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Bryson Barnes had a touchdown pass and a touchdown run and Tanner Rinker kicked two of his three field goals in the fourth quarter to help Utah State hold off San Jose State 30-25 on Friday night. Utah State (4-3, 2-1 Mountain West Conference) took a 27- 25 lead on Rinker's 45-yard field goal at the end of a 14-play drive with 6:09 left to play. Rinker added a 44-yarder to cap the scoring with 1:58 left. Denis Lynch kicked a 37-yard field goal on the opening drive to give San Jose State (2-5, 1-2) the le ad. Receiver Braden Pegan answered with a 2-yard touchdown run on Utah State's first drive and the Aggies led 7-3. Walker Eget connected with Leland Smith for a 43-yard gain with 3:30 left before halftime. Six plays later Eget hit Lamar Radcliffe for a 1 5-yard touchdown and a 9-7 Spartans' lead after a missed extra-point kick.Utah State used the final minute to get a 31-yard field goal from Rinker for a 10-9 lead at halftime. Barnes fired a 74-yard scoring strike to Anthony Garcia three plays int o the third quarter, but Steve Chavez-Soto scored on a 66-yard run three plays later to cut it to 17-16. Barnes scored on a 2-yard run, but Lynch kicked a 35-yard field goal and the Spartans trailed 24-19 after three quarters. Eget and Smith teamed up fo r a 45-yard touchdown with 11:48 remaining and San Jose State led 25-24 after Eget's two-point pass was unsuccessful. Barnes completed 22 of 31 passes for 326 yards and added 54 yards on 16 rushes. Garcia had three receptions for 121 yards. Eget finished with 340 yards on 27-for-49 passing. Smith finished with four catches for 116 yards, while Kyri Shoels had seven receptions for 104 yards. Chavez-Soto carried 11 times for 102 yards. - Utah State/AP College Football
rSr/2026  QB Bryson Barnes, Utah State
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MIDSEASON AP SEC BIGGEST INJURY: Tennessee cornerback Jermod McCoy was an AP preseason first-team All-America pick but has yet to take the field as he continues to recover from an ACL injury in January. "He's got more to go," Tennessee coach Josh Heupel said last week. "You look at the position he plays, all the reactionary work that you have to have in so your always balancing his ability to be prepared and short-term, long-term health as well." - AP College Football
Jr/2027 CB Jermod McCoy, Tennessee
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MIDSEASON AP ACC BIGGEST INJURY: Syracuse coach Fran Brown announced on Sept. 22 quarterback Steve Angeli will miss the remainder of the season with a torn left Achilles tendon. Angeli was hurt on a noncontact play while rolling out of the pocket in 34-2 1 win at Clemson. - AP College Football
rJr/2027 QB Steve Angeli, Syracuse
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MIDSEASON AP BIG 12 BIGGEST INJURIES: Iowa State lost standout defensive backs Jeremiah Cooper and Jontez Williams to knee injuries before October. Cooper tore his ACL in practice the week before a win over Arizona on Sept. 28, the game in which Williams was hurt. The Cyclones have lost both games since, allowing 62 points and 869 total yards. In a 5-0 start before that, the Cyclones gave up only 14.2 points and 309.6 yards a game. - AP College Football
rSr/2027 FS Jeremiah Cooper, Iowa State
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Texas A&M running back Le'Veon Moss will miss a significant period of time with an ankle injury. Coach Mike Elko announced the injury Monday after the team's leading rusher was injured in the first half of Saturday's win over Florida that improved the fo urth-ranked Aggies to 6-0. "He's going to have to go get it looked at, and we'll kind of figure out where it's at," Elko said. "It certainly will not end his season, but it's going to be a significant amount of time." Moss had five carries for 46 yards, highlighted by a 22-yard TD run before he was injured in the second quarter Saturday. He leads the Aggies with 70 carries for 389 yards and six touchdowns. It's the second straight season where he's sustained a significant injury after he missed the last four games last season with a knee injury."I love Le'Veon," Elko said. "I wish Le'Veon was healthy. We're going to miss him. He's been a warrior for this program. He's given us everything he had to get ready for this season. I hope this goes as f ast and as smooth as it can, but injuries are a part of SEC football. And if we're going to allow injuries to impact or derail things, we can't do that." With Moss out the Aggies will make Rueben Owens II, a sophomore who is second on the team with 327 y ards rushing, their primary ball carrier. He had had 51 yards rushing and scored his first touchdown of the season Saturday, a week after he had a career-high 142 yards rushing in a win over Mississippi State. - AP College Football
Sr/2026 RB LeVeon Moss, Texas AM
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MIDSEASON AP BIG TEN BIGGEST INJURY: Penn State quarterback Drew Allar sustained a college career-ending leg injury last week against Northwestern. Allar led the Nittany Lions to a CFP semifinal last year and returned with the hope of making a run at a n ational championship. Those hopes are gone. - - AP College Football
Sr/2026 QB Drew Allar, Penn State
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James Franklin is out at Penn State. The school fired the longtime head coach on Sunday, less than 24 hours after a 22-21 home loss to Northwestern all but ended whatever remote chance the preseason No. 2 team had of reaching the College Football Playoff . Terry Smith will serve as the interim head coach for the rest of the season for the Nittany Lions (3-3, 0-3 Big Ten), who began the year with hopes of winning the national title only to have those hopes evaporate by early October amid a string of losse s, each one more stinging than the last. Penn State, which reached the CFP semifinals 10 months ago, fell at home to Oregon in overtime in late September. A road loss at previously winless UCLA followed. The final straw came on Saturday at Beaver Stadium , where the Nittany Lions let Northwestern escape with a victory and lost quarterback Drew Allar to injury for the rest of the season.Franklin went 104-45 during his 11-plus seasons at Penn State. Yet the Nittany Lions often stumbled against top-t ier opponents, going 4-21 against teams ranked in the top 10 during his tenure. There was hope this fall might be the one when Penn State would finally break through. Yet after three easy wins during a light non-conference schedule, the Nittany Lions cru mbled. Athletic director Pat Kraft said the school owes Franklin - who is owed nearly $50 million in a buyout - an "enormous amount of gratitude" for leading the Nittany Lions back to relevance but felt it was time to make a change. "We hold our athletic s programs to the highest of standards, and we believe this is the right moment for new leadership at the helm of our football program to advance us toward Big Ten and national championships," Kraft said. - AP College Football
Sr/2026 QB Drew Allar, Penn State
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Cade Klubnik threw for a touchdown and ran for another when Clemson opened a big first-half lead before leaving with an injury late in the third quarter, and the Tigers beat struggling Boston College 41-10 on Saturday night. Klubnik completed 22 of 30 pa sses for 280 yards with an interception for the Tigers (3-3, 2-2 Atlantic Coast Conference). He went to the tent after taking a hard hit on a run and remained there for a while before exiting a few minutes into the fourth. Adam Randall and Peter Woods (d efensive-tackle-turned-running-back for the play) each had a short scoring run for Clemson, which beat BC for the 13th consecutive time.Dylan Lonergan went 12 of 19 for 117 yards for BC (1-5, 0-4). The Eagles have lost five straight. Scoring on al l six of their first-half drives, the Tigers opened a 34-10 edge at halftime. Clemson had moved ahead 24-10 on Klubnik's 6-yard TD run around the right end, but the Eagles drove to the Tigers' 30 before linebacker Sammy Brown came around the right edge, forcing Lonergan's fumble that teammate T.J. Parker recovered. Three pays later, Klubnik hit Bryant Wesco in the left corner of the end zone for a 38-yard score that made it 31-10. - Clemson/AP College Football
Sr/2026 QB Cade Klubnik, Clemson
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Texas Tech quarterback Behren Morton exited the No. 9 Red Raiders' game against Kansas after appearing to injure his lower right leg when he was sacked in the second quarter. Morton pounded the turf after getting his legs caught under Leroy Harris III on the sack. The injury to Morton came on third down, so the offense was coming off the field anyway. He appeared to argue with the medical staff before backup Will Hammond went out for Texas Tech's next series, which ended after three plays. Hammond threw an interception on of the next possession. It's the third time this season Morton has exited a game with an injury. He hyperextended his right knee in a 67-7 victory over Arkansas-Pine Bluff in the season opener and was sidelined in a 34-10 win over Uta h after taking a hard hit to the head. It was the second significant injury of the first half for the Red Raiders, who led 21-7 late in the first half. - AP College Football
rSr/2026 QB Behren Morton, Texas Tech
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Drew Allar came back to Penn State for his senior season determined lead the Nittany Lions to a national championship. Now, with hopes of bringing the Nittany Lions their first NCAA football title since 1986 gone after a third-straight loss, the strong-a rmed quarterback will have to watch from the sidelines the rest of the way. Allar suffered an apparent leg injury on a third-down play late in Penn State's 22-21 loss to Northwestern on Saturday. He limped off the field with help, was replaced by backup Ethan Grunkemeyer and ruled out for the rest of the season. "Drew will be done for the year," Penn State coach James Franklin said. Allar's injury - not specified by the team - capped a three-week stretch in which the Nittany Lions fell from No. 2 in the Top 25 after losing in overtime at home to No. 3 Oregon, getting pounded by a previously winless UCLA team last week and being outplayed by Northwestern in front of another restless crowd at Beaver Stadium.That crowd was noticeably smaller, too, as large sections of the vaunted, 40,000-seat student section were barren all night. Wide receiver Devonte Ross, who transferred to Penn State last summer to play with Allar, was sullen afterward. "I love Drew," Ross said. "That's unfortunate. It's a tou gh situation just knowing him as a person and knowing how much football means to him, how much this team means to him, it's tough but I know it's next man up." The Nittany Lions (3-3, 0-3 Big Ten), will have to find some answers and will now turn to Grun kemeyer to try and lead them to a bowl game. They have to play at Iowa next week and still have trips to No. 1 Ohio State and Michigan State. A home game against No. 7 Indiana looms, too. Allar ends his Penn State career fourth on the school's career pas sing yardage list with 7,265 yards on 620-for-982 passing with 61 touchdowns and 12 interceptions. - AP College Football
Sr/2026 QB Drew Allar, Penn State
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Stanford cornerback Aaron Morris was cleared medically to return to the sideline against SMU after being immobilized and taken off the field in an ambulance following a tackle in the first quarter Saturday, the school said. Morris' face mask was removed while he was placed on a stretcher before he was loaded onto the ambulance at SMU's Ford Stadium. He was moving his arms and legs as medical personnel began attending to him on the field, and Stanford spokesman Brian Brownfield said Morris was "alert and responsive. Doing well." "Aaron Morris has cleared all precautionary tests and is returning to be with the team for the conclusion of the SMU matchup," the school said in a statement released early in the second half.Morris and linebacker Sam Mat tingly closed on Jordan Hudson from opposite sides after the SMU wide receiver made a 12-yard catch with about five minutes left in the first quarter. Morris was the first to make contact before Mattingly came in over the top of Morris and Hudson. Morris is a junior from Lowell, Massachusetts. He was playing in the fourth of Stanford's six games this season after making 17 appearances in his first two years. - AP College Football
Jr/2027 CB Aaron Morris, Stanford
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Alabama wide receiver Derek Meadows appeared to be knocked unconscious by a violent hit from Missouri safety Marvin Burks Jr. on Saturday, resulting in a scary situation in the first quarter at Memorial Stadium. Meadows had leaped to catch a pass from Cr imson Tide quarterback Ty Simpson when Burks, ranging to his left, delivered a big shoulder-to-shoulder blow. Meadows hit the turf and lay motionless, his right arm bent at an awkward angle, as several members of the Crimson Tide coaching staff rushed fr om the sideline to surround him.Quiet fell over the stadium, and it took several minutes before they sat Meadows up, and several more before they helped him walk off the field. Burks was flagged for targeting on the play, and the penalty was uphel d after the officials reviewed it. Meadows, a freshman from Las Vegas, has yet to catch a pass in a game this season. Meanwhile, Alabama running back Jam Miller also left the game early in the fourth quarter after taking a hard hit near the sideline. He walked to the locker room with the help of trainers. The game between the eighth-ranked Crimson Tide and No. 14 Missouri marks the first in Columbia between two AP top-15 teams since Sept. 29, 1979, when the Tigers lost to Texas. Alabama has not lost to Missouri since 1975. - AP College Football
Fr/2029 WR Derek Meadows, Alabama
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Arizona State quarterback Sam Leavitt is expected to miss the Sun Devils' road game against Utah on Saturday with an undisclosed injury. The No. 21 Sun Devils (4-1, 2-0 Big 12) have won three straight games while Utah (4-1, 1-1) had a lopsided win over W est Virginia last weekend. "Sam's been battling something going back to Baylor - he fought through the TCU game," Sun Devils coach Kenny Dillingham told Arizona Sports 98.7 FM on Friday. "Sam does everything he possibly can to come back and play in footb all games. He's the ultimate competitor. "This week, it just didn't feel as good as we wanted it to leaving Wednesday's practice," Dillingham added. "I think this is the best thing for him and the future season." Leavitt has completed 63.1% of his passes this season for 1,039 yards, eight touchdowns and three interceptions. The sophomore has also run for 281 yards and five touchdowns. Jeff Sims is expected to get the start against Utah. The sixth-year player completed 12 of 23 passes for 155 yards in a start against Cincinnati last season. - AP College Football
rSo/2028 QB Sam Leavitt, Arizona State
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Oklahoma plans to add padding to the brick wall around Owen Field that receiver Keontez Lewis ran headfirst into over the weekend. Most of the wall that surrounds nearly the entire field is not padded, and it is relatively close to the boundaries. Oklaho ma coach Brent Venables said the specifics aren't clear yet. "I don't know exactly when or how much and all of that," Venables said Tuesday. "But I think they're going to put some padding around that brick area where we're vulnerable...That's what I was told." Lewis was injured during Oklahoma's 44-0 win over Kent State on Saturday.In the first quarter, a pass by Michael Hawkins Jr. was a bit overthrown, and Lewis' momentum took him into an unpadded section of the wall beyond the back of the end zone. He was briefly motionless and was carted off after being attended to for about 10 minutes. What seemed scary turned out to be a relatively minor incident. Venables said on his Monday radio show that Lewis is doing well. "I was terrified, because it didn't look good at all," Venables said. "Really fortunate, all things considered - very fortunate. He's in great spirits and feeling much better. Remarkably, really not even a scratch." Lewis has 17 catches for 210 yards and two touchdowns this season. - AP College Football
rSr/2026 WR Keontez Lewis, Oklahoma
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Penn State took one of the biggest falls in the 89-year history of the poll for its loss at previously winless UCLA a week after the Bruins fired their coach. The Nittany Lions had slipped from No. 2 to No. 7 following their loss to Oregon. They went to UCLA as 24.5-point favorites, according to BetMGM Sportsbook, and lost 42-37. Penn State is unranked for the first time since September 2022. The plunge out of the Top 25 matched 1959 Oklahoma for second-biggest drop out of the rankings, not counting pre season polls or the 2020 pandemic season. The '59 Sooners went from No. 2 to out of the Top 20 after losing their opener to Northwestern. Texas lost at Ohio State as the preseason No. 1 and was No. 9 entering its game at Florida. The Longhorns' 29-21 los s at the Swamp sent it tumbling out of the Top 25. They hadn't been unranked since November 2022. Before Sunday, the last time two top-10 teams fell out of the poll the same week was Sept. 16, 1986, when it happened to No. 8 Tennessee and No. 10 Ohio Sta te. - AP College Football
Sr/2026 QB Drew Allar, Penn State
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