TCU stuns No. 9 Texas with goal-line fumble recovery
AUSTIN, Texas — TCU quarterback Max Duggan ran for the go-ahead score with 4 minutes left and the Horned Frogs' defense made it stand with a goal-line fumble recovery to stun No. 9 Texas 33-31 on Saturday in a game that had 26 penalties and ended when TCU took a safety as time ran out.
Texas looked primed for its second straight fourth-quarter comeback when Sam Ehlinger connected on a 52yard pass to Keontay Ingram to put the Longohorns in scoring position. But Ingram fumbled on the TCU 1 with 2:32 to play.
Darwin Barlow ran 9 yards to pick up a big first down for the Horned Frogs. Duggan then took a deep snap all the way to the back of the end zone to run out the final 6 seconds.
TCU (1-1, 1-1 Big 12) is 7-2 against Texas since joining the Big 12 in 2012. The Texas loss delivers another blow to the Big 12's College Football Playoff hopes. The Longhorns (2-1, 1-1) and Oklahoma, who were the league's highest ranked teams, have dropped early home games to unranked opponents.
NO. 2 ALABAMA 52, NO. 13 TEXAS A&M 24
TUSCALOOSA, Ala. — Mac Jones passed for a career-high 435 yards and four touchdowns, including a pair of deep throws to John Metchie III and an even longer one to Jaylen Waddle, and Alabama romped past Texas A&M.
Briefly threatened early, Jones and the Crimson Tide (2-0) flexed their considerable big-play muscle in the passing game to put away the Aggies (1-1). A sign of things to come: His first attempt went 78 yards to Metchie,B`ama's latest major receiving threat.
Jones topped that with an 87-yard TD to Waddle, who had sprinted past two Aggies defenders to make the grab with nothing but green in between himself and the end zone. Metchie and Jones hooked up for a 63-yarder in the fourth, giving the sophomore five catches for 181 yards.
NO. 3 FLORIDA 38, SOUTH CAROLINA 24
GAINESVILLE, Fla. — Kyle Trask and Kyle Pitts hooked up for two more touchdowns, leading Florida past South Carolina.
Trask completed 21 of 29 passes for 268 yards, with four touchdowns and an interception. His second-quarter fumble kept the Gamecocks (0-2) in the game early.
Pitts finished with four receptions for 57 yards, commanding extra attention and beating South Carolina's top defenders. He nearly made a one-handed catch in the third quarter, but the ball slipped off his left fingertips.
NO. 12 NORTH CAROLINA 26, BOSTON COLLEGE 22
BOSTON — Sam Howell threw two touchdown passes and Trey Morrison scored after intercepting the potential tying 2-point conversion with 45 seconds left to lead North Carolina.
With the cancellation of one game because of the virus and a scheduled off week leaving North Carolina idle since Sept. 12, the Tar Heels (2-0, 2-0 Atlantic Coast Conference) sent BC (2-1, 1-1) to its first loss under new coach Jeff Hafley.
Howell completed 14 of 26 passes for 225 yards, including
a 41-yard score to Javonte Williams that gave Carolina a 21-13 lead with just over a minute left in the first half. Williams ran for 57 yards and caught two passes for 56, and Michael Carter carried 16 times for 121 yards for the Tar Heels.
NO. 15 CINCINNATI 28, SOUTH FLORIDA 7
CINCINNATI — Gerrid Doaks ran for 102 yards and a touchdown, Tre Tucker returned a kickoff 97 yards for a score and Cincinnati had five interceptions.
Tucker returned the kickoff late in the third quarter to put Cincinnati (3-0) ahead 28-7. It was the first kick return TD by a Bearcats player since Ralph David Abernathy IV in the Liberty Bowl against Vanderbilt in December 2011.
The game started sloppily with four turnovers, two by each team, in the first 11 snaps.
NO. 17 OKLAHOMA ST. 47, KANSAS 7
LAWRENCE, Kan. — Shane Illingworth threw for 265 yards and three touchdowns, Chuba Hubbard ran for 145 yards and two more scores, and Oklahoma State was able to rest its starters the final 20 minutes in its victory over Kansas.
Tylan Wallace had nine catches for 148 yards and two touchdowns, and Braylon Johnson had four catches for 74 yards and the other passing TD, as the Cowboys (3-0, 2-0 Big 12) built a 31-0 lead by halftime.
NO. 21 TENNESSEE 35, MISSOURI 12
KNOXVILLE, Tenn. — Eric Gray ran for 105 yards and a touchdown and caught a scoring pass to help Tennessee beat Missouri
The Vols (2-0) have won eight in a row, tying Notre
Dame for the most among Power Five teams.
Jarrett Guarantano played a mistake-free game for Tennessee, completing 14 of 23 passes for 190 yards and a touchdown. He also converted on three fourth-down runs in the first quarter and had two short touchdown runs.
NORTH CAROLINA ST. 30, NO. 24 PITTSBURGH 29
PITTSBURGH — Devin Leary hit Emeka Emezie for the go-ahead touchdown with 23 seconds remaining and North Carolina State beat Pittsburgh.
Leary, making his first start of the season, drove the Wolfpack 79 yards in 12 plays, the final 13 coming on a perfect back-shoulder throw to Emezie, who made a perfect spinning grab to give N.C. State its first victory over a ranked team since 2017.
Word is first big expenditure upon being formally approved as new Mets owner will not be on a high priced free agent such as
or but rather an investment to beef up the Mets' analytics department.
It is certainly understandable why Cohen, whose hedge fund entities are all operated with a heavy influence of analytics and data, would want to take that same route in baseball. The Mets' analytics department — headedupbyAdamGuttridge, a hire who is said to have played an integral role in the acquisition of and holding on to
— is reportedly one of the smallest in baseball. At the same time, it was a smart and safe move on Cohen's part to install an experienced hand at building championship teams on limited budgets, as head of baseball operations. For in the past couple of years, as some of Cohen's new MLB lodge brothers can attest, hiring these new wave general managers whose prime modus operandi is the emphasis of analytics over scouting, can result in less-than-desired results.
Last week, Angels owner
fired GM previously
analytics chief with the Yankees, after five straight losing seasons in Anaheim. “Obviously, we're not doing it the right way,” said Angels president “We're not winning games, so something is not right in our organization. So we have to look in the mirror and find out.”
It's a very similar situation in Philadelphia where the Phillies, who have failed to make the postseason and had only one .500 season in the five years, finally forced out Matt Klentak as their GM Saturday. This year had to be especially disturbing to Phillies owner John Middleton: The Miami Marlins, with the 27th lowest payroll of $31 million made the playoffs over his club with the fifth highest at $78M. The Phillies' season
Mike
Phillies manager, and replaced him with will likely look to a similar veteran baseball man for his GM. The very fact that Miami, which lost 105 games last year and half their team to the coronavirus this year, finished ahead of the Phillies and in the playoffs was the convincer Middleton that, like Angels with Eppler, his team under Klentak had clearly not been doing it the right way.
Then there is the situation in Colorado where another Ivy League analytics whiz kid like Klentac, has done a terrible job but apparently still retains support from Rockies owner It's hard to figure out why. Under Bridich, the Rockies have finished under .500 in six of the eight years he's been GM and in the other two were quick postseason kayoes. Bridich wasted $106 million of Monfort's money on free agent relievers Wade
and Jake and spent $70 million on who's had three mostly injury-plagued soso seasons before opting out of this season because of COVID-19 concerns. In addition, Bridich's decision two years ago to let the popular
— who desperately wanted to come back — walk as a free agent and replace him with was an egregious mistake. Finally, Bridich has totally alienated the Rockies' franchise player Nolan
It's a wonder how Monfort can sit back and watch all this and not conclude: “We're not doing this the right way here.”