UNLV edges Iowa St. in OT

LAS VEGAS — Omar Clayton threw a 25-yard touchdown pass to Phillip Payne on the Rebels' first play of overtime to beat Iowa State 34-31 on Saturday night.

Iowa State (2-2), which lost its 13th straight road game, scored first in overtime on a 37-yard field by Grant Mahoney for the Cyclones' first lead.

The Rebels needed just one more play to win it.

Clayton, who finished with three touchdown passes and one touchdown run, threw a perfect fad pass to Payne in the corner of the end zone. The same play helped the Rebels force overtime last week in their 23-20 upset of Arizona State.

UNLV (3-1) surrendered a 21-point, second-half lead as Iowa State quarterback Austen Arnaud accounted for four touchdowns. The last was a 28-yard scoring strike to R.J. Sumrall with 3 seconds to play to force overtime.

The victory was UNLV's third of the season, which surpasses its win total of two in each of the past four seasons.

COLORADO STATE 28, HOUSTON 25: At Fort Collins, Colo., the play appeared to be a mismatch: Colorado State's 6-foot free safety Klint Kubiak going for the football in the end zone against Houston's 6-foot-3-inch receiver L.J. Castile with the game on the line.

No contest.

Kubiak out-jumped Castile and intercepted the ball in the final eight seconds to help Colorado State (2-1) hold on for a 28-25 win Saturday.

"I got off the ground about one inch and I thought, 'Oh, no,"' said Kubiak, whose father, Gary, coaches the Houston Texans. "It seemed like it was hanging in the air forever, but it hit my hands and I got the ball."

Billy Farris threw for 276 yards and two touchdowns and Kubiak made the game-saving interception to hold off Houston (1-3).

Farris was 24-for-33 throwing, without an interception. Dion Morton caught five passes for 126 yards and a score for Colorado State.

Case Keenum finished 37-for-54 passing with three touchdown passes and three interceptions. The last pick ended the Cougars' drive to overcome a 21-point deficit.

Houston lost for the third straight time despite producing 422 yards of total offense.

Trailing 21-3, the Cougars scored on their initial possession of the second half, going 85 yards on 10 plays, capped by a 4-yard touchdown pass to Mark Haffner. Two possessions later, Keenum threw a 15-yard TD pass to Tyron Carrier to cut it to 21-17 with 2:07 left in the third quarter.