BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — Jayden Daniels ran for a 25-yard touchdown in overtime and then found tight end Mason Taylor for a needed 2-point conversion, and 15th-ranked LSU defeated No. 6 Alabama 32-31. The result gave first-year Tigers coach Brian Kelly his first victory over Crimson Tide coach Nick Saban. The riveting game included six second-half lead changes and a tying field goal by Alabama in the final minute. It gave LSU control of the SEC West with two league games remaining. Alabama lost its second conference game and saw its chances of returning to the College Football Playoff take a big hit. Fans stormed the field after LSU’s first home victory over Alabama since 2010.
Elsewhere in college football:
LAWRENCE, Kan. (AP) — Kansas coach Bill Self will be forced to watch the fifth-ranked Jayhawks open the season against Omaha from afar on Monday night. Self and assistant Kurtis Townsend will be serving the first in a four-game suspension handed down by the school as part of an ongoing NCAA infractions case for nearly six years with no end in sight. Norm Roberts, a longtime Kansas assistant who also was the head coach at St. John’s, will be the acting head coach. Self is still allowed to work with the Jayhawks in practice, but he can’t have any contact with the team on game day.
ATHENS, Ga. (AP) — Stetson Bennett threw two touchdown passes and ran for a score and No. 1 Georgia shut down No. 2 Tennessee’s high-powered offense in dominating the Vols 27-13 in an SEC showdown of the nation’s top-ranked teams. The defending national champion Bulldogs led 27-6 before Tennessee scored its first touchdown late in the fourth quarter. Georgia put itself in position to move from No. 3 to the top spot in next week’s second College Football Playoff ranking. Tennessee was the initial No. 1, but Georgia showed it is still Top Dawg.
