AMES, Iowa (AP) — Quarterback Joel Lanning tied a school record with five rushing touchdowns, Jacob Park threw for 285 yards and two TDs and Iowa State clobbered Texas Tech 66-10 on Saturday. Lanning ran for 171 yards for the Cyclones (3-8, 2-6 Big 12), who scored their most points since beating Colorado State 69-0 in 1980. They entered play as a slight underdog, only to overwhelm the Red Raiders with a 45-3 halftime lead and set a school record for points in a Big 12 game.

Iowa State scored touchdowns on five consecutive first-half possessions — a stretch capped by Kamari Cotton-Moya’s 48-yard interception return — and racked up a program-best 31 points in the second quarter. Pat Mahomes had 219 yards passing for Tech (4-7, 2-6), which is guaranteed to finish with a losing record for the second time in four years under coach Kliff Kingsbury.

For a fan base that’s been searching for hope for over a decade, Saturday’s performance was like a dream come true. Everything the Cyclones did worked — and the result was perhaps the most dominant conference game the program has ever played. The Cyclones still have a ways to go, but beating Tech by 56 points might buy first-year coach Matt Campbell an entire offseason of good will.

Iowa State concludes coach Matt Campbell’s first season by hosting West Virginia next week. It’ll be a trip that suddenly looks a lot more dangerous for the Mountaineers.

CEDAR FALLS, Iowa (AP) — Taryn Christion threw two touchdowns to Jake Wieneke and Wieneke threw one to Christion as South Dakota State beat Northern Iowa 45-24 on Saturday for a piece of its first Missouri Valley Football Conference title. The Jackrabbits (8-3, 7-1) share the championship with five-time defending FCS national champion North Dakota State, which SDSU beat 19-17 earlier this season. Christion threw for 272 yards and two scores. He also ran for 25 yards and a TD.

Christion threw a 30-yard score to Wieneke on the third play of the game in just over a minute of play. Northern Iowa tied it up on its ensuing drive to make it 7-7. On the Jackrabbits’ next drive, Wieneke hit Christion for a 16-yard score to put them up again, 14-7, with 7:41 left in the first quarter. Eli Dunne threw for 295 yards and a score for the Panthers (5-6, 4-4) but was intercepted three times.

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) – Reed Timmer scored 21 points, Ore Arogundade added 14, and Drake outscored Division III Simpson from the free-throw line 24-2 en route to a 76-61 win on Saturday. Drake (1-2) shot 51.7 percent from the field in the second half after a 27.6 mark in the first. Timmer had 16 of his 21 after the break, including 4 of 4 from the free-throw line.

Simpson went scoreless over a five-minute period spanning both halves as Drake built a double-digit lead. Timmer’s 3-pointer capped the 9-0 run with 18:57 remaining, giving the Bulldogs a 33-22 lead. The Storm never got closer than eight points the rest of the way.Drake shot 24 of 34 from the line compared to Simpson’s 2 of 7. DJ Dafney had 13 points and Sam Amsbaugh 12 for Simpson. Both players added five rebounds.

DELAND, Fla. (AP) – Grant Kraemer threw for 334 yards and a career-high five touchdowns and Drake cruised to a 45-17 win over Stetson in the regular season finale for both teams on Saturday. The win gives Drake (7-4, 6-2 Pioneer Football League) four straight to close out the year, while Stetson (4-7, 2-6) finished on a four-game losing streak.

Kraemer’s primary targets were Grant Menard and Eric Saubert. Menard caught seven for 95 yards and three scores, while Saubert had 131 yards and the remaining two of Kraemer’s five TDs. Conley Wilkins added 140 yards rushing for Drake, which piled up 565 yards total.

The score was tied at 17 at the break, but a pair of TD passes by Kraemer in the third and another midway through the fourth put the game away. Cole Mazza led the Hatters with 114 yards rushing and a touchdown.

CHAMPAIGN, Ill. (AP) — On a 37-degree day when a stiff wind made it feel much colder, Iowa used LeShun Daniels Jr.’s 159 yards and two touchdowns and a punt-return score by Riley McCarron to shut down Illinois, 28-0. And the Hawkeyes (7-4, 5-3 Big Ten) played some defense, too. The Illini (3-8, 2-6) had 198 total yards and never moved the ball inside the Iowa 30.

On a day when yards were hard to come by, Iowa turned its own turnover into the game’s first points. Akrum Wadley fumbled the ball at the Illinois 2, but the stagnant Illinois offense couldn’t move the ball past its own 5.

That left senior McCarron standing at his own 45, waiting for the low, wind-driven punt from David Reisner to find him. When it did, he gashed through the Illini, breaking right and finding little but open space on his way to the end zone. The 55-yard touchdown was enough to give Iowa a 7-0 halftime lead. McCarron had only returned one punt this season before Saturday.

From there, with the wind blowing 24 mph, the Hawkeye offense leaned on Daniels. He scored on a 1-yard touchdown midway through the third quarter to put the Hawkeyes up 14-0 and on a 50-yard breakaway midway through the fourth for a 21-0 lead that was far more than the Illini could overcome.

The Hawkeyes close at home against No. 19 Nebraska next Saturday.

w/ Chris Parks

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LAKE BUENA VISTA, Fla. (AP) – Klint Carlson scored 22 points and ignited a second-half rally that carried Northern Iowa to a 73-67 overtime win over Oklahoma on Friday night in the winner’s bracket of the Tire Pros Invitational.

Jeremy Morgan scored 17 points and Jordan Ashton had 13 for the Panthers (3-0), who rallied from an 18-point second half deficit to win.

Jordan Woodard and Kristian Doolittle had 13 points apiece for Oklahoma (1-2), which had only one field goal in the final 11 minutes of regulation. Khadeem Lattin and Rashard Odomes contributed 11 points each.

Carlson, who had 18 points in the second half and overtime, nailed a 3-pointer from straight on to break a 64-all tie with 42.9 seconds left in overtime. The Panthers added two free throws to go ahead 69-64 before Woodard nailed a 3-pointer to make it a 69-67 game with 8.8 seconds to go.

Morgan iced the game with four free throws in the final six seconds.

CEDAR FALLS, Iowa (AP) – West Des Moines Dowling Catholic rode Jacob Zachary’s power running to yet another state championship, defeating Iowa City West 23-10.

Zachary rambled for 194 yards in 27 carries Friday night and scored twice as Dowling won its fourth consecutive Class 4A title.

It was the fifth championship in the last seven years and seventh overall for the Maroons (12-1), who harassed West (10-3) all night with a swarming defense that included tight coverage on the Trojans’ star receiver, Oliver Martin. No other 4A school has won more than two consecutive championships.

Dallas McCarthy’s 23-yard field goal gave Dowling a 16-10 halftime lead, Jayson Murray scored from 8 yards out midway through the third quarter and the defense did the rest, holding West to 57 yards rushing and 253 total yards.

Martin scored West’s only touchdown on an 85-yard kickoff return late in the first quarter.