Box Scorin' looks at weird, wild and prolific numbers from Saturday's action.

• Nevada piled up 574 yards on 61 carries in a 63-20 obliteration of New Mexico State, the highest single-game rushing total for any team this season, and became the first team in Division I-A history to produce three different 1,000-yard rushers in the same year, Vai Taua, Colin Kaepernick and Luke Lippincott. The Wolf Pack now own the top four single-game rushing performances of the year and lead the nation in rushing average by almost 60 yards per game over No. 2 Georgia Tech; they're 24 yards per game ahead of the best average of the decade (Nebraska in 2000). The Pack's 7.8 yards per carry for the season is also on pace to obliterate the best number of the decade (6.7 per carry by West Virginia in 2006) by more than a full yard.

On a related note, Nevada's eighth straight win represents its best streak in 18 years, which goes on the line Friday night at undefeated Boise State. Winner takes the WAC championship.

• Beleaguered Syracuse quarterback Greg Paulus completed 13 of 16 passes for 142 yards and a touchdown with no interceptions in his final home game, a 31-13 romp over Rutgers for Doug Marrone's first Big East win as the Orange's head coach.

• Texas Tech rang up 549 total yards in its 41-13 win over Oklahoma, almost 200 yards more than OU has allowed in any other game this year and one yard shy of the highest single-game total against the Sooners in Bob Stoops' 11-year tenure (Kansas State hit 550 last October). It was also the first time an OU defense under Stoops allowed 40 points to a team ranked outside of the top 12 at kickoff.

• Houston scored touchdowns on eight of its first nine possessions, seven of them on drives covering at least 65 yards, in a 55-14 win over lame-duck Memphis. UH quarterback Case Keenum was his typically prolific self with 405 yards passing, five touchdowns and no interceptions, and the Cougars rolled up 689 total yards despite touching the ball only once (and punting) in the fourth quarter. Nine different Houston receivers had at least three receptions for the game.

• Northwestern held Wisconsin to 99 yards rushing, 100 yards below the Badgers' season average, in the Wildcats' 33-31 upset in Evanston to secure Northwestern's first back-to-back eight-win seasons since 1994-95. Wildcat quarterback Mike Kafka passed for 326 yards, a new career high against Big Ten defenses, and two touchdowns in the win.

• North Carolina safety Deunta Williams intercepted three passes in the Tar Heels' 31-13 win at Boston College, following teammate Kendric Burney's three-interception effort in last week's win at Miami. For his part, Burney returned his only pick at B.C. for a touchdown in the first quarter, the second week in a row he's brought back an interception for a score. For the game, quarterbacks T.J. Yates, David Shinskie and Marc Marscovetra combined to throw eight interceptions between them, leading to 27 of the teams' 44 points in the UNC win.

• Texas A&M rushed for 375 yards, including a 97-yard touchdown run by true freshman Christine Michael, in its 38-3 win over Baylor, thereby avoiding its second consecutive finish in the Big 12 South cellar.

• Missouri receivers Danario Alexander and Jerrell Jackson combined for 19 catches for 315 yards with touchdown grabs of 63 and 70 yards, respectively, on back-to-back drives in the third quarter of the Tigers' 34-24 win over Iowa State. Alexander's 11 grabs against ISU gives him 42 receptions for 710 yards and seven touchdowns in the last four games.

• Kansas State rushed for 140 yards on 4.1 yards per carry at Nebraska, the best performance on the ground against the Husker defense this season, but didn't score a touchdown in a 17-3 loss.

• Georgia outgained Kentucky by 228 yards but was outscored 28-7 in the second half of the Wildcats' 34-27 win in Athens. Four of Kentucky's five touchdown drives began in Bulldog territory.

• Texas quarterback Colt McCoy hit 32 of 41 passes for 396 yards and four touchdowns in the Longhorns' 51-20 over Kansas, the fifth straight game and the ninth game this season in which McCoy has completed at least two-thirds of his passes -- but the first time he's topped 300 yards against a Big 12 defense.

• Penn State quarterback Daryll Clark passed for 310 yards and four touchdowns in the Nittany Lions' 42-14 rout over Michigan State, the second straight year Clark has exceeded 300 yards with four TD passes against the Spartans. The only other 300-yard passing effort of Clark's career was in this year's season opener against Akron.

• With leading rusher Darius Marshall on the sideline, Marshall still produced a pair of 100-yard rushers, Martin Ward and Terrell Edwards-Maye, in a 34-31 win over SMU that will likely cost the Mustangs a trip to the C-USA Championship game.

• New Mexico set a new season high with 467 total yards in its first win of the season, a 29-27 escape against Colorado State that wasn't decided until a 27-yard field goal by James Aho for the winning points with 12 seconds to play. The loss was the eighth in a row for the Rams after a 3-0 start that included upset wins over Colorado and Nevada.

• Southern Miss quarterback Martevious Young hit Johdrick Morris for a 60-yard scoring strike on the Eagles' first play of the game and added three more touchdown passes -- two of them covering 33 and 95 yards, respectively, to DeAndre Brown -- in USM's wild 44-34 win over Tulsa. The Eagles and Hurricane combined for 62 points in the first half but just 16 points in the second.