In other Top 25 games, it was: No. 9 Virginia 52, San Jose State 14; No. 10 Arizona 31, Washington 28; No. 12 Wisconsin 24, Indiana 20; No. 14 Colorado 27, Oklahoma 25; No. 16 West Virginia 45, Navy 24; No. 18 Texas A&M 24, Kansas 21; No. 19 Southern California 35, Arizona State 24; No. 20 Arkansas 27, Kentucky 20; No. 21 Missouri 35, Northwestern State 14; and No. 22 Notre Dame 35, Stanford 17.

No. 1 Ohio St. 28, No. 13 Penn St. 9

In a six-minute span covering the second and third periods, the Buckeyes scored three TDs to pull away from the Nittany Lions (3-1, 0-1).

Linebacker Jerry Rudzinski recovered Penn State quarterback Kevin Thompson's fumble in the end zone and Joe Germaine threw a 20-yard TD pass to Michael Wiley to put Ohio State ahead 14-3 at halftime, Then, Percy King blocked Pat Pidgeon's punt, lost control of the ball in the end zone and Joe Cooper pounced on it for a score and a 21-3 lead.

AP TOP 25 Rank  Team  Record  Points 1.  Ohio St.(66)  4-0  1,746 2.  Nebraska (1)  5-0  1,640 3.  UCLA (1)  3-0  1.575 4.  Tennessee  4-0  1,541 5.  Kansas St. (2)  4-0  1,519 6.  Florida  4-1  1,326 7.  Georgia  4-0  1,313 8.  Florida St.  4-1  1,235 9.  Virginia  5-0  1,219 10.  Arizona  5-0  1,043 11.  LSU  3-1  1,010 12.  Wisconsin  5-0  937 13.  Penn St.  3-1  894 14.  Colorado  5-0  755 15.  Oregon  4-0  747 16.  West Virginia  3-1  728 17.  Virginia Tech  4-0  637 18.  Texas A&M  4-1  594 19.  Southern Cal  4-1  462 20.  Arkansas  4-0  404 21.  Missouri  3-1  288 22.  Notre Dame  3-1  274 23.  N. Carolina St.  3-1  262 24.  Syracuse  2-2  169 25.  Tulane  4-0  114

No. 2 Nebraska 24, Okla. St. 17

At Kansas City, Mo., Joe Walker's 73-yard puntreturn for a TD with 7:29 left broke a 17-17 game,but the Cowboys (2-2, 11 Big 12) nearly forced OT.

On fourth-and-4 at the Huskers 12 with 14seconds left, Tony Lindsay hit Sean Love with an11-yard pass. After spiking the ball to stop theclock with five seconds left, Simmons ran up themiddle but was stopped by Rucker and a swarm ofdefenders.

"We didn't come up here for a moral victory,"Cowboys coach Bob Simmons said. "We had a goodgame plan and we though we could execute the gameplan. We came up here to win."

No. 3 UCLA 49, Wash. St. 17

At Pasadena, Calif., Cade McNown threw for 205yards and a TD and ran for another score as theBruins (3-0, 1-0 Pac-10) ran their school-recordwining streak to 13 games.

Jermaine Lewis and Keith Brown each ran for twoTDs UCLA avenged last year's 37-24 the Cougars(3-2, 0-2).

No. 4 Tennessee 17, Auburn 9

At Auburn, Ala., Shaun Ellis returned aninterception 90 yards for a TD and the Vols (4-0,2-0 SEC) capitalized on three Tigers' turnovers towin the rematch of last year's SEC title game.Auburn (1-3, 1-2) trailed 17-0.

No. 6 Florida 16, Alabama 10

At Tuscaloosa, Ala., Travis McGriff caught ninepasses for 213 yards, including a 32-yard TD fromJesse Palmer, for the Gators (4-1, 2-1 SEC).Alabama (2-2, 1-1) was at the Florida 34 with 19seconds left, but Tony George intercepted on thenext play.