Briefs
All-PAC Football Teams announced
Washington & Jefferson’s Joey Koroly was one of three Presidents’ to be named to the first team in the Presidents’ Athletic Conference.
Joining the former Trinity graduate from W&J were defensive lineman Mike Williams and defensive back Max Garda. Presidents quarterback Jacob Adams, running back Jordan West and linebacker Sean Doran were named to the second team.
Waynesburg offensive lineman Alex Paulina, from Canonsburg, was the only Yellow Jacket to be named to the first team.
Grove City’s Wesley Schools and Case Western Reserve’s Cameron Brown were named the conferences’ most valuable players on offense and defense, respectively.
CFP rankings unchanged
The College Football Playoff rankings were unchanged at the top this week, with LSU first followed by Ohio State, Clemson and Georgia.
The selection committee’s third weekly rankings had little movement in the top 10, with Alabama fifth followed by Oregon, Utah, Penn State, Oklahoma and Minnesota.
Minnesota and Baylor, both of which lost for the first time last weekend, dropped in the rankings. Minnesota went from eighth to 10th after losing at Iowa. Baylor slipped from 13th to 14th after blowing a 25-point lead to Oklahoma.
Ohio State and Penn State play this weekend in a game that could essentially eliminate the Nittany Lions from the playoff race.
The highest ranked team from outside the Power Five conferences is Memphis at 18th, one ahead of American Athletic Conference rival Cincinnati, and two ahead of Boise State from the Mountain West.
The highest-ranked team from outside the Power Five with a conference championship receives a bid to one of the New Year’s Six bowls.
Dolphins release running back Walton
The Miami Dolphins released suspended running back Mark Walton on Tuesday, hours after he was arrested on charges of punching his pregnant girlfriend in the head.
Police in the Fort Lauderdale suburb of Davie said in a report that officers went to a home at 4:15 a.m. Tuesday, where Walton’s girlfriend told them he had pushed her against the wall and punched her several times in the face and head, leaving her with a swollen left eye.
The woman told officers she is five weeks pregnant with the couple’s child and had told Walton about the pregnancy on Sunday.
Walton, 22, was charged with aggravated battery on a pregnant person, a felony with a 15-year maximum sentence. It was his fourth arrest in less than a year.