- #1 Kansas State and #2 Oregon were seemingly in cruise control, needing only to win a couple more games in order to play each other for the national championship in Miami in a couple months. However, they both lost on Saturday opening the door for recently dethroned #1 Alabama to play for their third title in four years. The #2 ranked Oregon Ducks fell to the #17 ranked Stanford Cardinal 17-14 in overtime. Oregon missed a field goal in overtime allowing for Stanford to kick their attempt to win the game. If Stanford wins next week, the Ducks will go from a National Championship spot to not even playing in their conference championship game with this loss.
- The #1 ranked Kansas State Wildcats were stymied by one of the worst defenses in the country, losing to Baylor 52-24. Helped in large part by a 24 point 3rd quarter, the Baylor Bears destroyed the Wildcats, effectively knocking QB Colin Klein out of the driver's seat of the Heisman Trophy as well. Kansas State dropped to #6 in the newly released BCS rankings, while Oregon fell to #5.
- The undefeated Notre Dame Fighting Irish take over at #1 in the BCS championship, and will face a Matt Barkley-less USC Trojan teams with a shot at the National Championship game on the line. Should the Irish win, they will likely face the winner of the SEC championship game, which will be either the previously mentioned #2 Alabama Crimson Tide or the #3 Georgia Bulldogs as long as both of those teams beat lesser opponents this weekend.
Brad Keselowski wins Sprint Cup Championship
- Brad Keselowski won the first NASCAR championship for Penske Racing after five-time champion Jimmy Johnson blew out a tire and couldn’t finish the race. Keselowski, who got in trouble earlier in the season for tweeting from his car during a race stoppage, tweeted “We did it!” as soon as he left his car.
- This could have all been for not, as Keselowski ran out of gas and had to see Johnson go up a lap. After a poor pitstop by Johnson, Keselowski was able to catch up and he never looked back.
- This victory is the first for a Dodge car since 1975, and comes in the last race that Dodge will run in NASCAR. Additionally, it was only the third time that a driver in his first three years won a championship and with the other two being Dale Earnhardt and Jeff Gordon, it looks like Keselowski has a promising career in front of him.
When was the last time the Irish were ranked #1?
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