Record Day for QBs Davis, Moore and Keenum

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 completions over more than one game. He had completed his final 10 passes against Memphis last week, so his stunning 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.

Funny thing is, it wasn't until he reached the locker room that Davis learned just how special his numbers were.

"I had no idea until after the game," the 6-foot-3 quarterback said. "When they told me, I was like, 'Wow, really?' It's amazing, but when you do your job and put the ball in your receiver's hands, that's what happens."

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 with 3:56 left 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.

Houston coach Kevin Sumlin awarded the game ball to Keenum at midfield, where the Cougars gathered behind him. Keenum turned to his teammates and hoisted the ball.

At Boise, Idaho, 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 all-time by a college quarterback. His second TD pass of the day, a 19-yarder to Matt Miller, gave him 122 for his career and pushed him past former BYU quarterback Ty Detmer for fourth best all-time.

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Case Keenum gets sixth year

Houston quarterback Case Keenum has been granted a sixth year of eligibility by the NCAA and will be allowed to play in 2011 after missing most of this past season with a torn anterior cruciate ligament in his knee.

The school announced Friday afternoon that the appeal was granted based on the knee injury, and a shoulder injury that prevented him from playing his true freshman season and resulted in a redshirt. In order to get a sixth year, you have to show two seasons lost because of injury.

[+] Enlarge Stephen Dunn/Getty ImagesHouston quarterback Case Keenum will get one more year to try to pass Timmy Chang as the NCAA's all-time passing leader.This is obviously great news for Houston, which finished 5-7 and missed a bowl game after Keenum got hurt in Week 3 in a loss to UCLA. With his return, Keenum will be able to continue his quest to become the NCAA's all-time passing leader. After two-plus games played in 2010, Keenum wrapped up the season with 14,448 career yards of total offense (7th), 13,586 passing yards (5th), 107 touchdown passes (8th), 1,626 pass attempts (10th), 1,118 pass completions (7th).

Hawaii's Timmy Chang holds the NCAA career passing record of 17,072 yards.

Keenam said he was "super excited" when he heard the news. "That's the only way I've been able to describe it," Keenum said in a phone interview after the official announcement was made. "It’s a big relief, just knowing and that's a big part of this whole thing. I'm pumped. I’m very excited to be playing again it means a lot to me."

No decision has been made yet about whether or not he will be able to participate fully in spring practice. Keenum just resumed throwing a few weeks ago and is working to strengthen the muscles in his leg.

"I'm starting to see some progress, doing functional type work with jogging and doing some drop backs and different drills like that, trying to get the function back in my leg," Keenum said. "It's amazing how fast those muscles go away when you don't use them. I learned that first hand."

As for the previous shoulder injury, Keenum said he separated his shoulder in his final game in high school, then re-injured it in an All-Star game that summer.

Houston also will return Cotton Turner and David Piland at quarterback. Turner also missed most of last season after breaking his collarbone in the same game as Keenum, and Piland ended up starting the majority of the season without them. Keenum says Turner has been throwing for a while and is working harder than ever to return.

The Cougars have their first team meeting of the 2011 season next week and classes start Tuesday, so the anxiety started to set in this week about whether or not Keenum would be able to return to the team.

"Words can’t describe how happy he was with the news," coach Kevin Sumlin said on a conference call. "As I talked to his dad later on, I was even happier for him and his family because of all he’s gone through. For me, it’s one of those deals where you’re just happy when good things happen to good people. We’re extremely thankful for the decision. Case is extremely thankful and thankful for all the people who worked and really took the time to be a part of this. It’s been a long process. I’m out recruiting right now, but today for us and for the University of Houston, we got the best recruit we could get for the next year."

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