Box Scorin': Now let us praise Cam Newton's record-breaking arm

Weird, wild and prolific stats from the weekend's action.

• . Auburn quarterback Cam Newton's 335-yard, four-touchdown barrage in a 56-17 SEC Championship rout over South Carolina left him as the national passing leader in yards per attempt, touchdown percentage and overall efficiency rating. If it holds through the BCS title game, Newton's 188.2 rating will break the single-season record for I-A/FBS quarterbacks, 186.0, set by Colt Brennan in 2006.

As a runner, Newton's two touchdowns on the ground Saturday put him alongside Tim Tebow and Nevada's Colin Kaepernick (another new addition this weekend) as the only players in NCAA history with 20 touchdown runs and 20 touchdown passes in the same season. Newton's SEC-best 1,409 yards rushing for the year also makes him just the seventh SEC player – after Mark Ingram, Knowshon Moreno, Darren McFadden (twice), Artose Pinner, Travis Stephens and Rudi Johnson – with 1,400 yards since 2000.

• USC running back Allen Bradford, who came into Saturday with 18 carries for 49 yards over the Trojans' last six games, ended his college career with 212 yards on 28 carries in a 28-14 win over UCLA, adding a 47-yard touchdown reception for good measure. His last carry: A 73-yard scoring sprint up the middle.

• Nebraska and Oklahoma combined for 15 punts, nine sacks, eight fumbles, five turnovers and just five third-down conversions in 33 attempts in the Sooners' 23-20 win for the Big 12 Championship.

• Fulfilling his coach's promise to "POUND THAT ROCK," Washington running back Chris Polk churned out 284 yards and two touchdowns on 29 carries, coming closer than any Husky back in 60 years to Hugh McElhenny's school-record 296 yards against Wazzu in 1950.

• Florida State running back Ty Jones scored three touchdowns on six carries, but the Seminoles managed just 53 yards rushing on 1.9 per carry as a team in a 44-33 ACC Championship loss to Virginia Tech, by far their worst effort of the season on the ground. On the other side, Hokie quarterback Tyrod Taylor accounted for 287 total yards and four touchdowns with zero turnovers.

• West Virginia rolled up 523 total yards in a 35-14 win over Rutgers, the Mountaineers' best single-game total under Bill Stewart since racking up 525 yards in his first game as interim head coach in the 2008 Fiesta Bowl. WVU quarterback Geno Smith easily set a new career high with 352 yards passing, including eight completions covering at least 20 yards, but only connected for one touchdown.

• SMU failed to score in the first three quarters of a 17-7 loss to Central Florida in the Conference USA Championship Game, the Mustangs' longest stretch without a point since June Jones' third game as head coach in September 2008.

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