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Penn State gets 1st win

Matt McGloin threw for 231 yards and four touchdowns Allen Robinson had five catches for 136 yards and three TDs as host Penn State overwhelmed Navy in a 34-7 win yesterday for rookie coach Bill O'Brien's first career victory.

OSU recovers in time

Braxton Miller lofted a 72-yard touchdown pass to an all-alone Devin Smith with 3:26 left and Christian Bryant snuffed out Cal's last chance with an interception to power the 12th-ranked Buckeyes to a 35-28 win.

Harvard barely dented

An academic cheating scandal at Harvard that has staggered the athletic department and cost the Crimson its basketball co-captains did not take much of a toll on the football team.

All of the football team's starters and at least 105 players on the 119-man roster were in uniform yesterday, as Treavor Scales rushed for 177 yards and two touchdowns, including a 66-yard run, to help Harvard top San Diego, 28-13, in Cambridge, Mass.

Nebraska coach ill

Nebraska coach Bo Pelini was taken by ambulance to a hospital while his Cornhuskers were in the middle of a 42-13 victory over Arkansas State in Lincoln. Pelini said in a statement after the game that he had precautionary tests that "checked out just fine." He said that he planned to go to work Sunday. There was no word on the nature of Pelini's symptoms.

Big 12 debut for TCU

Casey Pachall threw for 335 yards and two touchdowns, both of them to Brandon Carter, and No. 16 TCU overcame four turnovers in a 20-6 victory over host Kansas for the Horned Frogs' first Big 12 victory. Carter had eight catches for 141 yards, and Waymon James had 99 yards rushing for the Horned Frogs (2-0, 1-0), who pushed the nation's longest win streak to 10 games.

-- AP