TOP 25 FOOTBALL Oklahoma pummels Texas Tech, draws closer to Sugar Bowl berth

Second-ranked USC dropped UCLA, while No. 3 LSU held off Ole Miss.
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LUBBOCK, Texas -- Jason White threw for 394 yards and four touchdowns and Kejuan Jones scored five TDs, keeping Oklahoma on track for a berth in the national championship game with a 56-25 victory over Texas Tech on Saturday.
The Sooners (12-0, 8-0 Big 12) finished off their 10th unbeaten regular season in 65 years and need only to win the Big 12 title game on Dec. 6 in Kansas City to assure a Sugar Bowl bid.
Oklahoma, which last went unbeaten during its national championship season in 2000, has won 13 straight games -- the longest current streak in Division I-A.
Red Raiders quarterback B.J. Symons broke Ty Detmer's 13-year-old NCAA Division I-A single-season record for passing yards in the second quarter, but finished with a season-low 230 yards. Symons, only a one-year starter at Tech, also threw five interceptions.
Texas Tech is 7-5 overall and 4-4 in the Big 12.
No. 2 Southern California 47,UCLA 22
LOS ANGELES -- Matt Leinart threw for 289 yards and two touchdowns, and Mike Williams had 11 catches for 181 yards and two scores for Southern California.
Southern Cal (10-1, 6-1 Pac-10), which had slipped to third behind Ohio State in the BCS rankings, got a boost when Michigan beat the Buckeyes in a game that finished just before the Trojans took the field at the Coliseum.
The Trojans led 33-2 at halftime, with Leinart passing for 273 yards in the half and Williams making all 11 of his catches.
Williams didn't play in the second half, and Leinart went to the sideline late in the third quarter.
The Trojans overwhelmed the Bruins (6-6, 4-3) early, scoring touchdowns on their first three possessions and adding a field goal for a 24-0 lead en route to their fifth win in a row over UCLA.
No. 3 LSU 17, No. 15 Mississippi 14
OXFORD, Miss. -- LSU held Eli Manning and high-scoring Mississippi in check for three quarters, then withstood a fourth-quarter rally to keep the Rebels from clinching the SEC West.
Matt Mauck threw two TD passes for LSU (10-1, 6-1), which now controls the SEC West race and can clinch its second trip to the conference title game in three years with a victory over Arkansas.
Ole Miss (8-3, 6-1) had its chances to pull off a second straight fourth-quarter comeback victory. Jonathan Nichols, who had missed only one of 24 field-goal attempts coming in, was wide right on a 36-yarder that would have tied the game at 17 with 4:15 left.
The Rebels got one last chance with 2:15 left, but Manning was incomplete on three straight passes and on fourth down he was tripped pulling away from center by one of his linemen. Manning was 16-for-36 for 200 yards with a touchdown and an interception.
No. 6 Georgia 30, Kentucky 10
ATHENS, Ga. -- Billy Bennett kicked three field goals to become the Southeastern Conference's career scoring leader and David Greene threw for 289 yards for Georgia.
The Bulldogs (9-2, 6-2 SEC) gained at least a share of the East Division title with Florida. Bennett, who has 382 points, also set an SEC record with 80 career field goals.
Kentucky (4-7, 1-6) was held to 212 yards of total offense.
No. 9 Tennessee 48, Vanderbilt 0
KNOXVILLE, Tenn. -- Casey Clausen threw three touchdown passes and scored on a sneak in Tennessee's 21st straight victory over Vanderbilt.
Mark Jones caught one of Clausen's scoring passes and returned a punt 58 yards for a touchdown for the Volunteers (9-2, 5-2 Southeastern Conference).
On the Vols' third drive of the game, Clausen broke Peyton Manning's school record of 132 passes without an interception and pushed the mark to 143 before Vanderbilt's Bill Alford picked off a pass in the second quarter. Clausen finished 15-of-29 for 262 yards and didn't play in the fourth quarter.
The Commodores (2-10, 1-7) finished with a losing record for the 21st season in a row.
Boston College 34,No. 12 Virginia Tech 27
BLACKSBURG, Va. -- Paul Peterson threw a 64-yard touchdown pass to Grant Adams with 4:40 to play and Boston College ruined Virginia Tech's Big East farewell party.
Derrick Knight, ran for 197 yards to become the Eagles career rushing leader, and clinched the victory by breaking loose for a 60-yard run. He also scored two TDs and broke Mike Cloud's school record of 3,597 yards. Knight has 3,603.
Boston College (7-5, 3-4 Big East) boosted its bowl stock considerably, while Virginia Tech (8-3, 4-3) -- heading to the Atlantic Coast Conference next season -- might have squandered its chance at a Gator Bowl bid.
No. 13 Miami 34, Rutgers 10
MIAMI -- Brock Berlin threw two touchdown passes in a 28-point third quarter to help put Miami a victory away from a fourth consecutive Big East title and a berth in a BCS game.
Miami (9-2, 5-1) plays at No. 21 Pittsburgh next Saturday.
Sean Taylor returned an interception for a TD, Kevin Everett had two scoring catches and Jarrett Payton ran for 82 yards.
Rutgers is 4-7 overall and 1-5 in the Big East.
No. 24 Oklahoma St. 38, Baylor 21
WACO, Texas -- Vernand Morency had his second straight 200-yard game and Rashaun Woods had six catches for 125 yards and a touchdown for Oklahoma State.
Morency, filling in for injured Big 12 rushing leader Tatum Bell, ran for 227 yards and a touchdown on 32 carries. Shawn Willis added a pair of 2-yard TD runs for the Cowboys (9-3, 5-3 Big 12).
Oklahoma State matched a school record with its ninth win in the regular season. Baylor (3-9, 1-7) ended its first season under coach Guy Morriss with its seventh straight loss.