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There are lone 2 weeks near successful assemblage football's regular season, arsenic immoderate teams jockey for playoff presumption and league titles, portion others cogwheel up for monolithic rivalry showdowns.
In Week 11, Alabama and Tennessee got backmost connected way with wins implicit Ole Miss and Missouri, respectively. Washington ended Oregon's eight-game triumph streak, portion TCU's play stayed cleanable aft handling Texas.
Saturday besides brought a fewer fortunate teams to vessel eligibility, respective upsets, large plays and a jaw-dropping drawback of the year. Let's drawback up connected the champion moments from the week.
UConn is vessel eligible!
Week 11 provided a lion's stock of shocks. Arizona (+20 vs. UCLA), Boston College (+18 vs. NC State), Vanderbilt (+17 vs. Kentucky), UL-Monroe (+13.5 vs. Georgia State) and Washington (+12 vs. Oregon) each won arsenic double-digit underdogs, with Vandy ending a agelong SEC losing streak and Arizona ending UCLA's College Football Playoff hopes. All were unthinkable results, but the astir momentous astonishment of the week came successful East Hartford, wherever UConn overcame a coagulated Liberty defense, 2 second-half deficits and, well, a horrid caller past to people its sixth triumph of the season.
Jim Mora's Huskies trailed Hugh Freeze's Flames by scores of 27-21 and 33-28 successful the 2nd half, but they blew up a Liberty fourth-down effort adjacent midfield with 8:40 left, scored the go-ahead touchdown connected a 30-yard Zion Turner-to-Kevens Clercius strike, past ended the crippled with 1 past fourth-down halt successful the last minute.
This is simply a triumph for the ages! @UConnFootball whups up connected 19th ranked Liberty to go vessel eligible for the archetypal clip since 2015. You gotta believe!
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Bowl. Eligible. UConn. Even the Connecticut politician and UConn hockey fans were psyched up astir it.
The XL Center assemblage erupts arsenic the PA announces that UConn shot bushed Liberty and is present vessel eligible pic.twitter.com/vJlaXNty6J
— Daniel Connolly (@DanielVConnolly) November 12, 2022--Bill Connelly
Catch of the year?
In a crippled that had Notre Dame leap retired to a large pb lone for Navy to chopped it adjacent towards the end, the lone happening anyone volition retrieve is what volition beryllium Braden Lenzy's go-to treatment constituent astatine ample gatherings.
Late successful the archetypal quarter, Irish QB Drew Pyne chucked 1 downfield to Lenzy, who was well-covered by a Navy antiaircraft backmost one-on-one.
It didn't matter, arsenic Lenzy proceeded to drawback the shot down his back.
A CATCH OF THE YEAR CANDIDATE 😱 @NDFootball pic.twitter.com/1FwItxp9So
— ESPN (@espn) November 12, 2022The drawback was a hard 1 that Lenzy made look casual arsenic helium pulled the shot distant with his close manus and galloped toward the stands.
The people made it 14-0 Notre Dame, who would spell connected to pb 35-13 astatine halftime. The Midshipmen did the lone scoring successful the 2nd half, cutting it to a 35-32 pb with 1:21 left, but it was excessively little, excessively late.
Besides, Notre Dame wasn't astir to suffer that football crippled aft that catch.
--Harry Lyles Jr.
Punter backflip!?!?!
The champion solemnisation of the week was a backflip that drew not one, not two, but 3 antithetic flags from referees.
After USC went up 32-10 connected Colorado in the 3rd 4th of Friday night's blowout triumph implicit the Buffs, manager Lincoln Riley decided to adhd immoderate benignant points to the Trojans' résumé. The fake PAT worked to perfection, and holder Aadyn Sleep-Dalton (who is besides USC's punter) waltzed into the extremity zone, past proceeded to propulsion disconnected the aforementioned backflip.
A 2-point conversion... and a FLIP 🔄😅 pic.twitter.com/20o8g4KCZW
— FOX College Football (@CFBONFOX) November 12, 2022The no-fun flags ensued, but it didn't matter. Even Riley wasn't that upset by the unsportsmanlike behaviour penalties postgame. It was that benignant of nighttime for the Trojans, who, aft a dilatory start, scored 53 points successful the past 3 quarters and won 55-17. They were erstwhile again fueled by Caleb Williams, who added 3 much touchdowns to his tally this play and threw lone his 2nd interception of the year. It was Williams who was aboriginal shown connected the sidelines fired up and yelling astatine teammates. He besides had a instrumentality of his ain -- this no-look flip that went for a touchdown:
PLAY 1: @rockwitaust takes the no-look walk from @CalebCSW and gets into the extremity zone! pic.twitter.com/RVH2v0uvSX
— USC Trojans (@USC_Athletics) November 12, 2022With UCLA and Notre Dame ahead, Williams and the remainder of the USC discourtesy volition request to support firing connected each cylinders to enactment successful contention for the league and a imaginable spot successful the playoffs.
-- Paolo Uggetti
Week 11 Takeaways
Oregon's nonaccomplishment impacts the full Pac-12.
The Pac-12 continues to get successful its ain way, and this clip it was Oregon who couldn't flight an upset astatine the hands of Washington.
In the span of a fewer minutes, the Ducks' College Football Playoff chances evaporated into the Eugene air. After deciding to spell for it connected 4th down with Bo Nix connected the sideline successful their ain territory and failing -- allowing Washington to footwear a go-ahead tract extremity -- a banged-up Nix couldn't muster immoderate precocious magic to support Oregon and the league successful the playoff hunt.
Dan Lanning's determination to spell for it connected 4th down raised plentifulness of eyebrows, but beryllium it an irrational assurance successful his discourtesy oregon nary assurance successful the Ducks' defense, the effect leaves Oregon with lone the league rubric to play for.
And fixed the Pac-12's way record, it wouldn't beryllium astonishing if the Ducks ended up keeping the lone remaining Pac-12 squad with a changeable astatine the playoff (9-1 USC) retired of it by beating them successful that rubric game. It would beryllium thing but fitting for a league that has been either not bully capable to vie against the sport's champion oregon excessively heavy for its ain good.
Case successful point: No league has much ranked teams this week than the Pac-12.
-- Paolo Uggetti
Don't number retired Iowa.
In the past 15 years, lone 5 teams had managed the unusual feat of averaging 2.8 oregon less yards per play successful a crippled portion inactive winning by 2 touchdowns oregon more.
2011: Florida State (1.6) def. Florida 21-7, 2007: Notre Dame (2.1) def. UCLA 20-6, 2014: Missouri (2.4) def. Florida 42-13, 2008: Arizona State (2.4) def. UCLA 34-9, 2012: Florida (2.8) def. South Carolina 44-11
Three of these games progressive Will Muschamp's Florida, 2 progressive either Karl Dorrell's UCLA (2007) oregon the UCLA roster Dorrell near for Rick Neuheisel (2008), and nary of them had travel successful the past 8 calendar years.
Just erstwhile we thought Iowa had pulled disconnected everything it could successful the tract of winning with defense, peculiar teams and the smallest magnitude of discourtesy possible, Kirk Ferentz's Hawkeyes crossed the Muschamp Line connected Saturday. They averaged conscionable 2.2 yards per play, gained conscionable 146 full yards ... and bushed Wisconsin 24-10 acknowledgment to a Cooper DeJean pick-six and touchdown drives of 17 yards (after a blocked punt) and 18 yards (after a agelong DeJean punt return). Iowa was outgained by 81 yards and went conscionable 6-for-19 connected 3rd downs, but it didn't substance -- they forced 3 turnovers, made 2 immense peculiar squad plays, won successful the astir Iowa mode imaginable and someway forced their mode backmost into the Big Ten West race.
MOOD#Hawkeyes pic.twitter.com/KT1mZKdptV
— Hawkeye Football (@HawkeyeFootball) November 13, 2022--Bill Connelly
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