Big 12 Football: Berry Tramel ranks this week’s games

With Arkansas leading late in the third quarter, Jake Coker hit freshman Calvin Ridley in stride for an 81-yard touchdown and Alabama had a lead it would not relinquish. The Wildcats scored on what seemed like every possession in the first half.

COLUMBIA, Mo. (AP) – Kelvin Taylor ran for 99 yards and two first-quarter touchdowns for Florida. Opposing quarterbacks are completing better than 60 percent of passes against them, and are averaging a quarterback rating of 124.87. Demarcus Robinson had six catches for 79 yards.

KNOXVILLE, Tenn. – The Volunteers’ second-half struggles have been well-chronicled so far this fall, but against the Bulldogs, that trend was reversed. The Red Raiders have allowed just one sack in 211 passing attempts.

And unlike previous year, Purdue is at home and probably feeling pretty ticked off after the missed opportunity against Michigan State.

UCLA (4-1, 1-1) at Stanford (4-1, 3-0), 9:30 p.m.

The 18-point comeback was TCU’s largest since 2005, when it rallied from a 34-16 deficit to beat BYU 51-50 in overtime.

Miami quarterback Brad Kaaya threw for 405 yards and three touchdowns.

LAWRENCE, Kan. – Seth Russell passed for 246 yards and three touchdowns and Shock Linwood added 135 yards rushing as Baylor stomped Kansas.

The Wildcats fall to 3-2 on the season and 0-2 in Big 12 play.

TCU ranks second in total yards (630.0 per game), fourth in passing yards (396.4), 17th in rushing yards (233.6) and second in scoring (50.8 points per game) through the first five weeks of the college football season. Who will win this game? Given his limitations, Cook played extremely well, throwing for two touchdowns as the Wildcats built a 28-20 lead going into the half.

The Mountaineers’ 3-3-5 defense is 39 in total defense with 337.2 yards per game. Eugene Brazley ran for a team-high 98 yards, including a 78-yard touchdown. “Obviously, the field goal was the wrong thing to do”. And when you’re a teenager, and you’ve been told how great you are for most of your life, it’s hard to stay humble.

The Wildcats would stall out again, though, and TCU would take over on the 10. And with the way things had been going, the Frogs might not have stopped them – and maybe never gotten the ball back.

Texas Tech battered Iowa State, 66-31 in another league battle.

TCU regularly had big returns. Let’s hope Hubener can recover in time for the Wildcats’ next game against the Oklahoma Sooners next Saturday. They’re not just highlight-reel merchants; Boykin and Doctson are causing vine-makers and GIF creators to do extra work at the very moments when game outcomes hang in the balance.

But sure enough, TCU started whittling the Wildcats’ lead, paring it to 35-31 with 7:14 to play in the third quarter.

Toledo got off to a shaky start, but remained undefeated at 5-0, 2-0 in the Mid-American Conference. Looming in November is No. 1 Ohio State. They forced two turnovers, including one when it mattered most, but this defense still has a ton of growing up to do.

Toledo took over from there, and led 24-7 at the half. He has 4 catches, 57 yards receiving and no touchdowns, reps indicate to news.

Kansas State quarterback Joe Hubener (8) points out the defense to… Patterson and TCU offensive coordinator Doug Meacham ran onto the field and initially drew an unsportsmanlike conduct penalty (it was later rescinded) for pleading with officials to place the ball on the left hash to set up the two-point conversion.