East Hartford, Conn. ? With a national spotlight on them, Connecticut tailback Donald Brown and Baylor quarterback Robert Griffin didn’t disappoint.

Brown ran for 150 yards and two touchdowns, and Connecticut held off Baylor 31-28 on Friday night for its second straight 4-0 start.

Griffin threw for 208 yards and three touchdowns and ran for another. The freshman consistently scrambled his way out of trouble and drove the Bears (2-2) to the UConn 39 with under a minute to play before his fourth-down pass fell incomplete.

“Good teams are going to have to win some close games,” UConn coach Randy Edsall said. “We did that. We stepped up on defense when we needed to.”

UConn quarterback Tyler Lorenzen showed he can run, too. Lorenzen carried the ball eight times for 73 yards and two touchdowns, including a 34-yard draw that gave the Huskies a 24-21 lead. He passed for 125 yards, but threw two interceptions that led to Baylor touchdowns.

There were six lead changes, the final one when Brown took a toss and ran 3 yards for a touchdown with just over 6 minutes remaining.

Edsall said the game plan was to give Brown about 20 to 25 touches during the game. He had 112 yards on 22 carries in the first half.