November 2005 in Sports - 24 November 2005 (Thursday)

24 November 2005 (Thursday)

• NCAA College Football: AP Top 25
  • (12) West Virginia 45, Pittsburgh 13: In the Backyard Brawl, the Mountaineers rout the Panthers at home. WVU quarterback Pat White rushes for 220 yards and two touchdowns, and throws for a third, while Steve Slaton adds 179 yards and two TDs on the ground.

• NFL Thanksgiving Classics:
  • Atlanta Falcons 27, Detroit Lions 7: The Falcons ease past the Lions, thanks to two Michael Vick touchdown passes to Alge Crumpler and 116 yards rushing by Warrick Dunn.
  • Denver Broncos 24, Dallas Cowboys 21 (OT): Jason Elam's 24 yard field goal in OT, set up by a Ron Dayne 55 yard run, gave the Broncos the win in Irving, Texas.

• Football: 2005–06 UEFA Cup: Group stage, matchday 3
  • Group A: Viking Stavanger 2–2 Slavia Prague
  • Group A: AS Monaco 2–0 Hamburg
  • Group B: Espanyol 1–1 Palermo
  • Group C: Hertha Berlin 0–0 Lens
  • Group C: Halmstad 1–3 Sampdoria
  • Group D: AZ Alkmaar 0–0 Middlesbrough
  • Group D: Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk 0–2 Litex Lovech
  • Group E: Tromsø 3–1 Red Star Belgrade
  • Group E: Roma 1–1 Strasbourg
  • Group F: CSKA Moscow 2–1 Levski Sofia
  • Group F: Marseille 1–0 Heerenveen
  • Group G: PAOK 1–2 VfB Stuttgart
  • Group G: Shakhtar Donetsk 0–1 Rapid Bucureşti: In a family fight, Shakhtar coach Mircea Lucescu meets his son, Rapid coach Razvan Lucescu.
  • Group H: Vitória Guimarães 1–1 Bolton Wanderers
  • Group H: Zenit St. Petersburg 2–1 Sevilla
  • See also 2005–06 UEFA Cup.