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OREGON DEF. CALIFORNIA, 15-13 The Bears became the first team to hold the Ducks to less than 42
points in a game. Oregon came in averaging 54.7 points per game. Next: Nov. 26 vs. Arizona.
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AUBURN DEF. GEORGIA, 49-31 Tigers quarterback Cam Newton passed for two touchdowns and
rushed for another as Auburn came back from a 21-7 deficit to clinch the SECWest. Next: Nov. 26 at Alabama.
TCU DEF. SAN DIEGO ST., 40-35 The Horned Frogs rallied from a two-touchdown deficit and held on
for their 24th consecutive regular season victory and a share of theMWC title. Next: Nov. 27 at New Mexico.
BOISE STATE DEF. IDAHO, 52-14 Kellen Moore threw two touchdown passes in the first half
Friday as the Broncos jumped out to a 38-0 halftime lead and cruised. Next: Friday vs. Fresno State.
LSU DEF. LA.-MONROE, 51-0 The Tigers’ defense scored two touchdowns and had five
takewaways, but LSU was eliminated from SECWest contention with Auburn’s win. Next: Saturday vs. Mississippi.
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WISCONSIN DEF. IND., 83-20 Montee Ball ran for three scores in his first career start, and the
Badgers scored their most points since an 85-0 win over Marquette in 1915. Next: Saturday at Michigan.
STANFORD DEF. ARIZ. ST., 17-13 Owen Marecic’s one-yard touchdown run with 5:14 left lifted the Cardinal, which held the Sun
Devils to 268 total yards of offense. Next: Saturday at California.
OHIOSTATEDEF.PENNST.,38-14 Devon Torrence and Travis Howard each returned interceptions for a
touchdown and the Buckeyes came back from an 11-point halftime deficit. Next: Saturday at Iowa.
NEBRASKA DEF. KANSAS, 20-3 The Cornhuskers’ defense held the Jayhawks to 87 total yards in
the final game of the the nation’s longest continuous series (105 years). Next: Saturday at Texas A&M.
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Lattimore rushes for career-best 212 yards for Gamecocks
BY MARK LONG
gainesville, fla.—TheOl’ Ball Coach notched a huge win at his old stomping grounds. After years of being the top
Gator, Steve Spurrier led South Carolina to its most significant victory in the stadium he nick- named The Swamp. Marcus Lattimore ran 40 times for a career-high 212 yards and
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three touchdowns, Stephen Gar- cia played turnover-free football at quarterback and the 22nd- ranked Gamecocks upset No. 24 Florida, 36-14, on Saturday night to clinch the Southeastern Con- ference’s Eastern Division for the first time in school history. The Gamecocks won for the
second time in 19 tries against Florida, snapped an 0-for-12 streak in Gainesville, and earned a spot in the league title game. South Carolina (7-3, 5-3 SEC) will play second-ranked Auburn on Dec.4,withthewinner advancing to theBowlChampionship Series. The Gators (6-4, 4-4) lost to a
division opponent for the first time in 17 games, dropped their thirdconsecutivehome game and proved they didn’t deserve to play for a championship. It’s the pro- gram’s first three-game losing streak at home since 1989. South Carolina started cele-
brating after Garcia’s 8-yard TD run early in the fourth quarter that put the Gamecocks ahead 29-7. PlayersdousedSpurrierwith—
what else? — Gatorade with 1:01 remaining. Spurrier spent the fi- nal few seconds with cameras in his face, then got carried to mid- field on players’ shoulders. Spurrier’s Florida teams went 63-5 inGainesville.He had plenty
South Carolina running backMarcus Lattimore, left, breaks into the end zone for one of his three touchdowns. Lattimore carried 40 times and sent Florida to its first SEC East loss in its past 17 games.
of important wins along the way —Kentucky in 1991, Florida State in 1991 and 1995, South Carolina in 2000 — but only that one againstKentucky clinched a title. So this one certainly will stand
out. Andre Debose returned the
opening kickoff 99 yards for a Floridatouchdown,but itwasone of the few highlights the Gators could muster in a game that will go down as one of the worst in school history—evenmore pain- ful thananything intheRonZook era.
Thefirstquarterwasallanyone
needed to watch to see how the game would unfold: The Gators ran 18 plays for 51 yards, failed to convert a third down, punted five times and had five penalties. The Gamecocks had to settle
for three field goals fromSpencer Lanning,who hit from49, 47 and 41 yards.He also banged an extra pointoff theleftupright following Lattimore’s 7-yard touchdown run in the first quarter. Therewas little else South Car-
olina did wrong. Garcia complet- ed15of22passes for 156yards.He
added 28 yards on the ground. Lattimore, the league’s second-
leading rushing behind Auburn quarterback Cam Newton, de- moralized Floridawith every car- ry.He ran 21 times for 83 yards in the first half, then added a back- breaking, 21-yard TD run to cap South Carolina’s opening drive of the second half. Alshon Jeffrey, the SEC’s lead-
ing receiver, caught six passes for 53 yards. South Carolina finished with 395 yards, 169 more than Florida.
—Associated Press HOCKEY Sabres end Capitals’ winning streak at six capitals from D1
the second]. You talk about com- ing from behind all year and you finally get the lead and you’re supposed to put the pedal down then and just keep going after themand break their will.We sat back, took penalties and played really bad.” In something of a rare event
through the first 17 games of the season, the Capitals came out with a strong first period. They were intent on testing Sabres goaltenderRyanMiller inhis first game back after missing the pre- vious six contests with a knee injury. Eight minutes in, Karl Alzner
beat Miller with a shot from the point to give the Capitals a 1-0 lead. Itwas just the fifth time this season that the Capitals have scored the first goal, but the 2010 Vezina Trophy winner didn’t let things get out of hand. Late in the frame, Alex Ovech-
kin streaked into the offensive zone on a breakaway with a chance to giveWashington a two-
goal lead on arguably the best scoring opportunity of the game. But Miller didn’t buy any of the dekes the Washington captain tried to sell and stopped Ovech- kin cold, bringing the home crowd to their feet. It was Ovech- kin’s only shot of the game. “I thought if Alex had scored
on the breakaway it might have been a different game,” said Bou- dreau, whose Capitals return home to Verizon Center on Sun- day, when they host the Atlanta Thrashers. The start of the second period
marked the beginning of 20min- utes inwhich playwas conducted almost exclusively intheCapitals’ end, beginning when Jason Chi- mera was called for cross-check- ing less than four minutes into the frame.Arguingwiththe refer- ees earnedChimera anadditional infraction for unsportsmanlike conduct. Even after Washington es-
caped the penalty unscathed, it rarely visited Miller’s end of the ice. The Capitals registered just one shot in the first half of the
frame after out-shooting Buffalo 13-6 in the first period. Just past the 10-minute mark
of the second, Sabres defenseman Steve Montador tied the contest at 1-1 with a blast from the point that beatBradenHoltby,whowas screened on the play. “We just didn’t do any of the
things that we needed to,” John Erskine said. “We weren’t work- ing hard enough,wewere getting out-battled all over and it showed. It was the worst period we played all year and that’s just unacceptable.” Tomas Fleischmann earned a
double-minor for high sticking with four minutes remaining in the second, and 24 seconds into the man advantage the Sabres took advantage. The puck rico- cheted off several bodies in front of thenet itwounduponthe stick of Vanek, who shot into a wide opennet tomake it 2-1.By the end of the period, Buffalo outshot the Capitals 11-4. “They played good, they got
the puck deep and they were forechecking good,” Nicklas
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Backstrom said. “We weren’t quick enough with the puck, I think, and that caused us trouble. . . .When [Boudreau] changed the lines up it was a big wakeup call.” Unhappy with the stagnant
offense, Boudreau shook up all four ofhis forward combinations. The alterations seemed to give a Washington spark and one of the freshly assembled lines — with Chimera, Backstromand Alexan- der Semin — paid dividends just
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Buffalo’s ThomasVanek puts home the game-winning goal against BradenHoltby after maneuvering through theWashington defense.
over sevenminutes in. Backstrom faked a slap shot
that fooled both Sabres defense- man ShaoneMorrisonn, a former Capital, andMiller before he sent a wrist shot into the goal just below the crossbar to tie the game 2-2. But regardless of knotting the
score and forcing overtime, Washington never wrestled the game away from the Sabres after the second period.Miller stopped 23 of 25Washington shots.
To score in overtime, Vanek
bypassed defenseman John Carl- son then avoided a poke check from Holtby, who made 24 saves in the second NHL start of his career. “We got the goal. We got the
point. I’mnever satisfiedwithout the two but at the same time as long as it’s not a trend and we’re ready to bounce back [Sunday]. If that’s as bad as we can be then that’s good.”
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MICHIGAN ST.WAS IDLE The Spartans are one of three teams with one Big
Ten loss, so if they win out, they’ll finish at worst in a tie for first place. Next: Saturday vs. Purdue.
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ALA. DEF. MISS. STATE, 30-10 The Crimson Tide had scores of 45, 78 and 56 yards on three
consecutive offensive plays starting in the second quarter against the Bulldogs. Next: Thursday vs. Georgia State.
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OKLA. ST. AT TEXAS, LATE The Cowboys entered the game 2-22 against the
Longhorns all-time, with their last win coming in 1997. Next: Saturday at Kansas.
IOWA LOST TO NU, 21-17 Northwestern quarterback Dan Persa threw the game-
winning touchdown pass—tearing his Achilles’ on the play— with 1:22 left. Next: Saturday vs. Ohio State.
ARK. DEF. UTEP, 58-21 Ryan Mallett threw for a school-record five
touchdowns. He now has set or tied 35 school or stadium records at Arkansas. Next: Saturday at Mississippi State.
UTAH LOST AT N.D., 28-3 Tommy Rees threw three touchdown passes in his first
start for the Irish, and the Utes suffered their second straight blowout loss. Next: Saturday at San Diego State.
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S. Carolina wins, clinches SEC East
VA. TECH DEF. UNC, 26-10 Tyrod Taylor and Marcus Davis connected on a a pair
of touchdown passes for the Hokies, who moved closer to the ACC title game. Next: Saturday at Miami.
MSU LOST AT ALA., 30-10 The Bulldogs had their six- game winning streak snapped. It was their longest
such streak since the 1999 season. Next: Saturday vs. Arkansas.
ARIZONA VS. USC, LATE TheWildcats have the Pacific-10’s top passing
offense; the Trojans’ passing defense is by far the conference’s worst. Next: Nov. 26 at Oregon.
OKLA. DEF. TEX. TECH, 45-7 Wide receiver Ryan Broyles broke Mark Clayton’s
Oklahoma career records for receptions and touchdown catches in the easy win. Next: Saturday at Baylor.
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MIZZOU DEF. KSU, 38-28 Blaine Gabbert accounted for three touchdowns, and
the Tigers bounced back from consecutive losses to Nebraska and Texas Tech. Next: Saturday at Iowa State.
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NEV. AT FRESNO ST., LATE In its previous two games against the Bulldogs, the
Wolf Pack won by a combined 93-42 and rushed for 933 yards. Next: Saturday vs. New Mexico State.
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Rees, in first start, throws for 129 yards, 3 touchdowns
BY RICK GANO
south bend, ind.—Freshman Tommy Rees threwthree touch- down passes in his first colle- giate startandNotreDametook advantage of Utah special teams mistakes Saturday to rout the slumping, 15th-ranked Utes, 28-3. Returning from a week off,
Notre Dame (5-5) played like a fresh team and moved within one win of becoming bowl eligi- ble. Utah (8-2), meanwhile, looked like a team still reeling from its 47-7 loss to TCU a week earlier. ThevictorywasNotreDame’s
first over a team ranked in the Associated Press Top 25 since 2006, when the Irish defeated Penn State. Students poured onto the field when the game ended, joining the celebration with Notre Dame players, who won their home finale. NotreDame’swinwasits first
since 20-year-old student vid- eographer Declan Sullivan was killed when the tower from which he was filming practice toppled over on a windy day 17 days earlier. For the second straight game, the Irish wore a helmet decal in the shape of a shamrock with DS in the mid- dle.
“It’s emotional,” Irish Coach
Brian Kelly said. “It’s been a tough couple of weeks.” Robert Blanton blocked a
Utah punt, picked up the ball and ran in for a touchdown late in the first quarter. And a fum- bleonthe second-half kickoffby Utah returner Shaky Smithson was quickly turned into the first of two Rees-to-Duval Kamara touchdown passes. Austin Col- linsworth hit Smithson on the return, jarred the ball loose and Daniel Smith recovered for the
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QBTommy Rees helpedNotre Dame to its first win over a ranked team since 2006.
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Irish. On the next play from the 26, Rees threw to a wide-open Kumara for the score, putting the Irish up 21-3 just 13 seconds into the third quarter. Rees and Kamara hooked up
again a little more than five minutes later on a 12-yard TD pass that capped a quick 63- yard drive, one that included a 24-yard pass toMichael Floyd. Rees, who replaced injured
starterDayneCrist during a loss to Tulsa two weeks ago, got better as the game progressed, finishing 13 of 20 for 129 yards. Notre Dame’s maligned de-
fense bottled up Utah — which came in averaging 41 points per game — and stopped the Utes from scoring in the second half after they reached the 6 and 12 yard lines on separate drives. Utah quarterback Jordan
Wynncompleted24of39for195 yards and was shaken up with just more than five minutes re- maining after taking a hard hit following a pass. He returned to the game two
plays later. —Associated Press
S. CAR. DEF. FLA., 36-14 The Gamecocks clinched their first berth in the SEC
title game, improved to 6-27 in November games against SEC foes since 1992. Next: Saturday vs. Troy.
TAMU AT BAYLOR, LATE After ranking 105th nationally in total defense
last season, the Aggies rank 47th in the nation at 346.9 yards per game. Next: Saturday vs. Nebraska.
FLA. LOST TO S.C., 36-14 The Gators, who had never lost to the Gamecocks at
the Swamp, fell to an SEC East Division opponent for the first time in 17 games. Next: Saturday vs. Appalachian State.
UCF LOST TO S.M., 31-21 Austin Davis threw for 264 yards and matched a
career high with four touchdown passes for Southern Mississippi. Next: Saturday at Tulane.
Freshman leads Irish to rout of No. 15 Utes
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