interception in the end zone to help Baylor (3-3, 2-0 Big 12) win back-to-back Big 12 games for the first time since joining the conference in 1996.

Colorado (0-6, 0-2) remained winless under new coach Dan Hawkins on what was widely viewed as its best chance for the rest of the season to get that elusive ‘W’ – on homecoming, with the players still playing hard, against a traditional conference doormat.

Now, it’s CU that’s the doormat, in need of a win next week against Texas Tech to avoid eclipsing the program’s longest losing streak, first set in 1963-64.

Pawelek’s interception was a beauty, though it helped that CU quarterback Bernard Jackson threw far downfield and into heavy coverage on third-and-six from the 21, even though the Buffs only needed a field goal to extend the game.