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11/07/22 - Tanner Mordecai, rSr/2024, Wisconsin + More +

NOV 7 AMERICAN ATHLETIC CONFERENCE OFFENSIVE PLAYER OF THE WEEK: Tanner Mordecai, Sr., QB, SMU,...Mordecai added to the SMU, American Athletic Conference and NCAA record books in the Mustangs' 77-63 win against Houston. He went 28 of 37 for 379 yards and a school-and conference-record nine touchdown passes with one rushing TD to figure in 10 total touchdowns. Mordecai tied an NCAA record with seven first-half touchdown passes and became the first player in FBS history with seven touchdown passes and a touchdown run in a half. Mordecai was also named as the Walter Camp National Player of the Week. - American Athletic Conference Football

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QB Tanner Mordecai, Wisconsin
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11/06/22 - Tanner Mordecai, rSr/2024, Wisconsin + More +

NOV 6 WALTER CAMP NATIONAL OFFENSIVE PLAYER OF THE WEEK: TANNER MORDECAI, SMU, Senior, Quarterback, Waco, TX/Midway HS,...Tanner Mordecai set a school record and tied a Football Bowl Subdivision record with nine touchdown passes as SMU outlasted Houston, 77-63. It was the highest scoring regulation game in FBS history. Mordecai had seven touchdown passes in the first half, and finished the game completing 28-of-37 for 379 yards. He also added 54 rushing yards and one touchdown. With the victory, SMU improved to 5-4. Notes: Tanner Mordecai is the fifth SMU player to earn Walter Camp National Player of Week honors since the award started in 2004, and the first since former Mustang quarterback Shane Buechele (Oct. 20, 2019). - The Walter Camp Football Foundation

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QB Tanner Mordecai, Wisconsin
News Source: The Walter Camp Football Foundation
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11/05/22 - Tanner Mordecai, rSr/2024, Wisconsin + More +

Tanner Mordecai set a school record with nine touchdown passes - seven coming in the first half - and SMU's offense exploded for a 77-63 win over Houston on Saturday. As a point of reference, Houston's men's basketball team beat SMU's 75-61 on Feb. 27. On the gridiron, their combined 140 points broke the NCAA single-scoring game record for two teams in regulation when Pitt beat Syracuse 76-61 on Nov. 26, 2016 to combine for 137 points. SMU reached school records with 77 points in a game, 11-total touchdowns, nine passing scored and 433 total yards in the first half.

The Mustangs (5-4, 3-2 American Athletic Conference) scored touchdowns on their first nine drives of the game and didn't punt until their 10th drive with 5:30 left before the end of the third quarter. Mordecai also had a 2-yard touchdown run with 8:43 before halftime for a 35-21 lead. The Mustangs needed to keep their foot on the pedal because Houston quarterback Clayton Tune did his best to keep the Cougars (5-4, 3-2) in it, throwing for seven touchdowns and running for another. Tune joined David Klingler, Jimmy Klinger and Andre Ware in Houston's seven-touchdowns-thrown-in-game club. David Klingler reached the mark on three occasions in the 1990 season and holds the all-time school record of 11 also in 1990. - SMU/AP College Football

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QB Tanner Mordecai, Wisconsin
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11/05/22 - Braelon Allen, Jr/2024, Wisconsin + More +

Isaac Guerendo ran for an 89-yard touchdown and combined with Braelon Allen for 233 yards rushing as Wisconsin defeated Maryland 23-10 on Saturday. Wisconsin (5-4, 3-3 Big Ten) improved to 3-1 under interim head coach Jim Leonhard, who was promoted from defensive coordinator after the firing of Paul Chryst last month. With rainy and windy conditions severely hindering each team's ability to throw the ball, Wisconsin's superior ground attack made the difference. Allen rushed for 119 yards on 23 carries and gave the Badgers the lead for good with a 9-yard touchdown that opened the scoring late in the first period. Guerendo ran 12 times for a career-high 114 yards, including the 89-yard score that made it 14-0 in the second quarter.

Maryland quarterback Taulia Tagovailoa entered the day having completed 72.5% of his passes to rank fourth among all Football Bowl Subdivision players, but he went 10 of 23 for just 77 yards and was sacked five times. The lone touchdown for Maryland (6-3, 3-3) came on a 5-yard completion from Tagovailoa to Tai Felton with 57 seconds left in the game. Wisconsin's Graham Mertz was 5 of 18 for 77 yards. The Badgers' defense benefited from the return of Big Ten sacks leader Nick Herbig and safety Hunter Wohler to end Maryland's string of 10 straight games in which it had scored at least 27 points. Herbig had missed Wisconsin's 35-24 victory over Purdue two weeks ago with a knee issue, while Wohler hadn't played since suffering a leg injury in the season opener. Herbig had two of Wisconsin's five sacks to increase his season total to eight. Wohler recorded Wisconsin's 15th interception of the season in the fourth quarter. Neither team got a single first down through the first five possessions of the game while dealing with the poor weather before Wisconsin broke through late in the first quarter. The rain was intermittent after the first quarter, but the wind swirled all day. - Wisconsin/AP College Football

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RB Braelon Allen, Wisconsin
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10/27/22 - Tyler Van Dyke, rSr/2025, Wisconsin + More +

Miami Hurricanes coach Mario Cristobal would not say late Wednesday morning whether quarterback Tyler Van Dyke is out for Saturday's Virginia game, amid a report that Jake Garcia will start. Cristobal, on a Zoom conference call with the media, said Van Dyke "has improved a bunch" and that "the status [for Virginia] is still unknown and we will determine that a little bit later. Jake has practiced really well so we feel confident obviously in the room. We'll have an update by Friday, closer to game time." A bit later in the call, Cristobal was asked if Van Dyke practiced this week. "Tyler has practiced very little,'' the coach said. "Jake has taken a lot of the reps. Jacurri [Brown] has taken a bunch of reps. Peyton Matocha has taken a good amount of reps as well. We're preparing everybody, with Jake taking the majority of reps thus far. "We'll see where we are by late Thursday, late Friday." - Miami Herald

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QB Tyler Van Dyke, Wisconsin
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10/24/22 - John Torchio, rSr/2023, Wisconsin + More +

OCT 24 BIG TEN DEFENSIVE PLAYER OF THE WEEK: John Torchio, Wisconsin, S - Sr. - Lafayette, Calif. - Campolindo,...Picked off a pair of passes in Wisconsin's win over Purdue, including a first-quarter interception that he returned for a touchdown...The first Badger to record two interceptions and return one for a score in the same game since Natrell Jamerson did so against Northwestern in 2016...Totaled a career-high 10 tackles, a team high in the win...The three-time Academic All-Big Ten honoree earns the first Defensive Player of the Week accolade of his career...Last Wisconsin Defensive Player of the Week: Kamo'I Latu (Oct. 10, 2022). - Big Ten Football

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SS John Torchio, Wisconsin
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10/22/22 - Braelon Allen, Jr/2024, Wisconsin + More +

Graham Mertz threw for two touchdowns, Braelon Allen rushed for 113 yards and a score and Wisconsin defeated Purdue 35-24 on Saturday. John Torchio had two interceptions, including a 31-yard return for a touchdown for the Badgers (4-4, 2-3 Big Ten Conference), who rebounded from a 34-28 double overtime loss at Michigan State. The game marked the first home win for Wisconsin interim coach Jim Leonhard, who took over for Paul Chryst on Oct. 2. Allen, who surpassed 100 yards for the fifth time this season, went to the injury tent late in the third quarter with a left arm injury but returned in the fourth. Mertz went 13 of 21 for 203 yards with two touchdowns for the Badgers, who have won 16 straight games against Purdue.

Purdue's four-game winning streak was snapped and the Boilermakers (6-2, 3-2 Big Ten) fell one game behind Illinois for the lead in the Big Ten West standings. The Badgers scored on their opening drive as Mertz threw a 29-yard touchdown strike to Skyler Bell. Less than one minute later, Torchio picked off Aidan O'Connell and dashed 31 yards for a touchdown. for the score that increased Wisconsin's lead to 14-0. Mertz capped an 80-yard drive with a three-yard pass to Chimere Dike and it was 21-0 after one quarter. Allen's 14-yard touchdown made it 28-3 in the first minute of the second half. The Boilermakers capitalized on an fumble get a short field, scoring an an eight-yard pass from from O'Connell to Payne Durham. But that was quickly negated with a 54-yard burst by Isaac Guerendo 90 seconds later. Devin Mockobee ran for 108 yards and a touchdown for Purdue with O'Connella going 31 of 46 for 320 yards. - Wisconsin/AP College Football

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RB Braelon Allen, Wisconsin
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10/19/22 - Markus Allen, rSo/2026, Wisconsin + More +

Wisconsin is losing another young player. Wide receiver Markus Allen, a redshirt freshman whose playing time has diminished recently, announced Sunday on Twitter he plans to transfer. Allen had a combined seven catches for 91 yards and a touchdown in UW's first six games this season. However, he did not play Saturday in the 34-28 loss to the Spartans. UW used five wide receivers against the Spartans: Chimere Dike, Skyler Bell, Keontez Lewis, Dean Engram and freshman Vinny Anthony. Allen played in three games last season and finished with three catches for 65 yards. He had one catch for 31 yards in the Las Vegas Bowl against Arizona State to set up UW's first touchdown and said before the season he was ready to contribute consistently in 2022. - Journal Sentinel

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WR Markus Allen, Wisconsin
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10/17/22 - Nathanial Vakos, Jr/2026, Wisconsin + More +

OCT 17 MAC EAST DIVISION SPECIAL TEAMS PLAYER OF THE WEEK: Nathanial Vakos, Ohio, Kicker, Freshman, Avon, Ohio (Avon),...Vakos had another successful game for the Bobcats, going 3-for-3 on PATs and 4-for-5 on field goals. The freshman's strong game was highlighted by a 55-yard field goal, marking a personal career high as well as tying him for the third-longest field goal in program history. - MAC Football

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K Nathanial Vakos, Wisconsin
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10/17/22 - Tanner Mordecai, rSr/2024, Wisconsin + More +

OCT 17 AMERICAN ATHLETIC CONFERENCE HONOR ROLL: Tanner Mordecai, Sr., QB, SMU,...Completed 20 of 27 passes for 336 yards and three touchdowns and rushed for a team-high 74 yards with a TD in a 40-34 win against Navy. - American Athletic Conference Football

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QB Tanner Mordecai, Wisconsin
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10/15/22 - Tyler Van Dyke, rSr/2025, Wisconsin + More +

Tyler Van Dyke threw for 351 yards and two touchdowns to lead Miami to a 20-14 victory over Virginia Tech on Saturday. Van Dyke, coming off a 496-yard performance in Miami's loss to North Carolina, threw touchdown passes of 5 yards to Frank Ladson, Jr. and 17 yards to Colbie Young in the first half for the Hurricanes (3-3, 1-1 Atlantic Coast Conference), who snapped a three-game losing streak. Virginia Tech (2-5, 1-3), which has lost four straight, trailed 20-0 before scoring twice in the fourth quarter. Quarterback Grant Wells' 3-yard touchdown run with 3:20 left cut the deficit to 20-14. Miami, though, converted twice on third down on the ensuing drive, with the final conversion coming on Van Dyke's 9-yard run on third-and-6 from the Miami 46 with under a minute left. Van Dyke completed 29 of 46 passes for the Hurricanes, who finished with 458 yards. Young had nine catches for 110 yards. Miami held Virginia Tech to just 257 yards and sacked Wells six times. - Miami/AP College Football

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QB Tyler Van Dyke, Wisconsin
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10/14/22 - Tanner Mordecai, rSr/2024, Wisconsin + More +

Tanner Mordecai passed for 336 yards and three touchdowns, and he rushed for 74 yards and a score to help SMU beat Navy 40-34 on Friday night. All four of Mordecai's touchdowns went for 20-plus yards. Mordecai raced up the middle for a 60-yard touchdown run to begin SMU's 20-point scoring run in the third quarter. Mordecai also had a short pass to Jordan Kerley, who used two good blocks along the sideline to race for a 33-yard touchdown. Mordecai connected with Roderick Daniels Jr. from 27-yards out for a 40-20 lead midway through the fourth.

SMU recovered Navy's onside kick with 2:30 left but went three-and-out before the Midshipmen scored with nine seconds left to cap the scoring. Dylan Goffney had a team-high four catches for 116 yards, including a 24-yard touchdown for SMU (3-3, 1-1 American Athletic Conference). Quarterback Tai Lavatai carried it 25 times for 121 yards and two touchdowns for Navy (2-4, 2-2). Lavatai was 9-of-22 passing for 137 yards with two touchdowns and an interception. Navy's third pass attempt of the game went to Vincent Terrell Jr. for a 24-yard touchdown with 14 seconds left before halftime. Navy opened the second half with a 75-yard drive, ending in Lavatai's 15-yard touchdown run. Former President George W. Bush was in attendance. - SMU/AP College Football

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QB Tanner Mordecai, Wisconsin
News Source: SMU/AP College Football
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10/11/22 - John Pius, Sr/2025, Wisconsin + More +

SEPT 19 CAA FOOTBALL DEFENSIVE PLAYER OF THE WEEK: John Pius, So., LB, William & Mary (Arlington, Va./Yorktown),...Pius recorded a team-best eight tackles, 4.0 tackles for loss and a career-high 3.5 sacks in William & Mary's 34-7 win at Lafayette. The sophomore linebacker led a Tribe defense that held the Leopards to 240 total yards, including just 48 in the second half, recorded six sacks and didn't allow a point over the final 54 minutes. Pius leads FCS with 7.0 sacks and tops the CAA with 10.5 TFL's. - CAA Football

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OLB John Pius, Wisconsin
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10/10/22 - Chez Mellusi, rSr/2025, Wisconsin + More +

Wisconsin running back Chez Mellusi will miss an unspecified length of time after injuring his right wrist in the Badgers’ 42-7 victory over Northwestern. Mellusi has rushed for 223 yards and one touchdown on 56 carries this season, He also has two catches for 25 yards, including a 23-yard touchdown in the Northwestern game. Wisconsin announced Monday that Mellusi wouldn’t be available Saturday when the Badgers (3-3, 1-2 Big Ten) visit Michigan State (2-4, 0-3). Badgers interim head coach Jim Leonhard said it was uncertain just how much time Mellusi would miss. This marks the second straight year that Mellusi has missed time with an injury. Mellusi, a Clemson transfer, rushed for 815 yards and five touchdowns on 173 carries in nine games with Wisconsin last year before a torn left anterior cruciate ligament knocked him out for the remainder of the season. - AP College Football

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RB Chez Mellusi, Wisconsin
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10/10/22 - Tyler Van Dyke, rSr/2025, Wisconsin + More +

OCT 10 ACC QUARTERBACK OF THE WEEK: Tyler Van Dyke, Miami, QB, Glastonbury, Conn.,...Completed 42 of 57 passes for 496 yards in the Hurricanes' 27-24 loss to North Carolina, setting the school record for completions and attempts ... His 496 passing yards rank second only to Stephen Morris' 566 against NC State in 2012, and his 42 completions are the most by an ACC quarterback since NC State's Ryan Finley had 45 in 2017 ... Threw scoring strikes to wide receiver Key'Shawn Smith (20 yards), running back Henry Parrish, Jr. (7 yards) and wide receiver Colbie Young (16 yards). - ACC Football

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