Anthony Colandrea passed for 275 yards and three touchdowns and ran for a fourth, Jamal Rule ran for 122 yards and scored three times, and Nebraska pulled away from Ohio in the fourth quarter in a 49-21 victory on Saturday. Colandrea, the UNLV transfer m aking his first start for the Cornhuskers, led five straight touchdown drives to turn a close game into a blowout. Rule became the first Nebraska freshman running back to rush for 100 yards in an opener since 2004, ending his day with an 11-yard touchdow n run.Nebraska got all it could handle for three quarters from a Bobcats team looking to get the Mid-American Conference another Big Ten pelt two days after UMass knocked off Rutgers. Ohio, which came away with points on its first three possession s, was within a missed field goal of taking the lead in the third quarter and within seven points early in the fourth after Nick Poulos' 1-yard run and 2-point conversion. Colandrea, who fumbled and threw an interception in a 17-10 Frisco Bowl loss to Oh io when he played for UNLV last season, led two long touchdown drives to put Nebraska up 14-13 at halftime. Colandrea scored from 13 yards and Nelson from 29 to make it 28-13, and after the Bobcats got within a touchdown, Mekhi Nelson caught a short pass and split four defenders on his way to a 51-yard TD. - Nebraska/AP College Football
(DS#15 QB) Sr/2027 QB Anthony Colandrea, Nebraska
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