September 2008 in Sports - 27 September 2008 (Saturday)

27 September 2008 (Saturday)

• American college football:
  • NCAA AP Top 10:
    • (2) Oklahoma 35, (24) Texas Christian 10
      • The Sooners stake their claim to being the new #1 team.
    • (8) Alabama 41, (3) Georgia 30
      • Bulldog head coach Mark Richt's call for a "blackout" "Between the Hedges" was over early thanks to 31 unanswered Crimson Tide points in the first half. Alabama jumps to #2 with this win.
    • Mississippi 31, (4) Florida 30
      • Jevan Snead throws for two touchdowns and runs for a third as the Rebels stun the Gators in The Swamp.
    • (5) LSU 34, Mississippi State 24
      • The current National Champions leap to the third spot.
    • (7) Texas 52, Arkansas 10
      • The Horns climb to #5 in the new survey.
    • Michigan 27, (9) Wisconsin 25
      • In the 500th game at "The Big House", the Wolverines erase a 19–0 halftime deficit.
    • Counting the Thursday night loss by top-ranked Southern California, three of the top four teams in the poll and four of the Top Ten teams lost, which will cause a shakeup in the new poll.
  • Other games:
    • (12) Penn State 38, (22) Illinois 24
    • Navy 24, (16) Wake Forest 17
      • The Middies defeat a ranked team for the first time since 1985.
    • Maryland 20, (20) Clemson 17
    • Houston 41, (23) East Carolina 24

• Australian rules football:
  • AFL Grand Final at Melbourne
    • Geelong 11.23 (89) – 18.7 (115) Hawthorn

• Baseball:
  • Major League Baseball Pennant Races:
    • American League:
      • Kansas City Royals 4, Minnesota Twins 2
      • Cleveland Indians 12, Chicago White Sox 6
        • The Central Division gap remains at one-half a game in favor of the Twins.
    • National League:
      • New York Mets 2, Florida Marlins 0
        • Johan Santana, pitching in a regular-season game on three days' rest for the first time in his career, keeps the Mets alive in the playoff race with a three-hit complete-game shutout, however...
      • Philadelphia Phillies 4, Washington Nationals 3
        • Jamie Moyer hurls six innings of one-run, six-hit ball, and Jayson Werth hits a leadoff fifth-inning homer as the Phils win the Eastern Division for the second straight year on a dramatic game ending bases-loaded double play, relegating the Mets to a Wild Card chase where...
      • Chicago Cubs 7, Milwaukee Brewers 3
        • Ben Sheets first start after a two-week layoff backfires, and the Brew Crew is now tied with the Mets for the Wild Card.

• Cycling:
  • 2008 UCI Road World Championships:
    • Women's Road Race:
      Nicole Cooke (2) Marianne Vos (3) Judith Arndt

• Rugby league:
  • NRL Finals series:
    • Manly-Warringah Sea Eagles 32 – 6 New Zealand Warriors in Sydney

• Shooting:
  • 2008 ISSF World Cup Final (shotgun) in Minsk, Belarus:
    • Håkan Dahlby (SWE) wins the world cup final in double trap.

• Thoroughbred horse racing:
  • By winning the Jockey Club Gold Cup at Belmont Park, Curlin becomes the richest horse in North American racing history, with US $10.25 million in winnings, passing Cigar.