Oklahoma St. 40, Tulsa 21.
TULSA, Okla. - Chuba Hubbard rushed for a career-high 256 yards and three touchdowns, and Oklahoma State defeated Tulsa 40-21 on Saturday afternoon.
Hubbard ripped off touchdown runs of 75 and 30 yards in the first four minutes of the game. His first score came on the first play from scrimmage, ten seconds into the game.
The Cowboys (3-0) opened up a 17-0 lead before Tulsa recovered. The Golden Hurricane took a 21-20 lead on a 1-yard touchdown run by Shamari Brooks late in the first half.
Oklahoma State star receiver Tylan Wallace was bottled up for much of the game, but he broke loose for a 90-yard touchdown reception late in the third quarter - the third longest scoring connection in school history - to give the Cowboys a 33-21 lead. He finished with five catches for 118 yards.
It was Oklahoma State's first game since billionaire booster T. Boone Pickens died on Wednesday. He donated more than $650 million to the school, and the football stadium is named for him. The Cowboys wore stickers with "Boone" on the back of their helmets in his honor.
Brooks ran for 107 yards and two touchdowns and Keylon Stokes had seven catches for 109 yards and a score for Tulsa (1-2).
Kendall throws 3 TDs, West Virginia beats NC State 44-27
MORGANTOWN, W.Va. - Austin Kendall and Kennedy McKoy made sure that West Virginia didn't repeat a miserable offensive showing from its last game.
Kendall threw three touchdown passes to lead West Virginia to a 44-27 victory over North Carolina State on Saturday.
McKoy helped West Virginia's run game break out of a slump with a pair of scores, and the Mountaineers (2-1) had by far their highest offensive production of the season one week after looking lethargic in a 38-7 loss at Missouri.
"For us to play winning football, we have to identity ourselves as a blue-collar unit," West Virginia coach Neal Brown said. "We have to outwork people, we have to outphysical people. And we embraced that this week. I think what you saw on that field today was a product of that."
Kendall threw two interceptions against Missouri and had another pick on Saturday but overcame that with mostly solid decisions. Kendall had first-half TD tosses of 20 and 13 yards. His 25-yard run early in the fourth quarter set up his 9-yard scoring toss to freshman Ali Jennings for a 38-27 lead.
Kendall went 27 of 40 for 272 yards.
West Virginia broke a 21-21 halftime tie with the help of its special teams and defense, which had been criticized by the coaching staff for 22 missed tackles a week ago.
North Carolina State (2-1) managed just 97 yards of offense in the second half. Sophomore Matthew McKay threw a first-quarter touchdown pass but was harassed all game in his first road start.
McKay finished 23 of 48 for 207 yards. He was 9 of 24 for 72 yards after halftime.
West Virginia's McKoy had a 23-yard TD run in the first quarter and scored from 5 yards out in the third after Logan Thimons blocked a North Carolina State punt at the 12.
After combining for 27 points in its first two games, West Virginia finished with 445 yards of offense Saturday and avoided its worst three-game start to a season in 11 years.
"I told them, I said, they got embarrassed last week at Missouri. You're going to get their best," said North Carolina State coach Dave Doeren. "They're going to come home and not want to show that to their fans. I knew that was coming. I told them that was coming."