BLOOMINGTON, Ind. — Indiana coach Tom Allen had grown weary of close calls in big games.

On Saturday, Allen went for it — and Michael Penix Jr. made those gambles pay off the Big Ten rivals' first game of the delayed season,

After leading the Hoosiers on a touchdown drive in the final minute of regulation and scoring on a 2-point conversion to force overtime, Penix hooked up with Whop Philyor for 9-yard TD pass in overtime and dove into the pylon for the decisive 2-point conversion to give Indiana a 36-35 victory over No. 8 Penn State — its first win over a Top 10 team in more than 33 years.

“We'd been close so many times, and I was tired of being close,” Allen said. “We liked the call and stayed with the call (after Penn State called timeout) and stayed with the call. We felt like we had our three players inolved in the play and one of those was going to get the ball or Michael was going to keep it. If felt like the right thing to do.”

Indiana snapped the longest streak of consecutive losses to Top 10 foes at 42, a skid that dated to a 31-10 victory at Ohio State on Oct. 10, 1987 — a game the late Earle Bruce dubbed as the darkest day in Buckeyes history.

They ended the second-longest active streak of losses to Top 10 opponents in the Football Bowl Subdivision. Only Wake Forest, at 63, had been longer.

They beat their highest-rated opponent since upsetting No. 6 Michigan State in 1967, which capped a three-game streak in which they also beat No. 10 Arizona and No. 7 Wisconsin and won for only the second time in 24 tries against the Nittany Lions.

They did it on a day Penix wasn't at his best. He finished 19 of 36 with 170 yards, one touchdown and three sacks. But his magical feet worked wonders when the Hoosiers needed him most.

PITTSBURGH — Ian Book passed for 312 yards and three touchdowns — two of them long catch-and-runs to graduate transfer Ben Skowronek — as No. 3 Notre Dame rolled past Pittsburgh 45-3 on Saturday.A week after scuffling its way past Louisville, No. 3 Notre Dame (5-0, 4-0 Atlantic Coast Conference) had no such issues while handling the Panthers (3-4, 2-4) their fourth consecutive loss. Book hit Skowronek for a 34-yard score on Fighting Irish's first possession and Pitt — playing without injured senior quarterback Kenny Pickett for a second straight week — simply could not keep up.