Against Arkansas, Jennings led the Tigers on a game - winning 99 -
yard touchdown drive that ended with a 49 - yard touchdown pass.
For the drive, Prescott went 6 for 7 for 67 yards, and he led the Cowboys on an 80
yard touchdown drive against the Los Angeles Rams's first strong defense.
But Appalachian State maximized the impact of those four drives (and a fifth one — a short, 37 -
yard touchdown drive) because of passing downs success.
It didn't get better in the second half, as the Spartans took the kickoff and marched down the field for a 10 - play, 67 -
yard touchdown drive.
The Tigers responded with a 7 - play, 80 -
yard touchdown drive of their own, highlighted by a 41 - yard end - around to Green.
After Granite Bay blocked a punt and recovered it in the end zone to begin the third quarter, and added a four - play, 70 -
yard touchdown drive on its following series, A'jae Boyd needed just two blocks on a wide receiver screen to find the sideline and scamper 73 yards to the house.
Still, he led the Texans down the field on a eight - play, 52 -
yard touchdown drive that gave Houston its first lead of the game with under three minutes to play.
The Badgers stumbled out of the gate on offense, throwing a pick and fumbling before getting right with a 10 - play, 70 -
yard touchdown drive.
The Panthers» second possession, an 11 - play, 37 -
yard touchdown drive, suggested that the game might be a runaway.
He led the Eagles on a nine - play, 75 -
yard touchdown drive to start the game and capped it with a 19 - yard score to receiver Jordan Matthews.
Tom Brady made them pay, with an eight - play, 85 -
yard touchdown drive to shrink the Jags» lead to just three points with over eight minutes left to play.
When Miami responded with a fourth - quarter field goal of its own, the Badgers put the game away with a 75 -
yard touchdown drive.
Then an Eagles 78 -
yard touchdown drive capped by running back Darren Sproles» 25 - yard running score.
Tony Romo thumbed his nose at those that would question his ability to make big plays late in games, leading the Cowboys on a seven - play, 80 -
yard touchdown drive to give the Cowboys a huge win on the road against the Giants.
Wilson led the Seahawks on a 97 - yard TD drive right before the end of regulation and then a game - winning 80 -
yard touchdown drive in overtime.
On the verge of getting their doors blown off, the Trojans respond with a 10 - play, 65 -
yard touchdown drive.
They added a 75 -
yard touchdown drive in the second quarter, then poked in a 32 - yard field goal before halftime.
Later in the first quarter, they allowed Atlanta to embark on an 88 -
yard touchdown drive, despite the Falcons going at it without their two best receivers.
Still, the Jaguars held off Pittsburgh's second - half surge and put the game away with 61 - yard and 75 -
yard touchdown drives in the fourth quarter.
Though the Huskersgave up three 80 -
yard touchdown drives, their defense, with the likes of LBCody Glenn, should be better than last year's.
Not exact matches
Set up with great field position after a Denver Broncos penalty was enforced on the kickoff after their first
touchdown, Tom Brady hit Rob Gronkowski for a 10 -
yard catch, but the
drive stalled soon afterwards.
Their offense was decent, and aside from a late glitch against MTSU (the Blue Raiders only gained 368
yards against Illinois, but 153 came in two late
touchdowns drives), the defense was impenetrable.
Tom Brady marched his team down the field 70
yards in eight plays, finishing the
drive with another
touchdown pass to Hernandez to give the Patriots a 21 - 0 lead.
Newton was born in 1989 a few months after quarterback Joe Montana
drove the San Francisco 49ers 92
yards for a winning
touchdown pass to John Taylor with 34 seconds left to lift them to a 20 - 16 victory over the Cincinnati Bengals in Super Bowl 23 in Miami.
A deep
touchdown pass from Brady to Brandon Lloyd capped off a six - play, 82 -
yard drive and gave New England a 14 - 0 lead.
Carson Palmer finished with 233
yards passing and three
touchdowns, managing the comeback stupendously, including engineering the Raiders» final
drive, putting Janikowski well within range to knock through the winning kick.
Michigan 16, South Carolina 3, 9:56: Michigan
drove 72
yards across seven plays and 3:34 of clock time on its first
drive of the second half, capped by a 1 -
yard Ben Mason
touchdown run.
After the
drive, Brady is now 10/14 with 96
yards and two
touchdowns and an interception, Aaron Hernandez is leading the team in rushing with 47
yards and Gronkowski has five catches for 57 and a score.
Here's a look at year over year team
yards per
drive, overall scoring rate per
drive (
touchdowns and field goals), and
touchdown rate per
drive.
While credit for one of the
touchdowns went all to the receiver — running back Mark Thompson broke approximately six tackles in his 85 -
yard catch - and - rumble late in the second quarter — Appleby was also 5 - for - 6 for 62
yards in the 80 -
yard, third - quarter
touchdown drive that all but sealed the game.
The embattled quarterback has been more effective than tailback Leonard Fournette, scrambling to daylight throughout a 14 - play, 86 -
yard drive that finally snapped this game's
touchdown drought.
The Sooners allowed three
touchdown drives of 69
yards or more to start the Texas Tech game, then seven points in the Red Raiders» final nine possessions.
On their second
drive, trailing 10 — 0, rookie Alvin Kamara took off on a 74 -
yard touchdown run that exceeded the rushing
yards he amassed against Vanderbilt (69
yards) in a losing effort one year and one day earlier.
They allowed three
touchdowns on Kansas State's first four
drives — their only stop was a red zone fumble recovery — then barely 50
yards and zero points in the next five possessions.
Haden, the Rhodes scholar rookie, did a bit of scurrying around until he could find open receivers, and he
drove his team 80
yards to a
touchdown that narrowed the score to 17 - 6.
Ken Dorsey hit Jeremy Shockey for a 13 -
yard touchdown with 46 seconds left to give Miami a 27 - 24 advantage, but FSU was quickly able to
drive back into field goal range.
Rod Perry got Foreman with a
driving swipe at the two -
yard line, but two plays later he went over for the
touchdown.
LSU had loaded up on big plays — a 100 -
yard kickoff return by Leonard Fournette, a 75 -
yard pass from Anthony Jennings to John Diarse, an 89 -
yard rush by Fournette * — while Notre Dame had ground out long
touchdown drives: 15 plays and 66
yards, 11 plays and 75
yards, 10 plays and 59
yards.
The
drive chart from the Texans second quarter
touchdown says it for you: 18 -
yard pass to Kevin Walter, 7 -
yard pass to James Casey, 8 -
yard rush by Foster, 21 -
yard rush by Foster and...
Tom Brady locked in on Chris Hogan, who caught four passes for 57
yards on the
drive, including a wide - open 16 -
yard touchdown.
After LSU opened up the second half with another long, balanced
drive that ended with Jeremy Hill's 7 -
yard touchdown run, the teams would trade punts on 5 - play
drives before South Carolina would luck out on a somewhat flukey pass play.
Venric Mark returned a punt for a
touchdown in the first quarter, the wonderfully named Chi Chi Ariguzo returned a fumble for a
touchdown in the third quarter, and the Wildcats scored
touchdowns on
drives of 21
yards (after an interception) and 28
yards (after another long Mark punt return) in the second quarter.
He ran it in for the Patriots» first
touchdown of the game on the final 6
yards of the
drive.
He hauled in a Kevin Hogan pass for a 50 -
yard score just three minutes later, then caught a 12 -
yard touchdown pass to finish a seven - play
drive.
The Bears put a field goal
drive together just before the half, but on their first possession after intermission, the Niners marched 78
yards on 13 plays, most of them short passes underneath the coverage, for a
touchdown.
The Cyclones would rally with one fourth quarter
touchdown on a Jeff Woody two
yard rush, but after Kansas State kicked a late field goal, Iowa State's last
drive was snuffed out before they could escape their own territory.
And they did: With 10 seconds left, Marshall hit Uzomah for an 11 -
yard touchdown pass to complete an 88 -
yard drive.
With dusk giving way to darkness at Notre Dame Stadium on Oct. 15, Fighting Irish quarterback Brady Quinn had
driven his ninth - ranked team 87
yards for a
touchdown and a 31 - 28 lead.
There were those two AFC Championship Games: the one in Cleveland in January 1987, after John Elway
drove the Denver Broncos 98
yards to tie the game with 39 seconds left in regulation — a series forever known as the
Drive — then took them down the field again in overtime to keep Schottenheimer's Browns out of the Super Bowl; and the one in Denver a year later, after Cleveland's Earnest Byner fumbled with 1:12 left while going in for what would have been the tying
touchdown — a play forever known as the Fumble.
And in Wisconsin's five scoring
drives (three field goals, two
touchdowns), he was huge: 12 - of - 17 passes for 177
yards.