No. 11 Coastal Carolina has late touchdown, leaves Troy at 11-0
TROY, ALA. » Grayson McCall threw a 23-yard touchdown pass to Jaivon Heiligh with 45 seconds left and No. 11 Coastal Carolina preserved its first perfect regular season with a 42-38 victory over Troy on Saturday.
McCall needed just 45 seconds to move the Chanticleers (11-0, 8-0 Sun Belt), who didn’t have any timeouts, 75 yards for the score. He completed all four of his passes, three of them to Heiligh.
Coastal Carolina survived a sandwich game between an upset of then-No. 8 BYU and the league title game against No. 17 Louisiana-Lafayette. The Trojans (5- 6, 3- 4) didn’t make it easy for the highestranked team to visit Veterans Memorial Stadium.
Backup quarterback Jacob Free, who replaced an injured Gunnar Watson in the fourth quarter, hit Tray Eafford on a 6-yard touchdown with 1:20 left. The play was set up with an interception by star middle linebacker Carlton Martial, who also had 21 tackles.
McCall completed 24 of 29 passes for 338 yards and three touchdowns. Heligh
caught 11 passes for 138 yards and two TDs.
McCall also ran for a 2- yard score with 5:03 left for a seemingly safe 35-23 lead. C. J. Marable ran for 120 yards and two scores, including an early 59-yarder, and also caught a touchdown pass.
NO. 1 ALABAMA 52, ARKANSAS 3 » DeVonta Smith returned a punt 84 yards for a touchdown as Alabama scored 28 points in a span of 11 minutes in the first half and rolled past Arkansas.
After the teams traded field goals, Smith started the Crimson Tide (10- 0, CFP No. 1) spree. Najee Harris scored touchdowns 14 seconds apart and a final plunge from 1 yard by Brian Robinson Jr. had Alabama cruising toward the Southeastern Conference championship game next week against No. 6 Florida. LSU 37, NO. 6 FLORIDA 34
» Kyle Trask and 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 on a cool and foggy night in the Swamp.
NO. 19 IOWA 28, NO. 25 WISCONSIN 7 » Spencer Petras threw for 211 yards and two touchdowns to Ihmir Smith- Marsette to lead Iowa past Wisconsin for the Hawkeyes’ sixth win in a row.
Iowa (6-2) beat the Badgers (2-3) for the first time since 2015 to reclaim the Heartland Trophy. Hawkeyes players celebrated by making snow angels after flurries picked up in the second half and blanketed the field in white.
NO. 20 NORTH CAROLINA 62, NO. 9 MIAMI 26 » Michael Carter and Javonte Williams set an NCAA record by combining for 544 yards rushing, and North Carolina embarrassed Miami in the regular-season
finale for both teams.
Carter ran for 308 yards and two touchdowns, and Williams had 236 yards and three touchdowns for the Tar Heels (8-3, 7-3 Atlantic Coast Conference). Per the NCAA, it was the seventh time teammates each ran for at least 200 yards, the first since 2016 and the first such instance in ACC history.
NO. 12 GEORGIA 49, MISSOURI 14 » J.T. Daniels threw three touchdown passes, two to George Pickens, and Georgia routed Missouri.
Zamir White ran for 126 yards and a score for Georgia (7-2). Missouri (54) managed just 200 yards of offense after topping the 600-yard mark each of the past two weeks.
NO. 15 NORTHWESTERN 28, ILLINOIS 10 » Cam Porter ran for a career-high 142 yards and two touchdowns, Evan Hull added a season-best 149 yards on the ground, and Northwestern tuned up for the Big Ten championship game by beating Illinois.
Porter came in with just 32 yards and one TD. But
the freshman broke out in a big way, leading the Wildcats (6-1, No. 14 CFP) to an easy victory over the Illini (2-5).
NO. 16 SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA 43, UCLA 38 » Kedon Slovis threw an 8-yard touchdown to Amon-Ra St. Brown with 16 seconds left for his fifth passing TD of the game, and Southern California rallied from an 18-point, third-quarter deficit to beat UCLA.
UCLA took a 38-36 lead with 52 seconds remaining. UTAH 38, NO. 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 rally past Colorado in the snow to thwart the Buffaloes’ Pac-12 title hopes.
NO. 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 rout Akron in a tune-up for the Mid-American Conference championship against Ball State.