It’s unusual to have high-scoring games — call them basketball scores — this late in the college football season, because teams usually are facing tougher defenses belonging to conference foes by this point in the year. Then again, not many defenses get to be as porous as Michigan’s this year.
Basketball Scores Break Out In Ann Arbor, All Over College Football Landscape
Michigan and Illinois staged today's best shootout, a loopy, 67-65 triple overtime thriller that included 0.7 miles of total offense, a new Michigan receiving record by Roy Roundtree, and an extended cameo by Tate Forcier.
Junior Hemingway, hero of the third overtime thanks to a brilliant catch on a ball that caromed off two Illinois defenders, summed Michigan's receiving corps' jealousy of Roundtree up nicely:
Hemingway on Roundtree’s big day: we were like, dang, can we get some??That works for the day in general, too.
Auburn put the Cam Newton NCAA investigation storyline behind it and dumped Chattanooga 62-24; Newton accounted for five touchdowns in the win. Florida and Georgia both scored 55 points in routs of overmatched foes: the Gators put up 34 points in the second quarter against Vanderbilt, while the Bulldogs racked up 35 in their second quarter against Idaho State.
And even a team with a mighty basketball program, Duke, got in on the action. The Blue Devils have an offense revving now, beating Virginia 55-48 today and scoring 89 points in the past two weeks. Eat your heart out, Coach K.
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