Yale earns Ivy League title
Kurt Rawlings threw for 177 yards and a touchdown to lead Yale past rival Harvard, 24-3, Saturday, securing the Bulldogs’ first outright Ivy League championship since 1980.
Running backs Melvin Rouse and Zane Dudek combined for 106 yards rushing for Yale (9-1, 6-1), which beat Harvard for the second year in a row after losing nine in a row in the rivalry known as The Game.
Yale held Harvard scoreless after a 29-yard field goal on the Crimson’s opening possession. Harvard managed just 164 yards of offense, and Yale sacked freshman quarterback Jake Smith six times.
Dudek’s 2-yard touchdown run in the fourth quarter capped an eightplay 81-yard drive that put the game out of reach..
Oklahoma
Quarterback Baker Mayfield threw for 257 yards and three touchdowns after getting dissed by the Kansas captains before kickoff, leading the No. 3-ranked Sooners to a 41-3 rout Saturday of the Jayhawks.
Mayfield had tried shaking hands with Daniel Wise, Dorance Armstrong Jr. and Joe Dineen Jr. after the coin toss, but they stared stoically back at him. Mayfield quickly pulled his hand away, clapped a couple of times and set about burnishing his Heisman Trophy candidacy.
He threw touchdown passes to Rodney Anderson and Marquise Brown in the first half, then founded Mark Andrews late in the third quarter, which prompted more insults between Mayfield and the Jayhawks.
At one point, Mayfield lewdly grabbed himself while cursing across the field, and another time he yelled to fans behind his bench: “You have one win! Go cheer on basketball!”
“I got caught up in a competitive game, a chippy game, but what I did tonight was unacceptable,” said Mayfield. “It’s disrespectful. It’s not the example I want to set. It’s not the legacy I want to leave. I truly do apologize.”
Oklahoma State
Byron Pringle caught three touchdown passes and returned a kickoff for another score to help Kansas State stun No. 10 Oklahoma State, 45-40. Oklahoma State nearly erased a 29-point deficit in the second half. Kansas State held on to become bowl eligible for the eighth consecutive season.