College football roundup

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• Perry graduate Josh Petruccelli ran for 118 yards in Mount Union’s 21-0 victory over Washington & Lee in a Division III first-round playoff game. Quarterback D’Angelo Fulford accounted for the Purple Raiders’ three scores. Fulford’s 1-yard run put Mount Union ahead, 7-0, in the first quarter. Fulford threw a 10-yard touchdown pass to Braeden Friss with 33 seconds left in the first quarter. Fulford iced the Purple Raiders’ win with a 60-yard pass to Jared Ruth in the fourth quarter. Fulford completed 4 of 9 passes for 80 yards and two touchdowns, and threw an interception. Fulford added 20 yards and score on seven carries. Fulford played two days after he was arrested and held in Stark County jail. Mount Union released a statement that said the legal matter stemmed from an alleged incident dating to the summer of 2015 when Fulford was a high school senior in Miramar, Fla. The 11-0 Purple Raiders next play Case Western Reserve on Nov. 25.

• Ashland defeated defending Northwest Missouri State, 21-18, to win in a D-II regional quarterfinal. The Eagles’ victory halted the Bearcats’ run at a third straight national championship. No. 9 Ashland trailed 10-7 before Travis Tarnowski put the Eagles ahead, 14-10, at halftime with a 21-yard touchdown pass to Jamie Hence. Tarnowski’s 29-yard touchdown pass to Kamaron Green extended Ashland’s lead to 21-10 at the start of the fourth quarter. Northwest Missouri State cut its deficit to three points with 7:42 left in the game. Ashland safety Isaiah Stiverson broke up a fourth-down pass attempt to stop the Bearcats’ final drive at Ashland’s 38.

• Tevin McCaster ran for 181 yards and two touchdowns as Youngstown State concluded the regular season with a 3810 win over Missouri State. The Penguins held Missouri State scoreless in the first half while they opened up a 24-0 lead. Samuel St. Surin recovered a botched Missouri State snap in the end zone for Youngstown State’s first touchdown. Joe Alessi and Ricky Davis each added a rushing touchdown for the Penguins.

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• Malik Rosier threw three touchdown passes and ran for another score and No. 2 Miami pulled off its biggest comeback in five years, by holding off Virginia, 44-28, to extend the nation’s longest winning streak to 15 games. Jaquan Johnson had an interception return for a touchdown for Miami (10-0, 7-0 Atlantic Coast Conference, No. 3 CFP), which went on a 30-0 run in the second half to remain unbeaten. The Hurricanes erased a pair of 14-point deficits, and had lost 15 consecutive games in which they trailed at any point by such a margin. But they got a pair of fourth-down stops in Virginia territory in the fourth quarter, and the Hurricanes finished their first 7-0 home regular season since 1988. Travis Homer rushed for 96 yards and a touchdown for Miami, which looks to close out a perfect ACC regular-season slate at Pittsburgh on Friday. The Hurricanes already had a spot in the ACC championship game against Clemson on Dec. 2 secured. Kurt Benkert completed 28 of 37 passes for 384 yards and four touchdowns for Virginia (6-5, 3-4).

• Jalen Hurts passed for 180 yards and three touchdowns in a little more than a quarter and No. 1 Alabama beat FCS team Mercer, 56-0. The Crimson Tide (11-0, 7-0 SEC, No. 1 CFP) raced to a 35-0 halftime lead in what amounted to a tuneup for the team’s biggest game. Now, Alabama heads to No. 6 Auburn with the winner of the Iron Bowl facing No. 7 Georgia in the Southeastern Conference championship game in Atlanta. The Bears (5-6, 2-4 Southern Conference) also lost to Auburn 24-10 early in the season, when the Tigers committed five turnovers.