WEEK 10 COLLEGE FOOTBALL TOP 25 RUNDOWN
ATHENS, Ga. – Stetson Bennett threw two touchdown passes and ran for a score and No. 1 Georgia shut down No. 2 Tennessee’s high-powered offense, dominating the Volunteers 27-13 on Saturday in an SEC showdown of the nation’s top-ranked teams.
Georgia (9-0, 6-0 Southeastern Conference. No. 3 CFP) turned the 25th regular-season matchup of the top two teams in the AP poll into rout that made clear the defending national champions are still the team to beat.
Hendon Hooker, who entered as the Heisman Trophy frontrunner after taking down Alabama last month, passed for only 195 yards for Tennessee (8-1, 4-1) and was sacked six times by star defensive tackle Jalen Carter and the Bulldogs’ defense.
NO. 2 OHIO STATE 21, NORTHWESTERN 7
EVANSTON, Ill. (AP) – Miyan Williams ran for 111 yards and two touchdowns as the Buckeyes held on in rainy and windy conditions.
The Buckeyes (9-0, 6-0 Big Ten, No. 2 CFP) came in tied with Tennessee in the AP poll but didn’t score until the closing minutes of the first half, when Emeka Egbuka ran it in from the 15.
NO. 7 TCU 34, TEXAS TECH 24
FORT WORTH, Texas (AP) – Derius Davis returned a punt 82 yards for a touchdown and Kendre Miller ran for the go-ahead score early in the fourth quarter as TCU reached 9-0 for the first time since 2010.
Davis caught one of Max Duggan’s two fourth-quarter TD passes for the Horned Frogs, 6-0 in the Big 12.
NO. 8 OREGON 49, COLORADO 10
BOULDER, Colo. (AP) – Bo Nix completed 20 of 24 passes for 274 yards and two TDs and caught a touchdown pass to key the rout on a windy day.
Oregon dialed up the gadget plays, including an offensive lineman catching a touchdown pass and a linebacker scoring from short, becoming the first FBS team to have a receiving TD from an offensive lineman, a receiving score from a quarterback, and a rushing TD by a defensive player in the same game since at least 1996, according to research provided by Oregon.
MICHIGAN STATE 23, NO. 14 Illinois 15
CHAMPAIGN, Ill. (AP) -Payton Thorne passed for 182 yards and two touchdowns as Michigan State ended a troubling week on a positive note and kept alive its bowl hopes.
The Spartans (4-5, 2-4 Big Ten), who were without eight suspended players, stopped the Illini five times on fourth down. Illinois turned the ball over on downs three times in the red zone and went a combined 7 of 23 on third- and fourth-down attempts.
NO. 16 PENN STATE 45, INDIANA 14
BLOOMINGTON, Ind. (AP) – Kaytron Allen ran for 86 yards and scored a season-high three times to as the Hoosiers lost their sixth straight.
Penn State (7-2, 4-2 Big Ten) has won eight of the last nine in the series with Indiana (3-6, 1-5).
NO. 17 NORTH CAROLINA 31, VIRGINIA 28
CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. (AP) – Drake Maye threw for two touchdowns and ran for another as North Carolina rallied after halftime for the win.
Elijah Green scored twice and Josh Downs caught 15 passes, including a touchdown, for the Tar Heels (8-1, 5-0 Atlantic Coast Conference, No. 17 CFP), now 5-0 in league play for the first time since 2015.
KANSAS 37, NO. 18 OKLAHOMA STATE 16
LAWRENCE, Kan. (AP) – Devin Neal ran for 224 yards and a touchdown and had 110 receiving yards for Kansas to key the upset.
The Jayhawks (6-3, 3-3 Big 12 Conference) are bowl-eligible for the first time since 2008.
NO. 19 TULANE 27, TULSA 13
TULSA, Okla. (AP) – Tyjae Spears ran for 157 yards and a touchdown and Shaadie Clayton-Johnson gained 106 as Tulane dominated on the ground.
Tulane (8-1, 5-0 American Athletic Conference) had lost the past two meetings with Tulsa (3-6, 1-4) in overtime.
PITTSBURGH, 19, NO. 22 SYRACUSE 9
PITTSBURGH (AP) – Rodney Hammond ran for a career-high 124 yards and a touchdown while filling in for injured Israel Abanikanda as Pittsburgh handed Syracuse its third straight loss.
The Panthers (5-4, 2-3 Atlantic Coast Conference) relied heavily on Hammond and a defense that kept Orange redshirt freshman quarterback Carlos Del Rio-Wilson in check in his first career start. Pitt sacked Del Rio-Wilson six times and limited the Orange (6-3, 3-2) to 145 total yards.
NO. 23 LIBERTY 21, ARKANSAS 19
FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. (AP) – Johnathan Bennett threw three touchdown passes in the first half and Liberty used a late goal-line stop on a 2-point conversion to hang on.
Liberty (8-1) stopped KJ Jefferson’s conversion attempt with 1:11 left. The Razorbacks (5-4) scored 19 unanswered points on a field goal, safety, two touchdowns and a 2-point conversion. Jefferson took a shotgun snap up the middle on the conversion try and was marked short of the end zone near the goal line. Officials upheld the call after more than two minutes of review.
NO. 25 UCF 35, MEMPHIS 28
MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) – Mikey Keene passed for 219 yards and three touchdowns and RJ Harvey rushed for 151 yards and a score as UCF handed the Tigers their fourth straight loss.
Keene was pressed into his first start of the season for UCF (7-2, 4-1 American Athletic Conference) after quarterback John Rhys Plumlee suffered an injury in last weekend’s upset of nationally ranked Cincinnati.
(AP)
