Fox News Digital Sports' college football winners and losers: Week 12

College shot fans faced nary existent surprises successful the 12th week of the 2024 season.

Oregon handled a trial from Big Ten Conference opponent Wisconsin, portion Ohio State, Texas, Penn State, Alabama and Notre Dame each took attraction of business.

The upset of the play came from Kansas arsenic they held BYU to 13 points and won the crippled 17-13. It was the Cougars’ archetypal nonaccomplishment of the play and added to the questions astir conscionable however bully they are successful an appreciably weaker Big 12 Conference.

Georgia besides made a connection with its triumph implicit Tennessee. The Bulldogs were connected the extracurricular of the College Football Playoff bracket erstwhile past week’s rankings were released. Georgia is apt to beryllium backmost successful the tract erstwhile the rankings are released again.

Here are immoderate much winners and losers from the week.

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Winners

Kansas wide receivers Quentin Skinner, left, and Trevor Wilson observe a recovered fumble during the 2nd fractional of an NCAA assemblage shot crippled Saturday, Nov. 16, 2024, successful Provo, Utah. (AP Photo/Rick Egan)

Florida: Well, the Florida Gators person astatine slightest bought into caput manager Billy Napier. But the Gators did a coagulated for SEC teams inactive warring for a spot successful the league rubric game. Saturday nighttime successful "The Swamp" turned into a nightmare for LSU successful its 27-16 defeat, which was its third-consecutive loss. The Gators defence sacked Tigers QB Garrett Nussmeier 7 times, making the Brian Kelly discourtesy proceed to look similar a mess. Coming disconnected a 49-17 curb-stomping past week against Texas, it was DJ Lagway that returned astatine QB and led Florida to the upset win. There are large problems successful Baton Rouge and Gainesville. But this weekend, it was the Gators that took vantage of the situation, ending immoderate accidental the Tigers had of making the assemblage shot playoffs. 

Kansas: For the 2nd clip successful consecutive weeks, the Kansas Jayhawks caused havoc wrong the Big 12 by beating No. 6 BYU and handing the Cougars their archetypal nonaccomplishment of the season, throwing a wrench into the league rubric crippled picture. Last week, it was Jalon Daniels starring Kansas to a triumph implicit No. 17 Iowa State, and present helium has done it again, beating ranked opponents successful back-to-back weeks for the archetypal clip successful programme history. Now Kansas needs to triumph its past 2 regular-season games to marque a bowl. But arsenic we've seen successful the past 2 weeks, the Jayhawks don’t person a occupation playing the relation of "spoiler" successful the conference.

Georgia: The 2024 play has been filled with ups and downs for Georgia backmost Carson Beck. But connected Saturday nighttime against Tennessee, the elder backmost delivered 1 of his amended performances. Most importantly, helium avoided turning the shot over. Beck finished the crippled with 2 touchdowns and helped assistance the Bulldogs to a 31-17 triumph implicit the seventh-ranked Volunteers. The triumph was captious for Georgia due to the fact that a 3rd nonaccomplishment connected the play would apt person ended the team’s hopes of making it to the College Football Playoff. Georgia inactive has immoderate noticeable areas wherever they request to amended if they privation to marque a heavy tally successful the playoffs, presuming the committee grants them a spot. However, caput manager Kirby Smart has a title pedigree, which could springiness the Bulldogs an vantage down the stretch.

Colorado wide receiver Travis Hunter jokes with teammates arsenic helium waits with backmost Shedeur Sanders to bash a tv interrogation aft an NCAA assemblage shot crippled against Utah connected Saturday, Nov. 16, 2024, successful Boulder, Colo. (AP Photo/David Zalubowski)

Colorado: Deion Sanders and institution are conscionable connected the fringes of perchance qualifying for the expanded playoff, and they'll request much wins similar the 1 they got connected Saturday against Utah to get there. With an violative detonation and games against Kansas and Oklahoma State coming up, Sanders' squad needs to beryllium astatine slightest arsenic bully arsenic they were connected Saturday to get there.

Ohio State: Ohio State has the wrong way to get backmost to the Big 10 title game. Their biggest challengers volition beryllium their adjacent 2 games against a astonishment underdog communicative successful undefeated Indiana and a historical rival successful Michigan, which has fallen good beneath the level of beating Ohio State the past 3 seasons. It's each successful beforehand of the Buckeyes.

Losers

Tennessee: The Vols entered Saturday night's crippled against Georgia controlling its ain destiny erstwhile it came to the playoffs. But aft Georgia defeated them 31-17, Tennessee indispensable present trust connected others to get them into the postseason. One of the biggest problems for this Josh Heupel shot squad is that the discourtesy looks thing similar what we've travel to expect, and not scoring successful the 2nd fractional volition evidently pb to problems. It's not arsenic if Georgia is the top-tier squad we've seen successful year's past, but Tennessee made Carson Beck look similar a Heisman Trophy campaigner with its antiaircraft show against the Bulldogs. This was 1 that the Vols needed, but aft starring 10-0 successful the archetypal quarter, Georgia went connected a 31-7 tally to decorativeness the game. 

Tennessee caput manager Josh Heupel yells to an authoritative during the archetypal fractional of an NCAA assemblage shot crippled against Georgia connected Saturday, Nov. 16, 2024, successful Athens. (AP Photo/John Bazemore)

BYU: The Cougars person been playing with occurrence implicit the past month, and it yet came backmost to wound them connected Saturday nighttime successful Provo, Utah. BYU had 23 archetypal downs compared to 13 for Kansas, but that inactive wasn't enough, and present the Cougars are going to consciousness the vigor from the playoff committee. Now, BYU has to question to Arizona State adjacent weekend, with the Sun Devils beating Kansas State connected Saturday. This could crook into a nightmare script for the Cougars if they were to suffer again adjacent weekend. But with the emergence of Colorado, it's been trending toward Deion Sanders and the Buffaloes taking the Big 12 automatic bid for the assemblage shot playoff implicit the past fewer weeks. This 1 is coming down the stretch, and I don't spot the Cougars.

South Carolina: The Gamecocks already earned what was possibly their signature triumph of the play connected Nov. 2 erstwhile they upset Texas A&M. But this past Saturday’s triumph implicit Missouri shows that South Carolina is simply a squad that aboriginal opponents should beryllium disquieted about. The Gamecocks could marque different leap successful the upcoming College Football Playoff rankings. While a berth successful the SEC Championship crippled successful Atlanta remains unlikely, manager Shane Beamer appears to person the South Carolina shot programme trending successful the close direction.

LSU: The Tigers shockingly lost to the Gators connected Saturday successful a devastating fourth-quarter collapse. Losing a rivalry crippled ever hurts, but giving 1 distant similar LSU did is embarrassing, too.

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The Fox News Digital Sports assemblage shot winners and losers were compiled by the Fox News Digital Sports unit and the OutKick.com staff.