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All play we hold for rivalry week and it ne'er disappoints.
Michigan bushed Ohio State successful Columbus for the archetypal clip since 2000 and it was simply conscionable the opening of a time afloat of chaos successful the apical 10.
Clemson fell to rival South Carolina, each but ending immoderate College Football Playoff hopes for the Tigers. LSU followed suit, losing to a 5-7 Texas A&M team, which apt ends immoderate anticipation of the SEC sending 2 teams to the four-team playoff field.
Out west, Oregon mislaid to rival Oregon State, spoiling immoderate hopes of a Rose Bowl for the Ducks successful Dan Lanning's archetypal play astatine the helm successful Eugene.
But portion upsets whitethorn person highlighted the day, apical teams specified arsenic Georgia, TCU and USC each took attraction of concern up of league title week.
And with that, the regular play comes to an end. Don't beryllium bittersweet it's over, beryllium gladsome it happened. Oh, and cheque retired this week's Power Rankings.
1. Georgia Bulldogs (12-0)
It was a dilatory commencement Saturday for the Bulldogs, who besides stumbled astir connected discourtesy a week earlier successful a 16-6 triumph implicit Kentucky. But aft falling down 7-0 to nonconference rival Georgia Tech, Georgia reeled disconnected 37 unanswered points and cruised to a 37-14 triumph astatine Sanford Stadium, the Bulldogs' 26th consecutive regular-season triumph dating to the extremity of the 2020 season. Georgia, which did springiness up a first-quarter touchdown to the Yellow Jackets, was stifling aft that connected defense. The Bulldogs haven't allowed much than 22 points successful immoderate crippled this play and person fixed up 14 oregon less points 8 times. -- Chris Low
Up next: SEC title crippled vs. LSU (Mercedes-Benz Dome, Atlanta, Saturday, 4 p.m. ET, CBS)
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After falling down early, No. 1 Georgia scores 30 consecutive points arsenic QB Stetson Bennett throws for 2 touchdowns successful the 37-14 triumph implicit the Yellow Jackets.
2. Michigan Wolverines (12-0)
Michigan bushed Ohio State successful Columbus for the archetypal clip since 2000 successful a convincing 45-23 win. The Wolverines had conscionable 10 rushing yards successful the archetypal half, but finished the crippled with 252 full rushing yards. Running backmost Donovan Edwards had 170 yards rushing successful the 4th fourth unsocial and his 216 rushing yards for the crippled are the second-most all-time by a Michigan subordinate against Ohio State. Michigan backmost J.J. McCarthy connected connected 3 passing touchdowns of 45 yards oregon much successful the crippled and had a rushing touchdown of his ain successful the ascendant triumph for the Wolverines. -- Tom VanHaaren
Up next: Big Ten title crippled vs. Purdue (Lucas Oil Stadium, Indianapolis, Saturday, 8 p.m. ET, Fox)
3. TCU Horned Frogs (12-0)
The Horned Frogs completed a magical -- and highly improbable -- 12-0 regular play with possibly their astir complete, dominating show of the season. TCU enactment up a stunning 62 points connected an Iowa State defence that was allowing 16.5 points per crippled and had lone allowed Baylor to people much than 30 points this year. They did it with 2 Kendre Miller rushing TDs, 3 Max Duggan TD passes, 2 pick-sixes and a 62-yard kickoff instrumentality that acceptable up different score. It was conscionable the show the Horned Frogs needed going into the Big 12 rubric crippled adjacent week, allowing them to remainder banged-up prima receiver Quentin Johnston and get backups immoderate needed playing time. -- Dave Wilson
Up next: Big 12 title crippled vs. Kansas State (AT&T Stadium, Arlington, Texas, Saturday, noon ET, ABC/ESPN app)
4. USC Trojans (11-1)
In immoderate ways, the Trojans didn't request to enactment connected a amusement for the committee against Notre Dame fixed that no. 5 LSU mislaid and 2 wins would apt beryllium capable to marque it into the playoff field. Caleb Williams had different ideas and a Heisman to win. Despite the 38-27 score, the Trojans controlled the crippled from commencement to decorativeness acknowledgment to much daring plays by Williams and much takeaways by a defence that present has 25 this season. The Irish couldn't support up and present USC has an 11-1 regular play aft going 4-8 past twelvemonth and the turnaround isn't implicit yet. -- Paolo Uggetti
Up next: Pac-12 title crippled vs. Utah (Allegiant Stadium, Las Vegas, Friday, 8 p.m. ET, Fox)
5. Alabama Crimson Tide (10-2)
It took until the last crippled of the regular season, but Alabama yet enactment unneurotic a implicit crippled offensively erstwhile it bushed Auburn astatine location 49-27 to triumph the Iron Bowl. Jahmyr Gibbs, Jase McClellan and the moving crippled accounted for 173 yards and 4 touchdowns, averaging 5.1 yards per carry. Meanwhile, Bryce Young was crisp successful the passing game, throwing for 343 yards and 3 scores -- with each 3 going to antithetic receivers successful Ja'Corey Brooks, Traeshon Holden and McClellan. -- Scarborough
Up next: Bowl game
6. Ohio State Buckeyes (11-1)
After getting snowed implicit by Michigan successful 2021, Ohio State pointed to The Game arsenic a accidental for redemption and progress. But the antiaircraft strides made nether first-year coordinator Jim Knowles blew up connected the Buckeyes, who allowed 5 touchdowns of 45 yards oregon longer and 4 of 69 yards oregon longer to J.J. McCarthy, Donovan Edwards and the Wolverines. "Way excessively galore large plays," manager Ryan Day said. Ohio State mislaid a accidental to vie for a Big Ten title and backmost C.J. Stroud slipped successful the Heisman Trophy race, contempt passing for 349 yards successful what was apt his last crippled astatine Ohio Stadium. The Buckeyes mislaid to Michigan astatine location for the archetypal clip since 2000 and saw their 29-game Big Ten location triumph streak snapped. -- Adam Rittenberg
Up next: Bowl game
7. Tennessee Volunteers (10-2)
The Vols were embarrassed a week agone successful a blowout nonaccomplishment astatine South Carolina and were intelligibly hell-bent connected taking retired that embarrassment connected somebody. That idiosyncratic was Vanderbilt. Backup backmost Joe Milton III, filling successful for the injured Hendon Hooker, led a balanced attack, and Tennessee cruised to a 56-0 romp implicit the Commodores successful a crippled that was ne'er successful doubt. As overmuch arsenic anything, Tennessee's defence took retired immoderate vexation Saturday aft giving up 63 points and 606 yards past week to the Gamecocks. -- Low
Up next: Bowl game
8. Penn State Nittany Lions (10-2)
Sixth-year elder backmost Sean Clifford's 4 touchdown passes connected elder time helped stave disconnected Michigan State's precocious propulsion arsenic Penn State won 35-16 connected Saturday. Clifford (19-of-24 passing for 202 yards) deed 8 antithetic receivers to complement a moving crippled that struggled a spot successful the 2nd half. Freshmen moving backs Kaytron Allen and Nicholas Singleton did harvester for 160 yards connected 38 carries successful the win. -- Blake Baumgartner
Up next: Bowl game
9. Washington Huskies (10-2)
A late-night, Pac-12 After Dark Apple Cup was bound to get weird. This 1 had the privilege of deciding whether Utah oregon Oregon would look USC successful the Pac-12 rubric crippled too. In a shootout, the Huskies prevailed acknowledgment to a 485-yard show from Michael Penix Jr. and a mates of antiaircraft stops successful the 4th fourth to decorativeness the regular play with 10 wins and support rival Oregon from playing for the league rubric -- Uggetti
Up next: Bowl game
10. Utah Utes (9-3)
Utah had won its past 5 games against Colorado by an mean people of 35-14 and came into Saturday's crippled a 30-point favorite, but adjacent with that precocious a bar, the Utes inactive made a resounding statement, going up 42-0 astatine halftime, outgaining the hopeless Buffaloes 662-185 and cruising to a 63-21 triumph that, honestly, flattered the hosts. The win, combined with different events (namely, Oregon's nonaccomplishment to Oregon State), was capable to propulsion the Utes into the Pac-12 Championship for the 4th clip successful 5 seasons. -- Connelly
Up next: Pac-12 title crippled vs. USC (Allegiant Stadium, Las Vegas, Friday, 8 p.m. ET, Fox)
11. LSU Tigers (9-3)
The LSU defence picked a atrocious clip -- and a unusual hostile -- to person arguably its worst show of the season. Even if the Tigers were looking up to the SEC title crippled against Georgia adjacent week, it inactive doesn't explicate giving up 38 points successful a nonaccomplishment to a Texas A&M squad which hadn't scored much than 28 points since Week 1 against Sam Houston. A week aft holding the FBS' starring rusher, UAB's DeWayne McBride, to 38 yards, Texas A&M's Devon Achane was capable to rack up 215 yards and 3 touchdowns. --Alex Scarborough
Up next: SEC title crippled vs. Georgia (Mercedes-Benz Dome, Atlanta, Saturday, 4 p.m. ET, CBS)
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Devon Achane totals 215 yards and 2 touchdowns connected the crushed to pb Texas A&M to a ascendant 38-23 triumph implicit the Tigers.
12. Clemson Tigers (10-2)
It is harmless to accidental this is not the mode the Tigers envisioned closing retired the regular play -- with their archetypal location nonaccomplishment since 2016 to rival South Carolina 31-30, fundamentally eliminating them from the College Football Playoff for the 2nd consecutive year. Once again DJ Uiagalelei was ineffective, completing conscionable 28% of his passes, the worst completion percent successful immoderate crippled of his vocation with astatine slightest 5 walk attempts. Clemson had 3 turnovers successful all, including a captious fumble connected a punt instrumentality precocious successful the game. The nonaccomplishment broke a 40-game location winning streak and a seven-game winning streak implicit its in-state rivals. -- Andrea Adelson
Up next: ACC title crippled vs. North Carolina (Bank of America Stadium, Charlotte, Saturday, 8 p.m. ET, ABC/ESPN app)
13. Florida State Seminoles (9-3)
Jordan Travis enactment the Seminoles connected his backmost with immoderate eye-dropping -- and gravity-defying -- runs to assistance Florida State bushed rival Florida 45-38 successful 1 of the champion games successful the past of the rivalry. Travis threw for 270 yards and a people and ran for 83 yards and 2 touchdowns, arsenic erstwhile again the Seminoles recovered occurrence connected the ground. Florida State has 7 consecutive games with 200 rushing yards for the archetypal clip since 1987 and has won 5 consecutive for the archetypal clip since 2016 -- the past clip the Seminoles bushed in-state rivals Miami and Florida successful the aforesaid season. -- Adelson
Up next: Bowl game
14. Kansas State Wildcats (9-3)
Kansas State volition play for its archetypal Big 12 rubric successful a decennary adjacent Saturday acknowledgment to a 47-27 triumph implicit Sunflower State rival Kansas connected Saturday night. Kansas tried its champion to situation the Wildcats, utilizing a gutty 16-play thrust to get to wrong 10 successful the 4th quarter, but K-State conscionable had excessively galore weapons. Deuce Vaughn gained 229 combined rushing and receiving yards, Malik Knowles had a 29-yard tally and a 69-yard footwear return, and freshman DJ Giddens' touchdown tally with 4:30 near capped the win. In Jerry's World adjacent Saturday, the Wildcats volition get a accidental to avenge an October nonaccomplishment to TCU. -- Connelly
Up next: Big 12 title crippled vs. TCU (AT&T Stadium, Arlington, Texas, Saturday, noon ET, ABC/ESPN app)
15. Oregon State Beavers (9-3)
Down by 21 to Oregon astatine 1 point, the Beavers willed their mode to decorativeness their champion regular play since 2006 by beating their in-state rival and keeping them retired of the Pac-12 rubric crippled -- pursuing a Washington triumph implicit Washington State. It was the cleanable signature decision to a banner twelvemonth for Jonathan Smith's squad and the Beavers did it successful the slightest fashionable mode possible. Starting backmost Ben Gulbranson threw for lone 60 yards connected 13 walk attempts. The crippled was won connected the ground, wherever the Beavers had 7 players tally for a combined 268 yards, led by Damien Martinez with 103. It was a grind of a crippled successful Corvallis but erstwhile it came down to it, Oregon State showed wherefore it's been 1 of the much underrated teams successful the state this season. -- Uggetti
Up next: Bowl game
16. Tulane Green Wave (10-2)
Junior moving backmost Tyjae Spears' season-high 181 rushing yards and 2 touchdowns spearheaded Tulane's 27-24 triumph astatine Cincinnati connected Friday. Spears went for astatine slightest 120 yards for the sixth consecutive game, the longest progressive streak successful the country. The Green Wave won 10 games successful a play for the archetypal clip since 1998 portion winning its archetypal AAC regular play title. Tulane, which boasted the AAC's champion scoring defence coming into Friday, constricted the Bearcats to 102 passing yards and made beingness hard for sophomore backmost Evan Prater for overmuch of the contest. -- Blake Baumgartner
Up next: American Athletic Conference title crippled vs. UCF (Yulman Stadium, New Orleans, Saturday, 4 p.m. ET, ABC/ESPN app)
17. UCLA Bruins (9-3)
After 2 consecutive losses, UCLA needed its ninth triumph to assistance validate the advancement it made this season. The Bruins overcame a halftime shortage against Cal and rushed for 352 yards successful a 35-28 win, getting to 9 victories for the archetypal clip successful the regular play since 2014. Zach Charbonnet supplied his accustomed brilliance (119 yards), but TJ Harden, Colson Yankoff and Dorian Thompson-Robinson added 236 yards arsenic UCLA pounded away, ne'er gaining much than 21 yards connected immoderate run. The Bruins defence erstwhile again wasn't great, particularly against the pass, but forced a fumble successful the closing infinitesimal to unafraid the win. Thompson-Robinson became UCLA's all-time completions person and the archetypal Bruin to eclipse 12,000 vocation yards of offense. -- Rittenberg
Up next: Bowl game
18. Oregon Ducks (9-3)
With a travel to the Pac-12 rubric crippled connected the line, Oregon simply couldn't get it done. Up by 21 astatine 1 constituent against Oregon State, the Ducks discourtesy stalled and could not get the touchdown it needed wrong the Beavers' 20-yard line. Their 2 past drives ended connected 4th downs that the Ducks couldn't complete, and contempt outgaining Oregon State by implicit 150 yards, Dan Lanning's squad was not capable to extremity his debut regular play connected a precocious note. -- Uggetti
Up next: Bowl game
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Oregon State's defence comes up large with a fourth-down halt precocious successful the 4th fourth to unafraid an unthinkable 21-point comeback victory.
19. Notre Dame Fighting Irish (8-4)
What had been an awesome tally backmost up the rankings for the Irish aft a dilatory commencement to their play ran into the Caleb Williams buzzsaw connected Saturday. The Irish tried their champion to dilatory down Williams and USC's discourtesy to nary avail. The discourtesy did their portion too: backmost Drew Pyne didn't propulsion an incompletion until the 4th fourth and the USC defence could not halt choky extremity Michael Mayer. It was inactive not capable to propulsion disconnected the roadworthy upset. -- Uggetti
Up next: Bowl game
20. South Carolina Gamecocks (8-4)
What a mode to adjacent retired the regular play for the Gamecocks. A week aft throttling Tennessee, South Carolina upset rival Clemson 31-30 to go the archetypal squad to triumph consecutive games against AP Top-10 opponents arsenic an unranked squad since Auburn did it successful 2003. Spencer Rattler deed connected respective large plays down the tract -- going 6 of 8 for 248 yards and a touchdown connected passes 20 oregon much yards down the field. Those large plays accounted for the bulk of his 360 yards passing successful the game. Going backmost to 2011, nary backmost has much completions of 20 oregon much yards than Rattler did Saturday. -- Adelson
Up next: Bowl game
21. Texas Longhorns (8-4)
After Quinn Ewers mislaid a fumble and Baylor returned it for a touchdown to instrumentality a 27-24 pb aboriginal successful the 4th quarter, Steve Sarkisian fto the tally crippled instrumentality over. The Longhorns ran the shot 22 consecutive times and fed Bijan Robinson, who finished with 22 of his 29 carries and 150 of his 179 yards successful the 2nd half, portion Roschon Johnson added 13 carries and 77 yards and 2 touchdowns. After a 5-7 grounds successful Sarkisian's archetypal year, the Longhorns closed retired the regular play by winning 3 of their past 4 to decorativeness 8-4, thing Sarkisian says shows the programme is connected the close track. "I deliberation the benignant of play is truly starting to travel to fruition," helium said. "We're playing a carnal marque of football." -- Wilson
Up next: Bowl game
22. North Carolina Tar Heels (9-3)
The Tar Heels person present mislaid 2 consecutive heading into the ACC title crippled aft losing astatine location to rival NC State 30-27 successful treble overtime. Quarterback Drake Maye could ne'er get into a accordant rhythm, arsenic NC State -- 1 of the champion defenses successful the ACC -- brought dense unit and made beingness uncomfortable. Still, it was Maye who rallied North Carolina to marque it to overtime, with a 4-yard touchdown walk to Antoine Green with nary clip near successful regulation. But successful the other period, North Carolina could not find the extremity portion arsenic the Wolfpack came up with the plays to win. Maye finished with 233 yards, a touchdown and an interception. -- Adelson
Up next: ACC title crippled vs. Clemson (Bank of America Stadium, Charlotte, Saturday, 8 p.m. ET, ABC/ESPN app)
23. Troy Trojans (10-2)
Needing lone to bushed Arkansas State to unafraid their archetypal Sun Belt title berth, Jon Sumrall's Trojans made beingness awfully hard connected themselves, committing a brace of first-half turnovers that led to points for the Red Wolves and had Troy trailing 19-14 heading into the 4th quarter. But past they got angry. Kimani Vidal rushed for 3 precocious touchdowns -- helium finished the crippled with 208 rushing yards and 4 scores -- arsenic Troy scored 34 points successful the last 15 minutes. In Sumrall's archetypal twelvemonth successful charge, they are your Sun Belt West champions. -- Connelly
Up next: Sun Belt title crippled vs. Coastal Carolina (Saturday, 3:30 p.m. ET, ESPN/ESPN app)
24. UTSA Roadrunners (10-2)
The Roadrunners dug retired of a 24-0 spread with the largest comeback successful schoolhouse history, kicking a tract extremity with 4 seconds near to bushed UTEP 34-31. Senior backmost Frank Harris continued his late-game magic arsenic helium threw for 382 yards and 3 touchdowns. The triumph completed an undefeated league play astatine 8-0 successful Conference USA and finished a 10-2 regular play with lone a triple-overtime nonaccomplishment to Houston to unfastened the play and a Week 3 nonaccomplishment to Texas successful Austin. -- Wilson
Up next: Conference USA title crippled vs. North Texas (Alamodome, San Antonio, Friday, CBSSN)
25. Mississippi State Bulldogs (8-4)
Mike Leach won his archetypal Egg Bowl, a rainy 24-22 triumph connected Thanksgiving nighttime that saw the Bulldogs past a precocious 2-point conversion effort by Ole Miss. Mississippi State (8-4) looked similar it was going to nail down the triumph successful the last minutes and had a archetypal down astatine the Ole Miss 1-yard line. But backmost Will Rogers fumbled, and the Rebels drove 99 yards for a touchdown. Ole Miss called a shovel walk connected the 2-point try, but it was batted down by Mississippi State antiaircraft lineman Randy Charlton. -- Low
Up next: Bowl game
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