College football Week 14 highlights
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In the evening, No. 10 Alabama got all it could handle from Auburn in the Iron Bowl before escaping with a win and keeping its College Football Playoff hopes alive. The Crimson Tide will meet Georgia in the SEC title game next weekend. Here's how everything played out on the final Saturday of the regular season:
Purdue (2-10, 0-9) endured more misery in the coldest game ever played at Ross-Ade Stadium, with a kickoff temperature of 24 degrees Fahrenheit. The Boilermakers closed coach Barry Odom's first season with a 10th straight loss and posted their second straight winless season in conference play, the first since 1919-20.
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Notre Dame football coach Marcus Freeman stands by his decision to empty his bench at the end of one-side victories, even if that concept has waned.
In the marquee matchup of the night, No. 16 Texas finally put all the pieces together and upset bitter rival and No. 3 Texas A&M in a result that knocked the Aggies out of the SEC title game. The Longhorns kept alive their own College Football Playoff hopes, but they'll need some help to get in the field.
Even the Texas victory lost some of its luster as the Longhorns never lived up to their preseason ranking en route to a 9-3 campaign that included an embarrassing loss to a Florida team that finished 4-8. Against that backdrop, Ohio State was still cloaked in a certain level of mystery entering the regular season's final week.
Kendrick Raphael ran in from 2 yards out with 43 seconds left and California upset No. 25 SMU, 38-35, night to spoil its hopes of making the Atlantic Coast Conference championship for a second straight year.
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