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Here are some things to watch in Week 11 of the Southeastern Conference football season:GAME OF THE WEEK: No. 8 Auburn at Georgia: The Tigers still control their own destiny in the SEC Western Division with three weeks left to go this season, but they didnt look great in a 23-16 victory over Vanderbilt last week. Georgia is the latest Eastern Division team to see if it can shake up the leagues power structure, which has obviously tilted to the West this fall. The Bulldogs are coming off a last-second win at Kentucky.MATCHUP OF THE WEEK: South Carolina coach Will Muschamp vs. Florida: Muschamp went 28-21 in four years as Floridas coach but got fired in 2014. Now he returns to Gainesville with an opportunity to damage his former teams hopes of defending its SEC East title. This isnt the first time a former Florida coach has gone to South Carolina and had to face the Gators. Steve Spurrier led South Carolina to a 30-22 victory over Florida in 2005, the first time he faced the team he had coached from 1990-2001. South Carolina lost 17-16 in 2006 the first time Spurrier coached against the Gators in Gainesville.NUMBERS GAME: No. 1 Alabamas 10-0 victory over LSU was its 13th straight win over a ranked team, the third-longest such streak in history. Southern California beat 16 straight ranked teams from 2002-05, and Oklahoma won 15 straight over Top 25 foes from 1973-75. ... Mississippi States Nick Fitzgerald has rushed for at least 100 yards in five games, including the last three in a row. The only Football Bowl Subdivision quarterback with more 100-yard rushing performances this season is Louisvilles Lamar Jackson with six. ... Auburn, No. 19 LSU and South Carolina have all held each of their opponents below 30 points. The only other FBS teams to do that are No. 2 Michigan, No. 4 Washington and No. 6 Ohio State. ... Tennessee is trying to beat Kentucky for the 31st time in their last 32 meetings. Kentuckys only win over Tennessee during that stretch was a 10-7 decision in 2011. Kentucky hasnt beaten Tennessee in Knoxville since 1984.UPSET WATCH: Arkansas is at home and a 7+-point underdog against LSU, even though the Razorbacks looked much-improved in a win against Florida and the Tigers are coming off an emotional loss to top-ranked Alabama. Florida hosts South Carolina as an 11+-point favorite, but the Gators are coming off the Arkansas loss and still dealing with several key injuries, including at quarterback.IMPACT PERFORMER: Vanderbilt linebacker Zach Cunningham leads the SEC with 94 tackles and has made some huge plays with games on the line. Cunningham made 19 tackles in a 17-16 upset at Georgia last month and clinched the victory by stopping Isaiah McKenzie on a fourth-and-1 play. Last week, Cunningham produced one of the most spectacular plays of the season when he figured out the snappers cadence and leaped over the line of scrimmage to block a field goal late in the fourth quarter of a 23-16 loss at Auburn. If you can find a better defensive player in the SEC or in college football, show him to me, Vanderbilt coach Derek Mason said.-----AP Sports Writers Steve Megargee in Knoxville, Tennessee, and David Brandt in Jackson, Mississippi, contributed to this story.-----More AP college football at www.collegefootball.ap.org and https://twitter.com/AP-Top25 .Cheap Rangers Jerseys . All of the scoring came in the final 20:04. Lucic scored on a power play at 15:46 of the third period, when he tipped a shot over Stars goalie Kari Lehtonen for a 3-1 lead. Wholesale Custom Rangers Shirts .Y. - Jerome Samson scored once in regulation and again in the shootout as the St. http://www.custommlbrangersjersey.com/ . 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Theyre in every break of the game, every minute, every second. On this team we fight for that inch.On Sunday afternoon, the College Football Playoff selection committee announced the four teams that will compete for the national championship: Alabama, Clemson, Ohio State and Washington. The season started with the 128 FBS squads, all hoping to make that final four. Those teams played a total of 837 games. Those contests produced more than 640,000 yards of offense. That translates to roughly 360 miles, almost precisely the distance between Bryant-Denny Stadium in Tuscaloosa and Clemsons Death Valley.Yet somehow, the entire season came down to only a handful of key plays, the outcome of each determined by merely a few yards here and, yes, Mr. Pacino, a few inches there. Yet the sum of their tiny parts shaped the most unpredictable season of the still-young playoff era.Week 1: Two inches Thats what LSU running back Leonard Fournette needed to be added to his vertical leap. With two minutes remaining, down 16-14 to Wisconsin, the Tigers offense was finally waking up. Having just crossed midfield, they handed off to the preseason Heisman favorite, who busted off a run deep into Badgers territory, but when he tried to leapfrog a defender, he caught a helmet to his right leg just below the knee. He limped off the field and never returned. It was the first of a series of nagging hurts that would dog Fournette all season. LSU lost, and head coach Les Miles was walking the plank. Meanwhile, Wisconsin had a big cross-conference win that it -- and the entire Big Ten -- could, and would, hang their hats on all season.Week 4: Ten fingers The two hands of Arizona quarterback Brandon Dawkins werent able to cleanly catch a fourth-down red zone shotgun snap against Washington at home in overtime. His bobble was just enough to cause a twinge of panic. That milliseconds difference in timing was just enough for the would-be tying TD pass play to break down into an overthrown dying quail pass that sailed over the head of the receiver. Washington survived 35-28 to keep its playoff hopes alive.Week 5: 1? yards In perhaps the best game of the season, Louisvilles Lamar Jackson took Clemsons best shots and repeatedly returned serve. If he does win the Heisman Trophy on Saturday, this will be the game many point to ... but the Cardinals lost. With 13 seconds remaining in a six-point game, Jackson threw a strike to James Quick. It was fourth-and-12 at the Clemson 14-yard line. Quick, confused as to where the first-down marker was, stepped out of bounds at the 3. It was less than 2 yards too short. Clemsons playoff season continued, while Louisvilles season took its first step toward eventually becoming derailed.Week 7: 1 foot plus 5 feet, both to the right Back to Death Valley, South Carolina: As the game clock zeroed out to end regulation, a would-be game-winning 33-yard field goal attempt by NC State kicker Kyle Bambard squirted just wide of the right upright. The Tigers won in OT 24-17. Meanwhile, at damp Camp Randall Stadium, also in OT, Ohio States J.T. Barrett tossed a back-shoulder fade to Noah Brown, a ball that found its way past the outstretched fingers of two Wisconsin defenders and floated into the back-right corner to Brown. The Buckeyes won 30-23.Week 8: Ten fingers, two inches, OK ... pretty much all of the above Second-ranked Ohio States magic ran ouut at Penn State.dddddddddddd The Nittany Lions trailed 21-17 when a drive-stopping interception slipped through their fingers with 4:39 remaining. It turned out to be an accidental blessing. The resulting field goal attempt was blocked and returned for a touchdown. Penn State won 24-21. It was the first blemish on OSUs record but also the first spark of the question, Can the Big Ten get more than one school into the playoff?Week 11: 1 yard On fourth-and-1 at the Pittsburgh 35, Clemson ran a sweep with tailback Wayne Gallman. He was grabbed around the ankles by nose tackle Jeremiah Taleni and was dropped 1 yard short of the first down. Pitt took over on downs with 52 seconds remaining and drove 34 yards on six plays to kick the winning field goal as time expired.Week 12: Two steps After a touchdown pulled them to within 17-16 with 4:41 remaining, Michigan State Spartans head coach Mark Dantonio elected to go for two points in a bid to upset Ohio State, which had crawled back up to second in the rankings. Tyler OConnor saw an open receiver at the goal line, but Jamal Lyles moved one step to his right as two defenders took opposite steps toward the inbounds pass and shared an interception. The game essentially ended there, as did Michigan States chances to brighten an otherwise disappointing season.Week 13: The Game, The Spot, The Inch Hey, its Ohio State again! In the second overtime period, on fourth-and-1, head coach Urban Meyer looked over his teams shaky day on special teams and elected not to attempt a game-tying field goal. Instead, Barrett ran a keeper that carried him to the edge of the white yard line he needed to reach. Did he make it? Did he not? The officials -- with help from the replay booth -- said he did. But the ruling is still being debated on either side of the Ohio-Michigan border. Last week a nuclear physicist at Wayne State told the Detroit Free Press that math and chemistry make it incredibly difficult for anyone to get that call right, humans or video cameras. Then again, hes also a Michigan grad.Week 14: 1 foot forward, 1 arm left On Saturday night, almost simultaneously, two conference championship games were determined by about 12 inches each. In Orlando, Virginia Tech was down a TD and down to a fourth down, at the 23 with 1:11 on the clock and thinking overtime. Quarterback Jerod Evans dropped back to throw. Clemson linebacker Kendall Joseph blitzed. Tech knew it was probably coming, and thats why the Hokies had running back Travon McMillian stay home to block. But he was waiting on the right, not the left. As Joseph streaked by, McMillian threw his arm out and grabbed, but got ahold of nothing. Joseph hit Evans as he threw, the pass fell short of tight end Bucky Hodges (who appeared to be wide-open), and the playoff chaos -- at least any involving the ACC -- was avoided. Meanwhile, in the Big Ten championship, Wisconsin was in a nearly identical situation, trailing Penn State 38-31 and deep in enemy territory. Corey Clement was handed the ball on fourth-and-1 with 1:05 remaining. He was met head-on by DBs Marcus Allen and Grant Haley and stopped 1 foot short at the 24-yard line. Penn State saved its game and title. But 12 hours later, it was the Nittany Lions who came up short.Sunday afternoon I stared at my computer monitor, looking at the just-revealed final College Football Playoff rankings. Then I got out a tape measure and checked the distance on that screen between Ohio State in third and Penn State in fifth.It was exactly an inch.So, no offense to the guy from Wayne State, but when it comes to 2016, it doesnt take a doctorate in physics to realize that one of the oldest clichés in sports isnt a cliché at all. Its a game of inches is a rock-solid fact. Just ask any fan who watched any big game of this college football season.Or Al Pacino. ' ' '