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— Chris Irvin threw for 247 yards and three touchdowns and Western Illinois rebounded with a vengeance and beat Valparaiso 51-30 on Saturday.

— New quarterback Preston Stone passed for 245 yards and his first three touchdowns with Northwestern, leading the Wildcats to a 42-7 rout of Western Illinois on Friday night.

— Hank Beatty returned a punt 69 yards for a third-quarter touchdown and broke Red Grange’s 102-year-old Illinois record for yards on punt returns to help the No. 11 Illini rout...

— Nathan Lamb threw for 352 yards and two touchdowns and Torrance Farmer Jr. ran for a pair of scores and Western Illinois ended its four-game losing streak beating Gardner-Webb 45-28 in the season finale for both teams on Saturday.

— Paxton DeLaurent threw for 367 yards and four touchdowns, and he added a touchdown on the ground to help Southeast Missouri State beat Western Illinois 54-45 on Saturday to clinch at least a share of the Big South-OVC title.

— Draylen Ellis threw three touchdown passes, Tevin Carter ran for two scores and Tennessee State rolled to a 45-20 win over Western Illinois on Saturday.

Scott Van Pelt and Stanford Steve recap the wild game between Western Illinois and Lindenwood in Week 9 of the college football season.

Steve Hall ran for 259 yards and four touchdowns to lead Lindenwood to a 49-38 victory over Western Illinois on Saturday.

— Nathan Lamb threw two touchdown passes and ran for another score to lead Western Illinois to a 37-21 victory over Tennessee Tech on Saturday.

— Kinkead Dent threw two touchdown passes and ran for two scores, and UT Martin scored two touchdowns in each of the first three quarters in a 45-17 victory over Western Illinois on Saturday.