TCU running back Cam Cook (4) celebrates after scoring a touchdown during the first half of an NCAA college football game against Long Island University in Fort Worth Saturday. (Chris Torres/Star-Telegram via AP)

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FORT WORTH — Cam Cook rushed for three touchdowns, receiver Savion Williams, the former Marshall High School standout, set up a score by completing a pass for the first time in the fifth-year senior’s career and TCU beat FCS member LIU 45-0 on Saturday night.

Josh Hoover threw for 267 yards and two TDs as the Horned Frogs (2-0) pummeled their only non-Power Four opponent this season and won their first meeting with a team from New York since a 31-17 victory at Army 18 years ago.

Williams, who played quarterback in high school and is one of just four seniors to spend their entire careers with TCU, set up JoJo Earle’s 5-yard touchdown catch by taking a pitch on a reverse the play before and throwing on the run to Earle for 15 yards.

Luca Stanzani was just 8 of 18 for 60 yards as LIU (0-2) dropped to 12-36 since Long Island University merged the athletic programs from Division I non-football LIU Brooklyn and Division II football-sponsoring LIU Post. The Sharks had 127 total yards and nine first downs.

Cook had 58 yards on 13 carries with touchdowns of 1, 12 and 5 yards, the last giving the Frogs a 38-0 lead early in the second half.

The first score from Cook was set up by a snap over the head of LIU punter Will Lynch, who fell on the ball at the Sharks’ 11-yard line.

Williams, Jack Bech and JP Richardson didn’t come close to the combined production from the 34-27 win at Stanford in the opener, when they were the first TCU trio with at least 85 yards receiving apiece in the same game. The Frogs didn’t need it in this blowout.

Williams led TCU with 69 yards against the Sharks, Richardson had 25 yards and Bech 11. Richardson had two grabs to extend his streak of consecutive games with a catch to 29. It’s the seventh-longest active streak in the country.

BYU 18, SMU 15

DALLAS — Will Ferrin kicked a 26-yard field goal with 1:58 left after BYU had two big fourth-down runs as the Cougars beat SMU 18-15 on Friday night, ending the Mustangs’ nine-game home winning streak.

The game-winning kick came on the same drive when Miles Davis took a quick pitch on a fourth-and-1 near midfield and ran 37 yards to the Mustangs’ 15.

Enoch Nawahine ran for a 9-yard touchdown on fourth down before a 2-point conversion late in the third quarter for a 15-12 lead, though the Big 12 Cougars (2-0) failed to capitalize on two SMU turnovers in the fourth quarter.

The Mustangs (2-1) hadn’t lost at home since Oct. 22, 2022, against Cincinnati. They averaged 53.9 points in their longest home winning streak since 1948, twice scoring 69 points and putting up 77 in another one. Their lowest-scoring game in that streak was 34.

Collin Rogers set a single-game school record with five field goals for all of the SMU scoring, including a 45-yarder with 6:17 left that tied the game. He also had kicks of 53, 52, 38 and 28 yards as he pushed his career total to 44, tying for the most in Mustangs history.

Jake Retzlaff threw for 202 yards with a touchdown and two interceptions for BYU. Tight end Mata’ava Ta’ase had a 16-yard TD catch in the first quarter.

SMU starting quarterback Preston Stone played only three drives, all three-and-outs before halftime that lost a combined 24 yards with him sacked once on each of those possessions. Kevin Jennings was 15-of-32 passing for 140 yards and ran nine times for 38 yards as the Mustangs had only 261 total yards.