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Ashton Jeanty ran for a school-record six touchdowns and Boise State overcame Georgia Southern 56-45 on Saturday in a season opener

Ashton Jeanty ran for school records of six touchdowns and 267 yards and Boise State overcame Georgia Southern 56-45 on Saturday in a season opener

Cam Ward’s arrival at Miami garnered plenty of fanfare

Owen McCown threw three touchdown passes and ran for another, and UTSA beat Kennesaw State 28-16 in the Owls’ inaugural game as a Football Bowl Subdivision member.

Freshman Jeremiah Smith caught two touchdown passes and No. 2 Ohio State overcame a sluggish start to bury Akron 52-6 in the opener for both teams Saturday

Alan Bowman threw three touchdown passes, Ollie Gordon II scored three times and No. 17 Oklahoma State ended two-time defending FCS national champion South Dakota State’s 29-game winning streak with a 44-20 victory Saturday

One program on top of the college football world

Cade McNamara threw three second-half touchdown passes and No. 25 Iowa cruised to a season-opening victory without coach Kirk Ferentz, pounding Illinois State 40-0

Carson Beck threw for 278 yards, including a pair of touchdowns, and No. 1 Georgia opened the season by stifling 14th-ranked Clemson 34-3

The NCAA blocked Oklahoma State from placing QR codes on its players’ helmets, a moved that would have allowed fans to link to a team fund and donate to the program’s name, image and likeness money pool