It was a bad day for No. 1 Texas and No. 16 Florida. It was, however, a very good day for Brent Venables and Shane Beamer.<\/p>\n
It was a pretty good day for Kirby Smart and No. 2 Georgia, too. Probably good enough for No. 1.<\/p>\n
The Bulldogs went on the road and beat No. 6 Alabama 20-17<\/a> behind a terrific day from Gunner Stockton, third-string running back Dwight Phillips Jr.<\/a> and a defense that sacked Keelon Russell four times and held him to a season-low 185 passing yards.<\/p>\n The win gave Smart a 3-7 record against Alabama, the program he could not beat for many years when the stakes were highest. The Bulldogs now have the inside track to the Southeastern Conference championship game, a marquee win for College Football Playoff seeding and are poised to move up to No. 1<\/a> in the AP Top 25 rankings<\/a> on Sunday.<\/p>\n Venables and Beamer picked up much-needed wins that could ease the pressure building around their programs.<\/p>\n Oklahoma\u2019s Tate Sandell drilled a 47-yard field goal to seal a 27-24 upset<\/a> of Texas in the Red River Rivalry game, giving Venables and the Sooners a huge morale boost after dropping to 2-2 and heading into the game against their archrival unranked and toothless on offense.<\/p>\n Beamer has been on a major hot seat at South Carolina, but his Gamecocks rolled to a 38-19 upset<\/a> at No. 16 Florida. LaNorris Sellers accounted for five touchdowns, and the Gamecocks forced three turnovers while shutting down Gators running back Jadan Baugh.<\/p>\n A third top-10 team also went down in dramatic fashion: Kentucky handed No. 10 LSU its second loss in a 35-34 thriller.<\/a> The Wildcats’ gamble to go for two in overtime paid off for the second straight week, this time at the expense of the Tigers.<\/p>\n UCLA dumps Oregon<\/p>\n No. 21 UCLA remained undefeated with a 17-15 win over No. 13 Oregon in a messy, turnover-filled<\/a> outing. The Ducks threw two interceptions and lost five fumbles, the last coming on their final drive with less than a minute left.<\/p>\n UCLA quarterback Nico Iamaleava had 162 yards and two interceptions before sitting out the second half with a lower leg injury. Ty Dieffenbach took over under center and threw for 43 yards and a touchdown as the Bruins look to move up in the rankings.<\/p>\n Oregon backup quarterback Dylan Raiola’s heroic performance against USC felt like a distant memory as he completed just 6-of-18 passes for 43 yards and two interceptions before being replaced by Brock Thomas.<\/p>\n Indiana improves to 6-0 \u2014 barely<\/p>\n No. 7 Indiana remained unbeaten but needed a fourth-quarter rally and two late defensive stops to escape Nebraska with a 20-17 win<\/a>.<\/p>\n The defending national champions erased an 11-point fourth-quarter deficit with back-to-back touchdown drives. Quarterback Josh Hoover connected with Nick Marsh on both, first for a 75-yard score, then on a fourth-down conversion for a 44-yard touchdown.<\/p>\n Sign up for Top 25 poll alerts here<\/a>, visit the Top 25 here<\/a> and see AP\u2019s full college football coverage here<\/a><\/p>\n \n Success! An email has been sent to with a link to confirm list signup.\n <\/p>\n \n Error! There was an error processing your request.\n <\/p>\n Copyright 2026 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed without permission.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It was a bad day for No. 1 Texas and No. 16 Florida. It was, however, a very…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":462704,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[261,416,300,490,154,27,29,28,1499],"class_list":["post-462703","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-texas","tag-college-football","tag-college-sports","tag-football","tag-general-news","tag-sports","tag-texas","tag-texas-headlines","tag-texas-news","tag-u-s-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/462703","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=462703"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/462703\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/462704"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=462703"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=462703"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=462703"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}