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Editor's note: "On Campus" is a new daily file that is designed to take you around the country with our regional sites, providing current news, practice notes, features and more. It will be updated multiple times each day with new stories.
CHESTNUT HILL, MASSACHUSETTS
The QB that gave USC nightmares
Dual-threat quarterbacks are all the rage in college football.
Taysom Hill (BYU), Nick Marshall (Auburn), Everett Golson (Notre Dame), Brett Hundley (UCLA), Braxton Miller (Ohio State) and Marcus Mariota (Oregon). You name it, and many of the top-tier teams are led by a quarterback that can both run and pass.
But there's one you might not have heard of -- at least, before last weekend. And he's the nation's leading rusher, among quarterbacks.
(Click here to get to know BC's Tyler Murphy)
TEMPE, ARIZONA
A different kind of rivalry
ASU-UCLA isn't just a matchup that features hate between fan bases, divides households, produces trash talk between players and comes with a year of all-important bragging rights. More than anything, ASU-UCLA is about championships.
"[Arizona], there's so much history and there's so much hate between fans," junior defensive tackle Jaxon Hood said. "That's what kind of cooks up the big stage for that game. This game's about winning the title.
"So in my opinion, this is the game I think about in the offseason when I'm dead tired in here running 300-yard shuttles. I'm thinking about UCLA."
(Click here for more on the high stakes of Thursday's game)
MADISON, WISCONSIN
Thanks for the pep talk, coach
If self-deprecation is indeed the appetizer of charm, then Bowling Green football coach Dino Babers is laying the sweet-talk on pretty thick this week.
Maybe Babers truly believes his team has virtually no chance to beat No. 19 Wisconsin when the two meet at 11 a.m. Saturday in Camp Randall Stadium. Or perhaps Babers has a few tricks up his sleeve and simply is trying to provide the Falcons with some cover regardless of the outcome. Wisconsin did open the week, after all, as 22.5-point favorites.
Either way, Babers spent his teleconference with reporters this week propping up Wisconsin (1-1) as a national power while at the same time downplaying the potential for Bowling Green (2-1) to spring any type of upset. This from a coach who only days earlier saw his team storm past Big Ten foe Indiana, 45-42, in the final seconds at home.
"I don't know if we can give a team like Wisconsin trouble," Babers said. "I watched them play LSU on TV. Two of the finest football teams I've seen in a long time. This is a different situation. Wisconsin and Indiana are two different football teams."
(Click here to read more from Babers)
COLUMBIA, MISSOURI
Can Indiana's uptempo attack catch Mizzou on its heels?
Missouri's offense has been up to just about every challenge in three blowout victories to start the season.
In fact, the Tigers' only truly bad moments have come when they almost appeared bored or lulled to sleep against lesser competition. At least, that's how it seemed with the way Mizzou so utterly dominated opposing offenses the rest of the game, particularly against South Dakota State and Toledo.
Look for things to be a little different Saturday, when Indiana visits Faurot Field for a 3 p.m. kickoff on the SEC Network. The Hoosiers bring a fast-paced offense led by senior quarterback Nate Sudfield, who threw for 347 yards in a 45-42 loss at Bowling Green last week.
(Click here for details on Indiana's weapons)
