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Newspaper Page Text2B Monday, November 5, 2018 The Times, Gainesville, Georgia | gainesvilletimes.com SPORTS COLLEGE FOOTBALL No. 7 West Virginia surges into top 10 No. 7 West Virginia re entered the top 10 of The Associated Press college football poll after another weekend in which the num ber of ranked teams losing reached double digits. Unanimous No. 1 Ala bama, No. 2 Clemson and No. 3 Notre Dame remained unchanged, and No. 4 Michi gan, No. 5 Georgia and No. 6 Oklahoma each moved up a spot. The Mountaineers surged from No. 12 after beating Texas on a go-ahead 2-point conversion in final minute. Ten ranked teams lost this weekend, four in games against other ranked teams. Over the last two weeks, 21 ranked teams have lost, the most over a two-week span since the AP poll expanded to 25 in 1989. POLL POINTS There are seven teams in the ranking after Week 10 of the regular season that already have lost three times. If that seems like a lot, it is. Last season after Week 10, there were three teams in the Top 25 that had lost three games. In the pre vious five years, from 2012- 16, there were a total of five teams ranked in the Week 10 AP poll that already had lost three times. What’s going on? A few logistical changes to the college football sea son are at least a part of the increase. The Big Ten went to a nine-game conference schedule in 2016, joining the Big 12 and Pac-12, meaning more opportunities for those teams to pick each other off. The Big 12 restarted its conference championship game last year after six-year hiatus. That condensed the conference’s regular sea son, which from 2011-16 ran through the first weekend of December. Also, there has been an increase in Septem ber conference games in recent years. Still, the only schedul ing change throughout the Football Bowl Subdivision this season is in the Sun Belt, which became the final con ference to add a champion ship game. THIS WEEK IN ‘BAMA Alabama has been ranked in the top 5 for 49 straight weeks, the second longest streak to Miami’s 55 weeks from Oct. 8, 2000-Oct. 26, 2003. There have been three other streaks of 48 straight top-five appearances: ■ Alabama, preseason 2011-Dec. 8,2013. ■ Ohio State, preseason 1973-Sept. 20,1976. ■ Oklahoma, Nov. 16, 1953-Nov. 11,1957. UP All those ranked teams losing propelled a few teams to new heights in the Top 25. ■ No. 13 Syracuse moved up nine spots to its best rank ing since 1998, when the Orange got to No. 11. ■ No. 14 Utah State is up four spots and has its best ranking since finishing 10th in 1961. ■ No. 16 Fresno State moved up four spots. The Bulldogs were last ranked this high in 2015, when they reached 15 with Derek Carr at quarterback. ■ No. 17 Boston College jumped seven spots and has its best ranking since 2007, when the Eagles last played in the ACC championship game and spent much of the season in the top 10. DOWN ■ Unbeaten No. 11 Cen tral Florida fell two spots after beating Temple 52-40. The Knights ran their win ning streak to a nation’s best 21 straight games. ■ No. 9 LSU slipped five spots after being shut out by Alabama. ■ No. 19 Florida dropped six spots after losing for the second straight week. ■ No. 21 Penn State fell seven places after being blown out by Michigan. IN There is a lot of recycling going on in the Top 25 this season. While Iowa State is in for the first time since last season, No. 20 Washington, No. 22 North Carolina State, No. 24 Michigan State and No. 25 Cincinnati all reap peared in the poll. OUT Utah fell out, leaving the Pac-12 with only two ranked teams, No. 10 Washington State and No. 20 Washington. The last time the Pac-12 had only two ranked teams was Oct. 16,2016. ■ Houston and Virginia had one-week stays in the Top 25 after making their debuts last week. CONFERENCE CALL SEC: 6 teams (1, 5, 9, 12, 18,19). ACC: 4 (2,13,17,22). BIG TEN: 4 (4,8, 21,24). BIG 12:4 (6, 7,15,23). AMERICAN: 2 (11, 25). MOUNTAIN WEST : 2 (14,16). PAC-12:2 (10,20). INDEPENDENT: 1 (3). RANKED vs. RANKED NO. 18 MISSISSIPPI STATE AT NO. 1 ALA BAMA: A second straight ranked opponent for the Tide — if that even matters. NO. 2 CLEMSON AT NO. 17 BOSTON COLLEGE: The biggest game left on Clem- son’s schedule. BC could shut the Tigers out of the ACC championship game with a victory. NO. 8 OHIO STATE AT NO. 24 MICHIGAN STATE: The Buckeyes have become college football’s biggest soap opera. Associated Press GEORGIA ■ Continued from 1B the season,” Alabama run ning back Damien Harris said. Both division champions have three straight home games to end the regular season before meeting Dec. 1 in Atlanta. Georgia hosts Auburn, Massachusetts and Georgia Tech to close the regular season. Alabama welcomes Mississippi State, The Citadel and Auburn to Tuscaloosa. Georgia likely must win out and earn its second straight SEC title to get back to the playoff. That means Swift and Holyfield must maintain their late-season momentum. Swift rushed for a career- high 156 yards against Ken tucky on just 16 carries. That followed a 105-yard perfor mance in a 36-17 victory over Florida. After bursting onto the scene as a freshman in 2017 by rushing for 618 yards in a complementary role, Swift said Saturday that he’s been dealing with nagging injuries much of this year but is now feeling good. He showcased his speed on an 83-yard touchdown and demon strated his elusiveness while making moves around defenders on a 20-yard score Holyfield, the son of for mer heavyweight champion boxer Evander Holyfield, also had a career high against Kentucky, rushing for 115 yards and a touch down on 18 carries. “I don’t think there’s a whole lot of difference in their styles,” Georgia coach Kirby Smart said. “I know one’s a slasher and one’s a bruiser, but they’re both (guys with) really good vision, good backs. They run hard.” Their season stats are remarkably similar. Holyfield, a junior, has rushed for 674 yards and five touchdowns while aver aging 6.5 yards per carry. Swift has run for 622 yards and seven touchdowns with an average of 6.3 yards per carry. Holyfield says watching Chubb and Michel last sea son helped teach him and Swift how to handle sharing the rushing load this year. “I think we kind of learned how to feed off each other,” Holyfield said. Football/college Top 25 standings Record Pts Pv 1. Alabama (60) 9-0 1500 1 2. Clemson 9-0 1435 2 3. Notre Dame 9-0 1381 3 4. Michigan 8-1 1304 5 5. Georgia 8-1 1263 6 6. Oklahoma 8-1 1181 7 7. West Virginia 7-1 1065 12 8. Ohio St. 8-1 1025 8 9. LSU 7-2 1020 4 10. Washington St. 8-1 1010 10 11. UCF 8-0 1001 9 12. Kentucky 7-2 780 11 13. Syracuse 7-2 624 22 14. Utah St. 8-1 586 18 15. Texas 6-3 559 15 16. Fresno St. 8-1 506 20 17. Boston College 7-2 490 24 18. Mississippi St. 6-3 486 21 19. Florida 6-3 400 13 20. Washington 7-3 342 NR 21. Penn St. 6-3 278 14 22. NC State 6-2 264 NR 23. Iowa St. 5-3 230 NR 24. Michigan St. 6-3 215 NR 25. Cincinnati 8-1 141 NR Others receiving votes: Utah 110, Auburn 93, Wisconsin 37, Army 32, UAB 31, Northwestern 28, Iowa 17, Boise St. 15, Purdue 14, Buffalo 11, Oregon 9, San Diego St. 5, Duke 4, Texas A&M 3, Houston 3, Texas Tech 2. Golf Sunday’s scores At TPC Summerlin Las Vegas Purse: $7 million Yardage: 7,255; Par: 71 Final Bryson DeChambeau (500), $1,260,000 66-66-65-66—263 -21 Patrick Cantlay (300), $756,000 69-67-63- 65— 264 -20 Sam Ryder (190), $476,000 66-71 -66- 62— 265 -19 Rickie Fowler (115), $289,333 68-67-69- 63— 267 -17 Abraham Ancer (115), $289,333 66-66-69- 66— 267 -17 Robert Streb (115), $289,333 65-66-68- 68—267 -17 Chesson Hadley (85), $218,167 69-67-65- 68—269 -15 Ryan Palmer (85), $218,167 71 -65-65- 68—269 -15 Lucas Glover (85), $218,167 67-70-61 - 71—269 -15 Bud Cauley (65), $161,000 72-66-67- 65— 270 -14 Brandon Harkins (65), $161,000 70-66-70- 64— 270 -14 Joaquin Niemann (65), $161,000 69-68-67- 66— 270 -14 Scott Piercy (65), $161,000 69-68-68- 65— 270 -14 Gary Woodland (65), $161,000 69-67-71 - 63—270 Sungjae Im (48), $101,675 65— 271 Si Woo Kim (48), $101,675 66— 271 Peter Malnati (48), $101,675 68— 271 Denny McCarthy (48), $101,675 69— 271 Webb Simpson (48), $101,675 66—271 J.J. Spaun (48), $101,675 68—271 Harold Varner III (48), $101,675 70— 271 Aaron Wise (48), $101,675 66— 271 Kramer Hickok (36), $62,300 67— 272 Beau Hossler (36), $62,300 68— 272 Kevin Tway (36), $62,300 67— 272 Peter Uihlein (36), $62,300 75—272 Richy Werenski (36), $62,300 68— 272 Anders Albertson (26), $44,581 71— 273 Cameron Champ (26), $44,581 73—273 Cameron Davis (26), $44,581 67— 273 James Hahn (26), $44,581 68— 273 Martin Laird (26), $44,581 67— 273 Hudson Swafford (26), $44,581 68— 273 Jhonattan Vegas (26), $44,581 71—273 Nick Watney (26), $44,581 69— 273 Baseball/MLB Gold glove winners American League P — Dallas Keuchel, Houston, Arizona, 4 C — Salvador Perez, Kansas City, 5 1B — Matt Olson, Oakland, 1 2B — Ian Kinsler, Los Angeles/Boston, 2 3B — Matt Chapman, Oakland, 1 SS — Andrelton Simmons, Los Angeles, 4 LF — Alex Gordon, Kansas City, 6 CF — Jackie Bradley Jr., Boston, 1 RF — Mookie Betts, Boston, 3 National League P — Zack Greinke, Arizona, 5 C — Yadier Molina, St. Louis, 9 1B — Anthony Rizzo, Chicago, 2; Freddie Freeman, Altanta, 1 2B — DJ LeMahieu, Colorado, 3 3B — Nolan Arenado, Colorado, 6 SS — Nick Ahmed, Arizona, 1 LF — Corey Dickerson, Pittsburgh, 1 CF — Ender Inciarte, Atlanta, 3 RF — Nick Markakis, Atlanta, 3 Racing/NASCAR Sunday At Texas Motor Speedway Fort Worth, Texas Lap length: 1.50 miles (Starting position in parentheses) 1. (3) Kevin Harvick, Ford, 337. 2. (1) Ryan Blaney, Ford, 337. 3. (8) Joey Logano, Ford, 337. 4. (12) Erik Jones, Toyota, 337. 5. (22) Kyle Larson, Chevrolet, 337. 6. (16) Chase Elliott, Chevrolet, 337. 7. (7) Kurt Busch, Ford, 337. 8. (4) Aric Almirola, Ford, 337. 9. (13) Martin Truex Jr., Toyota, 337. 10. (26) Austin Dillon, Chevrolet, 337. 11. (17) Ricky Stenhouse Jr., Ford, 337. 12. (5) Brad Keselowski, Ford, 337. 13. (11) Paul Menard, Ford, 337. 14. (18) Alex Bowman, Chevrolet, 337. 15. (23) Jimmie Johnson, Chevrolet, 337. 16. (9) William Byron, Chevrolet, 337. 17. (10) Kyle Busch, Toyota, 337. 18. (14) Ryan Newman, Chevrolet, 335. 19. (20) Jamie McMurray, Chevrolet, 335. 20. (25) AJ Allmendinger, Chevrolet, 335. 21. (15) Trevor Bayne, Ford, 335. 22. (24) Ty Dillon, Chevrolet, 335. 23. (21) Chris Buescher, Chevrolet, 335. 24. (27) David Ragan, Ford, 335. 25. (30) Bubba Wallace, Chevrolet, 335. 26. (2) Clint Bowyer, Ford, 334. 27. (28) Regan Smith, Chevrolet, 332. 28. (19) Daniel Suarez, Toyota, 332. 29. (29) Michael McDowell, Ford, 331. 30. (6) Denny Hamlin, Toyota, 331. 31. (34) Parker Kligerman, Toyota, 329. 32. (33) Ross Chastain, Chevrolet, 326. 33. (38) Reed Sorenson, Chevrolet, 326. 34. (36) Kyle Weatherman, Chevrolet, 323. 35. (32) Landon Cassill, Chevrolet, 321. 36. (35) JJ Yeley, Toyota, 321. 37. (39) Joey Gase, Ford, 317. 38. (31) Matt DiBenedetto, Ford, Accident, 300. 39. (40) David Starr, Toyota, 287. 40. (37) Corey LaJoie, Chevrolet, 269. RACE STATISTICS Average Speed of Race Winner: 150.558 mph. Time of Race: 3 hours, 21 minutes, 27 sec onds. Margin of Victory: .447 Seconds. Caution Flags: 8 for 37 laps. Lead Changes: 16 among 7 drivers. Lap Leaders: R. Blaney 1-32;K. Harvick 33-131 ;J. Logano 132-152;A. Bowman 153- 155;B. Wallace 156-157;J. Johnson 158- 159;K. Harvick 160-172;J. Logano 173-176;B. Keselowski 177-226;R. Blaney 227;J. Logano 228-253;K. Harvick 254-280;J. Logano 281- 283;J. Johnson 284-292;K. Harvick 293-310;R. Blaney 311-317;K. Harvick 318-337. Leaders Summary (Driver, Times Lead, Laps Led): Kevin Harvick 5 times for 177 laps; Joey Logano 4 times for 54 laps; Brad Keselowski 1 time for 50 laps; Ryan Blaney 3 times for 40 laps; Jimmie Johnson 2 times for 11 laps; Alex Bowman 1 time for 3 laps; Bubba Wallace 1 time for 2 laps. -14 72-65-69- -13 66- 70-69- -13 70- 66-67- -13 71- 65-66- -13 68- 69-68- -13 67- 69-67- -13 65- 67-69- -13 72- 67-66- -13 66- 72-67- -12 69- 68-67- -12 67- 66-72- -12 63-66-68- -12 70- 66-68- -12 72-65-65- -11 69- 65-66- -11 70- 68-68- -11 68- 70-67- -11 67- 68-71- -11 68- 67-70- -11 71- 65-66- -11 70-68-66- -11 TODAY ON TV FOOTBALL ■ Titans vs. Cowboys, 8:15 p.m., ESPN NASCAR Harvick wins at Texas Driver breezed past Blaney in overtime laps Press Kevin Harvick celebrates in victory lane after winning a NASCAR Cup auto race Sunday at Texas Motor Speedway in Fort Worth, Texas. Kevin Harvick gave the checkered flag to a young fan he brought onto the track to take a selfie — one with the winning driver and car that will have a shot at another NASCAR Cup championship. Harvick rocketed past polesitter Ryan Blaney in overtime Sunday, after the third restart in the final 35 laps, to win the Texas fall race for the second year in a row and take one of the four championship-contending spots for the season finale in two weeks. “We don’t come here to count our fingers and toes to try to figure out how we’re going to make it. We want to earn it,” said Harvick, who led 177 of 337 laps. “Today we earned our way in and we’re going to go and race again next week and try to win another race and see what we can do at Homestead.” After taking the inside on the first two restarts, and briefly losing the lead after the second one, Harvick opted to start from outside for the green-white-check- ered finish. By time they got to the backstretch, Har vick had pushed his No. 4 Stewart-Haas Ford in front of Blaney and raced to his eighth win of this season and 45th overall. “I thought if I could keep him from finishing the cor ner I could drive back by him,” Harvick said. “It all worked out.” Of Harvick’s 32 starts in the Lone Star State, his only two wins are the last two fall races to get into the final four. The 2014 Cup cham pion has 20 top-10 finishes at the 1 y 2 -mile track. He won both stages Sunday, marking the fourth time this year he did that and went on to win the race. With Harvick and Mar tinsville winner Joey Logano in the No. 22 Ford of Team Penske locked in, the series goes to Phoenix next week with only two spots up for grabs for the championship run at Homestead. Kyle Busch, a seven time winner this year, and defending Cup champion Martin Truex Jr. are among the other six title contend ers. They are comfortably above the cut line for points, but Chase Elliott or any of Harvick’s three SHR team mates — Clint Bowyer, Aric Almirola and Kurt Busch — could advance with a win in Phoenix. Logano was third at Texas. Elliott was sixth, fol lowed by Kurt Busch and Almirola, who had also gone to the rear at the start of the race for unapproved body modifications. Truex, who was close to clinching a title spot before that bump-and-run by Logano on the final lap to win at Martinsville last week, finished ninth. Kyle Busch was 17th and Bowyer 26th after starting on the front row but making contact with Denny Hamlin on the first lap. After the first of the late restarts, Harvick was on the inside and was able to keep Blaney from clear ing him on the backstretch. Harvick was already start ing to rebuild his lead — it had been nearly 4 seconds before the caution — when another yellow flag came out. Harvick was on the inside again for the next restart, but Blaney was able to get by him for the lead. Blaney led seven laps before Har vick went under him and LARRY PAPKE I The Associated Press was again putting distance between them before Joey Gase’s spin brought out the last of eight cautions. “They were hard. They were challenging,” Blaney said about the restarts. “That was really the only shot we had to beat him, to be honest with you. We got by him one restart and I just couldn’t hold him off. .. The last one, he took the top, like I knew he was going to go. He motored around me.” Truex had to start at the rear of the field because of an engine change. He also dealt with a loose tire and had a pass-through penalty during the race for driving through too many pit boxes, and was a lap down before getting that back one the first of the late cautions. “We got a little bit of luck on our side after that to be able to get back on the lead lap. Happy about that for sure,” he said. “To start exactly where we were I think is a decent day. The only difference is there’s one less spot available.” LOOK OUT LOGANO: Truex has vowed that Logano won’t win the Cup title after what happened at Martinsville. Now Almirola is upset with Logano after one of the late restart in Texas. GOLF DeChambeau uses late eagle to win in Las Vegas Bryson DeChambeau holed an eagle putt from just inside 60 feet on the 16th hole that carried him to a 5-under 66 and a one-shot victory over Patrick Cantlay in the Shriners Hospital for Children Open on Sunday. DeChambeau won for the fourth time in his last 12 starts on the PGA Tour and moved to No. 5 in the world ranking. He had to survive a wild back nine at the TPC Sum merlin in which four players had a share of the lead at some point. Cantlay, trying to become the first player to win back-to-back in Las Vegas in nearly 20 years, made a 15-foot birdie putt on the par-5 16th hole to take a one-shot lead. But from a bunker right of the green on the par-3 17th, Cantlay was fooled by the amount of sand under his ball and flubbed the shot. One hole behind him, DeChambeau rolled in his long eagle putt from just off the green and celebrated with a big uppercut. Cantlay missed his long par putt, giv ing DeChambeau control of the tournament. Cantlay birdied the 18th for a 65, but it wasn’t enough when DeChambeau played the final two holes conser vatively for pars to finish at 21-under 263. EUROPEAN TOUR: Jus tin Rose is No. 1 in the world again, and this time he goes home with a trophy. Rose rallied from a three- shot deficit with a 3-under 68, and then defeated Li Haotong of China on the first playoff hole with a par to win the Turkish Airlines Open for the second straight year. The first time Rose reached No. 1 in the world was two months ago, a bit tersweet moment because he lost the BMW Champion ship outside Philadelphia in a playoff against Keegan Bradley. “This time I’ve got some silverware,” Rose said. Associated Press MLS I Atlanta United 1, New York FC 0 Five Stripes win first leg of the playoff series Associated Press Eric Remedi scored his first MLS goal in the 37th minute and Atlanta United beat New York FC 1-0 on Sunday in the first leg of the Eastern Conference semifinals. Atlanta, which has won 11 of its 18 road games this season, hosts the second leg next Sunday. Remedi tapped in a rebound after Josef Mar tinez’s one-touch shot was blocked by Sean Johnson and settled against the post. Johnson made a big save of Greg Garza’s breakaway shot in second-half stop page time. Miguel Almiron appeared to open the scor ing in the 20th minute but it was disallowed after a video replay ruled Atlanta was in an offside position during the buildup. Atlanta defender Franco Escobar sent a point-blank shot wide in the 34th. NYCFC has reached the conference semifinals in three straight seasons but has lost the first leg in each. COLUMBUS 1, RED BULLS 0: Gyasi Zardes scored his 20th goal of the season in the 61st minute, helping the Columbus Crew beat the Supporters’ Shield holder New York Red Bulls on Sunday in the opening game of the Eastern Confer ence semifinals. The second leg is next Sunday in Harrison, New Jersey. Zardes had a sliding finish of a back-heel pass from second-half substitute Federico Higuain. It was Zardes’ third career post season goal. New York goal keeper Luis Robles denied Pedro Santos’ open shot from distance in the 89th, and Steffen blocked Brad ley Wright-Phillips’ glancing header in stoppage time. New York’s best scoring chance came in the 27th minute when Tim Parker headed a corner kick off the post that deflected off Stef fen and was cleared away. TIMBERS 2, SOUNDERS 1: Sebastian Blanco put the Timbers in front with a goal in the 29th minute and Port land hung on over a tense second half in the first leg of the Western Conference semifinals. The second leg is set for Thursday night in Seattle. Ruidiaz scored in the 10th minute for the Sounders. The Timbers pulled even a short time later on Jeremy Ebobisse’s goal, and moved in front on Blanco’s goal.