EVANSTON, Ill., Oct. 11 (UPI) -- Javon Ringer rushed for 124 yards and two touchdowns Saturday to pace 19thrd-ranked Michigan State to a 37-20 victory over 22nd-ranked Northwestern.
ATHENS, Ga., Oct. 11 (UPI) -- Matthew Stafford passed for 309 yards and a touchdown with two interceptions Saturday to lead the 10th-ranked Georgia Bulldogs to a 26-14 win over Tennessee.
LOS ANGELES, Oct. 11 (UPI) -- Joe McKnight rushed for 143 yards on 11 carries Saturday to lead ninth-ranked Southern California to a 28-0 win over Arizona State.
LUBBOCK, Texas, Oct. 11 (UPI) -- Eric Morris scored on a 1-yard run in overtime Saturday to give the seventh-ranked Texas Tech Red Raiders a 37-31 victory over the Nebraska Cornhuskers.
COLUMBUS, Ohio, Oct. 11 (UPI) -- Etienne Sabino scored the game's only touchdown on a blocked punt Saturday to help the 11th-ranked Ohio State Buckeyes beat the Purdue Boilermakers, 16-3.
ASHEVILLE, S.C., Oct. 11 (UPI) -- The Rev. Billy Graham was back home Saturday afternoon, a day after a fall in his South Carolina residence sent him to the hospital, hospital officials said.
STOCKHOLM, Sweden, Oct. 11 (UPI) -- David Nalbandian and Robin Soderling easily won their semifinal matches in straight sets Saturday at the Stockholm Open in Sweden.
JOHNSTOWN, Pa., Oct. 11 (UPI) -- Republican U.S. vice presidential nominee Sarah Palin Saturday said Democratic presidential nominee Barack Obama is out of the mainstream on abortion.
MOSCOW, Oct. 11 (UPI) -- Top-seeded Serb Jelena Jankovic won a three-set match Saturday against Russian Elena Dementieva in the women's semifinals at the Kremlin Cup in Moscow.
CABO SAN LAZARO, Mexico, Oct. 11 (UPI) -- Hurricane Norbert, with sustained top winds of near 100 mph, Saturday battered Baja California before heading to Mexico's west coast.
MOSCOW, Oct. 11 (UPI) -- An all-Russian final was assured for the Kremlin Cup tennis championship when Marat Safin and Igor Kunitsyn won their semifinal matches Saturday in Moscow.
GROZNY, Russia, Oct. 11 (UPI) -- An earthquake struck the Russian republic of Chechnya Saturday, killing at least 12 people, a government official said.
STARKVILLE, Miss., Oct. 11 (UPI) -- Anthony Dixon rushed for 102 yards and Tyson Lee threw a TD pass Saturday to lead the Mississippi State Bulldogs to a 17-14 win over 14th-ranked Vanderbilt.
SAN FRANCISCO, Oct. 11 (UPI) -- The Giants-Dodgers rivalry and a tight schedule means ex-LA skipper Tommy Lasorda is out as grand marshal at San Francisco's Italian Heritage Parade.
LAWRENCE, Kan., Oct. 11 (UPI) -- Jake Sharp ran for three touchdowns Saturday to help 15th-ranked Kansas overcome pesky Colorado 30-14 for its 13th straight home-field victory.
DETROIT, Oct. 11 (UPI) -- Volunteers fanned out across Detroit Saturday, recruiting more citizens to help keep order on Halloween and the two nights before the holiday.