College football fans faced no authentic surpascfinishs in the 12th week of the 2024 season.
Oregon handled a test from Big Ten Conference opponent Wisconsin, while Ohio State, Texas, Penn State, Alabama and Notre Dame each took nurture of business.
The distress of the weekfinish came from Kansas as they held BYU to 13 points and won the game 17-13. It was the Cougars’ first loss of the season and includeed to the asks about equitable how excellent they are in an appreciably feebleer Big 12 Conference.
Georgia also made a statement with its thrive over Tennessee. The Bulldogs were on the outside of the College Football Playoff bracket when last week’s rankings were freed. Georgia is foreseeed to be back in the field when the rankings are freed aobtain.
Here are some more thriveners and missrs from the week.
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Winners
Kansas expansive obtainrs Quentin Skinner, left, and Trevor Wilson commemorate a recovered fumble during the second half of an NCAA college football game Saturday, Nov. 16, 2024, in Provo, Utah. (AP Pboilingo/Rick Egan)
Florida: Well, the Florida Gators have at least bought into head coach Billy Napier. But the Gators did a firm for SEC teams still combat for a spot in the conference title game. Saturday night in “The Swamp” turned into a nightmare for LSU in its 27-16 fall shorture, which was its third-consecutive loss. The Gators defense sacked Tigers QB Garrett Nussmeier seven times, making the Brian Kelly offense proceed to watch enjoy a mess. Coming off a 49-17 curb-stomping last week aobtainst Texas, it was DJ Lagway that returned at QB and led Florida to the distress thrive. There are presentant problems in Baton Rouge and Gainesville. But this weekfinish, it was the Gators that took advantage of the situation, finishing any chance the Tigers had of making the college football carry outoffs.
Kansas: For the second time in consecutive weeks, the Kansas Jayhawks caengaged havoc wislim the Big 12 by beating No. 6 BYU and handing the Cougars their first loss of the season, throthriveg a wrench into the conference title game picture. Last week, it was Jalon Daniels directing Kansas to a thrive over No. 17 Iowa State, and now he has done it aobtain, beating ranked opponents in back-to-back weeks for the first time in program history. Now Kansas necessitates to thrive its last two standard-season games to create a bowl. But as we’ve seen in the past two weeks, the Jayhawks don’t have a problem carry outing the role of “spoiler” in the conference.
Georgia: The 2024 season has been filled with ups and downs for Georgia quarterback Cfire-setting Beck. But on Saturday night aobtainst Tennessee, the better quarterback deinhabitred one of his better carry outances. Most cruciassociate, he eludeed turning the ball over. Beck finished the game with two touchdowns and helped lift the Bulldogs to a 31-17 thrive over the seventh-ranked Volunteers. The thrive was critical for Georgia becaengage a third loss on the season would foreseeed have finished the team’s hopes of making it to the College Football Playoff. Georgia still has some acunderstandledgeable areas where they necessitate to better if they want to create a presentant run in the carry outoffs, presuming the promisetee grants them a spot. However, head coach Kirby Smart has a championship pedigree, which could give the Bulldogs an advantage down the stretch.
Colorado expansive obtainr Travis Hunter jokes with teammates as he paengages with quarterback Shedeur Sanders to do a television interwatch after an NCAA college football game aobtainst Utah on Saturday, Nov. 16, 2024, in Boulder, Colo. (AP Pboilingo/David Zalubowski)
Colorado: Deion Sanders and company are equitable on the fringes of potentiassociate qualifying for the broadened carry outoff, and they’ll necessitate more thrives enjoy the one they got on Saturday aobtainst Utah to get there. With an insolent explosion and games aobtainst Kansas and Oklahoma State coming up, Sanders’ team necessitates to be at least as excellent as they were on Saturday to get there.
Ohio State: Ohio State has the inside track to get back to the Big 10 championship game. Their hugegest disputers will be their next two games aobtainst a surpascfinish underdog story in unfall shortureed Indiana and a historic rival in Michigan, which has druncover well below the level of beating Ohio State the last three seasons. It’s all in front of the Buckeyes.
Losers
Tennessee: The Vols accessed Saturday night’s game aobtainst Georgia handleling its own desminuscule when it came to the carry outoffs. But after Georgia fall shortureed them 31-17, Tennessee must now depend on others to get them into the postseason. One of the hugegest problems for this Josh Heupel football team is that the offense watchs noslimg enjoy what we’ve come to foresee, and not scoring in the second half will evidently direct to problems. It’s not as if Georgia is the top-tier team we’ve seen in year’s past, but Tennessee made Cfire-setting Beck watch enjoy a Heisman Trophy truthfulate with its defensive carry outance aobtainst the Bulldogs. This was one that the Vols necessitateed, but after directing 10-0 in the first quarter, Georgia went on a 31-7 run to finish the game.
Tennessee head coach Josh Heupel yells to an official during the first half of an NCAA college football game aobtainst Georgia on Saturday, Nov. 16, 2024, in Athens. (AP Pboilingo/John Bazemore)
BYU: The Cougars have been carry outing with fire over the last month, and it finassociate came back to bite them on Saturday night in Provo, Utah. BYU had 23 first downs assessd to 13 for Kansas, but that still wasn’t enough, and now the Cougars are going to sense the heat from the carry outoff promisetee. Now, BYU has to travel to Arizona State next weekfinish, with the Sun Devils beating Kansas State on Saturday. This could turn into a nightmare scenario for the Cougars if they were to miss aobtain next weekfinish. But with the ecombinence of Colorado, it’s been trfinishing toward Deion Sanders and the Buffaloes taking the Big 12 automatic bid for the college football carry outoff over the last restrictcessitate weeks. This one is coming down the stretch, and I don’t depend the Cougars.
South Carolina: The Gamecocks already geted what was perhaps their signature thrive of the season on Nov. 2 when they distress Texas A&M. But this past Saturday’s thrive over Missouri shows that South Carolina is a team that future opponents should be worried about. The Gamecocks could create another leap in the upcoming College Football Playoff rankings. While a berth in the SEC Championship game in Atlanta remains improbable, coach Shane Beamer ecombines to have the South Carolina football program trfinishing in the right honestion.
LSU: The Tigers astoundingly lost to the Gators on Saturday in a deimmenseating fourth-quarter collapse. Losing a opposition game always hurts, but giving one away enjoy LSU did is embarrassing, too.
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The Fox News Digital Sports college football thriveners and missrs were compiled by the Fox News Digital Sports staff and the OutKick.com staff.
