Black Friday College Football: LSU Picks Up Tickets To Atlanta, WVU Knocks Off Pitt

The rest of Friday’s college football scores here.

With the win, LSU knocked off the No. 3 ranked team in the country. LSU has run the gauntlet schedule wise and there isn’t a team left in the country who anyone can legitimately argue is more deserving of a shot in the national title game. On the season, LSU has knocked off No. 3 Oregon, No. 25 Mississippi State, No. 16 West Virginia, No. 17 Florida, No. 20 Auburn, No. 2 Alabama (on the road), and now No. 3 Arkansas. There isn’t another team in the country with as close as good a resume, and that resume will look even better if LSU can knock off No. 13 Georgia in the SEC Championship game on December 3rd.

The Black Friday college football schedule came to a close in the desert with a good old fashioned shootout between the Arizona State Sun Devils and California Golden Bears. In front of a lackluster crowd, Arizona State put up a fight, but was unable to slow down the Bears in the fourth quarter in a 48-37 loss.

The Sun Devils hung close throughout the game, taking a one-point lead into the half with a one-point lead following two Brock Osweiler touchdown passes in the final minute. A field goal out of the half gave the Sun Devils a four-point lead, but Cal battled right back. Three minutes later, C.J. Anderson found the end zone from three yards out, giving Cal a lead it wouldn’t relinquish.

West Virginia escapes the Backyard Brawl with a win and their BCS bowl hopes still alive.

Miami did get one victory on the day. They announced that head coach Al Golden had signed a four-year contract extension, squashing speculation that he would be leaving for Penn State and ensuring some form of stability following an unstable season.

Harris’ four interceptions tied a career-worst. A rough way to end his college career. The Canes finish the season 6-6 while the Eagles end up 4-8.

UCLA is your Pac-12 South representative in the conference title game, having clinched its spot before playing its final game -- a rivalry matchup with USC on Saturday. The Bruins can thank Colorado for that after the Buffaloes won their first road game in 24 tries. In fact, no player on the Colorado roster had won a road game, until the Buffaloes ended Utah’s Pac-12 South hopes with a 17-14 win on Friday.

It was an odd game all-around for Utah, who seemed to have the inside track to the Pac-12 Championship Game, facing a struggling Colorado squad while UCLA had to face a red-hot USC team. But Utah struggled out of the gate, falling into a 10-0 hole at the half. In the third quarter, matters went from bad to worse as star running back John White IV had to be helped off the field with an ankle injury.

Throughout the fourth quarter, with the game well in hand, the CBS announcers continued to remind us about BCS style points. Just in case LSU loses in the SEC Championship Game, Miles wanted to make sure his team convincingly beat the No. 3 Razorbacks. So Miles kept pushing and Petrino keep getting madder, even gesturing to Miles from the sideline late in the fourth quarter.

Video of angry Petrino and the salty postgame handshake after the jump.

The Tigers will be favored against UGA and are now 60 minutes away from playing for the national championship. They’re probably already in the title game no matter what happens, but a win against the Dawgs would make it official.

Brenner reportedly has full movement and has been taken to a hospital for evaluation.

Brenner is a junior who missed time at the beginning of the season with an elbow injury as well.

Yep, here we have Tim Brando, Spencer Tillman, and Tony Barnhart discussing recent Oklahoma State and Arkansas tragedies in the context of the BCS. Deaths have a context in the BCS? CBS has created one, for some gross reason.

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The Utes have been unable to establish any kind of offensive attack. John Hays is 5-of-7 for 22 yards while John White is their leading rusher with 19 yards on 8 carries.

The rookies of the Pac 12 are set up to become revived rivals in their new conference. A win here by Colorado could help that bad blood along much sooner than expected.

The Honey Badger has occurred, running back a punt from deep inside his own 20 to tie it up at 14-14 in the second.

Video via @cjzero:

With their 12th win of the season, Houston not only stay in the hunt for a BCS bowl bid, but clinch first place in the Conference USA West. They’ll likely play Southern Miss in the C-USA Title game, but Marshall could still sneak into the game if Southern Miss loses and they defeat ECU.

Tulsa came into this game 7-0 in the conference with a chance to play spoiler, and for a while it appeared like they just might do it. They led for a long period of time in the first half and went into halftime trailing by just three, as Houston led 13-10. The Cougars offense ran riot in the second half, however, while Tulsa turned the ball over three times.

via cjzero.com

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Seven points matches or exceeds what LSU gave up in six of its games so far this year. Three other opponents came in at 11 points or fewer.

For more on this game, visit Iowa blog Black Heart Gold Pants and Nebraska blog Corn Nation.

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For further reading, news, discussion and more, visit South Florida blog Voodoo Five and Louisville blog Card Chronicle. Here’s the complete Week 13 college football TV schedule, and stay tuned to SB Nation’s college football news hub for more.

For more on this game, visit Northern Illinois blog Red And Black Attack and MAC blog Hustle Belt.

Here’s the complete Week 13 college football TV schedule, and stay tuned to SB Nation’s college football news hub for more.

Go here for Iowa-Nebraska score updates and conversation.

For more on this game, visit Iowa blog Black Heart Gold Pants and Nebraska blog Corn Nation.