The Hlists: Gophers’ 51 unanswered points tops FBS

THREE GAMES I WISH I'D ATTENDED

1. Alabama 20, LSU 13 (OT)

2. Texas A&M 41, Auburn 38

3. Ohio State 49, Michigan State 37

THREE GAMES I'M GLAD I MISSED

1. Michigan 10, Northwestern 9

2. Ole Miss 48, Presbyterian 0

3. Penn State 13, Indiana 7

UNANSWERED POINTS

1. Minnesota, 51 vs. Iowa in 51-14 win

2. Baylor, 45 at Oklahoma in 48-14 win

3. Notre Dame, 28 at Arizona State in 55-31 loss

4. Kansas, 24 vs. Iowa State in 34-14 win

STREAKS

1. Ohio State has won 21 straight Big Ten regular-season games.

2. North Dakota's 33-game winning streak, the longest in FCS history, was snapped with a 23-3 loss at Northern Iowa.

3. Oklahoma lost two straight home games for the first time under 16-year head coach Bob Stoops.

4. Baylor beat a ranked team on the road for the first time in its last 38 tries.

5. MIT clinched its first NCAA Division III playoff berth since it began playing D-III football in 1988.

WEIRD PAC-12 FACTOIDS

1. In conference play, road teams are 26-13.

2. Arizona State is the only 8-1 team in the country to have given up 62 points in a game (62-27 loss to UCLA). 3. Chris Petersen's conference record at Boise State was 56-6. At Washington, it's 2-4.

TEAMS THAT RUSHED FOR 409 YARDS IN THE FIRST HALF AND 505 OVERALL, AND DIDN'T WIN

1. New Mexico, a 60-49 loser to Boise State

MID-AMERICAN CONFERENCE GAMES PLAYED LAST WEEK ON TUESDAY, WEDNESDAY AND SATURDAY

Tuesday: 2

Wednesday: 2

Saturday: 0

TEAMS THAT AREN'T THE SPORTING NEWS' PRESEASON NO. 1 TEAM IN AMERICA (OKLAHOMA) THAT SHARE THE BIG 12 LEAD

1. Baylor

2. Kansas State

3. TCU

TEAMS THAT ARE/AREN'T BOWL-ELIGIBLE

1. Texas (no)/Rice (yes)

2. Arkansas (no)/Arkansas State (yes)

3. South Carolina and North Carolina (no)/East Carolina (yes)

4. Michigan (no)/Central Michigan and Western Michigan (yes)

SPORTSWRITING

1. Even in their previous six home defeats, (Bob) Stoops' Sooners had not been embarrassed like this. OU fans lustily booed the team's soft defense early in the second half on Saturday. And that's before the game really went sideways.

The Sooners lost by 34; Stoops' first six home losses came by a combined 36 points.

'Put it this way: There's a growing number of OU fans who would help load Stoops' moving van if the day came. Too many years of promise have gone unfulfilled, and too many years have passed since the Sooners' 2000 BCS title. - Travis Haney, ESPN.com

2. These are the perils of scratching at greatness. Anything short is a killjoy. And this MSU team, it turns out, is short of greatness.

And not just by inches. But also defensive backbone.

The Spartans beat Ohio State for the Big Ten championship last season because when the momentum flipped they had the extraordinary capacity stop it cold, and then flip it back.

This MSU defense doesn't have that. It couldn't hold up against the two elite offenses and quarterbacks it faced - allowing 46 points and 491 yards to Oregon, and 49 and 568 Saturday. Its shortcomings in September were its downfall in November. - Graham Couch, Lansing State Journal

3. At the start of the fourth quarter, it began to snow. For the Buckeyes, it felt like Christmas come early. - Bill Livingston, Cleveland Plain Dealer

THIS WEEK'S WATCHABLES

1. Mississippi State at Alabama

2. Nebraska at Wisconsin

3. Florida State at Miami