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Three college QBs have record-setting days

Dominique Davis couldn’t miss. Case Keenum passed Timmy Chang for the first of what could be two records he takes from the former Hawaii quarterback. And Kellen Moore matched Colt McCoy with another victory.

While Keenum and Moore were expected to put their names in the NCAA record books Saturday, Davis did so with a remarkable show of accuracy for East Carolina at Navy.

Davis completed his first 26 passes to break a record held by Tennessee’s Tee Martin and California’s Aaron Rodgers – heard of him? – and led the Pirates to a 38-35 victory.

Davis also set a record for most consecutive completions over more than one game. He had completed his final 10 passes against Memphis last week, so his first half against Navy gave him 36 completions in a row – breaking the NCAA mark of 26 set in 2004 by Rodgers, now a star with the Super Bowl champion Green Bay Packers.

After going 26 for 26 for 251 yards before halftime, Davis’ streak ended when he misfired on his first attempt in the third quarter. He finished 40 for 45 for 372 yards, two touchdowns and no interceptions.

In Houston, Keenum became the Football Bowl Subdivision’s career leader in total offense, throwing for 376 yards and tying his career high with six touchdown passes in No. 21 Houston’s 63-28 win over Marshall.

The senior quarterback needed 130 yards to eclipse the record (16,910 yards) set by Chang from 2000-04. He moved past Chang on a 30-yard pass to Justin Johnson late in the first quarter.

Keenum completed 24 of 28 passes – 15 in a row during one stretch – and also crept closer to the major college football career records for passing yards and touchdown throws. He needs 802 passing yards to move ahead of Chang’s record (17,072) and five TD passes to eclipse the mark (134) set by Texas Tech’s Graham Harrell from 2005-08.

At Boise, Moore threw three touchdown passes and No. 5 Boise State beat Air Force 37-26 to give the senior his 45th career victory as a starter.

That put him in a tie with the former Texas star McCoy for the most wins by a college quarterback.