The Associated Press national player of the week in football for Week 3 of the season:<\/p>\n
Mario Craver, Texas A&M<\/p>\n
The Mississippi State transfer posted career highs with 207 yards on seven catches, including an 86-yard touchdown, in the Aggies’ 41-40 win at Notre Dame. <\/p>\n
Craver is the nation’s leading receiver after amassing over 100 yards in a third straight game. He’s averaging 147.5 yards per game and 22.2 per catch and has four TDs.<\/p>\n
He scored the Aggies’ first points against Notre Dame when he got past his defender to make a catch at the A&M 30, broke through three would-be tacklers at the 50 and ran down the sideline to complete the 86-yard play. <\/p>\n
Craver is the first player in program history to have a TD reception of at least 70 yards in two straight games. He had a 72-yarder against Utah State.<\/p>\n
His 173 receiving yards at halftime were the most in a half since Mike Evans had 182 in the first half against Auburn in 2013.<\/p>\n
Runner-up<\/p>\n
Carson Beck, Miami. The Georgia transfer completed 23 of 28 passes for 340 yards with three touchdowns and rushed six times for 28 yards and a TD in a 49-12 win over South Florida. <\/p>\n
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Texas A&M wide receiver Mario Craver (1) cathces a pass for a 72 yard catch and run touchdown against Utah State during the second half of an NCAA college football game Saturday, Sept. 6, 2025, in College Station, Texas. Credit: AP\/Sam Craft<\/p>\n
Through three games, Beck has connected on 79.3% of his passes (65 of 82), the best mark in the nation, for 812 yards and seven touchdowns. He threw his first two interceptions of the season in the USF game.<\/p>\n
Honorable mention<\/p>\n
LSU DB Dashawn Spears had two of LSU\u2019s five interceptions in a 20-10 win over Florida. He ran back his second pick 58 yards for the Tigers’ final touchdown. … Georgia QB Gunner Stockton was 23 of 31 for a career-high 304 yards and two touchdowns in a 44-41 overtime win at Tennessee. Stockton sent the game to OT with a 28-yard touchdown pass on fourth-and-6 and a tying 2-point pass. … Tennessee WR Chris Brazzell II caught six balls for career highs of 177 yards and three TDs against Georgia.<\/p>\n
Six stats<\/p>\n
\u2014 No. 1 Ohio State’s 37-9 victory over Ohio extended the Buckeyes’ win streak to 48 against in-state opponents. The Columbus Dispatch noted that Wooster is the last Buckeye State team to not lose to the Buckeyes, tying them 7-7 in 1924. Ohio State’s last loss to an in-state team was in 1921, a 7-6 defeat to Oberlin.<\/p>\n
\u2014 DJ Lagway’s five interceptions against LSU were the most by a Florida quarterback since Shane Matthews threw five against Mississippi State in 1992, according to the Gainesville Sun.<\/p>\n
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Texas A&M wide receiver Mario Craver (1) reacts after a first down catch and run against Utah State during the second half of an NCAA college football game Saturday, Sept. 6, 2025, in College Station, Texas. Credit: AP\/Sam Craft<\/p>\n
\u2014 Nebraska is 3-0 for the second straight year. The Cornhuskers have won nine straight nonconference games, their longest streak since they won 12 in a row from 1999-2001.<\/p>\n
\u2014 Duke and Coastal Carolina each have lost five fumbles through three games. That’s one fewer than their 13-game totals last season.<\/p>\n
\u2014 Utah has converted 71.1% of it third downs (32 of 45) to rank second nationally after three games. Last year the Utes converted 32.8% (56 of 171) in 12 games to rank 124th.<\/p>\n
\u2014 Hayden Teeter of Division III Puget Sound (Washington) turned in the top all-division passing performance of the season, throwing for 585 yards and six touchdowns at Southwestern (Texas). Teeter’s team lost 51-43.<\/p>\n
___<\/p>\n
AP voters: Aaron Beard, Cliff Brunt, Maura Carey, Pat Graham, Stephen Hawkins, Mark Long, John Marshall, Steve Megargee and Eric Olson.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Associated Press national player of the week in football for Week 3 of the season: Mario Craver,…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":229052,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43],"tags":[2871,1428,1318,1317,1315,1316,62,67,132,68,10190],"class_list":{"0":"post-229051","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ncaa-football","8":"tag-college","9":"tag-college-football","10":"tag-football","11":"tag-ncaa","12":"tag-ncaa-football","13":"tag-ncaafootball","14":"tag-sports","15":"tag-united-states","16":"tag-unitedstates","17":"tag-us","18":"tag-wires-bot"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115209072426803649","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229051","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=229051"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229051\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/229052"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=229051"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=229051"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=229051"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}