UNDATED (AP) — Florida starts the men's college basketball season ranked No. 1 in the preseason AP Top 25. Coach Todd Golden says the ranking is expected, as the team aims for another national championship. Duke and Illinois are next while UConn and Arizona round out the top five. Michigan State, Texas, Tennessee, Virginia and Houston finish out the top 10,
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Arch Manning remains the starting quarterback for No. 19 Texas despite his struggles in consecutive losses. Longhorns coach Steve Sarkisian said he wants to see a “better version” of Manning this week when the Longhorns play No. 7 Mississippi at home. Manning and the Texas offense have struggled in a two-game losing skid that knocked Texas from No. 1. Manning's top backup is sophomore KJ Lacey, who has played in only two career games.
TUSCALOOSA, Ala. (AP) — Alabama receiver Ryan Coleman-Williams’ availability is uncertain for the 13th-ranked Crimson Tide’s home game against Texas A&M on Saturday. Coach Kalen DeBoer says Coleman-Williams will be reevaluated as the week progresses. ESPN reported Saturday that the junior underwent arthroscopic knee surgery after dealing with a meniscus injury for three weeks. Coleman-Williams also sustained a concussion in Alabama’s 20-17 loss to Georgia on Oct. 10 and did not play in a 26-10 loss at Tennessee last weekend. Alabama has an open week after hosting the Aggies, which would give Coleman-Williams extra time to recover if he sits out a second consecutive game.
UNDATED (AP) — Miami is now No. 1 in The Associated Press Top 25 for the first time since 2002. No. 2 BYU has reached its highest ranking since its 1984 national championship season. Notre Dame and Georgia remain in the top five despite close losses. This week, five of the top seven teams lost, marking a first in the AP poll's 90-year history. Miami and BYU benefited most from the chaos, joined by Ohio State in a tightly packed top three.
UNDATED (AP) — Just when you thought the SEC and Big Ten were the biggest and baddest conferences in the land, along comes the Big 12 with three teams in the top 10 of The Associated Press Top 25 and the ACC with the No. 1 team. Five of the top seven teams lost Saturday. That's most on one day in a regular season since the AP rankings started 90 years ago. No. 2 BYU, No. 8 Texas Tech and No. 10 Utah landed in the top 10 Sunday. That's largely the result of Georgia, Alabama and Texas losing.
UNDATED (AP) — BYU quarterback Bear Bachmeier is The Associated Press national college football player of the week. He had a hand in all four of his team’s touchdowns in a 28-24 win over Notre Dame. He had TD runs of 5 and 1 yard, caught a throwback pass for a 15-yard TD and threw 6 yards to Walker Lyons for the go-ahead score with 1:47 left. Auburn quarterback Byrum Brown was runner-up for the award after rushing for 115 yards and a TD and passing for 150 yards and a score in the Tigers’ 27-24 upset of then-No. 1 Georgia.
MIAMI GARDENS, Fla. (AP) — Notre Dame might have deserved one more play at the end of its game at BYU. Florida State was furious over how referees saw its two Hail Mary completions for would-have-been touchdowns in double overtime against Miami. And once again, end-of-game officiating was under fire. Dramatic — and sometimes controversial — endings were the story of a wild college football Saturday, with late-game calls deciding some outcomes and potentially even having an effect on how the College Football Playoff shapes up a couple months from now.
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (AP) — The Southeastern Conference fined Tennessee $500,000 for allowing fans to storm the field following a 26-10 victory over then-No. 6 Alabama. The fine will be paid to Alabama in accordance with SEC policy, which provides for a $500,000 penalty for violations involving access to competition areas in all SEC-sponsored sports. It was the 11th consecutive field storming following a Crimson Tide road loss, a streak that started at Auburn in 2013. The SEC policy states that “institutions shall limit access to competition areas” for “the safety of participants and spectators alike.”
