Police search for husband of Harshita Brella
Police search for husband of Harshita Brella
Officers are searching for Pankaj Lamba, the husband of Harshita Brella, after her body was found in the boot of a vehicle, said police.
Ms Brella was ******* in Northamptonshire earlier this month by Mr Lamba, Ch Insp Paul Cash said at a press conference in Kettering, Northamptonshire.
Police believe Mr Lamba fled the country after transporting Ms Brella’s body by car from Northamptonshire to Ilford, east London.
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Scientists transform blood into regenerative materials, paving the way for personalized, 3D-printed implants
Scientists transform blood into regenerative materials, paving the way for personalized, 3D-printed implants
Researchers holding 3D printed PA-blood constructs. Credit: University of Nottingham
Scientists have created a new ‘biocooperative’ material based on blood, which has been shown to successfully repair bones, paving the way for personalized regenerative blood products that could be used as effective therapies to treat injury and ********.
Researchers from the Schools of Pharmacy and Chemical Engineering at the University of Nottingham have used peptide molecules that can guide key processes taking place during the natural healing of tissues to create living materials that enhance tissue regeneration. The research is published in Advanced Materials.
Most of our body tissues have evolved to regenerate ruptures or fractures with remarkable efficacy, as long as these are small in size. This healing process is highly complex. The initial stages rely on liquid blood forming the solid regenerative hematoma (RH), a rich and living microenvironment comprising key cells, macromolecules, and factors that orchestrate regeneration.
The team developed a self-assembling methodology where synthetic peptides are mixed with whole blood taken from the patient to create a material that harnesses key molecules, cells, and mechanisms of the natural healing process. In this way, it was possible to engineer regenerative materials capable of not only mimicking the natural RH, but also enhancing its structural and functional properties.
These materials can be easily assembled, manipulated, and even 3D printed while maintaining normal functions of the natural RH, such as normal platelet behavior, generation of growth factors, and recruitment of relevant cells important for healing. With this method, the team has shown the capacity to successfully repair bone in animal models using the animal’s own blood.
Alvaro Mata, who is Professor of Biomedical Engineering and Biomaterials in the School of Pharmacy and the Department of Chemical and Environmental Engineering at the University of Nottingham and led the study, said, “For years, scientists have been looking at synthetic approaches to recreate the natural regenerative environment, which has proven difficult given its inherent complexity. Here, we have taken an approach to try to work with biology instead of recreating it.
“This ‘biocooperative’ approach opens opportunities to develop regenerative materials by harnessing and enhancing mechanisms of the natural healing process. In other words, our approach aims to use regenerative mechanisms that we have evolved with as fabrication steps to engineer regenerative materials.”
Dr. Cosimo Ligorio from the Faculty of Engineering at the University of Nottingham is co-author on the study. He says, “The possibility to easily and safely turn people’s blood into highly regenerative implants is really exciting. Blood is practically free and can be easily obtained from patients in relatively high volumes.
“Our aim is to establish a toolkit that could be easily accessed and used within a clinical setting to rapidly and safely transform patients’ blood into rich, accessible, and tunable regenerative implants.”
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Soraya Padilla‐Lopategui et al, Biocooperative Regenerative Materials by Harnessing Blood‐Clotting and Peptide Self‐Assembly, Advanced Materials (2024). DOI: 10.1002/adma.202407156
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Italy find way back to avoid upset against Georgia
Italy find way back to avoid upset against Georgia
Italy have recovered from a poor start to earn a hard-fought 20-17 win over Georgia in Genoa after the visitors let slip an 11-point half-time lead.
After last weekend’s 50-18 loss to Argentina, the Italians were desperate to impress, and they have had Georgia on their minds since losing the last meeting between the sides in 2022.
Italy lost captain Michele Lamaro through injury after two minutes and Sunday’s game remained scoreless until Paolo Garbisi’s penalty in the 22nd minute but Georgia responded immediately with a try from Akaki Tabutsaze, converted by Luka Matkava.
The sides traded penalties before Georgian Davit Niniashvili collected a kick inside his own half and set off on a mazy run, beating three Italian defenders before releasing captain Vasil Lobzhanidze to score under the posts.
Matkava converted again but Italy’s recovery began in the 53rd minute with a penalty try for an intentional knock-on by Tabutsaze who was also sent to the sin bin.
Italy hit the front 10 minutes later when they crossed the try line for the first time after Alessandro Fusco squeezed through a gap and Garbisi went over to put the home side three points ahead.
Matt Gallagher missed his second penalty of the match to leave the game on a ****** edge heading into the final minutes, but Italy emerged with some confidence restored before they take on New Zealand next Saturday in their final November Test.
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Bus fares to rise above £3 when cap expires, Transport Secretary suggests
Bus fares to rise above £3 when cap expires, Transport Secretary suggests
The £3 cap on bus fares is set to be scrapped at the end of next year, the Transport Secretary has signalled.
A universal cap on fares was first introduced by the Conservatives at £2 to encourage the use of public transport after the pandemic.
Labour announced in the Budget that the cap would be raised to £3 next year, sparking concern that the ceiling may be removed altogether. It has emerged that more targeted relief schemes are being considered from 2026 onwards.
Louise Haigh, the Transport Secretary, said that her department had found that the “best approach” was to provide targeted support for young people.
Asked whether the £3 cap would be kept beyond next year, she told Sunday Morning with Trevor Phillips on Sky News: “The plans that we inherited would have ended the cap completely on Dec 31.
“We’ve stepped in with funding to protect it at £3 until Dec 31 next year. And in that *******, we’ll look to establish more targeted approaches. We’ve, through evaluation of the £2 cap, found that the best approach is to target it at young people.”
She added: “Just like we do with the concessionary fare for older people, we think we can develop more targeted ways that will better encourage people on to buses.”
Pressed on whether this meant that passengers should expect targeted subsidies on bus fares rather than a single cap, she said: “That’s what we’re considering at the moment.”
Ms Haigh added that the previous cap introduced by the Tories “had not represented good value for money” and that her department’s priority was to improve the “reliability of buses”.
Labour will provide more than £1bn in funding for the bus network in an attempt to calm concerns about a hike in fares and the future of vital routes.
The Government will hand £712m to councils for investment in local services in an extension of the bus service improvement plan (BSIP), which was due to expire in April.
Ms Haigh said bus operators would receive £243m in subsidies to keep fares down and boost frequency.
While every part of England would benefit, the funds would be focused on historically underserved communities, such as small towns and villages, the Department for Transport (DfT) said.
Retaining the BSIP grant, which was introduced under Boris Johnson to encourage people back onto public transport after Covid, will soften the ***** of fare hikes.
The BSIP, which to date has provided £1.08bn of funding, has become integral to the survival of many services, according to the Urban Transport Group, which previously warned that without it one in four services could be at risk in areas such as South Yorkshire.
The BSIP is integral to the survival of many services, especially early morning, late night and Sunday buses – Lee Thomas
Early morning, late night and Sunday buses are highly dependent on the grants, while two thirds of “socially necessary” routes are fully funded through them.
Campaigners ***** that without a cap, local people and tourists will be priced off longer, rural routes, leading services to be axed altogether.
Ms Haigh said the new investment would protect rural buses and increase their use for shopping and commuting, while preventing service reductions on at-risk routes. She said urban areas would be able to maintain high service levels outside the busiest hours. Areas receiving record bus funding include the Isle of Wight, Torbay in Devon, Leicester in the East Midlands and Peterborough in Cambridgeshire.
In addition to the £955m in new funding, the Government has committed £150m to support the £3 cap. Fare increases would be limited to the level of inflation to ensure that not all of them immediately climb to the maximum, the DfT said.
Ms Haigh on Sunday also told the BBC she regretted an outburst last month in which she labelled P&O Ferries a “rogue” operator and called for a boycott of its vessels over the sacking of workers in 2022.
Her remarks led DP World, P&O’s parent company, to threaten to halt a £1bn investment and quit a landmark investment summit, before Sir Keir Starmer distanced himself from them.
She said: “I accept that my language was an unhelpful distraction, particularly at that moment.”
Ms Haigh said that if the firm went ahead with the introduction of a new seafarers’ charter and minimum wage for maritime workers she would be “very happy to get on a P&O ferry”.
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Yulia Navalnaya and Russian opposition take to streets of Berlin
Yulia Navalnaya and Russian opposition take to streets of Berlin
Russia’s exiled opposition has marched through central Berlin in protest against President Vladimir ****** and the war in Ukraine.
Several thousand supporters joined the march led by Yulia Navalnaya, widow of Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny, who ***** in February in a Russian jail. Navalny’s supporters say ****** was behind his ****** but the Kremlin denies this.
People carried the blue and white Russian opposition flag as well as Ukrainian flags, while chanting “no to war” and “****** is a *******” in Russian.
Members of Russia’s opposition have been exiled since the Kremlin escalated its crackdown on dissent, jailing hundreds – perhaps thousands – of people for their political views.
The opposition says it has three main demands – the “immediate withdrawal” of troops from Ukraine, the trial of ****** as a “war *********” and the liberation of all political prisoners in Russia.
Ukraine was a major focus of the protest, which finished at the Russian embassy in Berlin.
The Russian opposition has often been accused of failing to appreciate Ukrainian suffering, and failing to do enough to stop the war being waged by their country.
Oleg Orlov, co-chair of the Nobel Peace Prize-winning organisation Memorial, who was sentenced to jail in Russia for his anti-war and anti-government statements, held a banner that read: “Victory for Ukraine, Defeat for ******, Freedom for Russia.”
Orlov now lives in Germany in enforced exile after he was released in a prisoner swap in August. He called for Ukraine’s allies to continue supplying weapons.
“Victory for ****** in Ukraine will conserve his fascist regime in Russia for many years,” he told the BBC.
“More weapons for Ukraine is important, including for the future of Russia – because if ****** wins, then Russia is defeated – that is, the Russia that all of us here dream of and that we want to build.
“Those in Europe who talk about peace at all cost in Ukraine, those prepared to appease the aggressor, do not understand the mine they are laying for the future of Europe itself.”
Speaking outside the Russian embassy, Vladimir Kara-Murza, who was also freed in August after spending over two years – 11 months of them in solitary confinement – jailed in Russia, called the embassy “a spy nest of Russia”.
“It will be an embassy again,” he added.
One young IT worker, Anastasia – originally from Kazan in Russia – said she left in March 2022 because she could not stay in a country waging a war that she opposed.
She said it was “impossible to protest in an authoritarian state”, adding that this is why the rally was so crucial.
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Destiny 2 Players Are Having an Emotional Moment as Astro **** Resurrects Their Favourite Hunter Vanguard
Destiny 2 Players Are Having an Emotional Moment as Astro **** Resurrects Their Favourite Hunter Vanguard
Released on September 6, Astro **** instantly became the talk of the gaming community. The game captured players’ hearts with its excellent platforming gameplay, stunning visuals, and intuitive controls. Thanks to the overwhelmingly positive reviews, the developer expressed their gratitude and announced that they would release a brand new speedrun level every week, starting from October 17.
Players are excited to see the special bots, introduced in the new event. | Image Credit: Team Asobi
While players were surprised by the various levels and all the special bots to add to the crew, no one expected to see the return of the beloved Cayde-6 from Destiny 2 with his Ghost Sundance, on November 14th. The moment the character made his appearance in the platformer, the gaming community was left in awe, flooded with emotions, especially nostalgia.
Cayde-6 Made a Surprising Appearance in Astro ****
For those who don’t know Cayde-6, he is one of the hunter vanguard from Destiny 2, who faced a tragic ****** in the Forsaken expansion, alongside his ghost Sundance. His ****** left a long-lasting impact on the players. So, when players saw him make an unexpected appearance in Astro ****, players were immediately shocked then the emotion turned into nostalgia.
His appearance is part of the event called Building Speed, which introduced 5 challenging levels (one each week). Each of these levels allows players to rescue 2 special bots which can then be added to their crew. The special bots contain characters like Eve from Stellar Blade, Helldiver from Helldivers 2, and many more (10 special bots in total).
To rescue and add Cayde-6 along with his Ghost: Sundance, players will need to complete last week’s challenge level called Rising Heat. After completion, players can interact with and add Cayde-6 along with Sundance to their crew. Even though it’s in a different game, seeing the beloved Hunter Vanguard back on screen and alive has been a thrill for many fans.
CAYDE-6 IS IN ASTRO ****! pic.twitter.com/e1TLWGGNBk
— Destiny Bulletin (@DestinyBulletn) November 14, 2024
This was his wish… His light pic.twitter.com/MGJfNgcfhM
— RevakGoneRogue (@RevakGoneRogue) November 14, 2024
That’s completely adorable!!!
— Talking to the Bones (@talkinbones) November 14, 2024
No way!! Astro **** is such a fantastic game.
— Kildozer666 (@kildozer666) November 14, 2024
HOLY ***** SUNDANCE IS THERE TOO
— lal3P (@J0RDAN1A) November 14, 2024
The entire comment section is filled with players expressing shock and joy at seeing such a memorable Destiny 2 character in a completely different game. Fans are not only super excited about the character but are also even more eager to jump (literally as well) into the event and collect all the special bots.
Players are Looking Forward to Future Events in Astro ****
Players are looking forward to future events that will introduce more memorable characters as special bots. | Image Credit: Team Asobi
With the introduction of all special bots in the new event Building Speed, Astro **** has captured the attention of the gaming community, especially Destiny 2 players. Now that the event is coming to a close, they are expecting to see more fun and engaging events like this.
The Asobi Team has done exceptional work since the launch of the game, with various fixes and new features added over time. Players are enjoying all the new levels and events in the game, and due to all this effort by the developers, players have set very high expectations for what’s to come in future updates.
While the latest event showcased the potential of the developer and its commitment to enhancing the player experience, this has also placed a heavy burden on its shoulders to one-up its previous efforts. However, due to the team’s great track record, players believe that the developers will live up to their expectations and are looking forward to similar events in the future.
In the end, the Building Speed event has been a great success, and players are enjoying the appearance of all special bots. However, the inclusion of Cayde-6 has shown that, even though the character has ***** in his game, his legacy will live on in players’ hearts.
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Retro beige PC case goes from April Fools’ joke to retail — SilverStone’s sleeper PC with modern internals ships in Q1 2025
Retro beige PC case goes from April Fools’ joke to retail — SilverStone’s sleeper PC with modern internals ships in Q1 2025
Cases, cooling, and power specialist SilverStone has announced that a desktop PC case that it previously showed off as an April Fools’ joke is heading to retail. An unashamedly beige SilverStone FLP01 pre-built system was on display earlier in the week at the firm’s Japan Expo. ********* tech media reports that FLP01 cases will be released sometime in Q1 2025 priced at JPY 19,800 (~$130).
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Some of us tech old-timers started on systems that look a lot like SilverStone’s new FLP01. This particular design is said to have been strongly influenced by the NEC PC-9800 series, which was popular in Japan. The desktop form factor doubles as a monitor stand and puts the swapping of essential floppy and CD media within easy reach.
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Looking more closely at the not-shiny new FLP01, the front has a couple of faux 5.25-inch floppy drives to the right. Sadly, they look fake, even from a distance, with the filled-in slots and single-****** plastics. However, these two artifices flip open to reveal an optical drive (upper slot) and front I/O array including headphones, USB-A, and USB-C ports (lower slot). A power button, plus disk activity and power LEDs appear to be present on the left front side of the desktop case. You can see these details in a series of images shared by ascii.jp.
At the expo, SilverStone had an FLP01 system configured with some powerful modern components, presumably to show its flexibility and capacity. It packed in a full-sized ATX motherboard, full-size PSU, water cooling, Intel Core Ultra 7 265K CPU, and Nvidia GeForce RTX 4060 Ti GPU, as well as buckets of storage. Plenty of room seemed to be left for ******* GPUs than the Asus Dual model featured, up to a maximum of 300mm in length. CPU coolers up to 138mm tall can fit in. The demo system was configured with three intake fans (two on the left, one on the right) venting from the back and top.
Other details we gleaned about this case were that it measures 440mm x 362mm, and is 170mm tall. Apparently, some slight cosmetic changes will be made to this prototype, to make it a closer tribute to the aforementioned NEC PC-9800.
Hopefully, this, or a similar beige retro tribute case from SilverStone, will be made available outside of the ********* market. Features and pricing aren’t bad if you are on the lookout for an easy sleeper PC build.
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Jeremy Allen White lookalike crowned in Chicago
Jeremy Allen White lookalike crowned in Chicago
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Dozens of people descended on a Chicago park on Saturday, vying to be crowned best Jeremy Allen White lookalike.
Contestants – including a toddler – donned chef’s aprons and white t-shirts in the style of White’s character Carmen Berzatto from the hit TV series The Bear.
Others dressed as his character Phillip in Shameless, another TV show set in Chicago.
Hundreds of spectators cheered as each contender stepped forward to show their resemblance.
Based on levels of applause, the accolade went to a 37-year-old mental health therapist, Ben Shabad.
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“I didn’t really plan on winning – especially when I saw all these guys that looked like Jeremy Allen White – but the energy here is so exciting,” Mr Shabad told the Chicago Tribune.
As a prize, Mr Shabad received $50 and a pack of cigarettes – a nod to Berzatto’s heavy smoking in the series.
The show, now in its third season, follows a young chef from the fine dining world, Carmy, as he returns to the family-run sandwich shop in Chicago after his brother’s ********.
The show won six prizes, including three for acting, at the 2024 Emmy Awards, drawing with Succession for the most accolades.
The lookalike competition was organised by Chicago roommates Kelsey Cassaro and Taylor Vaske. The pair were inspired by the success of similar events in recent weeks for other celebrities including Dev Patel and Paul Mescal.
In October, Timothée Chalamet stunned fans after turning up to a lookalike competition for the actor in New York.
It appears the celebrity doppelganger craze is not yet over, with Saturday’s event just the latest in a string of competitions across the country.
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“People were online saying, ‘Why doesn’t Chicago have one?’ said Ms Cassaro, speaking with the Chicago Sun-Times.
“I was like, ‘I think it should be Jeremy Allen White if we do it.’ And I also think a lot of Chicago dudes look like him,” she added.
Cassaro and Vaske originally planned the event as a joke, posting details on social media and flyers in areas of Chicago. Once buzz picked up online about it, they decided to organise it officially.
Unlike Chalamet, White did not show up to the competition. But that didn’t dampen his doppelgangers’ spirits.
“I’m just impressed by [White’s] acting ability, and the shows that he’s been in have been really good, so I take it as a compliment that people think I look like him,” said Mr Shabad.
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Fatboy Slim blasts Oasis for ‘ripping off’ fans
Fatboy Slim blasts Oasis for ‘ripping off’ fans
Fatboy Slim has blasted Oasis for “ripping off” fans with their tour prices.
The Champagne Supernova group were heavily criticised for using dynamic pricing – where ticket costs escalate in response to demand – when their *** reunion tour dates went on *****, and the DJ has branded the policy “*****” because it is a legal way of “scalping” audiences.
The Praise You hitmaker – whose real name is Norman Cook – told The Sun on Sunday newspaper’s Bizarre column: “The only problem I have got is with scalping the fans.
“That dynamic pricing, that is ripping off the fans. It is like auctioning tickets because you know they are doing well.
“It is bad enough with the touts doing it, but the actual promoter and band doing it, it is *****.”
And the 61-year-old star insisted he always wants to keep his own tickets as “cheap” as possible.
He added: “As far as I know, it has never happened on my watch. I get a say on making tickets, on the whole, cheap. I always say, ‘Let’s have a fair price’.
“Ticket prices are so exorbitant. It is just profit for people who are very, very rich already — and that is for the bands and the promoters.
“I can’t see how you can justify making it even more expensive, just because you know you have got a gig that everybody wants to go to.”
But Cook praised Coldplay for using their ticket prices to give back to struggling venues in order to boost live music around the country.
He said: “I really f****** hate Coldplay. At least, I did until they announced their new arena tour and they announced they are giving ten per cent of the whole ticket prices for the whole tour, which will help keep smaller venues going.
“That is the dynamic pricing you should be having. They are not making lots of money, they just want to survive. They just love to see rock ‘n’ roll.
“New bands have to have somewhere to come.”
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New Nvidia AI chips overheating in servers, the Information reports
New Nvidia AI chips overheating in servers, the Information reports
(Reuters) -Nvidia’s new Blackwell AI chips, which have already faced delays, have encountered problems with accompanying servers that overheat, causing some customers to worry they will not have enough time to get new data centers up and running, the Information reported on Sunday.
The Blackwell graphics processing units overheat when connected together in server racks designed to hold up to 72 chips, the report said, citing sources familiar with the issue.
The chipmaker has asked its suppliers to change the design of the racks several times to resolve overheating problems, according to Nvidia employees who have been working on the issue, as well as customers and suppliers with knowledge of the issue, the report said without naming the suppliers.
“Nvidia is working with leading cloud service providers as an integral part of our engineering team and process. The engineering iterations are normal and expected,” a company spokesperson said in a statement to Reuters.
In March, Nvidia unveiled Blackwell chips and had earlier said they would ship in the second quarter before encountering delays, potentially affecting customers such as Meta Platforms, Alphabet’s Google and Microsoft.
Nvidia’s Blackwell chip takes two squares of silicon the size of the company’s previous offering and binds them into a single component that is 30 times speedier at tasks like providing responses from chatbots.
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Brazil first lady Janja Lula da Silva uses expletive against Elon Musk
Brazil first lady Janja Lula da Silva uses expletive against Elon Musk
Brazil’s first lady has sworn at billionaire Elon Musk at an event ahead of the G20 summit in Rio de Janeiro.
While advocating for tougher social media regulation on a panel about disinformation, Janja Lula da Silva appeared to be startled by a loud noise, joking, “I think it’s Elon Musk.”
“I’m not afraid of you,” she went on to say, then swore at the billionaire, who owns Tesla and social media platform X.
Musk, who was picked to lead the Department of Government Efficiency in incoming US President Donald Trump’s administration, has a complicated relationship with Brazil and its left-wing government. X was briefly banned there this year.
He reposted a video of the incident, captioned “lol”.
In another post, Musk added two laughing emojis and wrote: “They are going to lose the next election”, apparently referring to President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva’s Workers Party.
Earlier this year, Brazil’s Supreme Court ordered a nationwide ban on X, after it ******* to name a legal representative in the country and suspend accounts for allegedly spreading disinformation. The ban was lifted after the platform paid a $5.1m (£3.8m) fine more than a month later.
But Musk is also an ally of Brazil’s former far-right President Jair Bolsonaro, who was found guilty of discrediting the electoral system after losing in 2022. Despite the eight-year ban stopping him from running in an election, he has declared his intent to run again in the next elections, to be held in 2026.
Bolsonaro, who reposted a screenshot of the video and Musk’s response, said, “We now have another diplomatic problem.”
Leaders of the G20 nations will be meeting for the summit, which starts on Monday.
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Mandel’s Final Thoughts: Playoff bracket, bubble and Big 12 race have new main characters
Mandel’s Final Thoughts: Playoff bracket, bubble and Big 12 race have new main characters
And now, 20 Final Thoughts from college football’s Week 12, where no one won ******* than Indiana’s Curt Cignetti. He got a $64 million contract on his week off.
1. Preseason No. 1 Georgia faced the prospect of missing the College Football Playoff entirely if it suffered its third loss of the season on Saturday against Tennessee. And it looked like that was going to happen when the Bulldogs fell behind 10-0 on their home field. But then, much-maligned quarterback Carson Beck rediscovered his mojo just in time.
Behind Beck’s best game of the season (25 of 40 for 347 yards and two touchdowns, no interceptions) and a masterful performance by his offensive line, No. 12 Georgia (8-2, 6-2 SEC) beat No. 7 Tennessee (8-2, 5-2) for the eighth straight season, 31-17. In doing so, Georgia both saved its season and turned the SEC standings into a marvelous, muddy mess.
2. Texas and Texas A&M are both 5-1 and tied for first in the league. They play each other on Nov. 30 in College Station. So that part should resolve itself. After that, there are four teams — Georgia, Tennessee, Alabama and Ole Miss — with two conference losses. Kalen DeBoer’s Tide, left for ***** a few weeks ago, have the inside track to Atlanta due to their opponents’ cumulative conference record.
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But, of course, all of these teams are still vying for CFP at-large berths, which brings us back to the Vols.
3. We hereby anoint Tennessee as the first official bubble team of the 12-team era. Our best guess is the Vols, No. 7 in last week’s committee rankings, will fall to the “first one out” slot that Georgia had occupied. Tennessee has a win against Alabama, but it suffered a meh loss at Arkansas, which is 5-5. Ole Miss has a flat-out bad loss at home against 4-6 Kentucky, but it has been dominant in most of its wins, including two against ranked opponents Georgia and No. 21 South Carolina.
Both should cheer for Ohio State to hammer No. 5 Indiana next week. The currently undefeated Hoosiers would have one fewer loss but also zero Top 25 wins. You can already hear the lobbying now between the Big Ten and SEC commissioners about that last at-large berth.
4. No. 1 Oregon (11-0, 8-0 Big Ten) has not had a week off since Sept. 21, and on Saturday, the Ducks made their third trip to the Eastern or Central time zone in their past five games. So I found it unsurprising that Oregon sputtered on offense for much of the night against Wisconsin at sold-out Camp Randall Stadium and trailed 13-6 when “Jump Around” came on at the start of the fourth quarter. We’ve seen far ******* underdogs than the Badgers (+13.5) pull off upsets this season.
But the Ducks did what great teams do, driving 81 yards for the tying score and holding Wisconsin without a first down for the entire fourth quarter to win 16-13. Running back Jordan James (25 carries, 121 yards, one TD) wore down the Badgers (5-5, 3-4), and defensive end Matayo Uiagalelei was everywhere, pulling down a game-sealing interception off a deflection. In escaping Madison unscathed, Oregon, which has only one game remaining, against 6-5 Washington, may have helped its conference stave off a possible four-way tie for first.
5. The Big 12 race took quite a turn Saturday. Sixth-ranked BYU (9-1, 6-1 Big 12) had been living dangerously for some time, and its luck ran out in a 17-13 home loss to Kansas (4-6, 3-4) — specifically when Jayhawks quarterback Jalon Daniels’ pooch punt bounced off BYU player Evan Johnson and into the hands of Kansas’ Quentin Skinner. That set up the go-ahead score early in the fourth quarter, and the Cougars never got on the board again. It was a huge win for Lance Leipold’s Jayhawks, who started the season 1-5 but have won three of four, including back-to-back Top 25 wins (Iowa State and BYU).
BYU still has a Playoff bid within reach, as it is tied for first in the Big 12 with Colorado (8-2, 6-1) and will head to Arlington if it wins out. But first, the Cougars have to make it past one of the country’s hottest teams next week.
6. What a job Kenny Dillingham has done in his second season at Arizona State. The Sun Devils (8-2, 5-2 Big 12) went to No. 16 Kansas State (7-3, 4-3), jumped out to a 24-0 lead and held on to win 24-14, moving into third place in the 16-team conference. Redshirt freshman quarterback Sam Leavitt (21 of 34 for 275 yards, three touchdowns, no interceptions) and third-year receiver Jordyn Tyson (12 catches, 176 yards, two TDs) had big days, while the Sun Devils defense forced three turnovers and made a fourth-and-1 stop.
Arizona State hosts BYU next week with a chance to take control of its Big 12 title hopes. It’s hard to believe this is the same program that was still digging out from under Herm Edwards’ mismanagement and NCAA recruiting sanctions this time last year.
7. Early in the season, it was hard to imagine Colorado star Travis Hunter winning the Heisman Trophy as a non-quarterback on a likely non-CFP team. But here we are, with the 17th-ranked Buffs on a four-game winning streak, and it feels like Hunter may run away with the thing.
In Saturday’s 49-24 win over Utah (4-6, 1-6), the two-way star did something no NFL or FBS player had achieved in almost exactly 24 years: post 50 receiving yards (five catches for 55), score a rushing touchdown (on a reverse where he eluded seven Utes tacklers) and intercept a pass (which he returned for 21 yards, then struck the Heisman pose). The last player to pull off that trifecta: Champ Bailey on Dec. 24, 2000 — in the NFL.
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8. But, of course, no Heisman voter should make up his or her mind until the final games are played. No. 13 Boise State (9-1, 6-0 Mountain West) fell behind 14-0 early at San Jose State (6-4, 3-3) but eventually went up 28-21 on a 36-yard Ashton Jeanty touchdown run, one of his three on the night. Boise Satte pulled away for a 42-21 win behind Jeanty’s 32 carries for 159 yards and three scores. He has gained at least 125 yards in all 10 games and is at 1,893 yards and 26 touchdowns on the season.
With the win, Boise State clinched a berth in the Dec. 6 Mountain West Championship Game, where it will face either Colorado State (7-3, 5-0) or UNLV (8-2, 4-1). And with BYU losing, the once far-fetched scenario in which the Broncos finish ahead of the Big 12 champ and get a first-round bye is now on the table.
As for the Heisman, Jeanty’s biggest hurdle isn’t his opponents. It’s that his team was playing San Jose State on CBS Sports Network, not Utah on Fox’s “Big Noon Saturday.”
9. Quinn Ewers may have the Dr. Pepper commercials and Arch Manning the “great hair and famous relatives,” but Texas is two wins from the SEC Championship Game because of Jahdae Barron and the nation’s top-ranked defense. The No. 3 Longhorns (9-1, 5-1 SEC) notched six sacks and allowed just 231 total yards in a 20-10 win at Arkansas (5-5, 3-4). Texas’ offense has been inconsistent during the back half of the season, but when the Razorbacks cut their deficit to 13-10 early in the fourth quarter, Ewers (20 of 32, 176 yards, two touchdowns, no interceptions) hit Isaiah Bond on a 20-yard pass to begin a 75-yard touchdown drive.
The Longhorns get Kentucky (4-6, 1-6) at home next week before a little game in College Station.
10. South Carolina quarterback LaNorris Sellers has been outstanding the past several weeks. After Missouri took the lead on a 37-yard Luther Burden III touchdown catch with 1:15 left, Sellers led his team right back down the field, culminating in a 15-yard catch-and-run score by Rocket Sanders. The No. 21 Gamecocks (7-3, 5-3 SEC) prevailed 34-30 over No. 23 Mizzou (7-3, 3-3) for their fourth straight win. Shane Beamer’s team is known for its top-10 defense, but the offense has kicked into gear since a 44-20 win over Texas A&M two weeks ago. It’s too late for the conference race, but South Carolina still has a chance at its first nine-win regular season since 2013.
11. Amid the season-long fixation on Billy Napier’s job security, folks may have missed that Florida has gotten better. The breakthrough finally arrived Saturday when the Gators (5-5, 3-4 SEC) knocked off No. 22 LSU 27-16. Florida welcomed back from injury freshman quarterback DJ Lagway, who threw a 23-yard touchdown, but the story was its defense, which sacked Garrett Nussmeier seven times and held Brian Kelly’s Tigers (6-4, 3-3) to 4.2 yards per play. Napier, who athletic director Scott Stricklin already said will be back next season, may go from hot seat to bowl trip, as Florida still faces 1-9 rival Florida State in its regular-season finale.
Meanwhile, LSU has lost four games in a season for the fourth time in five years. Joe Burrow isn’t walking through that door.
12. Virginia muffed the opening kickoff against No. 8 Notre Dame, and it only went south from there, as the Irish (9-1) feasted on five turnovers to cruise to a 35-14 win over the visiting Cavaliers (5-5, 3-3 ACC). It feels like America’s ultimate helmet school has been flying under the radar for two months, but it’s hard to argue with the results. Notre Dame has won eight in a row, with seven of those coming by at least three scores.
And a lot of people will be watching the Irish during the next two weeks. They meet undefeated Army in prime time next Saturday, and a win would set up their own CFP play-in game against 5-5 USC.
13. Clemson quarterback Cade Klubnik saved the Tigers’ season Saturday. Three plays after the No. 20 Tigers (8-2, 7-1 ACC) fell behind Pittsburgh (7-3, 3-3) with 1:36 left, Klubnik broke a 50-yard touchdown run to put Clemson back up 24-20. The Tigers’ defense, which had eight sacks, closed out the win from there. Dabo Swinney’s team finished ACC play at 7-1 and still has a shot at the conference title game if No. 9 Miami (9-1, 5-1) loses one of its last two games or, less likely, SMU (9-1, 6-0) falls twice. (Clemson would be the odd team out in a three-way tiebreaker.)
No one would confuse this Clemson team with the Deshaun Watson/Trevor Lawrence teams that reached six consecutive CFPs from 2015 to 2020, but these Tigers could still earn an automatic berth and a top-four seed.
14. If you missed it, Boston College coach Bill O’Brien’s decision during week to pivot from two-year starting quarterback Thomas Castellanos to Grayson James against No. 14 SMU prompted Castellanos to leave the team entirely. James kept the Eagles (5-5, 2-4 ACC) in the game throughout but could not keep up with Kevin Jennings, Brashard Smith and the Mustangs, who kept their perfect ACC record intact with a 38-28 win. And it sure seems like SMU is going to have to get that automatic berth to make the CFP. The committee last week had the Mustangs ranked the lowest of any one-loss Power 4 team, behind three two-loss teams. It would be interesting to see where they’d be if they wore Clemson or Florida State helmets. Or Miami’s, given the Hurricanes are five spots above SMU.
15. While Boise State has hogged the Group of 5 spotlight most of the season, No. 25 Tulane is playing as well as anyone in those conferences. The Green Wave (9-2, 7-0 AAC) clinched a berth in their third straight AAC Championship Game with a 35-0 rout of Navy (7-3, 5-2), the sixth double-digit win of Tulane’s seven-game winning streak. Tulane will meet No. 24 Army (9-0, 7-0), which clinched its berth on an off week thanks to Navy losing, on Dec. 6 at one or the other’s stadium.
Tulane coach Jon Sumrall knows what he’s doing; this will be his third straight conference title game after winning back-to-back Sun Belt titles at Troy.
16. USC coach Lincoln Riley changed quarterbacks during the week and finally won a close game. UNLV transfer Jayden Maiava (23 of 35 for 259 yards, three touchdowns, one interception) was decent, and running back Woody Marks (19 carries for 146 yards) ran hard for the Trojans (5-5, 3-5 Big Ten) in their 28-20 win over Nebraska (5-5, 2-5). The Huskers, still trying to reach their first bowl game since 2016, have lost four straight and have dropped their last nine games — dating to 2019 — when a win would have made them bowl-eligible. It’s preposterous! They have two chances left this season, against Wisconsin (5-5, 3-4) and at Iowa (6-4, 4-3).
17. Nearly all the coaches who entered the season on the hot seat have worked their way off of it. Baylor (6-4, 4-3 Big 12) got bowl-eligible with a 49-35 win at West Virginia (5-5, 4-3), after which the school let reporters know that coach Dave Aranda will be back for a fifth season. The Bears have bounced back from last year’s 3-9 debacle thanks to several young standouts, most notably freshman running back Bryson Washington, who had 18 carries for 123 yards and three touchdowns and caught five passes for 59 yards and another TD against the Mountaineers.
18. One coach who might be in actual danger? Purdue’s Ryan Walters. While it’s only his second season, the Boilermakers (1-9, 0-7 Big Ten) are just awful. Their 49-10 home loss to No. 4 Penn State (9-1, 6-1) marked their fifth defeat of at least 35 points, with such memorable scores as 66-7 (Notre Dame), 52-6 (Wisconsin) and 45-0 (Ohio State). Somehow Purdue drew all four of the Big Ten’s current top-10 teams, plus a top-10 Notre Dame team. But it even lost by 17 to an Oregon State team that is 4-6. And No. 5 Indiana still awaits.
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19. Stanford has not had many highlights in coach Troy Taylor’s two seasons, but on Saturday, the Cardinal (3-7, 2-5 ACC) knocked off No. 19 Louisville (6-4, 4-3) 38-35 in miraculous fashion. Louisville, facing a fourth-and-10 with 10 seconds left and the score tied, opted to try a Hail Mary. Nope. Stanford took over possession at its own 44 with four seconds left, at which point Louisville got flagged 15 yards for an unsportsmanlike penalty, then jumped offside, setting up Emmet Kenney to hit a game-winning 52-yard field goal.
That could not have been a fun flight home for Louisville.
20. Finally, when a Saturday begins, you never know where the feel-good story of the day might occur. This week, it was Albuquerque, N.M. The hometown Lobos (5-6), trying to avoid an eighth straight losing season, drove 75 yards entirely on the ground to score a go-ahead touchdown with 21 seconds left and knock off No. 18 Washington State (8-2) 38-35. It was a huge win for former BYU and Virginia head coach Bronco Mendenhall, who took over at New Mexico this season. His team can get bowl-eligible with a win at 4-7 Hawaii in two weeks.
It was New Mexico’s first Top 25 win since 2003 when the Lobos knocked off a Utah team coached by one Urban Meyer.
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Development deadlock deepening the housing crisis
Development deadlock deepening the housing crisis
More than 10,000 approved apartments sit idle across Perth – not because of planning issues or lack of demand but due to stark economic realities.
The Property Council of Australia’s recent Sky High: What’s really driving high costs and declining infill development report crystallised what many in the industry have long recognised: as one of the world’s lowest-density cities – with just 1.1 per cent of homes being apartments, compared to Sydney’s six per cent – Perth’s housing diversity gap continues to widen.
Despite having a widely recognised housing affordability crisis and thousands of development approvals in place to address it, these much-needed homes remain unbuilt.
To meet our housing targets, Perth needs to deliver about 11,000 apartments annually – more than five times our current rate.
Since COVID-19, construction costs have risen by at least 30 per cent nationally, with Western Australia experiencing even steeper increases. Some developers are reporting construction estimates nearly double those of similar projects just five years ago.
This cost escalation has meant the development community need to think, build, fund and procure differently if they hope to meet the divide between development costs and achievable sales prices for all but the most premium projects.
The root cause? A perfect storm of factors. Infrastructure spending in WA has more than doubled in five years, with large public works projects creating unprecedented competition for materials and skilled labour, while at the same time, border restrictions during the pandemic limited access to both.
Multi-residential developments are also more complex to build, with a diverse buyer pool, individualised fit-outs and varied floor plans, pushing builders towards simpler, more profitable infrastructure projects.
As property prices climb, government revenue from property-related taxes have nearly doubled from $2.6 billion in 2018-19 to $4.5 billion in 2023-24. However, this windfall is largely funding more infrastructure projects, further straining construction resources and perpetuating the cycle.
Breaking this cycle requires targeted intervention, and the State Government’s Infrastructure Development Fund is a step in the right direction, especially if it can be expanded to allow developments to utilise the full approved amount.
It is also positive to hear Minister for Planning John Carey’s pledge to have the State Government intervene and deliver houses in categories where market ******** is preventing private sector delivery, specifically in the social and affordable categories.
While the private sector will, and should, remain the principal provider of housing, the economics in the current environment mean the market alone cannot solve this crisis. Without intervention, supply of moderate to sub-premium housing will continue to fall, putting upward pressure on prices and driving more households into housing stress.
The 10,000 approved but unbuilt apartments represent an immediate opportunity to address our housing shortage. With the right economic settings, we could see significant progress towards meeting our housing targets between 2026 and 2029.
Or we can simply continue on our current path and watch the housing crisis deepen.
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NFL Week 11 top storylines: Chiefs-Bills, Ravens-Steelers and can Bears get right vs. Packers?
NFL Week 11 top storylines: Chiefs-Bills, Ravens-Steelers and can Bears get right vs. Packers?
And the beat goes on.
Another action-packed slate of games is upon us as Week 11 of the NFL regular season offers four high-stakes divisional matchups and another three contests between projected playoff teams.
Philadelphia and Washington faced off in the City of Brotherly Love Thursday night when the Eagles improved to 8-2 and took control of the NFC East with a 26-18 win. Sunday, NFC North foes Chicago and Green Bay meet in the Windy City while the AFC North-leading Pittsburgh Steelers host the rival Baltimore Ravens. Out West, the San Francisco 49ers host the Seattle Seahawks.
And that’s not all.
A potential AFC Championship Game preview takes place in Buffalo as the Bills host the Chiefs. Two rising teams meet in Denver, where the Broncos host the Atlanta Falcons. And the Sunday night matchup features a pair of marquee quarterbacks and their teams as Justin Herbert and the L.A. Chargers host Joe Burrow and the Cincinnati Bengals.
Here are the most compelling storylines across the NFL this weekend. (Find the Week 11 schedule here.)
1. Mahomes vs. Allen, Round 8
The NFL schedulers probably should have made this the Sunday night contest. How could a showdown between two of the NFL’s most elite quarterbacks not garner top billing?
Patrick Mahomes and Josh Allen share a storied history, and none of their seven meetings has disappointed. Allen holds a 3-1 edge in regular-season contests. Mahomes, however, boasts a 3-0 postseason record against his rival. Those regular-season contests have been decided by an average of 8.5 points while the postseason games were decided by 7.7 points per contest.
The last time these teams met in the regular season, last December, Allen and company prevailed 20-17 thanks in part to a Tyler Bass field goal with 1:54 left to play. However, the Chiefs still had a chance and thought they had sealed victory 29 seconds later. Mahomes completed a 25-yard pass to Travis Kelce, who then flipped the ball to wide receiver Kadarius Toney, who scored from 24 yards out. However, the touchdown was called back because Toney had lined up offside. Buffalo’s defense forced three straight incompletions and a loss of downs to clinch the win.
Kansas City, however, avenged the defeat in the divisional round of the playoffs. An Isiah Pacheco touchdown run early in the fourth quarter gave the Chiefs a 27-24 lead they never relinquished.
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Once again, these star quarterbacks have their teams ranked among the league’s elite. Mahomes and the Chiefs descend on Buffalo with a perfect 9-0 record. Meanwhile, Allen’s Bills also boast one of the top records in the league at 8-2.
How will the fifth regular-season installment play out? Can Buffalo end Kansas City’s perfect run while extending its win streak to six games? Or will the Chiefs again find a way to overcome obstacles to remain perfect and maintain their firm grip on the AFC’s top seed? (Chiefs at Bills, 4:25 p.m. ET Sunday.)
Will a change at offensive coordinator help Caleb Williams and the slumping Bears? (Mike Dinovo / Imagn Images)
2. The Bears’ desperate response
After a promising three-game stretch, the Chicago Bears find themselves on a three-game slide plagued by offensive ineptitude and signs of regression from rookie quarterback Caleb Williams. After his team scored only 27 points combined and one touchdown during that skid, Bears coach Matt Eberflus fired offensive coordinator Shane Waldron and replaced him with pass-game coordinator Thomas Brown, who shared play-calling duties in Carolina last season. The hope is that Brown can help restore balance to the sputtering offense and position William for more effective **********.
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However, this is a tough week for the Bears to try to pull off a season-saving rebound. They welcome the Packers, who are coming off a bye and eager to get back into the win column after a 24-14 loss to Detroit in Week 9. Before that, the Packers had won four straight and six of their last seven. Green Bay’s defense ranks second in the league with 19 takeaways and will try to pressure Williams, who has been sacked a league-high 38 times. Chicago’s defense is the bright spot and could give Jordan Love and the Packers some problems. The Bears rank seventh against the pass, have allowed only 18.6 points per game (seventh-best) and have 16 takeaways (also seventh). (Packers at Bears, 1 p.m. ET Sunday.)
3. AFC North heavyweight bout
We knew the Ravens would again be among the best teams in the AFC North and the entire AFC. But questions about their potential challengers persisted.
Could the Bengals bounce back after a down year marked by injuries? Would the Browns finally figure things out with Deshaun Watson and live up to their potential? And what about Pittsburgh? After two years in the quarterback wilderness, the Steelers faced more uncertainty this season as Mike Tomlin rolled the dice on Russell Wilson and Justin Fields. The coach believed a combination of the two, a redesigned offense directed by new coordinator Arthur Smith and his own consistently formidable defense would position the Steelers for a campaign of rejuvenation.
The coach, it turns out, was right. Fields helped the team get off to a solid 4-2 start, and after making a healthy return to action, Wilson has taken Pittsburgh’s offense to another level. (The Steelers went from averaging 20.6 points and 298.3 yards a game without Wilson to 30.3 points and 382.3 yards per contest with him.) He threw for three touchdown passes last week while directing a vintage Russ fourth-quarter comeback as the Steelers beat Washington 28-27 to improve to 7-2 and maintain first place in the AFC North.
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The Steelers’ true test comes as they welcome 7-3 Baltimore to town. How will Pittsburgh measure up? The Ravens boast the most prolific offense in the league in terms of yards (440.2) and points (31.8) per game. Lamar Jackson is again playing at an MVP level, second-year wide receiver Zay Flowers ranks fifth in the NFL in receiving yards and Derrick Henry has added a much-needed punishing rushing ******* to Baltimore’s offense while leading the NFL in rushing yards and rushing touchdowns. Pittsburgh’s defense, which is eighth-best in yards (302.7) and second-stingiest in points (16.2) per game, will certainly receive its most challenging assignment of the season.
If the Ravens have a weakness, it’s their defense, which surrenders a league-high 294.9 passing yards per game and 25.3 points (eighth-most) per contest. Foes do find it hard to run on Baltimore, which gives up an NFL-low 73.0 rushing yards per game. So if the Steelers are to keep pace with their visitors, Wilson must have a big day. (Ravens at Steelers, 1 p.m. ET Sunday.)
4. 49ers’ comeback quest
After a rocky, injury-plagued, 4-4 start to the season, the Super Bowl runner-up San Francisco 49ers finally have started to get healthy, and just in time. A hard-fought 23-20 victory over the Tampa Bay Buccaneers last week improved San Francisco’s record to 5-4 and gave the Niners their first two-game win streak of the season. Thanks to the intensely competitive nature of the NFC West (Arizona leads with a 6-4 record), all of Kyle Shanahan and his players’ goals remain within reach.
This week’s date with divisional neighbor Seattle carries great importance. A victory enables San Francisco to match the record of the Cardinals, who are on a bye this week, and it would even their division record at 2-2.
********** McCaffrey debuted last week after missing the first eight games of the season and turned in a pedestrian 39 rushing yards on 13 carries. But he added 68 receiving yards on six catches, which brought his scrimmage yards total to 107. Rust was to be expected given his extensive injury layoff. But his presence on the field creates opportunities for teammates because of the attention he commands, and with another week of practice under his belt, McCaffrey could take another step forward in production. In his two games against Seattle last season, McCaffrey burned the Seahawks for a combined 259 rushing yards, two touchdowns and six catches for 33 yards. Seattle has a new coach and defense this year, but when he faced Mike Macdonald and his Ravens defense last season, McCaffrey recorded 103 rushing yards and a touchdown on 14 carries and added six catches for 28 yards.
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Seattle, of course, will try to contain the running back and his teammates. The Seahawks (4-5) are coming off their bye and have lost two straight and five of their last six contests. A defeat would drop Seattle to 0-3 in the division and place their postseason hopes in serious doubt. (Seahawks at 49ers, 4:05 p.m. ET.)
Justin Herbert and the Chargers have won three in a row. (Scott Galvin / Imagn Images)
While the unbeaten Chiefs have rightfully commanded much of the spotlight, and as the Broncos and rookie quarterback Bo Nix have turned heads, another AFC West team has quietly worked its way up the ranks in the division and the conference.
Winners of three straight and four of their last five games, Jim Harbaugh’s 6-3 Los Angeles Chargers look like a legit playoff team. They’re not flashy. The Chargers rank just 22nd in yards per game (314.3) and 19th in points per contest (20.7). Quarterback Justin Herbert has only one 300-yard game all season. But they’re efficient. They ******** with balance on offense and take care of the football (a league-low four turnovers all season). Defensively, the Chargers are among the stingiest teams in the league. They are holding opponents to a league-best 13.1 points per game, and haven’t allowed more than 20 points in any game this season.
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The only question involves the strength of the Chargers’ opponents. Their three losses have come to Pittsburgh (20-10), Kansas City (17-10) and Arizona (17-15), who all have winning records. None of L.A.’s six wins have come against teams with records above .500. Still, they’re beating the teams they need to beat.
Sunday night’s matchup with Cincinnati offers great intrigue. At 4-6, the Bengals have disappointed, but they remain formidable because of their potent offense. Three times this season the Bengals have scored more than 30 points in a game and still lost. They are one of only nine teams to score 40 points in a game. So this matchup will be a good measuring stick for the Chargers’ defense, while proving whether Herbert and company can win in a shootout if necessary.
Meanwhile, the Bengals are desperate. They’ve fallen well behind the Steelers and Ravens in the AFC North and have work to do to overtake the Broncos (5-5), who are in the seventh AFC playoff spot. The Bengals have won the turnover battle just three times this season, and forcing the Chargers into mistakes will prove challenging. But if Cincinnati’s offense is clicking and its defense can make a few key stops, the Bengals could come out on top. (Bengals at Chargers, 8:20 p.m. ET Sunday.)
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Doctors Say Ozempic Alters Your Brain Chemistry In This Surprising Way
Doctors Say Ozempic Alters Your Brain Chemistry In This Surprising Way
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By now, you probably know that Ozempic can have a big impact on your body. But what might be news to you is that it also leads to major brain changes.
Ozempic and other related weight loss medications interact between your body and your brain to help you stay feeling full and have fewer cravings, aiding in weight loss (and leading to anywhere from 5 to 20 percent of reduced weight in a year).
The success of these drugs reveals a lot more about the role that the brain plays in weight loss in general. There’s still a lot we don’t know about how and why Ozempic and its fellow glucagon-like peptide-1 agonist meds (commonly referred to as GLP-1s) impact the brain—but we do know that they mimic a naturally occurring hormone in the brain that controls mechanisms like satiety and appetite, among others. And, researchers and doctors are saying its impact can go beyond diabetes and weight loss, treating brain-related ********* from addiction to Alzheimer’s.
Here’s what we know so far about what Ozempic does to your brain.
Meet the experts: Michael Russo, MD, is a board certified bariatric surgeon at MemorialCare Surgical Weight Loss Center at Orange Coast Medical Center. Alexandra Sowa, MD, is an obesity medicine specialist and author of the upcoming book The Ozempic Revolution.
The Weight Loss Gut-Brain Connection
What’s unique about GLP-1s—a.k.a. Ozempic, Monjauro, Wegovy, and Zepbound, among others—is that they target hormones, which play a major role in your weight and weight loss, says Dr. Russo. These drugs work by mimicking a hormone that signals satiety, keeping you fuller for longer and requiring you to eat less.
While this hormone is released in your gut, it’s also released in your brain, creating a feedback loop between the two that tells you when you’re full, says Dr. Russo. (This is just one of the interactions that happens along the gut-brain axis, which refers to the different hormones, microbiota, and more that connect both parts of the body, per a 2020 review in Frontiers.)
For people who carry a lot of weight, this feedback loop gets disrupted. This happens through a combination of genetics and environmental factors—like consuming a diet of ultra-processed foods—that dysregulate your hormones and rewire your brain, says Dr. Sowa. These dysregulated hormones contribute to just about—from how easy it is to gain weight, how hard it is to lose, and how and where it’s stored in the body, she says. (This is also why the advice to “just eat less” isn’t helpful for weight loss, says Dr. Sowa. A lot of times, there’s something more than diet and exercise impacting your size: your brain.)
As a hormonal med, GLP-1s work along this gut-brain axis to get you “get back to baseline,” says Dr. Russo. As for where exactly in your noggin GLP-1s are working, experts think most of the action is in the hypothalamus. This is a “primitive” part of the brain that drives and encourages compulsions to eat, sleep, and reproduce, says Dr. Russo. “We think that GLP-1s are likely affecting this pleasure and reward center—almost the addiction center—in the brain that can have us act in a compulsive way to seek certain types of pleasurable experiences,” says Dr. Russo.
While you may not think food would have anything to do with this addiction center of the brain, it absolutely can. We know that a Western diet, characterized by processed foods and liquid sugars, is addictive, as confirmed by a 2020 article in Nutrients.
We also know that GLP-1s modulate dopamine, which plays a big role in addiction, per a 2022 review in The British Journal of Pharmacology. So, part of the reason GLP-1s help you lose weight is by curbing cravings and food noise, partly because the hit of dopamine you get from eating “highly palatable foods” like sweets and snacks isn’t quite as high. While GLP-1s tamper down levels of dopamine that are stimulated from something like alcohol or drugs, they shouldn’t impact the baseline level of dopamine someone has, the review says.
GLP-1s don’t just reduce your appetite overall, says Dr. Sowa. While taking a GLP-1 medication, people also report changing the kinds of foods they want to eat. Processed foods like sweets are typically less appealing, and some foods might even taste differently, says Dr. Russo. Research is still emerging, but one study done in humans found that while in the weight loss phase of taking a GLP-1 (compared to the maintenance phase), patients had a decreased preference for high-****, savory foods, according to a 2024 review in the International Journal of Obesity. Another 2023 review in Diabetes, Metabolic Syndrome and Obesity similarly found that people reported a decreased preference for sweet, savory, and dairy foods while on semaglutide.
What These Brain Changes Mean Beyond Food Noise And Weight Loss
GLP-1s don’t just have your brain craving less junk food; experts are hopeful that they might be able to treat substance use disorders, as Women’s Health reported previously. Early studies mostly done in mice, as well as limited studies done on humans, are finding the potential to reduce addictive behaviors for people with alcohol, nicotine, and opioid dependencies, according to a September 2024 review in Pharmacological Research.
After analyzing data from 228,000 people in Sweden, researchers wrote in a November 2024 study in JAMA Psychiatry that people on a GLP-1 medication had a lower risk of being hospitalized for alcohol-related issues, concluding that they “offer promise as a novel treatment to reduce alcohol consumption and to prevent development of alcohol-related outcomes.” Again, research on this is developing in real time, so docs aren’t quite sure what’s behind this effect. It’s likely related to the same pathway in the hypothalamus that reduces food cravings and reduces the hit of dopamine you get, says Dr. Russo.
On the flip side of this, a less activated reward center in the brain could also impact the enjoyment you get from other, healthy activities, like a hobby you really love, Dr. Russo points out. A small number of patients—less than 1 percent in his practice, he notes—experience something called anhedonia, or lack of interest in things they previously found pleasurable while on a GLP-1.
How GLP-1s Might Improve Brain Health
One more exciting thing that GLP-1s might be able to do to your brain? Lower its risk of Alzheimer’s and dementia. If you’re wondering why—you guessed it—researchers are not quite sure yet. In October 2024, a study in Alzheimer’s and Dementia linked semaglutide medications and Alzheimer’s, finding that type-2 diabetes patients taking those meds compared to other treatments had a “significantly” lower risk of developing the degenerative brain ********.
A potential reason is that GLP-1s have an anti-inflammatory property both inherently *and* because they help stabilize blood sugar, says Dr. Sowa. And, Alzheimer’s, the leading cause of dementia, is characterized by inflammation in the brain.
Overall, there’s a lot more research that needs to be done on what exactly GLP-1s do in the brain. What we know—from doctors who prescribe it—is that early research is exciting, yielding preliminary findings about curbing ultra-processed food cravings, aiding addiction recovery, and even warding off dementia—with hopefully more to come from this ***** that operates between your brain and your body.
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Netflix’s Jake Paul-Mike Tyson streaming issues raise Christmas concerns for NFL
Netflix’s Jake Paul-Mike Tyson streaming issues raise Christmas concerns for NFL
When Amazon Prime Video became an exclusive partner with the NFL in 2022 — the first time a streaming service received a full, exclusive package of NFL games — the buzzword in the sports media industry was “proof of concept.” Though Amazon had worked with NFL Network and Fox on “Thursday Night Football” starting in 2017, one of the biggest questions the streamer faced when it started its 11-year run as the exclusive broadcaster of TNF was whether it could handle the audience load. Would the streaming hold up? Would the product look and feel like an NFL broadcast? You can disagree on the choice of broadcasters, graphics, music — these are all subjective things. But what is not subjective is accessibility.
Amazon Prime Video’s NFL debut in September 2022 — an exciting 27-24 win for the Kansas City Chiefs over the Los Angeles Chargers — was a mix of beautiful images and mild anger over tech issues that dissipated very quickly through the opening weeks of the season. Sure, the broadcasters might have pushed hard to sell the audience the 20-year-old Mazda regarding the schedule, but the company passed the proof-of-concept test. My former colleague Bill Shea captured that opening broadcast, and today we don’t see discussions about buffering or tech issues about Amazon’s NFL presentation. Latency can be problematic for live sports if the stream is more than a few seconds behind the real-time action, but Amazon has been very good here.
This was all front of mind Friday as Netflix aired multiple hours of pro boxing from AT&T Stadium in Arlington, Texas. Jake Paul and Mike Tyson were the headline act, and it was not a great moment for sporting excellence. The Paul-Tyson bout was horrible, and so was the streaming experience for many viewers. As my colleague Tess DeMeyer chronicled, viewers were plagued by frequent bouts of buffering and freezing. There were technical issues in the broadcast, with Evander Holyfield’s earpiece and Jerry Jones’ microphone malfunctioning during separate interviews. (As wryly noted on X by Fox Sports president of insights and analytics Mike Mulvihill, there was great irony in Jones’ praising Netflix’s future with the NFL as viewers experienced tech issues.)
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Streaming issues of course vary depending on multiple factors, including internet connectivity. But there were loads of viewers who experienced problems Friday night, including The Athletic’s own media writer, Andrew Marchand, who updated his followers on Bluesky on the error message he was receiving.
Netflix has over 280 million subscribers in more than 190 countries including Canada, where I watched from Friday night. I struggled to get access to the streamer for a couple of minutes before the sensational Amanda Serrano-Katie Taylor bout (Serrano was robbed, it says here) and had moments of buffering throughout; I was clean for the whole Tyson-Paul event. Social media was lit with complaints. (The website Down Detector noted nearly 85,000 viewers logged problems with outages or streaming leading up to the ******, per the CBC.) It’s the worst kind of publicity for Netflix, which declined to comment. An NFL spokesperson had not responded as of publication.
This isn’t the first live sports rodeo for Netflix. It aired an F1-golf crossover event last November and a tennis match between Carlos Alcaraz and Rafael Nadal in March. Those were successful. What was a disaster was the live reunion in April 2023 to the conclusion of the fourth season of the reality dating show “Love Is ******,” when users were unable to access the stream. Netflix issued an apology to viewers and an apology during an earnings call.
But the big one for Netflix is coming Christmas Day, given it landed exclusive rights to stream two NFL games — the Chiefs against the Pittsburgh Steelers and the Baltimore Ravens versus the Houston Texans. The three-season deal also includes a game on Christmas Day in 2025 and 2026. The game production will not be an issue as CBS is handling that, and the NFL Network is charged with pregame, halftime and postgame coverage. Neither of those entities has a role in transmission and streaming; that’s on Netflix, and it’s under six weeks until kickoff.
The Tyson-Paul ****** was ultimately sports entertainment. Even Netflix’s recent deal with WWE — paying more than $5 billion for exclusive rights to the long-running “Raw” franchise, along with other rights outside the U.S. — could be tagged as sports-adjacent given WWE falls under sports entertainment. But the NFL matters to those that fuel weekly sports consumption in North America, and these matchups would easily draw more than 25-plus million on a traditional outlet in the ******* States. The NFL desperately wants Netflix to work as a partner because Netflix represents a multiple-decade ATM for it. Netflix needs it to work because it sees advertising as part of its long-term ambition for sustainable earning sources, and live sports can be a driver there. The NFL has an international slate of games it can easily turn into a future media rights package, and you know it wants Netflix at the table for that. Netflix executives announced this week they had sold out of advertising inventory for the games. It’s a big deal in the sports business world.
The NFL wants to put on a show far more entertaining than Tyson-Paul, and you can be sure Friday night spooked league officials a bit. Given the trajectory of the four teams playing Christmas Day, the games are shaping up to be of serious consequence for playoff seeding. There is money and reputation at stake, and you don’t get a second chance at a first impression. Both entities will be crushed by NFL fans if Christmas brings buffering and dropped streams.
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Dozens *******, wounded in ******** strikes across Gaza
Dozens *******, wounded in ******** strikes across Gaza
Dozens of Palestinians have been ******* or injured in an ******** strike on a multi-storey residential building housing at least six families in northern Gaza’s Beit Lahiya town, medics and residents said.
The ************ Civil Emergency said around 70 people were living in the property but the Gaza government media office put the number of those ******* at 72.
The ******** military, which has been fighting ************ militant group ****** in Gaza since October 2023, said several strikes were conducted overnight on “********** targets” in Beit Lahiya with everything possible done to avoid civilian harm.
“All information released by the ******-run Ministry of Health should be treated with caution, as it has been repeatedly proven unreliable in previous incidents,” it said.
Video footage of the strike site obtained by Reuters showed locals pulling bodies from a huge pile of rubble, with surrounding houses also damaged, some heavily.
The ******** army sent tanks into Beit Lahiya and the nearby towns of Beit Hanoun and Jabalia, the largest of the Gaza Strip’s eight historic ******** camps, last month in what it said was a campaign to ****** ****** militants waging attacks and prevent them from regrouping.
It said it has ******* hundreds of militants in those three areas, which residents said ******** forces had isolated from Gaza City.
A statement by the armed wing of Islamic ******, an ally of ******, on Sunday said fighters blew up an ******** army vehicle during fighting in Beit Lahiya. There was no immediate comment from ******* on the claim.
Later on Sunday, an ******** strike ******* five Palestinians, tasked with escorting aid trucks that entered the enclave, according to residents in Khan Younis, in the southern Gaza Strip.
Another strike in Gaza City ******* two men, they added.
Earlier in the day, an ******** air strike ******* at least 10 people in the Bureij camp in the central Gaza Strip, when a missile hit a house, medics said. Four other people were ******* in the nearby Nuseirat camp, they added.
Qatar has told ****** and ******* it will stall efforts to mediate a Gaza ceasefire and ******** release deal until they show “willingness and seriousness” to resume talks.
The two warring sides continue to trade blame. ****** wants a deal that ends the war, while ******** Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says the war can only end once ****** is eradicated.
The Gaza health ministry said 43,800 people have been confirmed ******* since October 7, 2023. ****** militants ******* around 1200 Israelis that day, and still hold dozens of some 250 hostages they took back to Gaza, according to ******** tallies.
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Greenwood Lake and Wah-Ta-Wah Park residents evacuate overnight
Greenwood Lake and Wah-Ta-Wah Park residents evacuate overnight
The battle against the Jennings Creek wildfire in Orange County, New York continues Sunday following voluntary evacuations in the town of Warwick.
Residents along Edgemere Avenue and in Wah-Ta-Wah Park were encouraged to evacuate Saturday night, affecting more than 160 houses. Greenwood Lake Middle School is being utilized as a shelter.
The voluntary evacuations were accomplished in a “safe and orderly fashion thanks to resident cooperation and expedient coordination led by Warwick and Greenwood Lake Police Departments,” Warwick Town Supervisor Jess Dwyer posted to Facebook Saturday.
According to the post, the evacuations were put in place to enable emergency apparatus and firefighters to be able to “operate uninterrupted while preventing any further spread of the wildfire.”
“While the ***** breached a containment line,” it had only expanded by about four to five acres Saturday, New York State Parks Police posted to Facebook Saturday night. The ***** had not reached the contingency line, “and no structures are in danger,” the post reads. “Firefighters are staged at the contingency line with hoses. They are also staged along Edgemere Avenue to extinguish any hot spots.”
State parks police, Greenwood Lake and Town of Warwick officials are expected to post an operations plan Sunday morning to social media. Read on for updates.
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FEMA OKs ***** Management Assistant Grants for Jennings Creek *****
The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) authorized a request for funding Friday morning.
FEMA Region 2 Administrator David Warrington approved the request from New York state, which allows for FEMA funding to pay for 75% of the state’s eligible firefighting costs under an approved grant for managing, mitigating and controlling the Jennings Creek *****.
According to a FEMA news release, the funding, made available via ***** Management Assistant Grants (FMAGs), is provided through the Disaster Relief Fund.
The FMAGs can be used to pay for field camps, equipment and supplies, mobilization activities and more. The grants do not provide assistance to individual homes or businesses, and “do not cover other infrastructure damage caused by the *****.”
Weather forecast provides no immediate relief for drought conditions
As containment efforts continue in the ****** against the Jennings Creek *****, the weather forecast points to continuing dry conditions in the Lower Hudson Valley. The coming days are expected to be mild and windy, with virtually no chance of rain predicted in the next week.
At a Tuesday news conference addressing ongoing efforts to battle the Jennings Creek wildfire in New York and New Jersey, Gov. Kathy Hochul said 2024 saw one of the driest months on record in the Empire State.
The Hudson Valley has been under a level 2 drought watch by the NYSDEC and a red flag wildfire watch by the National Weather Service. The level 2 designation points to a severe drought.
Hochul placed the entire state under a temporary ***** ban Tuesday due to the ongoing dry conditions, which raises the risk of wildfires. She encouraged New Yorkers to conserve water.
The statewide ***** ban prohibits outdoor burning of any kind.
“Do not leave campfires (unattended),” Hochul said. “Exercise extreme caution with outdoor grills.”
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What the NYSDEC says you can do to conserve water
The state DEC provided these tips on conserving water at home:
Water lawns only when necessary, choosing watering methods that avoid waste and watering early in the morning to reduce evaporation and maximize hydration.
Opt to reuse water collected in rain barrels, dehumidifiers or air conditioners to water your plants.
Raise cutting heights on your lawn mower as longer grass is healthier, meaning it has stronger roots and requires less water.
Use a broom instead of a hose to clean off your driveway and sidewalk.
Fix any leaking pipes, hoses and faucets in your home.
Contributing: USA TODAY Network New York reporter Emily Barnes.
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What we learned about the CFP in Week 12: Georgia’s still alive, an SEC-Big Ten debate looms
What we learned about the CFP in Week 12: Georgia’s still alive, an SEC-Big Ten debate looms
There are two weeks left in college football’s regular season, and there appear to be more teams hanging around College Football Playoff contention than falling out.
No. 12 Georgia, very much alive. No. 17 Colorado, humming along. Got a little dicey for No. 3 Texas and No. 14 SMU, but they’re still going. No. 20 Clemson, hanging in there. Arizona State? Sure, come on in.
Mostly what we learned about the Playoff race in Week 12 is that we’re probably heading for a debate about Big Ten and SEC teams.
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Got that Dawg in ’em
Asked what message Georgia sent to the Playoff selection committee with its emphatic 31-17 victory against No. 7 Tennessee, Bulldogs coach Kirby Smart was stumped.
“I don’t know. Because I don’t know what they look for. I don’t know what they look for anymore,” Smart said in a postgame interview with ESPN.
I’m still convinced a 9-3 Georgia team would have found its way into the field, but after plummeting from No. 3 to 12th last week following a loss at Ole Miss, Smart’s team was most definitely on the brink.
“I would welcome anybody in [the College Football Playoff] committee to come down to this league and play in this environment. It’s a tough place to play.”
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— ESPN College Football (@ESPNCFB) November 17, 2024
What we’re learning in this first season of superconferences is the SEC’s very best teams have not been able to separate from the rest as they did when Alabama was mostly running the league, with interludes from LSU and a recent surge by Georgia. In part, because those top teams are not quite as good as they have been in the past. But also, the teams that frequently occupied the second tier of the SEC — Tennessee and Ole Miss most notably — have closed the gap.
Unless something weird happens against Georgia Tech in the regular-season finale, the Bulldogs should be fine at 10-2 no matter what the SEC tiebreaker spits out to determine championship game participants.
Missouri was the one SEC team that officially exited the race — although the Tigers were barely hanging on before South Carolina broke their hearts in a wild affair at Williams-Brice Stadium.
There is still a possibility that on Dec. 1, the Sunday before championship weekend, six SEC teams will be 10-2: Texas, Alabama, Ole Miss, Georgia, Tennessee, Texas A&M. That would require Texas A&M beating Texas and no other upsets.
SEC CFP and title odds
Team
CFP bid
SEC title
Record
95%
36%
9-1
90%
11%
8-2
81%
4%
8-2
72%
34%
8-2
48%
5%
8-2
11%
10%
8-2
All odds according to Austin Mock’s projections model
Texas-Texas A&M is looking more like an elimination game. Yes, the Longhorns would still be 10-2, but among the contenders, Texas has the least pop on its resume, and it would have lost both of its games against highly-ranked teams (Georgia, A&M). The Longhorns had a hard time shaking Arkansas on Saturday.
For the Aggies, another loss would be their third, and their best victory would have been against LSU (6-4). Enough said.
After a conference champ is determined, that should leave four SEC teams very much in the mix for at-large bids. Can they all get in the field? It likely will depend on how things play out in the Big Ten, which occupied four of the first five spots in the last CFP rankings and could very well do the same in the next.
That has caused a lot of consternation in SEC country because goodness knows the poor SEC needs all the support it can get.
“It’s different in our league,” Smart told reporters, adding: “Go Dawgs.”
The next Big Ten game of the year
For No. 2 Ohio State, next week’s game against No. 5 Indiana could be its third top-five matchup of the season, unless the rankings change on Tuesday.
The Buckeyes are 1-1 on the road against Oregon and Penn State. They’ll host the Hoosiers on Saturday. For Indiana, a top-five matchup in the regular season would be a program first.
The Hoosiers (10-0) celebrated their off week by giving coach Curt Cignetti an eight-year contract that pays $8 million per year. Meanwhile, Ohio State (9-1) took care of business at Wrigley Field against Northwestern.
Oregon (10-0) slogged through a spotty offensive performance against Wisconsin, and Penn State (9-1) showcased talented tight end Tyler Warren in a lopsided win against Purdue.
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That’s four teams with a combined two losses, but because of the SEC’s logjam, the Big Ten’s big four have little room for error.
The winner of next week’s game in Columbus will have the inside track to the Big Ten Championship Game heading into being a big favorite in a rivalry game (Purdue for Indiana and Michigan for Ohio State). The ****** of next week’s unlikely marquee matchup probably will find itself compared to at least one or two of those 10-2 SEC teams come selection weekend. The Big Ten’s mushy middle, with no other ranked teams and nonconference schedules with no Power 4 opponents, could be a problem for the Hoosiers or Buckeyes.
Big 12 CFP and title odds
Team
CFP bid
B1G title
Record
99%
51%
11-0
99%
45%
9-1
93%
1%
9-1
89%
4%
10-0
Welcome, Sun Devils
Arizona State (8-2) is the latest arriving guest to the Playoff party among Power 4 teams, winning three straight and five of six — including 24-14 at Kansas State on Saturday night.
The Sun Devils’ only path is likely through a Big 12 championship, but after Kansas upset No. 6 BYU 17-13 in Provo, Arizona State’s road to the title game is straightforward: beat BYU at home next week and Arizona after that and the team that has not been ranked in any poll all year will play for a Playoff spot on Dec. 7.
While Indiana’s turnaround under Cignetti has probably locked up national coach of the year for the Hoosiers’ headman, Arizona State’s second season under Kenny Dillingham has been almost as impressive. The Sun Devils went 3-9 last year, barely piecing together an offense from week to week. This year, behind a stingy defense and steady play from Michigan State transfer Sam Leavitt at quarterback, Arizona State has been the biggest surprise in a conference full of them.
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All is far from lost for BYU. The Cougars are in the same spot as ****: Win out and get in. But their first loss is damaging. If BYU could have reached the Big 12 title game 12-0, an at-large bid was probably still on the table if it stumbled at Jerry World. That’s probably gone now, and the Big 12 is going to need some significant upsets in the SEC and Big Ten to get deep into the at-large discussion.
Travis Hunter and the No. 17 Buffaloes kept rolling against Utah and are fully in control of their postseason fate in the Big 12.
But beware Buffs. Up next is Kansas, which has won three of four, at Arrowhead Stadium in Kansas City.
Big 12 CFP and title odds
Team
CFP bid
Big 12 title
Record
46%
51%
8-2
26%
27%
9-1
10%
10%
8-2
10%
10%
8-2
Mountain West vs. AAC
One of the coolest features of the expanded Playoff is the way it gets teams with no connection suddenly very invested in one another.
For example, the budding Boise State–Tulane rivalry.
The Broncos and Green Wave have never played each other, but with Tulane on an eight-game winning streak and a spot in the ********* Athletic Conference championship now clinched, there is a legitimate discussion about which team might be the best in the Group of 5.
Of course, unbeaten Army demands to be part of that conversation, but Boise State and Tulane have played far tougher schedules than the Cadets, including some Power 4 teams.
Heisman Trophy contender Ashton Jeanty and the No. 13 Broncos remain the clear favorites to earn a Playoff spot as one of the five highest-ranked conference champions after rallying from 14-0 down to beat San Jose State.
Tulane has been the stealth contender after losing nonconference games against Kansas State and Oklahoma in September. First-year coach Jon Sumrall’s team has not lost since leaving Norman and just entered the rankings for the first time this week at No. 25.
The Green Wave (9-2, 7-2) became the first team in the country to clinch a spot in a conference title game on Saturday by blowing out Navy 35-0. The result also locked up a spot in the AAC championship for No. 24 Army (9-0, 7-0). With a two-game lead and one to play, the ****** Knights clinched while taking the week off. The site of the game on Dec. 6 is still to be determined.
Army is the more interesting Playoff contender out of the AAC for obvious reasons. The ****** Knights play No. 8 Notre Dame at ******* Stadium next week, before closing out the conference schedule at home vs. UTSA on Nov. 30. Then, after the AAC title game, Army plays its traditional rivalry game against Navy on Dec. 14. That would be a week after the Playoff field is set, meaning the Cadets could have only a week to prepare for a first-round game, almost certainly on the road.
That would be wild, but Tulane looks like the more serious CFP contender out of the AAC behind redshirt freshman quarterback Darian Mensah and defensive lineman Patrick Jenkins.
Boise State is a win away from clinching a spot in the Mountain West title game, and surprisingly Colorado State controls its fate for the other spot. It would be best for the conference if UNLV (8-2) can somehow squeeze past the Rams, who play neither Boise State nor UNLV in the regular season. The Rebels would have a case for a Playoff spot if they could win a postseason rematch with the Broncos.
Good times in the Group of 5 and definitely more interesting than playing for a spot in a bowl game that kicks off at noon on New Year’s Day against a Power 4 team with a bunch of players opting out.
Group of 5 Playoff odds
Team
CFP bid
Conf
Record
66%
MWC
9-1
25%
AAC
9-2
17%
AAC
9-0
8%
MWC
8-2
ACC still a three-team race
SMU (9-1) held off Boston College to remain unbeaten in the ACC, and Clemson (8-2) kept its hopes of sneaking into the conference championship game alive with a late, long touchdown run by Cade Klubnik against Pitt. The Mustangs finish with Virginia and Cal and have a little room to stumble because they hold a tiebreaker over the Tigers by beating Louisville.
No. 9 Miami (9-1) was off and also holds the tiebreaker against Clemson, which is in the clubhouse with a 7-1 ACC record.
So: about Louisville. The Cardinals were ranked 19th last week, with three losses but all close games to ranked teams (SMU, Miami, Notre Dame). Louisville was looking like a nice resume builder for its opponents. Then the Cardinals went to Stanford and somehow managed to ***** a 14-point fourth-quarter lead to the Cardinal, who won on a walk-off, 52-yard field goal by Emmet Kenney.
How much Louisville’s status mattered is debatable. The ACC was probably headed for one CFP bid anyway, but those arguments just got ******* to make.
ACC CFP and title odds
Team
CFP bid
ACC title
Record
68%
45%
9-1
44%
32%
9-1
25%
24%
8-2
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