Freshman quarterback Carter Smith came off the bench to run for one touchdown and direct a second-half comeback as host Wisconsin snapped a six-game losing streak with a 13-10 upset of No. 23 Washington on Saturday during a snowy Big Ten matchup in Madison, Wis.

Smith, making his debut after starter Danny O’Neil was injured in the first quarter, completed just 3 of 12 passes for 8 yards but ran for 47 yards on 15 carries.

Wisconsin (3-6, 1-5 Big Ten) tied it 10-10 with 6:26 left in the third quarter after recovering a fumble by Washington quarterback Demond Williams Jr. on a strip sack at the Huskies’ 7-yard line. Smith tied it with a 2-yard keeper off the left side.

Washington (6-3, 3-3) lost 20 yards on its next possession with a sack and three penalties, then a 12-yard punt return gave Wisconsin the ball at the Huskies’ 36. Nathanial Vakos converted the short field into a 32-yard field goal and a 13-10 lead with 1:58 left in the third.

Wisconsin preserved the lead by blocking Grady Gross’s 50-yard field goal attempt with just under 11 minutes remaining.

The Huskies got the ball back after a punt at their own 13-yard line with 3:03 left, but Williams was stopped for a loss on fourth-and-6 from the Washington 41 with just over a minute remaining.

Williams completed 20 of 32 passes for 134 yards with one touchdown and one interception and ran for a team-high 61 yards.

Wisconsin took a 3-0 lead early in the second quarter on Vakos’ 42-yard field goal.

The Huskies answered on the ensuing possession when Williams scampered 36 yards on a keeper to help set up Gross’ 42-yard field goal.

O’Neil, back as the starter in Wisconsin’s quarterback carousel, was injured midway through the first quarter after a 21-yard run and carted off the field with what was announced as a lower-body injury.

Smith came on and continued the drive, but was stopped short on fourth-and-2 from the Washington 6-yard line.

Washington went in front 10-3 after getting the ball at the Wisconsin 1-yard line on a blocked punt. Williams hit Denzel Boston with a 1-yard scoring pass with 7:44 left in the first half.

The Huskies threatened again on their next possession, but Williams was picked off in the end zone by Ricardo Hallman.

–Field Level Media

Gio Lopez threw two second-half touchdown passes and North Carolina’s defense was in control for most of the game in a 20-15 victory against Stanford on Saturday in Chapel Hill, N.C.

Jordan Shipp made five catches for 83 yards and a touchdown, as the Tar Heels (4-5, 2-3 Atlantic Coast Conference) won back-to-back games. They picked up their first ACC home victory of the season.

Lopez was 18-for-25 for 203 yards for a North Carolina offense that was limited to 50 rushing yards.

Redshirt freshman Elijah Brown, making his first start, was 27-for-39 for 284 yards with a touchdown and an interception for Stanford (3-7, 2-5), which dropped its third game in a row. Brown was sacked nine times, while Micah Ford rushed for 68 yards on 17 carries.

Stanford’s second fourth-quarter touchdown came with 1:48 left on Brown’s 24-yard toss to CJ Williams. The Cardinal fumbled on a failed two-point conversion play.

Stanford regained possession at its own 20-yard line with 42 seconds remaining and out of timeouts following a North Carolina punt. However, a sack pretty much ended it.

Earlier, North Carolina drove 75 yards to begin the second half, using 12 plays to break a tie on Lopez’s 20-yard pass to Davion Gause. The Tar Heels didn’t have a possession longer than six plays in the first half.

Following Khmori House’s interception, Rece Verhoff booted a 48-yard field goal in the opening minute of the fourth quarter for a 13-3 lead.

Lopez then threw a 55-yard touchdown pass to Shipp, who had his career-long reception.

Stanford scored its first touchdown on the ensuing possession on Cole Tabb’s 1-yard run capping a 75-yard march. A two-point conversion pass failed.

While the score was tied 3-3 at the half, the Tar Heels already had collected six sacks, including three on the first three times Brown dropped back to pass.

North Carolina’s first-half sack total was double the number of the team’s three first downs on offense.

Emmet Kenney, who missed from 41 yards in the second quarter, was good from 38 yards away to end the first half as the Cardinal ran off the final 4:27 of the half with a 16-play drive.

North Carolina won despite a season-high 11 penalties.

–Field Level Media

Diego Pavia’s third touchdown pass, a 4-yarder to Cole Spence, lifted No. 16 Vanderbilt to a 45-38 overtime win over Auburn on Saturday in Nashville, Tenn.

Vanderbilt (8-2, 4-2 SEC) then stopped Auburn on fourth-and-7 with an incomplete pass.

Pavia went 25 of 33 for 377 passing yards and rushed for 112 on 18 carries with a score. Tre Richardson caught three passes for 124 yards and a TD. Eli Stowers had 12 receptions for 122 yards.

In its first game under interim coach D.J. Durkin, who replaced the fired Hugh Freeze, Auburn (4-6, 1-6) saw quarterback Ashton Daniels go 31 of 44 for 353 yards and two TDs. He carried 18 times for 89 yards and two scores.

Jeremiah Cobb rushed for 115 yards on 16 carries.

Cam Coleman had 143 yards on 10 catches, and Eric Singleton Jr. caught 11 passes for 102 yards. Both had touchdowns.

On Auburn’s first drive, Daniels fired a 14-yard slant to Singleton for a 7-0 lead with 5:45 left in the first quarter.

Brock Taylor hit a 23-yard field goal at 13:30 after the Tigers went 70 yards to open the second, but Daniels led Auburn on another impressive series that the signal caller capped with an 11-yard keeper for a 14-3 lead.

Keldric Faulk’s fumble recovery set up Auburn’s 57-yard series that led to Alex McPherson’s 26-yard boot with 1:52 left in the half.

However, Vanderbilt’s subsequent 37-second drive — three plays, 75 yards — cut it to 17-10 after Pavia connected with Junior Sherrill on a 20-yard strike.

Auburn managed one last offensive push, and McPherson drilled a 47-yarder for a 20-10 halftime edge.

Pavia helped the Commodores start strong with a 19-yard run on their first series of the second half. Sedrick Alexander’s 4-yard run trimmed it to 20-17.

McPherson’s third field goal, a 38-yarder at 9:15, made it a six-point game, but Richardson grabbed a 57-yard score from Pavia as the home team reclaimed the lead, 24-23, at 7:37 of the third.

Daniels’ dazzling dash around the left end from 16 yards out gave Auburn a 30-24 lead with 1:11 left in the third, but Pavia scored from 7 yards for a 31-30 lead early in the fourth before Alexander’s second score made it 38-30.

However, Coleman made a pair of spectacular, one-handed catches for a TD and a two-point conversion to knot it 38-all with 5:27 left.

–Field Level Media

Aiden Flora returned a punt 79 yards for a touchdown with 6:32 left to help lead Iowa State to a 20-17 win over TCU on Saturday in Fort Worth, Texas.

The win snapped a four-game losing streak for the Cyclones (6-4, 3-4 Big 12), while the loss virtually eliminated TCU (6-3, 3-3) from the Big 12 race.

TCU got the ball back in the final minute, but the Horned Frogs couldn’t get anything going and their two-game winning streak was snapped.

TCU trailed for much of the game before taking the lead with a long drive to start the second half.

Josh Hoover capped off the 15-play, nearly six-minute drive with a 14-yard touchdown pass to Jordan Dwyer to put the Horned Frogs up 10-6.

After Bud Clark’s interception – his second of the game – gave TCU the ball back, the Horned Frogs then ripped off another long drive, extending the lead to 17-6 on Trent Battle’s 2-yard touchdown run early in the fourth quarter.

The Cyclones weren’t going away, though, as quarterback Rocco Becht and running back Carson Hansen teamed up to inject some life into an Iowa State offense that had been stagnant since an early touchdown drive.

On third-and-4 early in the drive, Becht scrambled for 25 yards to keep the drive alive, and Hansen followed with a 24-yard run on the next play.

Hansen eventually finished off the drive with a 1-yard run to pull the Cyclones within five after the two-point conversion failed.

Iowa State’s defense forced a quick three-and-out, and Flora sliced through the middle of the field for his first career punt-return touchdown.

The Horned Frogs trailed 6-3 late in the first half when Clark picked off Becht to give TCU a chance to tie the game or take the lead going into the break.

Josh Hoover hit a pair of long passes to quickly drive to the brink of the Iowa State 10, but Nate McCashland’s 25-yard field goal try was no good to keep Iowa State on top going into halftime.

Hansen ran for 108 yards on 28 carries, his third consecutive 100-yard game.

TCU outgained the Cyclones 432-272, including 319 passing yards from Hoover, who threw a touchdown and two interceptions.

Dwyer had 11 catches for 108 yards while Eric McAlister had 11 catches for 107 yards in the loss.

The loss was TCU’s first at home in over 13 months.

–Field Level Media

Quincy Craig scored on a 24-yard touchdown run untouched with 39 seconds left to give Arizona a 24-20 Big 12 victory over Kansas on Saturday in Tucson, Ariz.

Craig’s run followed his 18-yard burst and capped an 80-yard drive that took eight plays and two minutes as Arizona (6-3, 3-3) became bowl-eligible with the victory.

Kansas (5-5, 3-4 Big 12) attempted a Hail Mary pass at the end but Jalon Daniels’ pass from the Jayhawks’ 47-yard line fell incomplete near the goal line as time expired.

Kansas sacked Arizona quarterback Noah Fifita five times and limited Arizona to less than 100 yards rushing going into the fourth quarter. The Wildcats reeled off 78 of their 165 rushing yards rushing in the final quarter as they erased a 20-17 deficit.

Fifita completed 16 of 31 passes for 158 yards with two touchdowns. His latter touchdown pass, an 8-yard connection to Craig with 23 seconds left in the first half, tied him with Nick Foles and Willie Tuitama for Arizona’s career record of 67 touchdown passes.

Sam Olson caught a 16-yard touchdown pass from Fifita with 7:15 left in the first quarter before Arizona’s offense struggled and Kansas started to produce.

Kansas’ last three possessions of the first half featured Daniels scoring on a 1-yard run, Daniels completing a 24-yard touchdown pass to Emmanuel Henderson Jr., and Laith Marjan converting a 46-yard field goal to take a 17-7 lead at the 4:15 mark of the second.

Daniels was 15 of 29 for 199 yards with one touchdown. He also led the Jayhawks with 74 yards rushing on 14 carries.

Two plays before Craig’s touchdown catch at the end of the first half, Kansas’ Leroy Harris III intercepted a Fifita pass and returned it 77 yards to the end zone — but the play was nullified because of a defensive holding call on Jalen Todd.

Each team scored a field goal in the third quarter with Michael Salgado-Medina converting from 41 yards to tie the game 17-17 and Marjan from 50 yards out to put Kansas back on top.

Kansas tried to put insurance points on the board in the fourth quarter. The Jayhawks converted a third-and-1 and a fourth-and-1 during their 67-yard drive that started with 9:24 left, but it ended on Marjan’s missed 30-yard field-goal attempt with 2:39 remaining.

–Field Level Media