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20 college football records that will never be broken

By Nathaniel Reeves

7 Nov 1998: Head coach Bobby Bowden of the Florida State Seminoles looks on as players celebrate during the game against the Virginia Cavaliers at the Doak Campell Stadium in Tallahassee, Florida. The Seminoles defeated the Cavaliers 45-14. Mandatory Credit: Scott Halleran /Allsport
7 Nov 1998: Head coach Bobby Bowden of the Florida State Seminoles looks on as players celebrate during the game against the Virginia Cavaliers at the Doak Campell Stadium in Tallahassee, Florida. The Seminoles defeated the Cavaliers 45-14. Mandatory Credit: Scott Halleran /Allsport /
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PORTGeneral View of the Main entry to Providence Park before the game between the Portland Timbers and the Seattle Sounders FC at Providence Park on April 5, 2014 in Portland, Oregon. (Photo by Steve Dykes/Getty Images)
PORTGeneral View of the Main entry to Providence Park before the game between the Portland Timbers and the Seattle Sounders FC at Providence Park on April 5, 2014 in Portland, Oregon. (Photo by Steve Dykes/Getty Images) /

18. Individual touchdowns in a quarter: Neil Lomax, 7

The run and shoot offense claimed a number of new NCAA records after Mouse Davis popularized the system at Portland State in the late 1970s, including an absurdly prolific quarter for Vikings signal caller Neil Lomax in a 1980 contest against Delaware State.

Davis took over at Division II Portland State in 1975 and installed the run-and-shoot offense, which typically featured one back and four receivers with heavy use of motion and adjusting on the fly. Quarterback and future offensive guru June Jones set a Division II record with 3,518 passing yards in 1975, but Davis’ system wouldn’t really take off until Lomax took over under center two years later.

Lomax finished his career with 90 different NCAA records, including 13,220 passing yards and 106 touchdowns over 42 games, many of which would later be broken. However, nobody figures to top Lomax’s first quarter on Nov. 8, 1980, as he tossed seven touchdown passes in the opening frame en route to a 105-0 destruction of the Hornets.

To put things in perspective, Lomax’s seven touchdowns in a quarter match the FBS record for an entire half, most recently set by Memphis’ Paxton Lynch in 2015. Quarterbacks like Andre Ware and David Klingler would re-write the record books in later iterations of the run-and-shoot, but Lomax’s 15-minute stretch against the overmatched Hornets hasn’t been challenged since.

Unlike so many other quarterbacks from the system, Lomax enjoyed a solid enough NFL career with the Cardinals from 1981-1988 that included a pair of Pro Bowl appearances.

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