Swamp stunner: LSU beats Florida with late 57-yard FG
GAINESVILLE,FLA.» Kyle Trask and No. 6 Florida look nowhere near ready for top-ranked Alabama.
Max Johnson threw three touchdown passes in his first college start, Cade York kicked a 57-yard field goal with 23 seconds remaining and reigning national champion LSU stunned the Gators 37
34 on a cool and foggy Saturday night in the Swamp.
York drilled his kick through the dense fog and the uprights, leaving Florida with a final shot. Trask got the Gators (8-2) in position to tie it, but Evan McPherson was wide left from 51 yards on the final play. LSU
(4-5) celebrated wildly.
Johnson had a lot to do with the outcome. The son of former Super Bowl champion Brad Johnson repeatedly torched Florida’s beleaguered defense. He threw for 239 yards, nearly half of them (108) to Kayshon Boutte, and ran for 52 more.
Florida didn’t help itself with three turnovers in the first half.
(11) COASTAL CAROLINA 42, TROY 38 » Grayson McCall threw a 23-yard touchdown pass to Jaivon Heiligh with 45 seconds left and Coastal Carolina (11-0, 8-0 Sun Belt) preserved its first perfect regular season with a victory over Troy (5-6, 3-4).
McCall needed just 45 seconds to move the Chanticleers, who didn’t have any timeouts, 75 yards for the score. He completed all four of his passes, three of them to Heiligh.
(1) ALABAMA 52, ARKANSAS 3 » DeVonta mith returned a punt 84 yards for a touchdown as Alabama
(10-0) scored 28 points in a span of 11 minutes in the first half and rolled past Arkansas (3-7).
(19) IOWA 28, (25) WISCONSIN 7 » Spencer Petras threw for 211 yards and two TDs to Ihmir Smith-Marsette to lead Iowa (6-2) past Wisconsin for the Hawkeyes’ sixth win in a row.
(20) NORTHCAROLINA62,(9)MIAMI
26 » Michael Carter and Javonte Williams set an NCAA record by combining for 544 yards rushing, and North Carolina (8-3, 7-3 ACC)
embarrassed Miami (8-2, 7-2) in the regular-season finale for both.
(12) GEORGIA 49, MISSOURI 14 » JT Daniels threw three TD passes, two to George Pickens, and Georgia (7
2) routed Missouri (5-4).
(15) NORTHWESTERN 28, ILLINOIS
10. » Cam Porter ran for a careerhigh 142 yards and two touchdowns, Evan Hull added a seasonbest 149 yards on the ground, and Northwestern (6-1) tuned up for the Big Ten championship game by beating Illinois (2-5).
UTAH 38, (21) COLORADO 21» Ty Jordan scored twice, including a sealing 66-yard burst, and Utah’s revamped defense forced three turnovers to help the Utes (2-2, 2-2
Pac-12) rally past Colorado (4-1, 3-1).
(24) BUFFALO 56, AKRON 7 » Jaret Patterson ran for 105 yards and matched a major college football record by reaching 1,000 yards for the season in five games, helping Buffalo (5-0) rout Akron (1-5) in a tuneup for the Mid-American Conference championship against Ball State.
Arizona fires Sumlin
TUCSON,ARIZ.» Kevin Sumlin set a decent foundation his first season at Arizona, winning five games and just missing a bowl game. The program went on downward trend in the two years since, the wins dropping each season.
Allowing the most points in a
121-year rivalry turned out to be the last straw.
Arizona fired Sumlin on Saturday, a day after a 70-7 loss to Arizona State extended the Wildcats’ losing streak to a record 12 games over two seasons.
Fuller kicks 2 extra points
NASHVILLE, TENN. » Sarah Fuller kicked two extra points to become the first woman to score in a Power Five conference game, finally getting the chance to do more than squib a kickoff for Vanderbilt during a 42-17 loss to Tennessee.
Fuller cleanly converted both of her kicks, to the cheers of her teammates and family. “This whole time has been if I can do it, if I’m good enough to do it,” Fuller said. “It wasn’t if I was a girl or not. So that’s something I’ve really appreciated. At the end of the day, they treated me like an athlete and that’s the best I could ask for.”
Herman returning
Texas has ended widespread speculation about coach Tom Herman’s future, announcing Saturday he will return in 2021 for his fifth season with the No. 23 Longhorns.
Eyes around college football have been on Texas for weeks. Texas is 6-3 this season after its scheduled regular-season finale Saturday at winless Kansas was canceled.