Chanticleers stay perfect on the season
Backup quarterback Fred Payton three three touchdown passes and No. 25 Coastal Carolinawon its first game as a ranked team with a 28-14 victory over Georgia Southern on Saturday.
The Chanticleers (5-0, 3-0 Sun Belt Conference) played without starting passer Grayson McCall, who had an upper body injury.
Coastal Carolina coach Jamey Chadwell said the team prepared allweek as if Paytonwould get the start, butwanted to see how McCall felt on gameday for a final decisionwas made.
Payton was more than the newly ranked team.
“I was a backup quarterback” Chadwell said. “You're great when you're not going in and when your number's called, you get nervous.” ready to lead
No. 2 suffers loss in win: No. 2 Alabama lost wide receiver Jaylen Waddle for the rest of the season on the opening kickoff.
That was about the only thing that didn't go the Crimson Tide's way Saturday. Mac Jones threw for 387 yards and ran for a touchdown, and Najee Harris ran for three more TDs as Alabama routed Tennessee 48-17 for the 14th straight win in this rivalry. The Crimson Tide (5-0) outgained Tennessee 587-302. But playing the Vols proved costly for Alabama a second straight season. A year ago, Tua Tagovailoa hurt an ankle in the second quarter and missed the next game against Arkansas.
On Saturday, Waddle rolled his right ankle as he was tackled on the opening kickoff. He was taken by cart to the locker room, and coach Nick Saban said at halftime that Waddle will be out the rest of the year and that the junior likely will need surgery.
Forest scores upset: Walk-on freshman safety Nick Anderson had three interceptions, Christian BealSmith ran for 129 yards and Nick Sciba kicked three field goals to help Wake Forest beatNo. 19Virginia Tech 23-16 on Saturday.
Anderson stopped drives and the third possession.
Beal-Smith set the tone for the Demon Deacons (3-2, 2-2 Atlantic Coast Conference) with a 58-yard run on the game's first series. He later added runs of 26 and 19 yards.
Wake Forest quarterback Sam Hartman threw only 17 times, completing 12 for 110 yards. But he scrambled 9 yards for the game's first score. Hendon Hooker threw for 223 yards and ran for another 98 for the Hokies (3-2, 3-2). They had won six of the previous seven games between the schools.
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Brooks shines for State: Kansas State leaned on special teams to extend its winning streak over Kansas to a series-record 12 straight games.
TheWildcats' didn't evenblock a kick, either. Instead, it was Phillip Brooks returning a pair of punts for touchdowns, BlakeLynch hitting every kickhe attempted and an opportunistic coverage unit that pounced on a muffed punt return that spurred No. 20 Kansas State to a 55-14 victory over the Jayhawkson a cold, blustery Saturday at Bill Snyder Family Stadium.
“When we were at North Dakota State, we were better than everybody offensively and defense,” Wildcats coach Chris Klieman said, “so why would we waste a chance at roughing a kid on special teams. Here, it's much more competitive, so you better find an advantage on a week-in, week-out basis. That has to be the edge.”
It has been so far. The Wildcats (4-1) had blocked a kick each of their last four games, helping them steadily climb The Associated Press poll, and they are now 4-0 in the Big 12 for the first time since 2014.
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Tar Heels answer first loss: North Carolina responded to its first loss with another dominating rushing performance, along with forcing the turnovers that had largely eluded the 14th-ranked TarHeels this season.
Javonte Williams ran for 160 yards and three touchdowns to helpUNCbeat No. 23 North Carolina State 48-21 on Saturday in the first meeting with both rivals rankedin theAPTop25 since 1993.
Michael Carter ran for 106 yards and a score of his own for the Tar Heels (4-1, 4-1 Atlantic Coast Conference), who used a run-through-and-over-tacklers ground game that helped them take control in the third quarter. And it came two weeks after Carter and Williams powered the Tar Heels to 399 yards rushing in a win against Virginia Tech.
“I said it earlier in the year and they reinforce it every week: I think they're probably the best combination of two backs in the country,” UNC coachMack Brown said.
UNC ran for 326 yards and finished with 578 overall after last week's loss at Florida State, beating theWolfpack (4-2, 4-2) by a lopsided margin for the second straight season. It markedUNC's biggest margin of victory against a ranked opponent since 2001.