- Associated Press - Saturday, December 2, 2017

STARS

-McKenzie Milton, UCF, threw for 494 yards and five TDs to help the 12th-ranked Knights win the American Athletic Conference title with a 62-55 victory over No. 16 Memphis in double overtime.

-Riley Ferguson, Memphis, was 30 of 42 for 471 yards with four TDs in the 16th-ranked Tigers’ 62-55, double-overtime loss to No. 12 UCF.

-Baker Mayfield, Oklahoma, threw four TD passes as the Sooners won their record 11th Big 12 title with a 41-17 win over No. 10 TCU.

- Kelly Bryant, Clemson, set an Atlantic Coast Conference championship game record - and surpassed his friend and former teammate Deshaun Watson’s mark of 13 - by completing his first 15 passes and finished with 252 yards passing in the No. 1 Tigers’ 38-3 victory over No. 7 Miami.

-Jeremiah Briscoe, Sam Houston State, threw for 505 yards and four TDs in a 54-42 victory over South Dakota State in the second round of the FCS playoffs.

-Chris Streveler, South Dakota State, was 33 for 54 for 520 yards and five TDs in the Coyotes’ 54-42 loss to Sam Houston State.

-Tyler Rogers, New Mexico State, passed for 451 yards and led a drive that brought the Aggies back into the lead in the final minute for a 22-17 win over South Alabama that made them eligible for their first bowl since 1960.

-Taylor Lamb, Appalachian State, passed for four TDs and ran for another to help the Mountaineers wrap up a share of the Sun Belt Conference title with a 63-14 win over Louisiana-Lafayette.

-Devin Singletary, FAU, ran for 164 yards and three TDs to help the Owls beat North Texas 41-17 in the Conference-USA title game.

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BIG 12 TITLE GAME

Baker Mayfield and No. 2 Oklahoma never fretted the potential consequences of having to play in the revived Big 12 championship game.

The Sooners just went out and proved how deserving they are of that playoff berth coming their way by dominating TCU again , 41-17 in the second top-10 matchup in four weeks between the Big 12’s top two teams.

Mayfield, the Heisman Trophy front-runner, threw four touchdown passes as Oklahoma won its record 11th Big 12 title.

The Sooners are a lock Sunday to be in the College Football Playoff for the second time in three seasons. They are the only Big 12 team to make the four-team playoff format that started in 2014.

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SEC TITLE GAME

Georgia rolled in the rematch. The College Football Playoff could be next.

Shaking off a blowout loss to Auburn just three weeks ago, Jake Fromm threw two touchdown passes and No. 6 Georgia made its bid for a spot in the College Football Playoff with a 28-7 victory over the No. 4 Tigers in the Southeastern Conference championship game.

Auburn was the hottest team in the country, rolling into Atlanta after wins over Georgia and then-No. 1 Alabama in its last three games. But the Tigers were stymied by two crucial turnovers, a blocked field goal and a Georgia team eager to make up for its embarrassing 40-17 defeat on the Plains .

The Bulldogs claimed their first SEC title since 2005 and capped an impressive rise in Kirby Smart’s second season as coach. Georgia went 8-5 a year ago, but Nick Saban’s former defensive coordinator insisted he was establishing a culture that would return the team to national prominence.

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NUMBERS

1_Quarterback in Big South history to go over 1,000 rushing yards and 1,000 passing yards in a season after Kennesaw State’s Chandler Burks did it this year.

14_Years since Toledo won the Mid-American Conference championship before beating 45-28 victory over Akron.

117 -Points between No. 12 UCF and Memphis in the AAC title game , a record for an FBS conference championship game.

674_Total yards by FIU in its 63- 45 win over UMass to break the school record.

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