most yards by a running back in a college football game

Samaje Perine has the most rushing yards by a running back in a game, with 427 yards against Kansas on November 22, 2014.

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most rushing yards by a running back in a college football game

		NAME	RUSH YDS	DATE	TM		OPP	ATT	YPC	RUSH TD	REC YDS	REC	TRG	AVG	REC TD
1		Samaje Perine S. Perine	427	11/22/2014	OKLA	vs	KU	34	12.6	5	19	1	2	19.0	0
2		Jaret Patterson J. Patterson	409	11/28/2020	BUFF	vs	KENT	36	11.4	8
3		Melvin Gordon M. Gordon	408	11/15/2014	WIS	vs	NEB	25	16.3	4
4		LaDainian Tomlinson L. Tomlinson	406	11/20/1999	TCU	vs	UTEP	43	9.4		6	2		3.0
5		Darren Davis D. Davis	378	9/28/1996	ISU	vs	MIZ	41	9.2		-4	1		-4.0
6		Robbie Mixon R. Mixon	377	11/2/2002	CMU	@	EMU	43	8.8	4	7	1		7.0	0
7		Travis Prentice T. Prentice	376	11/6/1999	M-OH	vs	AKR	41	9.2		35	1		35.0
8		Astron Whatley A. Whatley	373	9/20/1997	KENT	@	EMU	42	8.9		0	2		0.0
9		Ka'Deem Carey K. Carey	366	11/10/2012	ARIZ	vs	COLO	25	14.6	5	34	2		17.0	0
10		Garrett Wolfe G. Wolfe	353	9/30/2006	NIU	@	BALL	31	11.4	3	3	3		1.0	0
11		Montel Harris M. Harris	351	11/17/2012	TEM	@	ARMY	36	9.8	7
12		Scott Harley S. Harley	351	11/30/1996	ECU	vs	NCST	42	8.4		5	2		2.5
13		Ricky Williams R. Williams	350	10/3/1998	TEX	vs	ISU	37	9.5		17	2		8.5
14		Shun White S. White	348	8/30/2008	NAVY	vs	TOWS	19	18.3	3
15		Leon Allen L. Allen	345	11/15/2014	WKU	vs	ARMY	33	10.5	3	12	2	3	6.0	0
16		Matt Forte M. Forte	342	10/20/2007	TULN	@	SMU	38	9.0	4
17		D'Onta Foreman D. Foreman	341	11/5/2016	TEX	@	TTU	33	10.3	3	0	0	1		0
18		Andre Williams A. Williams	339	11/16/2013	BC	vs	NCST	42	8.1	2
19		Ron Dayne R. Dayne	339	11/30/1996	WIS	@	HAW	36	9.4		8	1		8.0
20		Kasey Carrier K. Carrier	338	10/20/2012	UNM	@	AFA	39	8.7	3	5	1		5.0	0
21		Kay-Jay Harris K. Harris	337	9/4/2004	WVU	vs	ECU	25	13.5	4
22		Joe Williams J. Williams	332	10/22/2016	UTAH	@	UCLA	29	11.4	4
23		Trey Sermon T. Sermon	331	12/19/2020	OSU	vs	NW	29	11.4	2	4	3	6	1.3	0
24		Justin Crawford J. Crawford	331	11/19/2016	WVU	vs	OKLA	24	13.8	0	0	0	1		0
25		Mikel Leshoure M. Leshoure	330	11/20/2010	ILL	@	NW	33	10.0	2	11	1		11.0	0

Results may be incomplete. StatMuse has complete game-level data for rushing yards going back to the 1995 season.

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5	Texas	5-2	8-3
6	Oklahoma	5-2	9-2
7	Vanderbilt	5-2	9-2
8	Tennessee	4-3	8-3

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Sat 11/29	LSU	@	OKLA	3:30 PM

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1	Ohio State	11	0	1.000
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1	North Texas	10	1	.909
2	Tulane	9	2	.818

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1	Notre Dame	9	2	.818
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2	Washington State	5	6	.455

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1	Texas A&M	11	0	1.000
2	Georgia	10	1	.909

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1	Texas Tech	10	1	.909
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Scores

DATE	MATCHUP			SCORE
Fri 10/31	MIA	@	SMU	20-26
Fri 10/31	VAN	@	TEX	31-34
Fri 10/31	ARMY	@	AFA	20-17
Fri 10/31	DUKE	@	CLEM	46-45
Fri 10/31	ECU	@	TEM	45-14

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DATE	MATCHUP			TIME (ET)
Thu 11/27	NAVY	@	MEM	7:30 PM
Fri 11/28	IOWA	@	NEB	12:00 PM
Fri 11/28	OHIO	@	BUFF	12:00 PM
Fri 11/28	UTAH	@	KU	12:00 PM
Fri 11/28	KENT	@	NIU	12:00 PM