COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — Julian Sayin had a 40-yard touchdown pass to Carnell Tate early in the fourth quarter, Ohio State got a couple of key stops in the red zone and the third-ranked Buckeyes opened the defense of their national championship with a 14-7 victory over top-ranked Texas. It was the fourth time the No. 1 team in the AP preseason poll has met the previous season’s national champion in the opener. The defending champ has won the last three. Arch Manning completed 17 of 30 passes for 170 yards, a touchdown and an interception for the Longhorns.
COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — Arch Manning struggled under the weight of heady expectations for three quarters against Ohio State. He nearly led Texas back in the fourth quarter, but it wasn’t enough as the Longhorns lost to the third-ranked Buckeyes 14-7. Manning accounted for 208 yards of total offense. He completed 17 of 30 passes for 170 yards with a touchdown and an interception along with 10 rushing attempts for 38 yards. After Texas fell behind 14-0, he completed 8 of 15 for 132 yards and a touchdown, including a 32-yard touchdown pass to Parker Livingstone in the fourth quarter.
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — New quarterback Tommy Castellanos led a punishing rushing attack for Florida State with 78 yards and a touchdown as the Seminoles stunned No. 8 Alabama 31-17, ending the Crimson Tide’s streak of 23 straight wins in season openers. Coming off a 2-10 season, Florida State handed a crushing setback to Alabama, which was viewed as a College Football Playoff contender under second-year coach Kalen DeBoer. Students and fans swarmed the field at Doak Campbell Stadium to celebrate the upset by the Seminoles, who were 13 1/2-point underdogs according to BetMGM Sportsbook. Florida State was physical from the start, racking up 230 rushing yards and averaging 4.7 yards per carry
CLEMSON, S.C. (AP) — Garrett Nussmeier threw a go-ahead 8-yard touchdown pass to Trey’Dez Green in the fourth quarter, and No. 9 LSU rallied to beat fourth-ranked Clemson 17-10 Saturday night for its first season-opening win since 2019 when Joe Burrow led the Tigers to an undefeated season and a national championship. Nussmeier, who eclipsed 4,000 yards passing in his first year as a starter in 2024 after biding his time behind Jaylen Daniels, got better as game wore on throwing for 134 of his 230 yards in the second half while leading two touchdown drives. Caden Durham ran for 74 yards and a touchdown for LSU.
MANHATTAN, Kan. (AP) — Avery Johnson threw a 6-yard touchdown pass to Joe Jackson with 42 seconds left and No. 17 Kansas State escaped with a 38-35 victory over FCS opponent North Dakota on Saturday night. Kansas State avoided becoming the first ranked team to lose two games in August in the history of the poll, and also dodged its first 0-2 start since coaching great Bill Snyder’s first season in 1989. The Wildcats opened last week with a 24-21 loss to Iowa State in Dublin. North Dakota — playing its its first game under coach Eric Schmidt — missed a chance to become the seventh FCS school to beat a ranked team. The Fighting Hawks took a 35-31 lead on Sawyer Seidl’s 20-yard run with 4:19 left.
NEW YORK (AP) — So much has happened for Naomi Osaka — in tennis, away from tennis — since she first played Coco Gauff at the U.S. Open back in 2019. Over that time, Osaka has won two Grand Slam trophies to raise her career total to four, helped spark a global conversation about mental health by revealing she felt anxiety and depression, taken a series of breaks from the tour and become a mother. The Gauff vs. Osaka matchup in the fourth round at Flushing Meadows on Monday serves as both a reminder — to them, to others — of that night six years ago, as well as all that’s transpired since.
NEW YORK (AP) — Before New York Fashion Week kicks off in Manhattan, some of the incoming brands are making an early first stop elsewhere — in Queens, on the blue hard courts of the U.S. Open. In a sport where brands like Nike and Adidas were once the only players, the logos of Gucci and Miu Miu have started to weave their way in. Tennis fashion has been surging, and the luxury fashion industry started to feel left out. Coco Gauff wore tennis dresses partially designed by Miu Miu for three tournaments over the summer. Lorenzo Musetti debuted his Bottega Veneta partnership, the Italian brand’s first with an athlete, with a white intrecciato jacket at Wimbledon in June.
NEW YORK (AP) — Jelena Ostapenko has apologized on social media for telling Taylor Townsend she had “no education” after losing to her at the U.S. Open earlier in the week. Ostapenko wrote Saturday that she intended to call out Townsend for what Ostapenko perceived as poor tennis etiquette. Ostapenko, the 2017 French Open champion, is from Latvia. She said in a post Saturday that English is not her native language but understands how what she said to Townsend on Wednesday could have offended many people.
NEW YORK (AP) — Jannik Sinner has overcome some lapses to take his U.S. Open title defense to the fourth round with a 5-7, 6-4, 6-3, 6-3 victory over No. 27 Denis Shapovalov. Sinner got broken for the first time in Week 1 of the U.S. Open, then dropped a set in the tournament for the first time since last year’s quarterfinals. Later, he fell behind in the third set Saturday. Sinner stretched his hard-court Grand Slam winning streak to 24 matches, a run that includes championships at the U.S. Open in 2024 and the Australian Open in 2024 and 2025.
ZANDVOORT, Netherlands (AP) — Oscar Piastri starts on pole position for Sunday's Dutch Grand Prix with the chance to extend his Formula 1 standings lead over McLaren teammate and title rival Lando Norris. Piastri was behind Norris in all three practice sessions but produced the pace when it mattered in qualifying to beat Norris by .012 of a second. The Australian driver leads Norris by nine points in the standings but Norris has won three of the last four races. The Dutch Grand Prix could see the fifth one-two finish in a row for McLaren.
Finals
INTERLEAGUEFinal Milwaukee 4 Toronto 1Final Tampa Bay 4 Washington 1Final Pittsburgh 10 Boston 3Final Baltimore 11 San Francisco 1Final San Diego 12 Minnesota 3
AMERICAN LEAGUEFinal Cleveland 4 Seattle 3Final Kansas City 3 Detroit 1Final L.A. Angels 4 Houston 1Final N.Y. Yankees 5 Chicago White Sox 3Final Texas 9 Athletics 3
NATIONAL LEAGUEFinal Miami 11 N.Y. Mets 8Final Philadelphia 3 Atlanta 2Final St. Louis 4 Cincinnati 2Final Chicago Cubs 4 Colorado 3Final Arizona 6 L.A. Dodgers 1
TOP-25 COLLEGE FOOTBALLFinal(3) Ohio St. 14 (1)Texas 7Final(9) LSU17 (4)Clemson 10Final (24)Tennessee 45 Syracuse 26Final (20)Indiana 27Old Dominion 14Final (5)Georgia 45 Marshall 7Final (22)Iowa St. 55 South Dakota 7Final (2)Penn St. 46 Nevada 11Final Florida St. 31 (8)Alabama 17Final (7)Oregon 59 Montana St. 13Final (18)Oklahoma 35 Illinois St. 3Final (17)Kansas St. 38 North Dakota 35Final (15)Florida 55 LIU Brooklyn 0Final (19)Texas A&M 42 UTSA 24Final (14)Michigan 34 New Mexico 17Final (23)Texas Tech 67 Ark.-Pine Bluff 7Final (21)Mississippi 63 Georgia St. 7Final (16)SMU 42 East Texas A&M 13Final (11)Arizona St. 38 N. Arizona 19