No. 6 Baylor went down, 44-34, to No. 12 Oklahoma, and the Bears’ Playoff hopes likely did as well. Baker Mayfield had an incredible game, and one of his better touchdown throws was captured by the pylon camera in this very cool video.
Everything to know about Saturday’s college football, from Oklahoma to Bama to the Pac-12
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This is becoming a chippy rivalry. Oklahoma defensive lineman Matt Dimon was ejected after kicking a Baylor player’s helmet, and then had some choice words for Bears fans on his way off the field.
It’s a sad day for Baylor fans, but at least we all got to experience 410-pound LaQuan McGowan scoring his third career touchdown before being picked up by a teammate.
Alabama sat on another SEC team. This time it was Mississippi State, 31-6. The Tide sacked Dak Prescott nine times (watch them all in under 30 seconds), which is a new trick for Bama. The Tide did work on offense, too. Calvin Ridley had a sick juke en route to a touchdown, but that was only the undercard for your weekly HUGE BAMA BLOCK main event.
If you need a quick roundup, here's how all of Saturday impacts the Playoff rankings.
Amazing scene in Missouri. Mizzou beat BYU after an emotional week for the team and community. After the game, players crashed Gary Pinkel’s interview for a dance party.
Solidarité. LSU carried the French flag onto the field, and Army put the French flag on its sideline tank (Army has a sideline tank), following Friday’s tragic attacks in Paris. Both have unique ties to the French, as Louisiana has a strong French cultural presence and the United States military considers France its oldest ally.
The Tar Heels laid a whoopin' on Miami, moving to 9-1. How bad was it? Upside-down-U-to-the-crotch bad.
It's November, so Arkansas has woken up. For the second straight year, the five-win Razorbacks took down a ranked LSU in November. Do not play Arkansas in November. But because it's Les Miles, there was still some magic.
IOWA IS 10-0 FOR THE FIRST TIME EVER. SORRY FOR YELLING. OUR IOWA BLOG IS FREAKING OUT.
WASHINGTON STATE IS 7-3. SORRY FOR YELLING. WATCH THE TOUCHDOWN.
No. 1 Clemson won, 37-27, at Syracuse! Clemson fans are unhappy about it.
Hit the hole, young man! Ohio State punter Cameron Johnston had all the space in the world in front of him on fourth-and-1, but punted anyway.
Another coach down. Louisiana-Monroe fired Todd Berry after the Warhawks’ 59-21 loss to Arkansas State moved them to 1-9.
Another year, another title contender eliminated in Oregon-Stanford. This year, it was the Cardinal that went down. Oregon had some extra help in the booth, as Nike founder Phil Knight was there next to offensive coordinator Scott Frost, with his own headset. That beats out Stanford’s dinosaur-led “Star-Spangled Banner.”
... and the Pac-12 has already eaten itself. Utah also lost, 37-30 in double overtime to Arizona. In one night, both of the conference's remaining Playoff candidates went down. Maybe next year, Pac-12.
TCU, Oklahoma State and Michigan survive. TCU beat Kansas 23-17, but Trevone Boykin left with an apparent ankle injury. Oklahoma State trailed Iowa State by 10 entering the fourth quarter but pulled out the comeback win in Ames to move to 10-0. And the Wolverines beat Indiana in double overtime! And very, very nearly didn't!
Bad idea. A Georgia player was injured after an assistant coach slapped him on the head in celebration. Stop slapping people on the head!
Harvard band spelling 'PENIS'. I don't think that happens by accident. pic.twitter.com/NQZ7ThlTKJ
— Jacob Adler (@jacobadler) November 14, 2015 College GameDay to Saturday’s Michigan State-Ohio State is on.
Individual feats of excellence:
- Ohio State defensive lineman Joey Bosa, who shoved a lineman into the quarterback and then made the tackle on the running back.
- Josh Adams, who broke the longest play in Notre Dame history.
- Michigan State wide receiver Macgarrett Kings Jr., who made such a terrific one-handed catch, the defender didn’t even know what happened.
- Maryland punter Nicholas Pritchard, who attempted to fight a bench after shanking an 11-yard punt.
- This Illinois field goal attempt, which went wrong in every single way possible.
- West Virginia head coach Dana Holgorsen, who crowd surfed after beating Texas (just like Charlie Strong did last year after beating West Virginia).
- Notre Dame defensive tackle Sheldon Day and his super cool mom, who have a coordinated high-five-hug routine.
- Bo Pelini, still yelling his head off at referees over at Youngstown State.
- Texas State defensive back Stephan Johnson, who ended up with an interception against Georgia State after the ball tipped off seven different players’ hands.
- Alabama head coach Nick Saban, for bleeding and (maybe) proving he is (maybe) human.
- Navy quarterback Keenan Reynolds, who led the Midshipmen to another dominating win and broke the FBS career rushing touchdown record.
- Houston’s social media person, who once again delivered a fire tweet after another big Cougar victory moved the team to 10-0.
- 300-pound Cal true freshman walk-on H-back Malik McMorris, who lumbered his way to a touchdown.
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