Southern California's Anthony Davis put on one of college football's most stirring offensive displays on December 2, 1972, scoring six touchdowns as the Trojans drubbed Notre Dame, 45-23, at the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum. The sophomore tailback collected his first and fifth TDs in dramatic fashion. Davis took the game's opening kickoff and sprinted 97 yards for a score; then, after Southern Cal's lead had been reduced to 25-23, he went 96 yards on a kickoff return late in the third period.

Davis, whose 22 rushes against the Fighting Irish netted 99 yards, also scored on one- and five-yard runs in the first quarter, a four-yard thrust in the third period and an eight-yard dash in the final quarter. Tom Clements.

San Diego State, riding a record passing performance by Dennis Shaw, overwhelmed New Mexico State, 70-21, on November 15, 1969, in San Diego. Shaw hurled nine touchdown passes - unprecedented in major-college history - for Coach Don Coryell's Aztecs, who bolted to a 49-14 halftime lead over the Aggies. Shaw, completing 26 of 42 passes overall for 441 yards and combining with only two receivers during his TD onslaught, tossed seven of his scoring passes in the first half.

John Reaves' collegiate debut was auspicious - to say the least. In his first varsity appearance on September 20, 1969, Florida's Reaves fired five touchdown passes - four in the first half as the Gators amassed a 38-6 lead - and sparked his team to a 59-34 victory over the Houston Cougars in Gainesville, Fla. Reaves, a sophomore quarterback, completed 18 of 30 passes for 342 yards. Carlos Alvarez. On the third play of the game, the Gators' Alvarez, also a sophomore, made his first collegiate reception - and it went for a touchdown.

Texas-El Paso quarterback Brooks Dawson turned in a one-for-the-book performance on October 27, 1967, passing for touchdowns against New Mexico on his first six completions of the game. Dawson, who entered the game on the Miners' third offensive play, threw incompletions on his first three attempts.

Besides the six TD passes, Dawson completed only three other passes in the game and finished with nine completions in 20 attempts for 376 yards. Averaging 41.8 yards per completion and running nine yards for a fourth-quarter touchdown, Dawson powered UTEP to a 75-12 triumph over the Lobos in Albuquerque. Bob Wallace. UTEP player who teamed with Dawson on a 25-yard scoring pass early in the first quarter. Larry McHenry. His first-quarter touchdown catch was Dawson's second TD pass of the game and the quarterback's shortest scoring strike-10 yards.

Playing defensive tackle for Ohio State in 1958, Jim Marshall had a dream game for a lineman. The future Minnesota Vikings standout scored both of Ohio State's touchdowns as the Buckeyes and Purdue played to a 14-14 tie on November 8 in Columbus, 0.

In the first 2 minutes of the game, Marshall returned a blocked punt 22 yards for a TD. He then intercepted a deflected Boilermaker pass in the second quarter and ran it back 25 yards for a score. Richard Brooks. With 2 minutes, 2 seconds left in the game and Ohio State leading, 14-6, Brooks caught a seven-yard touchdown pass from Ross Fichtner and then hauled in a game-tying two-point conversion pass from Purdue halfback Clyde Washington.

Halfback Dick Christy completed his North Carolina State career in storybook fashion on November 23, 1957, scoring all of his team's points in a 29-26 triumph over South Carolina that wrapped up the Atlantic Coast Conference championship for the Wolfpack. The ending to the game, played in Columbia, S.C., proved particularly dramatic as Christy, with time having expired and the score tied, attempted his first varsity field goal on his last play as a collegian.

The result? Christy was on target with a 36-yard boot. Christy had scored earlier on a two-yard run and on three one-yard bursts and had made conversion kicks after two of the touchdowns.