A week after torching Troy for 405 yards and 5 TDs, Arkansas QB Ryan Mallett is at it again, slicing up Mississippi State for 310 yards and another 5 scores (1 INT) in a 42-21 victory. The two-week barrage raises his season total to 28 (against just 5 interceptions), but more importantly, after dropping consecutive October contests to Florida and Ole Miss, the Razorbacks head to Baton Rouge next weekend having scored 194 points over their past four games, all wins. Like Mallett, the team’s top three receivers this season are just sophomores, but as Arkansas Expats points out, because the quarterback is a third-year sophomore (sitting out a year after transferring from Michigan), he is eligible to turn pro after this season. If he stays, Bobby Petrino’s Razorbacks will be dangerous in next year’s SEC West.
Mallett, Keenum Pass For 5 TDs Apiece
↵Not to be outdone, Houston quarterback Case Keenum continued his Heisman push with 5 touchdowns of his own, on 29-39 passing for 405 yards (0 turnovers), leading the Cougars to a 55-14 blowout of Memphis. Today’s quintuplet gives the junior 16 over his last 4 games, and a nation-best 36 on the year, against just 6 INTs. With three games left -- versus Rice, the Conference USA championship game, and a bowl game -- Keenum should easily surpass 40 touchdowns and could challenge the 50 TD mark that led the nation a year ago. Thrown by... Sam Bradford, who won the Heisman Trophy.
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