NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) Lucas Carneiro kicked a 48-yard field goal as time expired to give ninth-ranked Mississippi a 41-38 victory over No. 24 Louisville Cardinals on Sunday night in the Music City Kickoff.

The week’s only game between ranked teams started sloppy only to turn into a second-half thriller that Ole Miss Rebels coach Pete Golding called a heavyweight fight.

“Wow, what an unbelievable atmosphere,” Golding said. “I think that’s really good for college football.”

Louisville coach Jeff Brohm agreed.

“We go home 0-1 but a lot to learn,” Brohm said. “I think anybody who likes football likes to watch these games, so we played it. We had our chances, and we move forward.”

Lincoln Kienholz, in his first career start after three seasons on Ohio State’s bench, tied it for Louisville at 38 with 1:28 left. The quarterback found Lawayne McCoy on the sideline for a 54-yard catch-and-run TD with 4:42 to go before his 7-yard TD run with 1:28 left.

Trinidad Chambliss set up the winning field goal with an 18-yard pass on third-and-6. Chambliss finished with 351 yards passing with three touchdowns, and he also ran for a fourth score all after halftime.

“I don’t know how many times he’s got to do it,” Golding said. “I mean that’s just who he is.”

The Ole Miss quarterback would like to avoid some of his heroics.

“I honestly hate these games,” Chambliss said. “I don’t know why we do this every time. We like close, one-score games, but yeah, we got the win. That’s all that matters.”

Kewan Lacy ran for 61 yards on 17 carries with a 1-yard TD before being sidelined by an injured thigh. Golding said he didn’t think it was serious, though Lacy will be checked out by the

Maybe it was a bit of opening night nerves or starting with a ranked, Power Four opponent. Both Ole Miss, who ended last season losing to Miami in the College Football Playoff semifinals, and Louisville had issues in the first half.

A shotgun snap went over Chambliss’ head on the opening series, and Louisville’s long snapper sent the ball flying over punter Niall Hayes’ head to set up a 1-yard TD run by Kewan Lacy. The Ole Miss running back ran for 61 yards on 17 carries before being sidelined by an injured thigh.

Chambliss looked nothing like the Heisman candidate Ole Miss has been promoting at Times Square in New York City and the Sphere in Las Vegas early. He fumbled after picking up a first down on a fourth-down run. Stanquan Clark also picked off a Chambliss pass to Deuce Alexander in the second.

The quarterback playing thanks to a Mississippi Supreme Court ruling put on a show in the second half.

Chambliss found Alexander for not one, but a pair of 62-yard TD passes in the third quarter. He connected with Caleb Odom on a 35-yard TD early in the fourth, then Chambliss gave Ole Miss its biggest lead with a 5-yard TD run with 6:43 to go.

Louisville: Brohm didn’t get a chance to ease his new starting quarterback with an easy opponent. Kienholz threw for 307 yards with two TD passes. He also led the Cardinals rushing for 69 yards.

Ole Miss: The Rebels showed held Louisville running back Isaac Brown to 36 yards on 16 carries. Brown led the nation last season averaging 8.8 yards per carry.

A tribute to the late singer and songwriter took place before the fourth quarter playing snippets of her hits from “Jolene” to “9 to 5” and “I Will Always Love You.” Nissan Stadium’s lights dimmed with fans standing and many holding up their cell phone flashlights.

With Ole Miss’ victory, the Southeastern Conference finished the opening week with each of its teams finishing in the win column. This was the SEC’s third season since the league expanded to 16 teams.

Louisville hosts Villanova on Saturday.

Ole Miss hosts Charlotte on Saturday.

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GREEN BAY, Wis. (AP) Notre Dame Fighting Irish coach Marcus Freeman knows Wisconsin Badgers coach Luke Fickell well enough to realize the Fighting Irish would face a bigger season-opening challenge than the recent results of these two teams suggested.

Freeman’s team eventually responded.

CJ Carr threw two touchdown passes, Aneyas Williams ran for 90 yards and two more scores and No. 4 Notre Dame pulled away in the second half to beat Wisconsin 41-13 on Sunday night at Lambeau Field. Notre Dame led just 13-10 at halftime before dominating the final two periods.

“Human nature is maybe you look at somebody else’s record last year – and everybody has expectations on what you should be this year – to think this is how this game should go,” said Freeman, who played for Fickell at Ohio State and coached alongside him at Cincinnati. “I don’t know how they thought it would go, but I wanted to make sure at halftime they knew it was going to be a babble and going to be a struggle. I told them that all week. Sometimes you don’t believe it until you’re in it.”

This was the first college football game at the home of the NFL’s Green Bay Packers since 2016, when Wisconsin upset a fifth-ranked LSU team 16-14. Wisconsin also hung around for a while in this one as a three-touchdown underdog as it attempts to bounce back from two straight losing seasons.

Notre Dame’s first touchdown came on a 3-yard reception by Green Bay resident James Flanigan, whose father and grandfather (each named Jim Flanigan) both played for the Packers.

“There’s three generations of Flanigans who have been on that field and made some plays,” Flanigan said. “That’s really special.”

Carr went 19 of 29 for 239 yards. His other touchdown completion was a 28-yarder to Nolan James Jr. with 1:51 left.

The Irish entered this season pledging to leave no doubt about their College Football Playoff worthiness after getting left out of the field last year despite winning their last 10 regular-season games by double-digit margins.

But the Irish’s performance early on created plenty of doubt about how effectively they can run the ball without Heisman Trophy finalist Jeremiyah Love and Jadarian Price, the only two running backs selected in the first round of this year’s NFL draft. Notre Dame rushed for 111 yards on 32 carries – including just 29 yards on 16 attempts in the first half.

Notre Dame’s offense eventually got in gear. The Irish scored touchdowns on each of their three second-half possessions.

“I don’t have a great explanation for the second half,” Fickell said. “I give them a lot of credit. We kind of held the energy and created a lot of momentum in the first half. In the second half, we could do none.”

Williams’ 3-yard touchdown run capped a 70-yard drive to open the second half. Colorado transfer DJ McKinney then intercepted Colton Joseph’s pass and ran untouched for a 55-yard touchdown to make it 27-10.

Gavin Lahm’s second field goal of the night cut Notre Dame’s lead to 27-13 near the end of the third, but Williams capped the Irish’s next drive with a 5-yard touchdown run and James completed the scoring in the closing minutes.

“We prepared for a battle,” Carr said. “We got a battle in the first half. We were really excited, I think, coming out of the second half because Free talks about there’s nothing great that comes from something that’s easy. We knew it was going to be a struggle. It’s what we wanted, and (we) ended up finishing really strong.”

Wisconsin: After adding 34 transfers, Wisconsin certainly looks better than it has the last couple of years. But the Badgers needed to play mistake-free football to have a shot at pulling the upset, and they instead had two turnovers that led to Notre Dame touchdowns.

Notre Dame: The Irish’s defense could face some early adversity. The Irish lost preseason Associated Press All-America second-team safety Brauntae Johnson and defensive lineman Jason Onye to injuries during the game. Freeman had no update on either player after the game. Preseason AP All-America second-team linebacker Kyngstonn Viliamu-Asa didn’t play as he continues to recover from a knee injury that ended his 2025 season early.

One positive development for Notre Dame came from Purdue transfer Spencer Porath, who made field goals of 52 and 26 yards in his Irish debut. Last season, Notre Dame didn’t make a field goal after Oct. 11.

Wisconsin: Hosts Western Illinois on Saturday.

Notre Dame: Hosts Rice on Saturday.

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TEMPE, Ariz. (AP) Cutter Boley threw six touchdown passes in his Arizona State Sun Devils debut, and the Sun Devils routed Morgan State Bears 70-7 in their season opener Saturday night.

Boley, a transfer who played two seasons at Kentucky, tossed two touchdown passes to Reed Harris, two more to Grayson Rigdon and one each to Omarion Miller and AJ Ia.

Arizona State piled up 688 yards and nearly eclipsed its record for points in a game of 79 against Colorado State in 1969. The Sun Devils also scored 70 against rival Arizona in 2020.

“I think that they showed that they put in a lot of work this offseason,” Arizona State head coach Kenny Dillingham said of his team. “But we’ve got an unbelievable challenge ahead of us.”

The fourth quarter was shortened to 10 minutes by mutual agreement of the coaches.

“The referees came over and said, (Morgan State coach Damon Wilson) asked if we could shorten the quarter, and I said, yeah, of course, whatever he wants, we will do,” Dillingham said. “And I’ve never been a part of a game like that. I didn’t know that was legal.”

Kyson Brown ran for a 46-yard touchdown on Arizona State’s second play of the game. The Sun Devils then executed an onside kick, which Cory Butler Jr. recovered, and it took them five plays to score again on a 10-yard pass from Boley to Miller. Arizona State led 49-7 at the half.

Boley, a junior replacing Sam Leavitt at quarterback, was 21 of 27 for 387 yards and left after playing one series in the third quarter. Leavitt transferred to LSU after playing two seasons at Arizona State.

“It was awesome how the fan base showed out,” Boley said. “It’s just a lot of credit to the guys on the team for how we played tonight and how bought in they were all week to the game plan.”

Harris (six catches, 137 yards) and Miller (8-102) put up their respective numbers in the first half. Rigdon’s two scores went for a combined 110 yards.

Morgan State (1-1) scored its first-half touchdown on Jordan Barnett’s 2-yard run, set up by Marquez Spells’ 39-yard carry. The FCS Bears were held to 188 total yards.

Morgan State: Takes home $600,000 for agreeing to come from Baltimore to Tempe, Arizona. The coach said it was worth finding out some things, too.

“A lot of guys who hadn’t played got some snaps,” Wilson said. “A lot of times, guys say they are ready to play and now we have film to show you if you’re ready or you’re not. All in all, we got through it and we gotta get ready for the home opener.”

Arizona State: Looked sharp in a tune-up for Big XII play. Boley was efficient, and so was the running game led by Brown (80 yards on six carries). The schedule ramps up quickly, though, with a road game against No. 8 Texas A&M team followed by a trip to London to play Kansas.

Arizona State scored on its first drive of the season for the 11th consecutive year, the longest such streak in the country.

Morgan State: Plays Virginia-Lynchburg in its home opener next Saturday.

Arizona State: Opens conference play at No. 8 Texas A&M next Saturday.

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TUCSON, Ariz. (AP) Noah Fifita threw for 262 yards and two touchdowns, Kedrick Reescano ran for two scores and Arizona Wildcats opened the season with a 35-7 blowout over Northern Arizona Lumberjacks on Saturday night.

Coming off a nine-win season, the Wildcats (1-0) kicked off their third year under coach Brent Brennan with a dominating performance.

Fifita, the rare quarterback to play all five seasons with the same school, finished 22 for 29 before sitting out most of the fourth quarter. Arizona’s defense held Northern Arizona to 193 total yards – minus-seven rushing – and sacked Ty Pennington five times, including 2 1/2 by Chase Kennedy.

“We showed up ready to play,” Brennan said. “There’s a lot to be excited about.”

The Wildcats jumped on the Lumberjacks (1-1) early.

Fifita hit Tre Spivey on a 20-yard touchdown on Arizona’s opening drive and found Brandon Phelps on a 21-yard score in the second quarter. Fifita also had an 11-yard run, setting up Reescano’s 1-yard dive that put the Wildcats up 21-0.

Arizona’s only first-half offensive slipup: Giovanni Richardson lost a fumble at NAU’s 18 after a 31-yard gain.

“We were really moving the ball great in the first half,” Brennan said. “Noah was really on, we were running the ball effectively, the physicality of the football team was showing up.”

Pennington completed his first six passes and was 12 of 18 for 142 yards in the first half, but was sacked three times and the Lumberjacks had minus-15 yards rushing.

Northern Arizona also turned the ball over on downs near midfield and Francisco Orduno Jr. missed a 34-yard field goal wide right just before halftime.

Antwan Roberts Jr. turned his first carry at Arizona into a 14-yard touchdown in the third quarter and Reescano added another 1-yard TD run to put Arizona up 35-0.

NAU’s Noble Young-Blackgoat intercepted Sawyer Anderson’s first collegiate pass in the fourth quarter and returned it 36 yards for a touchdown – long after the game was out of reach.

Arizona safety Quinn Olson had quite a weekend.

A quarterback in high school and a walk-on at Arizona, Olson learned he was awarded a scholarship in front of the entire team on Friday.

The third-year player had a huge impact in his first career start, intercepting a pass by Pennington in the third quarter to set up a touchdown.

“Obviously, getting put on scholarship was a big moment for me, but also just trying to lock in on tonight’s game,” Olson said.

Arizona: The Wildcats did what they were supposed to against an FCS opponent, setting up a showdown with No. 14 BYU next weekend.

Northern Arizona: The Lumberjacks, No. 22 in the FCS rankings, rallied from a 21-point hole to beat Eastern Washington 34-27 last week, but had no chance of digging out of a similar hole against the bigger, faster Wildcats.

Northern Arizona hosts Incarnate Word next Saturday.

Arizona plays at No. 14 BYU next Saturday.

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BLOOMINGTON, Ind. (AP) Josh Hoover threw for 231 yards and four touchdowns, including a 15-yard score on his first pass with No. 6 Indiana Hoosiers, and Turbo Richard rushed for two more scores to help the defending national champs open the season with a 52-16 rout of North Texas Mean Green on Saturday.

Hoover finished 13 of 16 with no turnovers despite having blood covering his face mask at one point. He’s replacing Heisman Trophy winner Fernando Mendoza.

After celebrating last year’s title during a pregame ceremony, Indiana extended the Football Bowl Subdivision’s longest active winning streak to 17 games and the FBS’ longest active home winning streak to 16.

“I thought Josh was sharp and our receivers did a nice job of separating and were making some blocks downfield, which was a point of emphasis,” two-time Associated Press Coach of the Year Curt Cignetti said. “You never know what to expect, I thought he made a significant stride in fall camp with confidence, and I thought he played with a lot of confidence today.”

Richard, a transfer from Boston College, had 15 carries for 58 yards and one catch for 38. Charlie Becker had four catches for 64 yards and two scores while Nick Marsh and Davion Chandler each had TD receptions.

Jahiem White rushed 14 times for 61 yards and one score as well as catching seven passes for 36 yards in his North Texas debut.

The Hoosiers led 24-6 at halftime before White’s 9-yard TD run to open the second half.

Hoover responded four plays later with a nifty 35-yard strike to Becker for his second TD of the day to make it 31-13. North Texas never recovered.

“For 3 1/2 quarters, I thought our guys went toe-to-toe with the national champs, and I thought we represented UNT well,” new coach Neal Brown said. “We just didn’t finish it.”

North Texas: No, this Mean Green team isn’t the high-scoring machine of years past, but new coach Neal Brown was able to keep Indiana’s offense on the sideline by dominating the time of possession. It didn’t pay off Saturday, but it could in the near future. North Texas limited the Hoosiers to 46 offensive plays.

Indiana: The passing offense and kickoff returns looked strong, but coach Curt Cignetti won’t be happy with the penalties, the rushing game or the defense’s inability to get stops. Those will be areas to focus on this week.

North Texas quarterback Tayven Jackson returned to his home state and played well though he did leave briefly in the second half with an injury. Brown said after the game, Jackson was dealing with cramps. He was 22 of 28 for 192 yards with one interception while rushing six times for 22 yards. Jackson played two seasons at Indiana before transferring to UCF last year.

Indiana lost three key players in the first half – running back Khobie Martin and defensive backs A.J. Harris and Jamari Sharpe, whose sealed the title game win with a late interception.

This week has been one of the hottest all summer, and there was no respite Saturday. The Fox broadcast crew said the field temperature reached 152 degrees during the second half.

“One-hundred, fifty-two, you have to be kidding me,” Cignetti said in disbelief until two people he was with started nodding. “Wow!”

North Texas: hosts UNLV next Saturday in its home opener.

Indiana: hosts Howard next Saturday.

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