COLLEGE FOOTBALL : BIG EIGHT ROUNDUP : Reserve Quarterback Leads Oklahoma Rout

Backup quarterback Garrick McGee threw two touchdown passes and ran for a score and Jeff Frazier had a late 96-yard touchdown run as No. 10 Oklahoma beat North Texas, 51-10, on Saturday at Norman, Okla., in a tuneup for next week’s showdown with No. 7 Colorado.

Oklahoma (3-0) scored 34 second-half points in wearing down outmanned North Texas (1-3), which is in its first year as a Division I school.

“It goes without saying the first half was not a half we’ll write home about,” Oklahoma Coach Howard Schnellenberger said. “They came out and played extremely well, so well we didn’t do much from an offensive standpoint.”

North Texas trailed, 17-10, at halftime, and if not for a near interception that resulted in a completion and kept a Sooner scoring drive alive, the Eagles would have made things interesting for a little longer.

But Oklahoma’s defense dominated the Eagles and bought time until the offense could get going. The Sooners committed three turnovers in a sloppy first half that saw each team give up a safety, including North Texas’ snap through the end zone on a punt when the punter wasn’t even on the field.

Frazier’s run came with just under five minutes left in the game. It tied him with Buck McPhail for the longest run in school history; McPhail went 96 against Kansas State in 1951.

The Sooners scored on three of their first four possessions in the second half.

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Iowa St. 57, Nevada Las Vegas 30--Troy Davis scored five touchdowns to tie a school record and became the first Iowa State player to run for more than 300 yards as the Cyclones beat the Rebels in a nonconference game at Ames, Iowa.

Davis, the nation’s leading rusher, carried 36 times for 302 yards in less than three quarters to break the school record of 291 yards he set in this year’s opener against Ohio University.

The 5-foot-8, 185-pound sophomore scored on runs of 20, eight and 66 yards as Iowa State (2-2) took a 37-8 halftime lead against the dispirited Rebels (1-3).

No. 19 Kansas State 67, Akron 0--Matt Miller threw a school-record three touchdown passes in the first quarter as the Wildcats (3-0) routed the Zips (0-3) at Manhattan, Kan., giving Coach Bill Snyder a tie for most victories in school history.

Snyder, in his seventh season, is 39-31-1 at Kansas State. Mike Ahearn was 39-12 from 1905-10. Snyder took over the Kansas State program with the Wildcats on a 1-36-1 streak, and is 21-5-1 since 1993. The Wildcats have been to bowls in each of the past two seasons.

Missouri 31, Northeast Louisiana 22--Brock Olivo scored three first-half touchdowns and rushed for a career-high 222 yards on 38 carries as the Tigers closed out their nonconference schedule by beating the Indians at Columbia, Mo.

Olivo scored on runs of 16, one and three yards, scored on a conversion pass and had 127 yards at the half, two short of his previous season high, as Missouri (2-2) took a 28-7 lead over Northeast Louisiana (1-3).

Olivo is only the third player in school history to top 200 yards and the second sophomore to reach 1,000 career yards, joining Darrell Wallace.

Kansas 20, Houston 13--June Henley’s one-yard touchdown vault following Jason Thoren’s interception lifted the Jayhawks (4-0) to a nonconference victory over the Cougars (0-4) at Lawrence, Kan.