N. C. State QB breaks leg, could miss rest of season
Starting quarterback Devin Leary, who threw for 336 yards and four touchdowns in a win Oct. 3 against Pitt, could miss the rest of the regular season for No. 23 N. C. State ( 4- 1, 4- 1 ACC) after having surgery Sunday for a leg injury.
In a post on the program’s Twitter account, the school said Leary had surgery after breaking the fibula bone in his left leg Saturday against Duke. He is expected to miss four to eight weeks.
Leary had won two consecutive road games since retaking the starting job he lost because of missed preseason workouts from COVID- 19 contact tracing. But he was knocked from Saturday’s game after taking a hard hit on a keeper from Duke’s Lummie Young IV, who was ejected for targeting.
He offered a thumbs- up while being carted off with 55 seconds left in the third quarter. Bailey Hockman, who started the first two games, played in relief of Leary.
Purdue
Coach Jeff Brohm tested positive for the coronavirus and is awaiting a second test to confirm the initial result. He is isolating at his home,
Purdue’s athletic department said in a statement. The Boilermakers are scheduled to host Iowa in their season opener Saturday when the Big Ten Conference begins its virusdelayed, eight- game, conferenceonly season.
Other major- college coaches known to have tested positive for COVID- 19 include Florida’s Dan Mullen, Alabama’s Nick Saban, Florida State’s Mike Norvell, Arizona’s Kevin Sumlin and Kansas’ Les Miles. Saban was cleared to coach Saturday, three days after a false positive test.
Elsewhere
Clemson easily held off Alabama to retain the No. 1 spot in The Associated Press college football poll, extending its longest run atop the poll to seven weeks. The Crimson Tide ran away from Georgia on Saturday night to make the case to be No. 1, but it wasn’t enough to topple the Tigers.
Clemson defended its turf with a blowout against Georgia Tech and received 54 firstplace votes out of 62 from the panel of sports writers and broadcasters. The Crimson Tide got the remaining eight first- place votes. Notre Dame moved up to a season- high No. 3, No. 4 Georgia dropped one spot and Ohio State moved up to No. 5 a week before the Big Ten starts playing.