College football’s Week 7 is in the books. Let’s get into some numbers. And watch out for flying golf balls.
1. LSU’s Tyrion Davis-Price rushed for more yards against Florida than anyone ever, surpassing Herschel Walker’s record.
In the 49-42 win, Davis-Price finished with a school-record 287 yards and three touchdowns on 36 carries. Walker’s previous record was 238 yards for Georgia in 1980. It’s was also the fourth-most rushing yards by an SEC player against a ranked opponent.
LSU finished with 321 rushing yards as a team. It had rushed for 375 yards total in five games against FBS opponents entering Saturday.
LSU has now scored and allowed 40 points in a game five times under Ed Orgeron. It had happened only two times in school history before Orgeron. This was the highest-scoring game in the rivalry’s history.
2. After a 24-7 win at No. 2 Iowa, Purdue now has five more wins against AP top-two teams while unranked than anyone else in college football history.
Purdue’s 13 total wins against top-two teams are the fifth-most all-time, behind only Notre Dame, Ohio State, USC and Oklahoma. But the Boilermakers hadn’t beaten any ranked team on the road since Oct. 18, 2003, which had been the longest drought in the Power 5.
In the win, Purdue receiver David Bell had 11 catches for 240 yards and a touchdown. The 240 yards are the most by any player in Kinnick Stadium history, surpassing Tulsa’s Dan Bitson’s 235 in 1989.
3. Iowa’s seven points were the fewest by a top-two team at home against an unranked team since Texas against SMU in 1980.
