FOXBOROUGH, Mass. (AP) — Running back Jerick McKinnon threw for one touchdown and ran for another to help Kansas City beat the New England Patriots 27-17 in front of Chiefs superfan Taylor Swift. Patrick Mahomes passed for 305 yards and two scores. The defending Super Bowl champions snapped a two-game losing streak and maintained control of the AFC West race. Kansas City tight end Travis Kelce, who is in a relationship with Swift, caught five passes for 28 yards, but also had a potential touchdown bounce off his hands. Bailey Zappe made his third straight start in place of benched first-round draft pick Mac Jones. He completed 23 of 31 passes for 180 yards for the Patriots. New England lost for the sixth time in seven games.
JACKSONVILLE, Fla. (AP) — Lamar Jackson threw a touchdown pass and made the play of night when he avoided a sack and threw to Isaiah Likely near the goal line, and the Baltimore Ravens clinched a postseason berth with a 23-7 victory at Jacksonville. The Ravens won their fourth in a row and moved a step closer to securing the No. 1 seed and home-field advantage throughout the AFC playoffs. The Jaguars lost their third straight — all against AFC North teams — and are now tied with Houston and Indianapolis atop the AFC South. Self-inflicted mistakes were a common thread in Jacksonville’s skid.
ORCHARD PARK, N.Y. (AP) — James Cook had a career-best 179 yards rushing and scored twice as Buffalo dominated on the ground, and the Bills beat Dallas 31-10, ending the Cowboys’ five-game winning streak. Josh Allen threw for just 94 yards for the Bills, who won consecutive games for the first time since a three-game winning streak ended on Oct. 1. Buffalo gained ground in the AFC playoff race, moving one game ahead of Denver and Pittsburgh. The Cowboys clinched their third playoff berth before kickoff thanks to other results around the league. But nothing else went right for Dallas. The Bills rushed for 266 yards and had 28 first downs to the Cowboys’ 14.
GLENDALE, Ariz. (AP) — Christian McCaffrey scored three touchdowns, Charvarius Ward had two interceptions, including a pick-6, and the San Francisco 49ers clinched the NFC West while pushing their winning streak to six games with a 45-29 win over the Arizona Cardinals. Brock Purdy completed 16 of 25 passes for 242 yards and tied a career high with four touchdowns, shaking off a hard hit in the second quarter that caused him to miss a few plays. The 49ers have won all their games during the winning streak by at least 12 points. They have also won 12 straight against divisional opponents in the NFC West.
MANHATTAN, Kan. (AP) — Rienk Mast and Juwan Gary finished with double-doubles to power Nebraska to a 62-46 victory over Kansas State. Mast sank 8 of 15 shots with three 3-pointers, scoring 19 with 12 rebounds for the Cornhuskers (9-2), who snapped a seven-game losing streak to the Wildcats (8-3) dating to when both were members of the Big 12 Conference. It was Mast’s fourth double-double of the season. Gary totaled 13 points and a career-high 18 rebounds for his second double-double of the campaign. Cam Carter had 12 points to lead Kansas State, which saw a five-game win streak end.
STILLWATER, Okla. (AP) — Quion Williams and Brice Thompson scored 13 points apiece, freshman Eric Dailey Jr. added a double-double and Oklahoma State rolled to an 81-60 victory over Oral Roberts. Williams hit 6 of 8 shots with a 3-pointer for the Cowboys (5-5), who beat the Golden Eagles (4-6) for a sixth straight time. Thompson sank 4 of 9 shots from 3-point range. Dailey totaled 12 points and 11 rebounds for his second double-double. Issac McBride finished with 14 points on 6-for-16 shooting with two 3-pointers for Oral Roberts.
AMES, Iowa (AP) — Tamin Lipsey scored 19 points, Tre King added 18 points and 10 rebounds to help Iowa State beat Florida A&M 96-58. Lipsey hit a career-high five 3-pointers and King made 8 of 11 from the field. Milan Momcilovic scored 14 points, Jackson Paveletzke 13 and Keshon Gilbert 10 for Iowa State. Keith Lamar hit seven 3-pointers and finished with 27 points and eight rebounds for Florida A&M. Morrell Schramm added 10 points, eight rebounds and four assists. King converted a three-point play, hit a jumper in the lane and made a layup to score Iowa State’s first seven points as the Cyclones jumped to an 11-point lead when Paveletzke hit a 3-pointer with 13:28 left in the first half. FAMU trailed by at least 20 throughout the second half.
TAMPA, Fla. (AP) — Madisen Skinner had 16 kills and Ella Swindle became the fourth true freshman setter to lead her team to a national championship as Texas defended its NCAA Volleyball title by dominating No. 1 overall seed Nebraska 3-0. With Skinner, named the Most Outstanding Player with 34 kills in the Final Four, Texas won its fourth NCAA crown 25-22, 25-14, 25-11 by sweeping the Cornhuskers, who had lost just one set in the tournament. The young Cornhuskers were out of sync most of the day, with much of the credit going to the Longhorns’ service game that produced a championship-match record 12 aces. Harper Murray had seven kills for Nebraska, which had 20 kills and 19 attack errors. Texas lost championship games to Nebraska in 1995 and 2015.
UNDATED (AP) — Quarterback Kyle McCord, who started every game this season for Ohio State, has announced he is transferring to Syracuse. McCord passed for 3,170 yards, 24 touchdowns and six interceptions in his third season at Ohio Sate, but first as a starter. He was a four-star recruit out of Philadelphia. McCord is the latest transfer addition for new Syracuse coach Fran Brown. The former Georgia assistant coach has also received transfer commits from former Bulldogs receivers Jackson Meeks and Zeed Haynes. Brown is a New Jersey native who previously worked at Temple and Rutgers before spending two seasons with Georgia.
NEW YORK (AP) — Bryant Gumbel's “Real Sports” airs its final episode on HBO after 29 years this week, and an era in sports journalism ends with it. The newsmagazine used sports as a lens to look through all manners of social issues, and won awards for stories on concussions, camel jockeys and labor abuses in Qatar. For its last few years of operation, it taped episodes on the same Manhattan block that houses the offices of CBS' “60 Minutes,” with which it shares a sensibility. At age 75, Gumbel takes pride in never having missed a taping and, like many athletes, he said he'd rather leave the field too early than too late.
SUNDAY SCORES
NATIONAL FOOTBALL LEAGUE
Final Carolina 9 Atlanta 7
Final Cleveland 20 Chicago 17
Final OT Houston 19 Tennessee 16
Final Kansas City 27 New England 17
Final Miami 30 N-Y Jets 0
Final New Orleans 24 N-Y Giants 6
Final Tampa Bay 34 Green Bay 20
Final L.A. Rams 28 Washington 20
Final San Francisco 45 Arizona 29
Final Buffalo 31 Dallas 10
Final Baltimore 23 Jacksonville 7
Mon Philadelphia at Seattle 8:15 p.m.
TOP-25 COLLEGE BASKETBALL
Final (16)Illinois 74 Colgate 57
Final (17)Colorado St. 86 CSU-Pueblo 54
NATIONAL BASKETBALL ASSOCIATION
Final Boston 114 Orlando 97
Final New Orleans 146 San Antonio 110
Final Milwaukee 128 Houston 119
Final Phoenix 112 Washington 108
Final Golden State 118 Portland 114
NATIONAL HOCKEY LEAGUE
Final Vancouver 4 Chicago 3
Final SO Washington 2 Carolina 1
Final Anaheim 5 New Jersey 1
Final Colorado 6 San Jose 2