Week 12 passed relatively uneventfully with West Virginia being the only loser in the top 12. That loss put pay to their already wafer-thin hopes of a playoff place, however, they are still in with a chance of an NY6 Bowl.\u00a0 Alabama made hard work of beating The Citadel only pulling away in the second half, and Ohio State was a trifle lucky to escape with a win. Notre Dame had another statement win which should be enough (assuming they take care of USC next week) to ensure they are in the playoffs – despite not having a Conference Final game, while Washington State kept the PAC 12’s hopes alive with a blow out win over\u00a0Arizona; Gardner Minshew for the Heisman anyone? Anyway the main results panned out as follows:<\/p>\n
1 Alabama – Beat the Citadel (and FCS Team) 50-17
\n2 Clemson – Beat Duke 35-6
\n3 Notre Dame – Beat Syracuse 36-3
\n4 Michigan – Beat Indiana 31-20
\n5 Georgia – Beat Umass 66-27
\n6 Oklahoma – Beat Kansas 55-40
\n7 West Virginia – Lost 45-41 at Oklahoma State
\n8 Ohio State\u00a0 – Won at Maryland 52-51
\n9 LSU Beat Rice 42-10
\n10 Washington State – Beat Arizona 69-28
\n11 UCF – Beat Cinncinatti 38-13
\n12 Kentucky – Beat Mid Tenessee 34-23
\n13 Syracuse – Lost to Notre Dame
\n14 Utah State – Won at Colorado State 29-24
\n15 Texas – Beat Iowa State 24-10
\n16 Fresno State – Beat San Diego State 23-14
\n17 Boston College – Lost at Florida State 22-21
\n18 Mississippi State – Beat Arkansas 52-6
\n19 Florida – Beat Idaho 63-10
\n20 Washington – Beat Oregon State 42-23
\n21 Penn State – Won 20-7 at Rutgers
\n22 NC State – Won 52-10 at Louisville
\n23 Iowa State – Lost to Texas
\n24 Michigan State – Lost 9-6 at Nebraska
\n25 Cincinnati Lost to UCF<\/p>\n
Nine teams managed 50 plus points this week including one who lost! see below. No one came close to Clemson though with 77. They were 63-3 up nearing the end of the 3rd quarter and scored at least 2 TDs in each quarter. A nice way to move to 9-0 and they are hitting top form at just the right time.<\/p>\n
Plenty of contenders this week but the award goes to (minor drum roll)\u00a0UMass 62 – Liberty 59. <\/b>The Minute\u00a0Men are no strangers to high scoring games with 7 of their 10 games this season involving one team scoring over 49 points; including losing by exactly 58-42 two weeks running – the odds of that must have been in the millions to one.<\/p>\n
Honourable mention her goes to Memphis 59 East Carolina 41. 100 points is no mean feat and its the 5th time this season Memphis have scored 50+ points, and only one of their games has had less that 60 in it!<\/p>\n
For sheer gutsy play, it has to go to West Virginia who went for 2 to cap off a come from behind win with 16 seconds left. There were 9 lead changes in the game and the Mountaineers are not completely out of the playoff hunt thanks to this win.<\/p>\n
A close contender was Oregon State<\/strong> for their crazy comeback win against Colorado.<\/strong>\u00a0The Beavers looked dead and buried trailing 31-3 in the Third Quarter but battled back to win it 41-34 in Over Time.<\/p>\nPerformance of the day<\/h2>\n