No. 7 USC 30, No. 24 California 3

Berkeley, Calif. — Taylor Mays and a dominating Southern California defense overshadowed any offensive deficiencies for the Trojans and overwhelmed Jahvid Best and the California offense.

Mays set the tone with an interception on the first drive of the game, Damian Williams returned a punt for a touchdown and the seventh-ranked Trojans routed California on Saturday night.

No. 3 Alabama 38, Kentucky 20

Lexington, Ky. — Mark Ingram ran for a career-high 140 yards and two touchdowns. Alabama quarterback Greg McElroy added a pair of scoring passes as the Crimson Tide (5-0, 2-0 SEC) pulled away from the Wildcats (2-2, 0-2) during a dizzying stretch in the second and third quarters when Alabama scored 24 points in just over 5 minutes.

Derrick Locke ran for 76 yards and added another 63 yards receiving for Kentucky.

No. 4 LSU 20, No. 18 Georgia 13

Athens, Ga. — Charles Scott scored on a 33-yard run with 46 seconds remaining to cap a wild finish.

No touchdowns were scored through the first three quarters, but the teams went back and forth over the final 3 minutes before the Tigers (5-0, 3-0 SEC) won their second straight close call.

No. 5 Boise State 34, UC Davis 16

Boise, Idaho — Kellen Moore threw for 285 yards and three touchdowns, including a pair to Austin Pettis.

No. 6 Virginia Tech 34, Duke 26

Durham, N.C. — Tyrod Taylor threw two long touchdown passes and Virginia Tech dodged a letdown. Taylor was 17 of 22 for a career-high 327 yards, with TD tosses of 36 yards to Danny Coale and 28 yards to Jarrett Boykin.

No. 9 Ohio State 33, Indiana 14

Bloomington, Ind. — Terrelle Pryor threw three touchdown passes and rushed for another score. The Buckeyes (4-1, 2-0 Big Ten) gave up their first points in nine quarters, but ran away with their 16th straight Big Ten road win, one short of tying the conference record.

No. 10 Cincinnati 37, Miami (Ohio) 13

Oxford, Ohio — Jacob Ramsey ran for 103 yards and three touchdowns in Cincinnati’s pass-oriented offense, and the Bearcats broke open a close game in the fourth quarter.

No. 11 TCU 39, SMU 14

Fort Worth, Texas — Jeremy Kerley returned a punt 71 yards for the go-ahead touchdown and 11th-ranked TCU overcame three first-half turnovers.

UTEP 58, No. 12 Houston 41

El Paso, Texas — Donald Buckram ran for a career high 262 yards and four touchdowns to lead Texas-El Paso to an upset of Houston.

Miner fans stormed the field second after the unranked Miners (2-3, 1-0 Conference USA) won, beating a ranked team for the first time in 12 years.

No. 13 Iowa 24, Arkansas State 21

Iowa City, Iowa — Ricky Stanzi threw for a season-high 296 yards and three touchdowns to give the Hawkeyes their best start since 1995.

No. 15 Penn State 35, Illinois 17

Champaign, Ill. — Evan Royster and Stephon Green each ran for more than 100 yards and Darryl Clark added a pair of TDs rushing on a wet, windy day.

Green had 120 yards on 13 carries.

No. 16 Oregon 52, Washington State 6

Eugene, Ore. — Jeremiah Masoli threw for 116 yards and a touchdown and ran for another score before sitting out the second half.

No. 21 Mississippi 23, Vanderbilt 7

Nashville, Tenn. — The Mississippi Rebels will need better than this from Jevan Snead next week against No. 3 Alabama.

Snead passed for three touchdowns to overcome his three interceptions as Mississippi bounced back.

Snead threw for just one touchdown in last week’s 16-10 loss to South Carolina, a game that dropped the Rebels (3-1, 1-1 SEC) from a No. 4 ranking that had been their highest since 1970. He matched his season high with three TDs against Vanderbilt.

Michigan State 26, No. 22 Michigan 20, OT

East Lansing, Mich. — Michigan State owns a two-game winning streak against Michigan for the first time since 1967.

Freshman Larry Caper ran for a 23-yard touchdown in overtime to give the Spartans a victory over the Wolverines on Saturday. Michigan State hadn’t beaten Michigan twice in a row since winning three straight from 1965-67.

“We did something that hasn’t been done in 42 years,” coach Mark Dantonio said. “That’s amazing. But facts are facts. This game has a way of defining you.”

The Spartans (2-3, 1-1 Big Ten) won at Michigan last season for the first time since 1990. It was a bigger party in East Lansing, as players and coaches swarmed Caper in the north end zone after his game-winning run.

The big play was a third-down rush that still would have left Michigan State within field goal range if it hadn’t succeeded. But the zone blocking worked out so well Caper scampered all the way to the end zone.

No. 25 Georgia Tech 42, Mississippi State 31

Starkville, Miss. — Josh Nesbitt threw for a career-high 266 yards and Georgia Tech converted three Mississippi State turnovers into touchdowns.