LJ Scott scored three plays later to give Michigan State a 16-13 win for a conference championship and likely spot in the four-team College Football Playoff. Because of the sack, Geiger missed a 52-yard field goal with just over eight minutes to play in the first half, which allowed the Hawkeyes to keep the three point lead.
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Iowa’s longest pass play of the season, seven yards further than a Beathard-to-Smith pass against North Texas, came with 14:49 left in the game and preceded the long, methodical march by MSU. With the game on the line and needing a touchdown, the Spartans drove the ball down the field on a 22-play, 9-mintue drive to clinch a berth in the College Football Playoff.
By winning his second Big Ten crown in three years – both against previously unbeaten teams – and giving the senior class a record-breaking 43rd career win, Cook and his teammates can turn now their focus to their season-long goal, winning the school’s first outright national title since 1952.
Iowa came up one stop short of the College Football Playoffs.
That left Cook to make one more play, and he delivered to set up the game’s final touchdown.
Aside from the 85-yard touchdown pass from C.J.
Alabama got 189 yards from Derrick Henry on a staggering 44 carries against Florida’s stingy defense Saturday to win the SEC title game 29-15.
Koehn’s 24-yard field goal with 5:08 left in the first quarter tied the game at 3.
The Hawkeyes turned the ball over twice, but surrendered points only after a Henry Krieger Coble fumble on the third play of the game.
Top-ranked Clemson, Alabama, Stanford and Michigan State took the wins in the major conferences.
Alabama (12-1, No. 2 CFP) held Florida to just 3 yards of offense in the second and third quarters, assuring itself a spot in the semifinals at either the Cotton Bowl or Orange Bowl on New Year’s Eve. “He was like, ‘Man, I wish I was on this team with you guys”. “First to be East Division champions, it’s special, and then to be a Big Ten champion, it’s awesome”. “It was a great, competitive football game”.
This is the same team that pulled out its two signature regular-season wins in the most clutch of fashions. “He says we’re going to face it. We understand that as a football team”.
“We still have games to play and I think everyone has that in the back of their head”, Colquhoun said.
After a 48-yard Dillon Kidd punt, the Spartans took possession on their own 42-yard line and moved to the Iowa 11 before Cook’s incomplete pass on third down led to the field goal try.
This was one of those moments when all Spartan fans will remember exactly where they were when LJ Scott made a decision to become immortal.
A rematch from two years ago has the Boomer Sooners battling the Crimson Tide. “There were times when I was a little hesitant on throws and trusting the pocket”, Cook said. “We’ve been there before and done that”, Ferentz said.
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The football team advanced to the playoffs, the men’s basketball team will likely be ranked as the No. 1 team in the nation on Monday and the volleyball team was playing in the NCAA Tournament. Dantonio has led the Spartans to at least 11 wins in five of the past six seasons, a Big Ten record. “I would expect it just gives us another thing to maybe celebrate tomorrow”.
