There’s a chill in the air around much of the country as the final weeks of the regular season across all levels of college football dwindle down.

Meanwhile, there are still some on-fire single-game performances happening at all levels of the game, too.

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Video Game Numbers is here again for Week 11, and if you like seven-touchdown outings in rivalry games or almost 400 yards of rushing from a single player, this is the place where those types of days are highlighted and given some deserved coverage.

FloCollege is here broadcasting many of the best of the best that you’ll see in the FCS and Divisions II and III this season, and as tension only ramps up with postseason play on the line, don’t expect the wild stats that come out of games on a weekly basis to let up anytime soon.

Here’s a look back at some of college football’s craziest stats of Week 11 from all across the sport:

Liam O’Brien, QB, Penn (22-for-30 passing, 341 yards, six touchdowns, 13 carries, 77 yards, one touchdown at Cornell)

The Ivy League sometimes doesn’t get enough love in the FCS, with the league’s self-imposed moratorium on having its teams play in the postseason — something that could reportedly be changing soon, per recent reporting by the Harvard Crimson — limiting the conference’s exposure beyond a few historic rivalry games.

A game with a combined 116 points scored, like what Penn and Cornell had in the Quakers’ 67-49 win last Saturday in the battle for the Trustees’ Cup, can go a long way toward changing those perceptions.

In Penn’s 130th meeting all-time against the Big Red, O’Brien had one of the best games ever seen from a Quakers quarterback as he led the program to a single-game school record for points in the Ivy League era (since 1956) and had the most total touchdowns from one player in a single game in program history, too. 

Penn, which was down by 14 points after one quarter, relied on O’Brien to get it both back into the game and eventually to build a lead that Cornell couldn’t come back from. He connected with wideout Jared Richardson three times for touchdowns, didn’t throw an interception or take a sack, and had the touchdown that gave the Quakers their first lead of the game at 32-28 with 9:32 to play in the third quarter via a 1-yard rushing score.

Harvard visits Penn this weekend as the Quakers will look to down a red-hot Crimson squad that’s won six games in a row and is gunning for the Ivy League title, and the red-hot arm of O’Brien could give the visitors plenty of trouble as it tries to sharpen things up before The Game against hated rival Yale on Nov. 23.

Jarod Epperson, RB, Augustana (South Dakota) (18 carries, 202 yards, two touchdowns, one catch, 75 yards vs. Sioux Falls)

In a Key to the City game with high stakes and playoff berths potentially on the line, Epperson showed out in the Vikings’ crosstown rivalry showdown against Sioux Falls — and also got Augustana a share of the Northern Sun Intercollegiate Conference title in the process. 

In Augie’s first home win over USF since 1986, Epperson — who had 109 rushing yards in the fourth quarter alone to seal the deal for the Vikings in their 27-21 win — stamped his foot down further as a legendary Vikings player by nabbing them a vitally important win for their postseason hopes in his final Key to the City game.

A 62-yard house call from Epperson on the Vikings’ first play from scrimmage in the opening quarter set the tone and was just the response that Augie needed following a score from the Cougars on their first series. And with USF threatening to make things interesting as the fourth quarter got underway as the visitors were only down 20-14, Epperson ran wild for a 47-yard score just 10 seconds into the final frame to put the Vikings up two scores.

With the victory, Augie is now the No. 2-ranked team in Super Region 4 in the NCAA’s newly-released D-II regional rankings that were dropped Tuesday, meaning that the Vikings are in good shape to make the seven-team regional bracket as long as disaster doesn’t strike in their regular-season finale this weekend at Bemidji State (also in the Super Region 4 rankings at No. 7). And if Epperson is bound for some more big-time performances in big-time games, watch out for the Vikings for the rest of this season.

Cameren Grodhaus, DB, Davenport (25 tackles, 0.5 tackles for loss vs. Northern Michigan)

Davenport is going to have to have some things go its way this weekend if it is to make a late return to the D-II playoffs, considering that the Panthers are not one of the top 10-ranked teams in Super Region 3 heading into the final week of the regular season.

Take Grodhaus’ performance against Northern Michigan this past weekend as an example of the Panthers playing like a group that has nothing to lose.

No player in the NCAA, regardless of division, has had more tackles in a single game this season than Grodhaus did against the Wildcats last Saturday, with him seemingly being a magnet to ballcarriers as he flew around the field and brought down players left and right in DU’s shootout 52-31 victory over NMU on the Panthers’ senior day. Ten of Grodhaus’ tackles were solo stops, with the Wildcats’ game scheme (65 rushing attempts) aiding him in anticipating where players were going to be.

Needing 11 tackles against Ferris State this weekend to break Davenport’s single-season school record, Grodhaus and the rest of the Panthers will probably be focused more on trying to upset the powerhouse Bulldogs and potentially convince the playoff selection committee to let them into the Super Region 3 bracket in the process. 

Still, even if DU doesn’t down FSU, Grodhaus getting into the record books despite just one season in the program (after transferring from Lake Erie College in the offseason) would be a decent consolation prize.

Montie Quinn, RB, Curry (27 carries, 381 yards, four touchdowns vs. Nichols)

There’s a new single-game rushing king in D-III this season.

Curry isn’t going to make the playoffs with a 4-5 record entering this weekend’s regular-season finale against a ranked Endicott squad, but the Colonels do have a spot in this week’s edition of Video Game Numbers thanks to Quinn’s ridiculous rushing day in his team’s 47-41 barnburner of a victory against Nichols last Saturday.

Quinn — who has run for at least 250 yards in each of his past three games — elevated himself up to being the nation’s leading rusher on the season this past Saturday by breaking a 21-year-old Curry school record for single-game rushing yardage. The Colonels staved off a comeback attempt from the Bisons after Curry got ahead by a 41-12 margin at the half, with Quinn scampering for first-half scores of 31, 60 and 79 yards to help build its lead.

Quinn’s 59-yard touchdown run with 5:09 left in the third quarter ended up being a very important moment as the Colonels didn’t score again and Nichols whittled it down to a one-score game for the final 8:05, putting the game’s result in the balance. But Quinn’s big-time day on the ground ended up being enough, and he became the holder of D-III’s best single-game rushing performance of the season, too.

Matt Jung, DB, Bethel (10 tackles, one sack, two interceptions, two touchdowns at Concordia-Moorhead)

Picking up double-digit tackles and returning a pair of interceptions to the house? Yeah, that’ll probably get you a worthy spot on Video Game Numbers this week.

In a 49-16 win over the Cobbers that got the Royals into the Minnesota Intercollegiate Athletic Conference Championship Game this weekend against Saint John’s, Jung had his third game of the season with multiple interceptions as the nation’s leader in picks (eight) only boosted his stock up even more as potentially the best ball hawk in D-III.

Jung had his first pick-six of the game in the first quarter, getting in front of a Concordia pass and taking it back 31 yards to help give Bethel a 12-0 lead by the end of the first quarter. His second takeaway and subsequent house call came in the third quarter with the Royals already well in control, taking back another pick 32 yards on the Cobbers’ first play of the second half to make it a 28-3 Royals lead.

He remained busy on special teams, too, taking back two kickoffs and four punts for the Royals as the seemingly tireless defensive back was a machine in multiple facets of the game this past weekend. And with a MIAC title and automatic bid to the D-III playoffs on the line this Saturday, the Royals will need to continue to get as much out of Jung as they can in order to keep their season going.

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