College Sports

Dazon Ingram scored 15 points with a career-high 17 rebounds and UCF grabbed its first American Athletic Conference win of the season beating Tulane 74-55 on Tuesday.

For the first time since 2006 every preseason top 10 team finished the season ranked. The next AP Top 25 will be released in August.

Joe Burrow led No. 1 LSU to a 42-25 victory against No. 3 Clemson and became the first major college quarterback to throw 60 touchdown passes in a season.

No. 1 Louisiana State University and No. 3 Clemson battle it out in the College Football Playoff Championship at the New Orleans Superdome on Monday night.

Kendric Davis scored 22 points as SMU defeated Central Florida 81-74 on Wednesday night to open American Athletic Conference play 2-0 for the fifth straight season.

The Volunteers (8-5) closed out coach Jeremy Pruitt’s second season with their sixth consecutive victory and won their fourth straight bowl, first since 2016.

Justin Herbert scored his third rushing touchdown of the 106th Rose Bowl on that thrilling 30-yard run with 7:41 to play Wednesday night, and No. 7 Oregon held off No. 11 Wisconsin 28-27 to win its third straight trip to the Granddaddy of Them All.

The 16th-ranked Minnesota Gophers defeated No. 9 Auburn 31-24 in the Outback Bowl.

The ninth-ranked Crimson Tide topped No. 17 Michigan 35-16 on Wednesday in the Citrus Bowl in Orlando.

Christiaan Jones scored 18 points in his homecoming and Stetson defeated a Southeastern Conference opponent for the first time in 15 years with a 63-56 victory over South Carolina

Richie Grant and Tre'mon Morris-Brash had first-quarter defensive touchdowns, Dillon Gabriel led three third-quarter scoring drives and UCF beat Marshall 48-25 in the Gasparilla Bowl on Monday.

Ceasar DeJesus registered 17 points as Central Florida narrowly defeated Bethune-Cookman 70-65 on Wednesday night.

Tajion Jones had 21 points as UNC Asheville narrowly defeated Stetson 78-76 on Tuesday night.

Heisman Trophy winner Joe Burrow of LSU highlights the first-team offense and Heisman finalist Chase Young of Ohio State leads the defense on the team presented by Regions Bank that was chosen by a panel of 15 college football poll voters. 

Stetson is 0-5 when scoring fewer than 61 points and 5-2 when scoring at least 61. The UNC-Asheville defense has forced opponents into turnovers on an impressive 27 percent of all possessions, which is the eighth-highest rate in the country.

No. 19 Florida State hosts North Florida in a non-conference matchup. North Florida won 72-69 at Southern Miss on Saturday. Florida State is coming off a 72-53 home win over Clemson on Dec. 8.

A Pac-12 team has made the College Football Playoff just twice in six seasons and none of the last three.

Ceasar DeJesus and Collin Smith scored 14 points apiece as Central Florida topped Green Bay 79-66 on Tuesday night to win its fourth straight.

Georgia Southern and Liberty University are headed to the 2019 FBC Mortgage Cure Bowl.