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Ohio State beats Notre Michigan
Dame in Fiesta Bowl
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GLENDALE, Ariz. (AP) —
Ezekiel Elliott was Ohio State’s
drive capper in the first half. He
became the show stopper with a
burst of speed in the second.
Not a bad way to head off to
the NFL.
Elliott ran for 149 yards and
matched a Fiesta Bowl record
with four touchdowns, sparking
No. 7 Ohio State’s prolific
offense in a 44-28 win over
Notre Dame on Friday.
The Buckeyes (12-1) were left
out of the College Football
Playoff thanks to an inopportune loss. They may leave the
desert wondering what could
have been after blowing past
another late-season playoff contender.
Ohio State rolled past the
Fighting Irish (10-3), quick-hitting its way to one scoring drive
after another and 496 total
yards.
Elliott, who’s leaving school
early for the NFL, scored on
three short runs first half and
left Notre Dame defenders flailing as he raced past them for a
47-yard score to open the second.
The Fighting Irish had some
good offensive moments behind
Barnes
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dition of anonymity because no
details were publicly released.
Fisher said he had no thoughts
at all about Barnes’ Instagram
post when asked about it at New
York’s morning shootaround on
Friday.
Redondo Beach police responded to an incident Oct. 3 but disclosed no information on the location or who was involved after
finding no basis for criminal
charges.
The 6-foot-7 Barnes’ will con-
Playoffs
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before stumbling last week at
home against St. Louis. Beating
Arizona won’t guarantee Seattle
the No. 5 seed because if
Minnesota beats Green Bay, the
Packers have the tiebreaker over
lost its fifth straight.
No. 13 MIAMI 64
SYRACUSE 51
CORAL GABLES, Fla. (AP) —
Sheldon McClellan scored 22
points, Ja’Quan Newton made
two big 3-pointers in the second
half and No. 13 Miami relied on
defense to get past Syracuse 6451 on Saturday.
Newton finished with 14
points for Miami (12-1, 1-0
Atlantic Coast Conference),
which blew it open with a 12-0
run in the final minutes to win
its seventh straight.
Miami shot only 35 percent,
but held Syracuse to 32 percent.
The Hurricanes missed their
first 16 3-point attempts and
finished 3 for 25 from beyond
the arc.
Malachi Richardson scored 20
points for Syracuse (10-5, 0-2),
which has dropped its first two
games of league play for the first
time since it started the 1998-99
Big East season 0-2.
Michael Gbinije added 10
points for the Orange, who were
outscored 47-26 in the second
half.
No. 6 XAVIER 88
No. 9 BUTLER 69
CINCINNATI (AP) — Remy
Abell scored a career-high 21
points, and No. 6 Xavier recovered from its first loss of the season by beating No. 9 Butler 8869 on Saturday.
The Musketeers (13-1, 1-1 Big
East) were coming off a 95-64
defeat at No. 16 Villanova on
clude his suspension by sitting Thursday that ended the best
out Saturday night’s game at start in school history. Xavier
Utah. He missed the team’s 99-90 led most of the way Saturday,
overtime victory over the Miami
Heat on Tuesday.
The Grizzlies traded for Barnes
on draft day in June. Barnes has
played 33 games with the Grizzlies
(18-16) and is averaging 8.6 points From Page 20
and five rebounds per game.
Fisher, 41, is in his second season with the Knicks after spending breakaway. Pavel Datsyuk lost his
most of his playing career in Los footing, and Eichel got Mrazek to
commit before pushing the puck
Angeles.
off the post, off the goalie, and in
to make it 2-2 at 17:27 of the second.
Zetterberg drifted into the slot
to slap a big rebound past
Johnson 2:27 into the third to
restore Detroit’s lead.
Green took two penalties in just
the Seahawks. No matter the
over two minutes to give Buffalo a
Seahawks outcome in Arizona,
they’ll likely be back in Seattle
late Sunday night before knowing
where they’re headed to open the
playoffs.
DeShone Kizer after Buckeyes
star defensive end Joey Bosa
was ejected for targeting in the
first quarter.
They just couldn’t keep up
with the blistering Buckeyes
after losing linebacker Jaylon
Smith, one of their best defensive players, in the first quarter.
Kizer threw for 284 yards and
two touchdowns on 22-of-37
passing, but had an interception
and lost a fumble.
Notre Dame missed its CFB
chance by four points; two-point
losses to Clemson and Stanford.
Ohio State lost to Michigan
State in its penult