Ducks done: Playoff hopes end with loss
Freshman Jayden Daniels completed 22 of 32 passes for 408 yards and three touchdowns and Arizona State intercepted two of Justin Herbert’s passes in the fourth quarter, helping the Sun Devils upset Oregon 31-28 on Saturday night in Tempe, Ariz.
Arizona State (6-5, 3-5 Pac-12) ended No. 6 Oregon’s College Football Playoff hopes and its nine-game winning streak. The Sun Devils snapped a four-game skid with their first victory over a top-five team since Oct. 14, 2017, against then No. 5 Washington.
Oregon (9-2, 7-1) already had clinched the Pac-12 North title and a place in the conference championship game.
The Sun Devils held on after Oregon scored three touchdowns in a 6:38 span in the wild fourth quarter.
The Ducks, down 24-7 with 8:42 to play, scored twice on three-play drives.
Then, with Arizona State facing third-and-16, Daniels hit Brandon Aiyuk for an 81-yard TD strike with 3:54 to play.
Herbert and Johnson connected again for a TD with 2:04 left, but Arizona State was able to run out the clock.
LSU to play for SEC crown:
Joe Burrow passed for 327 yards and three TDs, Clyde Edwards-Helaire rushed for a career-high 188 yards and three scores and top-ranked LSU clinched its first trip since to the SEC championship game since 2011.
LSU (11-0, 7-0) can finish no worse than a tie for first with Alabama (10-1, 6-1) and owns the tiebreaker due to its triumph over the Tide on Nov. 9.
Burrow eclipsed 4,000 yards for the season and Ja’Marr Chase increased in single-season LSU record for TD catches to 15 with two in the victory.
Baylor, Oklahoma get rematch:
Charlie Brewer accounted for 296 yards and two TDs and Baylor wrapped up a spot in the Big 12 championship game with a 24-10 victory over visiting Texas, a week after the Bears missed a chance to do so with their first loss of the season.
The 14th-ranked Bears (10-1, 7-1 Big 12) will face No. 9 Oklahoma in the conference title game Dec. 7 at AT&T Stadium in Arlington, Texas.
The four-time defending champion Sooners (10-1, 7-1), who held on for a 28-24 home win over TCU on Saturday, beat Baylor 34-31 last weekend in Waco.
Against Texas, Brewer completed 16 of 25 passes for 221 yards with a TD, and ran 18 times for 75 yards and another score. But he left the game for good with 111⁄2 minutes remaining after taking a helmet-to-helmet hit when being tackled at the end of a 5-yard run.
Big Ten West showdown set:
No. 10 Minnesota beat Northwestern 38-22 in Evanston, Ill., and No. 12 Wisconsin beat Purdue 45-24 in Madison, Wis., to set up a showdown next weekend in Minneapolis between the Golden Gophers and Badgers for the Big Ten West title and a spot opposite No. 2 Ohio State in the conference championship game.
Tanner Morgan threw four TD passes, setting a school record with 26 for the season, to help the Gophers (10-1, 7-1) rebound from their first loss of 2019.
The Badgers amassed 403 rushing yards — including 222 from junior Jonathan Taylor, who produced his third 200-yard game in three tries against the Boilermakers — to improve to 9-2, 6-2. Senior kicker Zach Hintze set a Wisconsin record with a 62-yard field goal on the final play of the first half.
Protest disrupts Harvard-Yale:
Protesters wearing the colors of both Harvard and Yale staged a sit-in at midfield of Yale Bowl during halftime of the 136th edition of the annual football rivalry known as The Game, delaying the start of the second half by nearly an hour.
The Bulldogs rallied from a 17-point, fourth-quarter deficit, winning 50-43 in double OT to clinch the Ivy League title.
A few dozen protesters initially trickled onto the field as the Yale band finished performing its halftime routine, some holding a banner asking the schools’ presidents to divest from the fossil fuel industry. Other signs referred to Puerto Rican debt and the treatment of the Uighurs.
Between 20 and 30 people were arrested, released and given a court date.
Extra points:
Freshman Kedon Slovis passed for a school-record 515 yards and threw four TD passes in No. 23 Southern California’s 52-35 victory over visiting UCLA in the 89th edition of their crosstown showdown. Slovis carried the Trojans (8-4, 7-2 Pac-12) to the Victory Bell with another landmark performance in his impressive debut season. He also surpassed the school record for yards passing in a freshman season . ... Shea Patterson threw five TD passes and Nico Collins scored a career-high three times to lead No. 13 Michigan to a 39-14 blowout over host Indiana. The Wolverines (9-2, 6-2 Big Ten) won their 24 straight in the series. Patterson finished 20 of 32 with 366 yards and one INT, tied a single-game career high with his scoring passes and topped the 5,000yard mark in his Michigan career.