Brewer gives Baylor shot at Big 12 title

Charlie Brewer accounted for 296 yards and two touchdowns and Baylor wrapped up a spot in the Big 12 championship game with a 24-10 victory over Texas on Saturday in Waco, Texas, a week after the Bears missed a chance to do so with their first loss of the season.

The Bears (10-1, 7-1 Big 12), No. 14 in the CFP rankings, have their sixth 10-win season, and fifth since 2011. This one comes just two years after the school’s only 11-loss season in coach Matt Rhule’s debut when he took over in the aftermath of a sprawling sexual assault scandal that led to two-time Big 12 champion coach Art Briles getting fired 3½ years ago.

Texas (6-5, 4-4) lost for the third time in four games, ending its long-shot bid to get back to the Big 12 title game for the second year in a row.

Brewer, the junior quarterback from Austin whose dad and grandfather played for Texas, completed 16 of 25 passes for 221 yards with a touchdown, and ran 18 times for 75 yards and another score. But Brewer left the game for good with 11½ minutes remaining after taking a helmet-to-helmet hit when being tackled at the end of a 5-yard run.

On his 1-run touchdown run in the third quarter, Brewer hopped onto the back of offensive lineman Khalil Keith when crossing the goal line. Brewer later threw a 12-yard TD pass to Denzel Mims to make it 21-3.

Mims had seven catches for 125 yards, all when Brewer was still in the game.

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 Big Ten) rebound from their first loss of the season.

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. Sophomore kicker Collin Lash set a Wisconsin record with a 62-yard field goal on the final play of the first half.

In last year’s battle for Paul Bunyan’s Axe, Minnesota ended a 14-game losing streak in the most played rivalry in FBS with a 37-15 victory in Madison.

Patterson throws 5 TDs:

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 Indiana in Bloomington, Ind.

The Wolverines (9-2, 6-2 Big Ten) have won four straight overall and 24 straight in the series since 1987.

Patterson finished 20 of 32 with 366 yards and one interception, tied a single-game career high with his scoring passes and now has nine TD passes over the last two weeks. He also topped the 5,000-yard mark in his Michigan career during the game.

Hubbard stays on track:

Dru Brown threw two TD passes in his first start, Chuba Hubbard surpassed 100 yards rushing for the ninth consecutive game and No. 21 Oklahoma State beat West Virginia 20-12 in Morgantown, W.Va.

Brown and national rushing leader Hubbard generated just enough offense to help the Cowboys (8-3, 5-3 Big 12) win their fourth straight game. Hubbard ran 26 times for 106 yards, far below his 173-yard average, but he showed off his receiving skills.

He took a screen pass and ran 46 yards to set up Oklahoma State’s first TD. Hubbard finished with seven catches for 88 yards, both career highs. Hubbard entered the game with 82 receiving yards all season.

Protest disrupts Harvard-Yale:

Protesters wearing the colors of both Harvard and Yale staged a sit-in at midfield of Yale Bowl in New Haven, Conn., 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 and causing the game to finish in near-darkness.

The Bulldogs rallied from a 17-point, fourth-quarter deficit, winning 50-43 in double overtime to clinch the Ivy League championship.

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, protest organizers said. Rachel Sadoff, a junior at Harvard, said about 150 students from the two universities planned to participate and about 100 more who had been sitting in the stands joined in.