No. 1 Miami Routs Rutgers

Miami quarterback Ken Dorsey spent the fourth quarter pacing the sideline with a towel draped over his head. All Dorsey had left to do was wait for next week’s game against No. 15 Washington.

Dorsey threw for 315 yards and two touchdowns as the top-ranked Miami Hurricanes overcame several early miscues in sloppy conditions and hammered Rutgers, 61-0, Saturday at Miami.

Miami (2-0, 1-0 in the Big East) remained unbeaten in nine games against Rutgers (1-1, 0-1) and has outscored the Scarlet Knights, 180-6, the last three years.

Rutgers Coach Greg Schiano, Miami’s defensive coordinator the last two years, didn’t have the players to stop the trend Saturday. It didn’t help that his team had eight fumbles and lost five in a steady rain.

Miami, playing its first game as the No. 1 team in almost nine years, scored on offense, defense and special teams to improve to 22-5 all-time as the top-ranked team.

The Hurricanes racked up 542 yards of offense and held the Scarlet Knights to 126 total yards.

Dorsey was 14-of-25 passing for 275 yards with an interception.

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In other games involving Big East teams:

Keith Burnell ran for 74 yards and a touchdown in his first career start and No. 9 Virginia Tech rushed for 271 yards in a 31-0 victory over Western Michigan at Blacksburg, Va. Grant Noel was 13 for 25 for 144 yards, hitting fullback Doug Easlick for a 22-yard touchdown pass late in the third quarter for Easlick’s first career reception and TD. Kevin Jones and Wayne Ward combined for 125 yards rushing, and fullback Jarrett Ferguson added 35 yards and a TD against Western Michigan (1-1) in the first meeting between the teams. ... James Mungro rushed for 122 yards and two touchdowns and backup quarterback R.J. Anderson helped rally Syracuse to a 21-10 victory over Central Florida at Syracuse, N.Y. ... Avon Cobourne rushed for 173 yards and scored twice in the fourth quarter to lead West Virginia to a 20-3 victory over Ohio at Morgantown, W.Va.

Atlantic Coast

Chris Rix passed for a touchdown, somersaulted for another and set up three more scores as No. 6 Florida State beat Alabama Birmingham, 29-7, at Tallahassee, Fla.

Rix gave the Seminoles a 13-0 lead with just over six minutes left in the half when he scored on a spectacular two-yard forward flip. The redshirt freshman quarterback tried to hurdle into the end zone and was hit as he went airborne, doing a 360-degree flip and landing on his feet for the score.

Making just his second collegiate start, Rix completed 15 of 23 passes for 246 yards and added a team-high 52 yards rushing, becoming the first Florida State quarterback to lead the team in rushing since Charlie Ward in 1993 at Notre Dame.

Florida State (2-0), which next plays Georgia Tech, extended its home winning streak to 36 games.

In other games involving Atlantic Coast Conference teams:

George Godsey threw for two touchdowns and ran for another during an abbreviated performance Saturday as No. 10 Georgia Tech handed woeful Navy its worst loss ever, 70-7, at Annapolis, Md. ... Woody Dantzler threw two touchdown passes to little-used J.J. McKelvey as No. 20 Clemson beat Wofford, 38-14, at Clemson, S.C. ... Bruce Perry ran for 133 yards and three touchdowns as Maryland recorded its second consecutive blowout victory under first-year Coach Ralph Friedgen, beating Eastern Michigan, 50-3, at College Park, Md. ... Fabian Davis and John Stone scored third-quarter touchdowns to lead Wake Forest over Division I-AA nemesis Appalachian State, 20-10, at Winston-Salem, N.C. ... Greg Gatlin intercepted D. Bryant’s pass with 24 seconds left at Houston as Rice held off two rallies in the final two minutes to hand Duke its 14th consecutive loss, 15-13.

Conference USA

Freshman backup quarterback Gino Guiguldi threw three touchdowns passes, including the game-winning 12-yarder to Tye Keith with seven seconds left, to lead Cincinnati past Army, 24-21, at West Point, N.Y.

Mountain West

Duan Ruff ran for 106 yards, 91 in the second half, as Colorado State defeated Nevada, 35-18, at Fort Collins, Colo. ... Kliff Kingsbury threw for 364 yards and three touchdowns and Ivory McCann returned a kickoff 100-plus yards as Texas Tech beat New Mexico, 42-30, in its season opener at Lubbock, Texas.

Western Athletic

Charlie Owens returned a fumble 36 yards for a touchdown and took an interception 20 yards to the one, and LaMarcus McDonald recovered a fumble in the end zone as Texas Christian defeated Southern Methodist, 38-10, at Dallas. ... Sherman Austin ran for three touchdowns as Texas El Pasodefeated Texas Southern, 52-6, at El Paso. Austin had scoring runs of eight, 15 and five yards.