Troy Smith threw for 186 yards and four touchdowns and No. 1 Ohio State picked up its second road win over a ranked opponent by manhandling No. 13 Iowa 38-17 on Saturday.
The Buckeyes (5-0, 2-0 Big Ten) faced three ranked teams last month -- Texas, Penn State and the Hawkeyes -- and beat them all by at least 17 points. Ohio State, which extended the nation's longest current winning streak to 12 games, won't face another currently ranked team until their season finale against Michigan on Nov. 18.
Ohio State broke open a 21-10 game with long scoring drives on its first two possessions of the second half. Anthony Gonzalez, who caught two touchdown passes, had a spectacular 30-yard TD catch that put the Buckeyes ahead 28-10 early in the second half.
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No. 5 Florida 28, Alabama 13
At Gainesville, Florida, Ryan Smith had two interceptions, Reggie Nelson returned another pick for a touchdown and fifth-ranked Florida beat Alabama 28-13 in US college football on Saturday to avenge last season's most embarrassing loss.
No. 3 USC 28, Washington State 22
At Pullman, Washington, Steve Smith responded to the loss of All-American Dwayne Jarrett with a career-high 11 catches for 186 yards and two second-half touchdowns and the Trojans survived a scare.
No. 6 Michigan 28, Minnesota 14
At Minneapolis, Chad Henne got the Wolverines completed three touchdown passes in the first half and Michigan hung on for the victory.
No. 7 Texas 56, Sam Houston 3
At Austin, Texas, Henry Melton ran for two touchdowns, Colt McCoy passed for two more and Texas emptied its bench and still piled up the points on Division I-AA Sam Houston State.
No. 9 LSU 48, Mississippi St. 17
At Baton Rouge, Louisiana, JaMarcus Russell threw for 330 yards and three touchdowns and matched a school record with 14 consecutive completions for LSU in a game delayed nearly an hour by a thunderstorm.
No. 10 Georgia 14, Mississippi 9
At Oxford, Mississippi, Kregg Lumpkin ran for 101 yards and Matthew Stafford directed two Georgia second-half scoring drives.
No. 12 Notre Dame 35, Purdue 21
At South Bend, Indiana, Brady Quinn threw for 316 yards and two touchdowns and Darius Walker ran for 146 yards as Notre Dame (4-1) played its best offensive game of the season.
A sumo star was born in Japan on Sunday when 24-year-old Takerufuji became the first wrestler in 110 years to win a top-division tournament on his debut, triumphing at the 15-day Spring Grand Sumo Tournament in Osaka despite injuring his ankle on the penultimate day. Takerufuji, whose injury had left him in a wheelchair outside the ring, shoved out the higher-ranked Gonoyama at the Edion Arena Osaka to the delight of the crowd, giving him an unassailable record of 13 wins and two losses to claim the Emperor’s Cup. “I did it just through willpower. I didn’t really know what was going
The US’ Ilia Malinin on Saturday produced six scintillating quadruple jumps, including a quadruple Axel, in the men’s free skate to capture his first figure skating world title. The 19-year-old nicknamed the “Quad god,” who is the only skater to land a quadruple Axel in competition, dazzled with an array of breathtakingly executed jumps starting with his quad Axel and including a quadruple Lutz in combination with a triple flip and a quadruple toe loop in combination with a triple toe. He added an unexpected triple-triple combination at the end to earn a world-record 227.79 in the free program for a championship
Shohei Ohtani’s interpreter is being criminally investigated by the IRS, and the attorney for his alleged bookmaker said Thursday that the ex-Los Angeles Dodgers employee placed bets on international soccer — but not baseball. The IRS confirmed Thursday that interpreter Ippei Mizuhara and Mathew Bowyer, the alleged illegal bookmaker, are under criminal investigation through the agency’s Los Angeles Field Office. IRS Criminal Investigation spokesperson Scott Villiard said he could not provide additional details. Mizuhara, 39, was fired by the Dodgers on Wednesday following reports from the Los Angeles Times and ESPN about his alleged ties to an illegal bookmaker and debts well
MLB on Friday announced a formal investigation into the scandal swirling around Shohei Ohtani and his former interpreter amid charges that the Los Angeles Dodgers superstar was the victim of “massive theft.” The Dodgers on Wednesday fired Ippei Mizuhara, Ohtani’s long-time interpreter and close friend, after Ohtani’s representatives alleged that the Japanese two-way star had been the victim of theft, which was reported to involve millions of dollars and link Mizuhara to a suspected illegal bookmaker in California. “Major League Baseball has been gathering information since we learned about the allegations involving Shohei Ohtani and Ippei Mizuhara from the news media,” MLB