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College football

A new low for Irish: They’re 0-4

Notre Dame hit new depths Saturday, becoming the first team in the school’s 119-season history to lose its first four games.

Brian Hoyer threw four touchdown passes and Javon Ringer rushed for 144 yards to lead Michigan State to a 31-14 victory in South Bend, Ind.

The Irish have lost six straight, including the final two games of last season, the second-longest losing streak in school history.

Notre Dame coach Charlie Weis said he wasn’t focusing on the worst start.

“Records to me (are) not the critical factor,” he said. “I’ll critically evaluate this game and get ready for Purdue.”

MSU (4-0) is the sixth straight team to score at least 30 against the Irish. Notre Dame finally scored its first offensive touchdown of the season on a 1-yard run by Travis Thomas to cap a 9-yard drive in the first. The score was set up by a Spartans fumble.

Notre Dame later added an 80-yard scoring drive highlighted by a 43-yard run by James Aldridge.

College football

Now they know how Michigan felt

Appalachian State, three weeks removed from winning at Michigan, had its 17-game winning streak snapped by Southern Conference rival Wofford, 42-31 in Spartanburg, S.C.

Appalachian State opened the season with one of the biggest upsets in college football history, a 34-32 win at Michigan.

The Wolverines, No. 5 in the nation at the time, became the first ranked major college team to lose to a team from Division I’s second-tier.

The Mountaineers (3-1) are the two-time defending national champs in the Championship Subdivision.

They were consensus No. 1 in the FCS polls and had even gotten a few votes in the AP’s Top 25 – a rule change made for ex-Division I-AA teams after the Michigan win.

Appalachian State hadn’t lost since last year’s opener against North Carolina State.

College football

Woodson bests Dilfer’s record

Kentucky’s Andre Woodson set a major college record for consecutive passes without an interception, breaking the mark of 271 held by Fresno State’s Trent Dilfer. Woodson broke the record with his 15th pass in a 42-29 win over Arkansas in Fayetteville, Ark. Woodson, a senior, was last intercepted by Georgia in early November of last year.