Nile Kinnick’s 75-year-old Big Ten record broken

I've decided to do something a little different on Sundays this college football season. It's called Fun With Numbers, and it will have one number relevant for every Big Ten football team's games of that weekend.

Since Purdue and Ohio State didn't play until today, I'm omitting them this week. So there.

: 00 - There was no time left when true freshman quarterback Tanner Mangum's desperate 41-yard pass was caught by Mitch Matthews for a touchdown to give BYU a stunning 33-28 win over Nebraska. BYU fan/lifelong Utahn Donny Osmond of Donny and Marie fame tweeted this: 'The most amazing @BYU win I've ever seen.”

3

- Rutgers receiver Leontee Carroo was suspended for the first half of the Scarlet Knight's game against Norfolk State for violating team curfew. In the third quarter, he caught three passes for touchdowns. They were his only three catches of the day. They went 55, 56 and 18 yards. He is the school's new leader in career TD catches with 22.

16

- No Stanford play went for more than 16 yards in the 21st-ranked Cardinal's 16-6 loss at Northwestern. The Wildcats were double-digit underdogs.

20

- Iowa kicker Marshall Koehn outrushed Illinois State quarterback Tre Roberson by 20 yards in Iowa's 31-14 win over the Redbirds. Koehn had one carry for 8 yards on a fake field goal. Roberson had 12 rushes for minus-12 yards, thanks to getting sacked five times for losses of 37 yards. The NCAA has a stupid rule that getting sacked costs quarterbacks rushing yards instead of costing their teams passing yards, like the NFL.

23

- Minnesota held TCU to 23 points, its lowest point total since it beat Iowa State 21-17 in the 10th game of the 2013 season. The problem for the Gophers is they only scored 17 against the Horned Frogs.

40

- Wisconsin was limited to 40 rushing yards on 21 carries in its 35-17 loss to Alabama in Arlington, Texas. The Badgers rushed for 400 yards in their previous game against an SEC team from Alabama. That also happened to be the Badgers' previous game, their 34-31 overtime win over Auburn in the Outback Bowl.

145

- Kent State needed an extra night of lodging for its traveling party of 145 after lightning and thunderstorms pushed its game at Illinois from Friday night to Saturday afternoon. Then the Golden Flashes (ironic name, huh?) got drenched by the Fighting Illini, 52-3.

180

- Penn State had 180 yards in its 27-10 debacle of a loss at Temple. It was the Nittany Lions' lowest yardage total since it mustered just 163 yards in its 6-4 loss to Iowa in 2004.

233

- Maryland's Will Likely broke Nile Kinnick's Big Ten record for punt return yards in a game. Likely had eight returns for 233 yards (and two kickoff returns for 63 yards). Kinnick had nine punt returns for 201 yards in a 1939 game. He won the Heisman Trophy that year.

365

- Michigan State allowed 365 passing yards to Western Michigan in the Spartans' 37-24 win at WMU on Friday night. But MSU did sack Broncos quarterback Zach Terrell seven times. He literally had a lot ups and downs.

1,256

- That's the number of the total yards in Indiana's 48-47 win over Southern Illinois. The Salukis got 659 of those yards, but they went for a 2-point conversion after scoring a touchdown with 40 seconds left in the game, failed on a pass play, and joined Illinois State, Youngstown State (Pittsburgh), Missouri State (Memphis), South Dakota State (Kansas State) and Northern Iowa (Iowa State) as Missouri Valley Conference teams that fell to FBS clubs. But South Dakota State did win at Kansas, and North Dakota vanquished Wyoming.

$3,000 - An anonymous Michigan fan left a Salt Lake City waitress a $3,000 tip for a tab of $505 a few hours after the Wolverines' 24-17 defeat at Utah. The tipper wrote @GOBLUE on the merchant's copy of the bill.

Comments: mike.hlas@thegazette.com