(“The TEN” is not a top ten but ten items worth being included in “The TEN”)
- USC lost to Utah 47-24 Friday night in Las Vegas in the Pac-12 Conference Championship game. USC will play Tulane in the Cotton Bowl on New Year’s Day.
- Final College Football Playoff Rankings: 1. Georgia 2. Michigan 3. TCU 4. Ohio St.
- Georgia will face Ohio St. in the Chick-Fil-A Peach Bowl and Michigan will face TCU in the Vrbo Fiesta Bowl on December 31.
- San Francisco 49ers quarterback Jimmy Garoppolo broke his left ankle Sunday in a win over the Miami Dolphins and is out for the year.
- Deion Sanders was named the new head football coach at Colorado.
- The Texas Rangers signed former New York Mets pitcher Jacob deGrom to a five-year, $185 million deal.
- Cleveland Browns quarterback Deshaun Watson completed 12 of 22 passes for 131 yards Sunday in a 27-14 win over the Houston Texans. Watson returned from an 11 game suspension for violating the NFL’s personal conduct policy by committing sexual assault.
- The Rams lost to the Seattle Seahawks 27-23 Sunday to fall to 3-9 on the season. The Chargers lost to the Las Vegas Raiders 27-20 to fall to 6-6.
- San Gabriel running back Robert Lucero.
- USC is ranked 10th in the final College Football Playoff rankings. UCLA is 18th.
Quote of the week
TV announcer at Houston -Cleveland game after a horrible Watson pass “Guess he had too much massage oil on his hands.”
$c got smacked in the mouth and did not know how to respond. Love hearing their fan’s make excuse after excuse on what could have been.
I know this is only Riley’s first year, and we’re expected to be mighty grateful for progress made, but I can guarantee that this pattern of getting stymied on the cusp of greatness will persist so long as his defenses remain porous.