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    College football Week 12 recap: Breaking down 25 great games

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    College football Week 12 recap: Breaking down 25 great games

    • Invoice ConnellyNov 16, 2025, 06:15 PM ET

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        Invoice Connelly is a author for ESPN. He covers faculty soccer, soccer and tennis. He has been at ESPN since 2019.

    In Week 12, faculty soccer stated, “You are going to miss me after I’m gone.” The outcomes had been consequential sufficient: No. 4 Alabama went down at house within the funkiest trend possible, No. 5 Georgia pulled off an announcement win and loads of aspiring Faculty Soccer Playoff contenders — No. 3 Texas A&M, No. 16 Georgia Tech, No. 17 USC, No. 18 Michigan — narrowly prevented catastrophe.

    However actually, this was probably the greatest faculty soccer weekends of the season as a result of the soccer itself was simply so rattling good. Tuesday evening’s MACtion was unimaginable. We received stunning ACC nonsense Friday evening. The midday and three:30 p.m. ET shifts gave us plenty of heart-stoppers, and whereas Saturday night wasn’t notably dramatic, we nonetheless received a rush-off between Missouri’s Ahmad Hardy (300 yards and three touchdowns towards Mississippi State) and Ole Miss’ Kewan Lacy (224 yards and three touchdowns towards Florida) and an offended, late assertion of intent from BYU. In the meantime, the smaller-school ranks gave us numerous overtimes, comebacks and surprises, plus some last-minute playoff berths.

    On this column, we’ve got a longstanding coverage: If per week is simply so good that you just wish to relive it sport by sport, then we relive it sport by sport! With stops to discover totally different playoff and convention title odds, listed here are my 25 favourite video games from one in every of my favourite weekends of the season.

    My 25 favourite video games of Week 12

    1. No. 3 Texas A&M 31, South Carolina 30. We’ll begin with the plain one. At halftime, after most likely the worst half of Marcel Reed’s life, I regarded up what the worst-ever house loss was for a top-three workforce towards an unranked opponent. Finest I might inform, it was a tie between No. 2 Iowa’s 24-7 loss to Purdue in 2021 and No. 2 Auburn’s 27-10 loss to Arkansas in 2006. For the reason that rating was 30-3 South Carolina on the time, this felt awfully related.

    Reed had misfired nonstop within the first half, going a stunning 6-of-19 with two interceptions and two sacks. Nearly any time he delivered a semi-accurate ball, his receivers dropped it. A&M was unbeaten and clearly had a mulligan to present on this one, nevertheless it was honest to marvel if the Aggies may drop fairly a bit within the playoff rankings, sufficient to make followers nervous heading into their season ender towards Texas.

    Some related second-half stats:

    Whole yards: A&M 371 (9.8 per play), S.C. 76 (2.9)

    Success fee*: A&M 65.8%, South Carolina 23.1%

    Marcel Reed: 16-of-20 for 298 yards and three touchdowns

    S.C.’s LaNorris Sellers: 6-of-11 for 63 yards and 4 sacks (web yards in 15 go makes an attempt: 39)

    (* Success fee: How continuously an offense is gaining 50% of vital yardage on first down, 70% on second and 100% on third or fourth.)

    A&M received the second half 28-0, and the Aggies made issues fascinating solely after a fumbled, goal-to-go trick play stored them from going up 38-30 late. South Carolina had an opportunity to drive for a stunning game-winning area objective, however that might have required Sellers to remain upright. He was sacked twice, and the Gamecocks turned the ball over on downs.

    I have been referencing CFP Tiers fairly a bit recently — it is my method of separating groups into teams with comparable playoff odds (combining the Allstate Playoff Predictor’s odds with odds derived from SP+). Now that A&M has prevented catastrophe, Tier 1 is just about set.

    CFP Tier 1 odds: Ohio State 99.9%, Indiana 99.9%, Texas A&M 99.9%.

    Whereas we’re at it, the 5 groups in Tier 2 are additionally in wonderful form.

    CFP Tier 2 odds: Texas Tech 94.9%, Georgia 94.8%, Ole Miss 94.0%, Oregon 88.4%, Notre Dame 78.2%

    There’s nonetheless some maneuverability right here however not a lot. And actually, contemplating Notre Dame is a projected favourite of no less than 31 factors in every of its closing two video games (Syracuse and Stanford), I do not see how the Irish are underneath about 95%.

    2. Kent State 42, Akron 35 (OT). Final Tuesday was my favourite day of MACtion in fairly a while. We’ll get to Western Michigan’s win over Ohio beneath, however Kent State and Akron performed an all-timer for the Wagon Wheel.

    Kent State took a 35-17 lead early within the fourth quarter, thanks partially to 4 Dru DeShields landing passes — together with a 89-yarder to big-play man Da’Realyst Clark (who additionally has two kick return scores and a landing go) — however you do not hand over the Wagon Wheel with out a struggle! Akron scored, recovered an ideal, chip-shot onside kick, kicked a area objective, recovered a fumble and tied the sport on a 13-yard Ben Finley-to-Israel Polk landing and 2-point conversion.

    After which, in any case that, DeShields discovered Ardell Banks for a 25-yard landing on the primary play of extra time, Akron went four-and-out, and the Golden Flashes received anyway.

    The win by some means stored bowl hopes alive for Kent State, which is an unimaginable factor to say contemplating the Golden Flashes went 0-12 final season with one of many worst FBS groups of the twenty first century, then fired head coach Kenni Burns in mid-April. They’ve bounced again in a method that ought to encourage UMass followers, if nothing else — the Minutemen are on tempo for an 0-12 document with practically the identical terrible SP+ score that Kent State had final season. At 4-6, the Golden Flashes most likely will not win their closing two video games to get to 6 wins (SP+ provides them a 7.8% probability of beating each Central Michigan and Northern Illinois), however SP+ did not assume they’d win 4 video games both! Rattling the computer systems! Go Flashes!

    3. FCS: No. 11 Harvard 45, Penn 43. Harvard needed to take this one twice. The unbeaten Crimson, darlings of the SP+ rankings, trailed 27-14 late within the first half however used a 21-0 run to take management and led 42-33 with lower than 4 minutes remaining. However Penn charged again, scoring a brief landing, forcing a three-and-out and taking a stunning lead on a 30-yard area objective with simply 22 seconds left. That was simply sufficient time for Jaden Craig (390 yards and three TDs on the day) to finish three passes and for Kieran Corr to knock in a 53-yard area objective on the buzzer.

    Harvard has now clinched a share of the Ivy League title, and whereas their SP+ score fell a bit, the Crimson are nonetheless as confirmed as anybody within the non-North Dakota State class.

    Present FCS SP+ high 10
    1. North Dakota State (11-0): 34.7
    2. Tarleton State (10-1): 27.0
    3. Harvard (9-0): 25.8
    4. Lehigh (11-0): 24.7
    5. Montana State (9-2): 24.2
    6. Montana (11-0): 22.3
    7. North Dakota (7-4): 20.8
    8. Tennessee Tech (10-1): 20.1
    9. Stephen F. Austin (9-2): 20.0
    10. Mercer (9-1): 20.0

    There is a 3.5-point drop-off to No. 11 Rhode Island, however no less than 9 groups will have the ability to discuss themselves into a possible nationwide title sport run, no less than if they do not land on NDSU’s aspect of the 24-team bracket. And even with its protection struggling Saturday, Harvard is amongst these contenders.

    4. No. 11 Oklahoma 23, No. 4 Alabama 21. South Carolina over A&M would have been an enormous upset. This one was nonetheless fairly massive, although. It was acquainted, too.

    One in every of my go-to measures is what I name postgame win expectancy (PGWE). It takes a take a look at the predictive stats a sport produces — the stuff that finally feeds into SP+ — tosses them into the air and says, “With these stats, Group A might have anticipated to win this sport X% of the time.” By PGWE, Alabama’s loss to Vanderbilt final season was the least probably defeat of the season.

    Towards the Commodores, Bama had a cushty success fee benefit (55.6% to 42.7%) with greater massive performs (yards per play: Bama 8.8, Vandy 5.6), fewer unfavourable performs, extra goal-to-go conditions, you identify it. Vandy received with completely timed bursts and turnovers that included a wonderfully deflected pick-six into the arms of Randon Fontenette. Primarily based on the sport’s stats, Bama would have received 98.5% of the time. However with a 1.5% probability, the Commodores received. Mixed with a late egg-laying at Oklahoma, it contributed to the Tide falling wanting the CFP.

    Towards Oklahoma on Saturday, Bama produced an enormous success fee benefit (46.7% to 27.5%) with fewer unfavourable performs and, regardless of an enormous area place drawback, extra goal-to-go conditions and the identical variety of purple zone journeys. The Tide’s PGWE towards the Sooners: 95.2%. OU was going to want defensive heroics (reminiscent of an 87-yard Eli Bowen pick-six) and particular groups explosions (reminiscent of a 42-yard Isaiah Sategna III punt return and a tipped area objective earlier than halftime) to win this one. Guess what they received?

    Due to an earlier run of ranked wins, the two-loss Tide are nonetheless comfy on this yr’s playoff hunt — they’re going to most likely need to undergo an Iron Bowl defeat to an interim-coached Auburn workforce to fall out of competition (and nothing wild and sudden has ever occurred within the Iron Bowl earlier than). However with the loss, they fall from Tier 2 to Tier 3 in my playoff tiers. Along with the highest two ACC contenders and one-loss BYU, they’re joined in Tier 3 by the workforce that simply beat them.

    CFP Tier 3 odds: Alabama 58.6%, BYU 50.2%, Oklahoma 41.7%, Virginia 41.7%, Georgia Tech 36.6%

    Mixed with Georgia’s comfy win over Texas, Bama’s SEC title odds took a little bit of successful too.

    SEC title odds, per SP+: Georgia 33.0%, Texas A&M 31.5%, Alabama 30.0%, Ole Miss 5.4%

    I am guessing Bama followers have seen their workforce win sufficient SEC titles via the years to get just a little spoiled — they’re most likely extra eager about CFP odds. Nonetheless, this stays an fascinating race.

    5. Division II: Lenoir-Rhyne 48, Catawba 46. On a fantastic, 67-degree fall day in Hickory, North Carolina, 4,987 followers noticed the house workforce blow an infinite lead and win anyway. Lenoir-Rhyne went up 42-12 with 4:29 left within the third quarter, then watched Catawba unleash a 34-0 run over the next 18 minutes. Amari McArthur’s 87-yard catch-and-run (!) made it 46-42 Catawba with 1:14 left, however Khamoni Robinson accomplished 4 passes, then charged 13 yards into the tip zone with six seconds remaining.

    6. No. 16 Georgia Tech 36, Boston Faculty 34. After final week’s chaos, Georgia Tech and Virginia entered Week 12 atop the ACC hierarchy. Virginia performed possibly its finest sport of the yr in a surprisingly straightforward 34-17 win over Duke in Durham, however Tech thought lengthy and arduous about going ker-splat on this one.

    BC, which performed good ball in losses to Louisville and Notre Dame earlier than face-planting final week towards SMU, introduced its A-game again on this one. Regardless of one more ridiculous day from Tech’s Haynes King — 371 passing yards, 61 non-sack speeding yards — the Yellow Jackets discovered themselves trailing 28-17 heading into the fourth quarter. Jordan Allen’s 54-yard rating gave Tech the lead, however Turbo Richard responded with a 43-yard burst to make it 34-33 Eagles. BC missed the 2-point conversion, nonetheless, and that loomed massive when King drove the Jackets 68 yards in 4 minutes and arrange Aidan Birr’s chip-shot area objective for the win.

    Virginia and Georgia Tech boast the perfect title odds in the mean time, however each nonetheless have work to do.

    ACC title odds, per SP+: Virginia 41.3%, Georgia Tech 27.1%, SMU 17.2%, Miami 6.1%, Pitt 5.2%, Duke 3.0%

    Virginia, 6-1 in convention play, can clinch a spot within the ACC championship sport with a rivalry win over Virginia Tech in two weeks (projected win chance, per SP+: 88%), whereas 6-1 Tech has a trickier sport towards Pitt subsequent week (55%). Pitt, 5-1, probably has to beat each Georgia Tech and Miami (15%) to have a shot, and SMU, 5-1 with out enjoying both Virginia or GT, has to beat Louisville and Cal (44%) to stay within the combine. Miami lurks at 4-2 — the Hurricanes do not have an ideal shot of sneaking in, however they’re going to be the favorites in the event that they get to Charlotte.

    7. Division III: Service provider Marine 39, Coast Guard 38. “Faculty GameDay” at Pitt was fairly enjoyable, but when I had been accountable for places — and it is most likely good that I am not! — I’d have despatched Rece and the fellows to … Fenway Park. That is the place the 8,966 in attendance for the Secretaries’ Cup noticed possibly probably the most back-and-forth sport of the weekend. Neither workforce led by greater than 5 within the second half, and after Harrison Hensley gave Coast Guard the lead with 6:52 remaining, Service provider Marine quarterback Bubba Mustain scored from 7 yards out with simply 20 seconds left to present the Mariners the win.

    Mustain on the day: 46 carries for 274 yards and three touchdowns, plus 6-of-8 passing for 150 yards and one other two scores. Goodness! Give him an honorary 10 factors in my Heisman of the Week part beneath.

    8. No. 18 Michigan 24, Northwestern 22. This one modified in a blink. Jordan Marshall scored with 41 seconds left within the third quarter to present Michigan a 21-9 lead, and Northwestern’s offense, which gained 181 yards in three quarters, did not appear able to a comeback. However Preston Stone capped a 75-yard drive with a brief landing, and Braden Turner returned an interception to Michigan’s 6. Caleb Komolafe gave the Wildcats a sudden lead, and Michigan turned the ball over on its subsequent two possessions as nicely. However the Wolverines received one final shot and took benefit. Bryce Underwood accomplished a third-down go to Andrew Marsh, then ran for an additional first down, and Dominic Zvada’s 31-yard area objective on the buzzer saved the day.

    Michigan’s playoff odds aren’t nice as a result of the Wolverines will virtually actually must beat top-ranked Ohio State once more to get there — as if that might ever occur — however they’re nonetheless alive, and so they’re nonetheless a part of …

    CFP Tier 4 odds: Utah 29.9%, USC 17.8%, Miami 15.5%, Vanderbilt 13.8%, SMU 10.0%, Michigan 7.6%. (Technically Pitt nonetheless has an opportunity at 3.9% too.)

    At most, just one workforce will probably get in from this tier, and with solely video games towards Kansas State and Kansas remaining (odds of successful each, per SP+: 68%), Utah is in strong form even (or particularly?) if the Utes miss the Huge 12 championship sport. However USC, Miami and Michigan all stay within the hunt, and each the Trojans and Wolverines needed to pull off comebacks Saturday.

    9. Division II: Tiffin 23, No. 8 Findlay 21. It wasn’t probably the most prolific sport of the day, however Tiffin and Findlay managed to pack in eight lead modifications, together with 5 within the second half and two within the final minute. Findlay appeared to have stored its unbeaten document intact with a Jayden Farmer landing with 53 seconds remaining. However regardless of getting pinned at its 6-yard line after a penalty on the following kickoff, Tiffin drove 94 yards in 9 performs, and on the ultimate play of the sport Alex Johnson discovered Jaedyn McKinstry for a 13-yard, game-winning rating.

    10. UNLV 29, Utah State 26 (2OT). Oof. With an opportunity to safe bowl eligibility, Utah State arrange a 44-yard area objective for Tanner Rinker on the buzzer in regulation, however he missed it. And after UNLV missed a area objective itself in extra time, Rinker received a take a look at a 41-yarder for the win. Missed it too. He lastly knocked one in to start out the second OT, however UNLV’s Kayden McGee raced 25 yards on the subsequent snap, and UNLV moved to 8-2. The Rebels have a superb opportunity of ending with double-digit wins for the second time in three years (and solely the third time in 50).

    11 and 12. East Carolina 31, Memphis 27; Navy 41, No. 24 South Florida 38.

    Make it three one-score losses for Memphis in 2025. On Senior Day in Greenville, the Tigers led at halftime thanks partially to an 84-yard Sutton Smith landing run. However Katin Houser and Payton Mangrum linked for a 31-yard rating with 1:08 left, and Mike Wright Jr. picked off Brendon Lewis’ last-second heave to safe the win and transfer ECU to 5-1 in American Convention play and hold its slight convention title hopes alive.

    Earlier Saturday, Navy took an early lead on USF and by some means made it maintain up. The Midshipmen rushed for 338 yards and led 14-3 after one quarter, and whereas USF minimize the deficit to at least one rating on 5 events, the Midshipmen responded with a rating of their very own 4 occasions and recovered a late onside kick to complete off the upset.

    USF’s loss was an eliminator within the race for the Group of 5’s playoff race, which, based on the mixed playoff odds used above, mainly give the Solar Belt’s James Madison the perfect shot of reaching the CFP.

    CFP Tier (Group of) 5 odds: James Madison 40.3%, North Texas 30.4%, Tulane 10.8%

    The American Convention nonetheless has the perfect probability of manufacturing the CFP’s consultant, be it North Texas, Tulane or an extended shot, however JMU is the one more than likely workforce.

    13. Clemson 20, No. 20 Louisville 19. Clemson fumbled the ball on third-and-goal from the 1, recovered it, then fumbled once more on fourth down. Louisville dedicated three fourth-quarter private fouls (it felt like about 12) and missed a possible go-ahead area objective. Clemson muffed a punt snap. Louisville missed one other area objective.

    I suppose video games do not at all times need to be good to be good. This one was tense, gripping and all kinds of sloppy — as sloppy because the win chance chart, in actual fact.

    With the loss, Louisville not has a task to play within the ACC race.

    14. Arizona State 25, West Virginia 23. Nonetheless hoping to snag bowl eligibility at 4-6, West Virginia did so many issues proper on this one. The Mountaineers restricted ASU quarterback Jeff Sims to 81 speeding yards — he had 228 his final trip — and scored on second-half landing passes of 75 yards (from Scotty Fox Jr. to Jeff Weimer) and 90 yards (Fox to Cyncir Bowers) to take a 23-22 lead into the ultimate minutes. However Jesus Gomez’s 49-yard area objective gave ASU a 2-point benefit, and Fox was out of magic. He was picked off by Keith Abney II close to midfield. Ballgame.

    15. FCS: Valparaiso 32, Stetson 31 (OT). You know the way coaches will typically speak about having one 2-point play they’re notably assured in? Valpo got here up with a fairly good resolution for that: Make each 2-point play your finest! Down 24-0 late within the third quarter, the Beacons surged again with three touchdowns and three 2-pointers — the final of which got here with only one second left in regulation — and after they received the ball second in OT and scored to get inside some extent, what did they do? Go for 2 and make it, in fact!

    16. Division III: No. 25 Franklin & Marshall 29, No. 3 Johns Hopkins 28. What’s higher than beating a mighty rival to safe your first-ever Division III playoff berth? Doing it in extra time after getting back from 21 factors down!

    November is peak “gamers storm the tip zone in celebration after an historic landing” month. Like it.

    17. Western Michigan 17, Ohio 13. This sport was just a little extra managed than Kent State-Akron, however this Tuesday nighter was simply as tense and extra essential within the MAC standings. Each rating gave a workforce the lead, and Ohio completed a 17-play, 10-minute drive with a brief Sieh Bangura landing to construct a 13-10 benefit early within the fourth quarter. Simply three performs later, following a 71-yard catch and run by Tailique Williams, Jalen Buckley scored to make it 17-13. Three stops later, WMU was in sole possession of first place within the MAC. The Broncos are 5-1 with 5 groups tied at 4-2.

    18. Sam Houston 26, Delaware 23. Sam Houston went on a 26-0 run to grab management, however Delaware scored two touchdowns and recovered an onside kick. However Nate Reed’s late 36-yard area objective try failed. SHSU has received two in a row after an 0-8 begin.

    19. No. 17 USC 26, No. 21 Iowa 21. First half: Iowa averages 6.8 yards per play whereas constructing a 21-10 halftime lead. Second half: The Hawkeyes go scoreless with a turnover and turnover on downs, and Jayden Maiava leads the Trojans to a comeback win that saves their CFP hopes (and sends “Faculty GameDay” again to Eugene for this week’s USC-Oregon sport).

    20. Division II: No. 6 Central Washington 19, No. 24 Western Oregon 17. Down 17-3 heading into the fourth quarter, CWU scored twice to get inside 4 factors, and with the Lone Star Convention title on the road, Kennedy McGill discovered Logan Brady for a 13-yard rating as time expired.

    21. Division II: West Liberty 68, Wheeling 67. Essentially the most ridiculous observe meet of the day was in West Liberty, West Virginia. The sport started with a 100-yard kick return rating and by no means calmed down for a second. WLU’s Hunter Patterson had a 62-yard TD catch and a 68-yard TD run within the third quarter alone, and after Wheeling erased a 10-point, fourth-quarter deficit to take the lead, Osama Hurst caught a brief landing with eight seconds left for the win.

    22. Division II: West Texas A&M 45, Angelo State 44. West Texas A&M advised WLU, “Recreation-winning rating with eight seconds left? We will minimize two seconds off of that!” Angelo State led 37-17 within the third quarter, however the Rams scored 28 factors within the closing 20 minutes, and Zach Phipps caught the sport winner with six seconds remaining. Division II has been ridiculously enjoyable the final couple of weeks. Cannot watch for the playoffs.

    23. FCS: No. 22 South Dakota 53, No. 23 Southern Illinois 51 (5OT). Can I curiosity you in a five-overtime marathon with playoff stakes? South Dakota moved to 8-4, nevertheless it took without end. The Yotes needed to erase a 31-14 third-quarter deficit, then watch SIU ship the sport to OT with a late area objective. However Larenzo Fenner’s 2-point catch within the fifth OT made the distinction.

    24. NAIA: No. 20 Georgetown Faculty 34, No. 10 Campbellsville 32. Trailing 34-13 with 9 minutes remaining, Campbellsville scored thrice, however Jett Engle’s 2-point conversion go with 26 seconds remaining failed. Georgetown wanted this one to maintain NAIA playoff hopes alive and juuuuuust barely received it.

    25. FCS: Elon 31, Campbell 24. We finish with another smaller-school end. Elon watched a 17-3 halftime lead flip right into a 24-17 fourth-quarter deficit, however Landen Clark’s 19-yard scramble on fourth-and-8 tied the sport with 2:50 left. The Phoenix received the ball again at their 5 with a few minute left — play for extra time, proper? Nope! Go deep to Isaiah Fuhrmann as an alternative!

    I’d say that silenced the house crowd.

    This week in SP+

    The SP+ rankings have been up to date for the week. Let’s check out the groups that noticed the largest change of their general rankings. (Observe: We’re taking a look at rankings, not rankings.)

    Transferring up

    Listed below are the 5 groups that noticed their rankings rise probably the most this week:

    Nevada: up 4.6 adjusted factors per sport (rating rose from 128th to 121st)

    Texas Tech: up 3.6 factors (from fourth to 3rd)

    UConn: up 3.2 factors (from 58th to forty seventh)

    Texas State: up 3.0 factors (from 98th to eightieth)

    Virginia: up 3.0 factors (from forty third to thirty fourth)

    It is arduous for a workforce close to the highest of the rankings to realize a ton of factors this late within the yr, however Texas Tech’s efficiency towards UCF was so resounding that the Pink Raiders practically rose greater than anybody else this week.

    Listed below are among the key stats if we filter out rubbish time:

    Yards per play: Tech 8.6 (41 snaps), UCF 2.1 (34 snaps)

    Success fee: Tech 68.3%, UCF 23.5%

    Yards per profitable play: Tech 12.0, UCF 6.8

    Pct. of performs gaining 20+ yards: Tech 12.2%, UCF 0.0%

    Pct. of performs gaining zero or fewer: Tech 19.5%, UCF 38.2%

    Pink zone journeys: Tech 7, UCF 1

    Pink zone TD fee: Tech 57.1%, UCF 0.0%

    UCF’s one first rate non-garbage time drive led to a David Bailey sack of Tayven Jackson on fourth down. The Pink Raiders did no matter they wished. They most likely aren’t nearly as good as Ohio State — I am resigning myself to the Buckeyes being a hefty title favourite at this level — however I’d put them on even floor, at worst, towards anybody else within the nation.

    Transferring down

    Listed below are the 5 groups whose rankings fell probably the most:

    Louisiana Tech: down 3.4 adjusted factors per sport (rating fell from 69th to 76th)

    Southern Miss: down 3.3 factors (from 73rd to 86th)

    NC State: down 3.0 (from 57th to 68th)

    UCF: down 2.9 factors (from fifty fifth to 67th)

    Purdue: down 2.9 factors (from 84th to 96th)

    It is my very own fault, I understand, however with the best way quarterback CJ Bailey had been enjoying, I believed NC State may have the ability to make Miami sweat just a little bit Saturday. I knew the Wolfpack protection would most likely get hit fairly arduous, however I believed it was honest to imagine Bailey would handle to throw for greater than 120 yards (with two picks) or Hollywood Smothers would handle greater than minus-2 yards in seven carries in a 41-7 loss. Full domination by Miami, full implosion by the Pack.

    Who received the Heisman this week?

    I’m as soon as once more awarding the Heisman each single week of the season and doling out weekly factors, F1-style (on this case, 10 factors for first place, 9 for second and so forth). How will this Heisman race play out, and the way totally different will the outcome be from the precise Heisman voting?

    Right here is that this week’s Heisman high 10:

    1. Ahmad Hardy, Missouri (25 carries for 300 yards and three touchdowns towards Mississippi State).

    2. Kewan Lacy, Ole Miss (28 carries for 224 yards and three touchdowns towards Florida).

    3. Dante Moore, Oregon (27-for-30 passing for 306 yards and a pair of touchdowns, plus 16 non-sack speeding yards towards Minnesota).

    4. Fernando Mendoza, Indiana (22-for-24 passing for 299 yards and 4 touchdowns towards Wisconsin).

    5. Gunner Stockton, Georgia (24-for-29 passing for 229 yards, 4 TDs and 1 INT, plus 33 non-sack speeding yards and a landing towards Texas).

    6. Haynes King, Georgia Tech (26-for-34 passing for 371 yards and a landing, plus 61 non-sack speeding yards towards Boston Faculty).

    7. OJ Arnold, Georgia Southern (21 carries for 267 yards and a pair of touchdowns, plus 53 receiving yards and a landing towards Coastal Carolina).

    8. Marcel Reed, Texas A&M (22-for-39 passing for 439 yards, 3 TDs and a pair of INTs, plus 31 non-sack speeding yards towards South Carolina).

    9. Caleb Hawkins, North Texas (27 carries for 189 yards and 5 touchdowns, plus 21 receiving yards towards UAB).

    10. Carlos Del Rio-Wilson, Marshall (22-for-27 passing for 321 yards and three touchdowns, plus 102 non-sack speeding yards towards Georgia State).

    One in every of my favourite issues early within the season was the prominence of YAC, yards after contact, and the best way it was driving some early-season success. Mizzou’s Ahmad Hardy was on the middle of that and generated some momentary Heisman buzz earlier than an October funk — three video games, 207 whole speeding yards, 3.7 per carry — put an finish to that. However after a 109-yard efficiency in a loss towards Texas A&M final week, Hardy put collectively his hardest-running efficiency of the season Saturday evening.

    In the meantime, the man he roughly changed within the Mizzou lineup — sophomore Kewan Lacy, who transferred to Ole Miss final winter — had himself fairly the night as nicely, permitting the Rebels to manage the ball and keep away from an upset in a cool sport towards Florida.

    Hardy and Lacy managed to overshadow some fairly superior passing performances from Huge Ten QBs Mendoza and Moore (who went a mixed 49-for-54) and a pair of Georgia-based QBs (Stockton and King) who ought to placed on a heck of a present towards one another in a few weeks. And I even needed to squeeze Marcel Reed onto the record regardless of his enjoying the worst first half of his life towards South Carolina. Throwing for 298 yards within the second half can treatment plenty of illnesses; extra guys ought to strive that.

    Honorable point out:

    โ€ข Kaytron Allen, Penn State (25 carries for 181 yards and a pair of touchdowns, plus 10 receiving yards towards Michigan State).

    โ€ข Bear Bachmeier, BYU (23-for-33 passing for 296 yards and a landing, plus 59 non-sack speeding yards and a landing towards TCU).

    โ€ข Jeremiyah Love, Notre Dame (23 carries for 147 yards and a landing, plus 20 receiving yards towards Pitt).

    โ€ข Jordan Kwiatkowski, Central Michigan (9 tackles, 1 TFL, 1 pressured fumble, 1 go breakup and a pick-six towards Buffalo).

    โ€ข Andrew Marsh, Michigan (12 catches for 189 yards towards Northwestern).

    โ€ข Toriano Satisfaction Jr., Missouri (3 tackles, 1.5 TFLs, a pick-six, a 62-yard fumble return and a go breakup towards Mississippi State)

    โ€ข Jordon Simmons, Georgia State (19 carries for 164 yards and a landing, plus 64 receiving yards towards Marshall).

    โ€ข Marcel Williams, Akron (14 catches for 206 yards and a pair of touchdowns towards Kent State).

    Via 12 weeks, listed here are your factors leaders, as soon as once more with ties damaged by whole factors from the final 4 weeks:

    1. Julian Sayin, Ohio State: 29 factors (13 within the final 4 weeks)
    2. Ty Simpson, Alabama: 29 factors (zero)
    3. Taylen Inexperienced, Arkansas: 27 factors
    4. Fernando Mendoza, Indiana: 26 factors
    5. Trinidad Chambliss, Ole Miss: 25 factors (10 within the final 4 weeks)
    6. Gunner Stockton, Georgia: 25 factors (six)
    7. Diego Pavia, Vanderbilt: 24 factors
    8. Demond Williams Jr., Washington: 21 factors
    9. Haynes King, Georgia Tech: 18 factors
    10. Luke Altmyer, Illinois: 16 factors

    Sayin took the lead within the factors race final week however had a fairly forgettable night towards UCLA, permitting for Mendoza and Stockton to make up floor.

    In fact, this race is not accountable for who will get the Heisman, and if standard knowledge is any indication, it is Sayin (+225 Heisman odds, per ESPN BET) who should make up floor on Mendoza (-125). I wrote final week that I am probably not a fan of that — Mendoza charged forward after barely beating a Penn State workforce Sayin had simply torched the week earlier than — however barring some last-minute chaos (one thing the Huge Ten does not appear eager about producing), we’ll get a Sayin-Mendoza showdown in Indianapolis for the Huge Ten championship sport, and doubtlessly the Heisman, in three extra weeks. That would make the selection fairly straightforward, come what may.

    The midweek playlist

    Miami (Ohio) at Buffalo (Wednesday, 7 p.m., ESPN2). It’s best to at all times watch MACtion simply in case; lord is aware of I wasn’t telling you to observe Kent State-Akron final week, however you missed out in case you did not. However crucial sport of this week’s batch is in Buffalo, the place two of 5 groups with two convention losses face off. (It’s best to positively dual-screen that one with Central Michigan-Kent State — the Golden Flashes nonetheless have a slight probability of reaching bowl eligibility, although CMU is scorching.)

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