November 2005 in Sports - 26 November 2005 (Saturday)

26 November 2005 (Saturday)

• NCAA College Football:
  • AP Top 25:
    • (5) Virginia Tech 30, North Carolina 3: The Hokies win and advance to the ACC championship against Florida State.
    • (6) Notre Dame 38, Stanford 31: The Irish win the last game at Stanford Stadium before an extreme makeover to reduce capacity and make it a more football-friendly facility, and become eligible for the BCS. Brady Quinn throws for 432 yards and three touchdown passes, two of them to Jeff Samardzija, and Darius Walker runs for 190 yards and the winning TD.
    • (10) Miami (FL) 25, Virginia 17
    • (13) Georgia 14, (20) Georgia Tech 7
    • Nevada 38, (16) Fresno State 35.
    • (17) Louisville 41, Syracuse 17: The Cardinals send the Orange crashing to their first 10-loss season in 110 years of football.
    • (19) Florida 34, (23) Florida State 7
  • Other notable games:
    • Kansas 24, Iowa State 21 (OT): The Cyclones' loss gives Colorado the Big 12 North title and a date against #2 Texas in the conference championship game on December 3 in Houston.
    • UConn 15, South Florida 10: The Bulls' loss, combined with West Virginia's win on Thursday, gives the Mountaineers the Big East Conference title and the league's BCS bid.

• Cricket: West Indies batsman Brian Lara completes an innings of 226 before he is bowled by Glenn McGrath in the final Test of the series against Australia, passing Allan Border's record of Test runs in the process to stand with a new Test record 11,187 runs. (Cricinfo)

• Sumo Wrestling: Asashoryu Akinori wins his eighty-third bout of the year and clinches the championship in the November basho (tournament), sweeping all six basho in 2005 and winning his seventh basho in a row. All are new records.

• Rugby union, November Tests
  • Scotland 10–29 New Zealand: Behind two tries from Rico Gear, the All Blacks complete their "Grand Slam" over all four Home Nations. This is the first Grand Slam since Australia pulled off the feat in 1984, and the first for the All Blacks since 1978. (BBC)
  • England 40–3 Manu Samoa
  • Ireland 43–12 Romania
  • Wales 24–22 Australia: Wales win a nail-biter over the Wallabies at Millennium Stadium, their first over the Wallabies since 1987. (BBC)
  • France 26–20 South Africa
  • Italy 23–8 Fiji