Others receiving votes: Washington State 99, Colorado 72, TCU 58, Boise State 49, Notre Dame 49, Texas A&M 46, Pittsburgh 45, N.C. State 39, Oregon 37, Northwestern 25, Nebraska 23, Memphis 22, Arkansas 22, San Diego State 18, Appalachian State 11, BYU 1
BROOKLYN, Mich. — Kyle Larson’s ambitious weekend ended in triumph.
Larson slipped between cars on an overtime restart and won Sunday’s NASCAR Cup Series race at Michigan International Speedway. The victory capped a busy stretch for Larson after team owner Chip Ganassi allowed him to go to Iowa to compete in the Knoxville Nationals on Saturday.
He finished second at that sprint car event before returning to Michigan and earning his fourth career Cup victory.
“This win feels amazing to steal one in a way,” Larson said. “My other three wins I felt like we had the first- or second-best car, but today at times I didn’t think we were a top-10 car. But to get the win that way is awesome.”
Martin Truex Jr. was in the lead, about a second ahead of teammate Erik Jones, before a late caution came out because of a spin by Michael McDowell. That forced overtime.
A red flag for oil on the track only added to the drama, and when the race restarted for the final time, Larson — who hadn’t led at all to that point — drove to the right of Jones and passed to the inside of Truex.
“We got beat fair and square,” said Truex, the series points leader. “The double-file restarts are tricky, and sometimes you do them right, sometimes you screw them up, and unfortunately I screwed the one up that mattered the most today.”
Larson has won the last three Cup races at MIS, the first driver to do that since Bill Elliott, who won four straight from 1985-86. This was Larson’s third win of the season and ended a mini-slump in which he had finished out of the top 20 in three straight races.
Truex and Jones finished second and third for Furniture Row Racing.
Larson won by 0.31 seconds in his No. 42 Chevrolet. Brad Keselowski and Truex won the first two stages.
There was a lot of hoopla Friday when Ganassi announced he was letting Larson go to Iowa. Both driver and owner were going to be in the spotlight no matter what happened in Sunday’s race.
“When you’re in my position of this past week’s activities with all the talk about Knoxville and going to Knoxville last night and not getting back here until two in the morning, I’m out on the end of the diving board there a lot of times,” Ganassi said. State 19,
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Missouri State at Missouri, 12 pm ET/11 am CT on SEC Network Charleston Southern at Mississippi State, 4 pm ET/3 pm CT on SEC Network
Georgia Southern at Auburn, 7:30 pm ET/6:30 pm CT on SEC Network Eastern Kentucky at Kentucky, 12 pm ET/11 am CT on SEC Network UT Martin at Ole Miss, 12 pm ET/11 am CT on SEC Network Alternate Indiana State at Tennessee, 4 pm ET/3 pm CT on SEC Network Alabama A&M at Vanderbilt, 4 pm ET/3 pm CT on SEC Network Alternate Northern Colorado at Florida, 7:30 pm ET/6:30 pm CT on SEC Network UT Chattanooga at LSU, 7:30 pm ET/6:30 pm CT on SEC Network Alternate
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Minnesota 17, Buffalo 10 Miami 23, Atlanta 20 Jacksonville 31, New England 24 Baltimore 23, Washington 3 Denver 24, Chicago 17 Cleveland 20, New Orleans 14 Green Bay 24, Philadelphia 9 Pittsburgh 20, N.Y. Giants 12 Cincinnati 23, Tampa Bay 12 San Francisco 27, Kansas City 17 Baltimore at Miami, 7 p.m. Buffalo at Philadelphia, 7 p.m. Tampa Bay at Jacksonville, 8 p.m. (ESPN)
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BASKETBALL 7 p.m.
FS1 — Big3 games, at Los Angeles (taped)
HORSE RACING 3 p.m.
FS2 — Saratoga Live, Saratoga Dew Stakes, at Saratoga Springs, N.Y.
MLB BASEBALL 6 p.m.
ESPN — N.Y. Mets at N.Y. Yankees
9 p.m.
MLB — Regional coverage, Houston at Arizona (joined in progress) OR Baltimore at Seattle
RUGBY 11 a.m.
NBCSN — Women’s World Cup, United States vs. Spain, at Dublin (taped)
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ESPN2 — Little League Softball World Series, Game 21, at Portland, Ore.
3 p.m.
ESPN2 — Little League Softball World Series, Game 22, at Portland, Ore.
6 p.m.
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9 p.m.
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