Texas' Steve Sarkisian questions why team bothered to play Ohio State

Texas coach Steve Sarkisian is questioning why his team played defending champion Ohio State this season with it looking possible his squad will miss the College Football Playoff field.

The No. 16 Longhorns (9-3) upset then-No. 3 Texas A&M on Friday to keep their hopes alive. But losses to then-No. 3 Ohio State, unranked Florida and then-No. 5 Georgia are a problem with several teams with fewer losses also in contention for at-large berths.

"Why did we even play Ohio State?" Sarkisian said on SiriusXM on Tuesday of the 14-7 loss. "Because if we're a 10-2 team right now that played four top-10 ranked opponents with three top-10 wins, we're not even having a discussion right now. So, my point is: Why the hell am I going to play that game next year? For what? What good does it do?"

The Buckeyes and Longhorns are slated to meet in 2026 in Austin, so perhaps next time Texas notches a big victory and isn't in a similar position.

Then again, Sarkisian says the CFP guidelines make it feel like there is no need to play a team like Ohio State.

"I'm looking at the principles of the CFP," Sarkisian said. "I'm looking at the sheet of paper right now. The first two bullet points say strength of schedule and head-to-head competition. That's the frustrating part. So, to me, when you talk about future scheduling -- and we don't get in? -- what's the point in playing them. There's no benefit to that.

"And we're going to nine games in the SEC next year. I get it, there's going to be a network (ESPN) upset if we don't play that game, because there's probably going to be 15 to 16 million viewers that would watch that game. But I get no benefit from playing the game. It does nothing for me. I have a responsibility to the University of Texas and our players to put them in the best position."

Prior to Tuesday night's reveal of the latest CFP rankings ahead of championship weekend, Texas has head-to-head victories over three Southeastern Conference programs ranked in the top 10 at the time in which the teams played -- No. 6 Oklahoma, No. 9 Vanderbilt and No. 3 Texas A&M. The Longhorns lost to No. 5 Georgia and didn't face Ole Miss or Alabama.

The big blow is the 29-21 loss to Florida on Oct. 4, a team that fired coach Billy Napier 15 days later.

No. 12 Miami of the Atlantic Coast Conference is one of the other teams facing the same uphill climb as the Longhorns. And the two coaches exchanged barbs on Monday.

Sarkisian criticized Miami coach Mario Cristobal on Monday for the Hurricanes scoring a touchdown with 41 seconds left to pad the victory margin in Miami's 38-7 win over Pitt on Saturday.

"There's teams that are ranked in front of us that haven't played any top-10 ranked teams," Sarkisian said on SEC Network. "My point to everybody is, is this about what your record is at the end? Or is this about beating quality teams and showing how good of a team you really are by beating quality teams on the field. Or is it don't play good teams, put up a bunch of yards, put up a bunch of points and make it look good. Throw fade route touchdowns with 38 seconds to go when you're ahead 31-7 so that the score looks better.

"Is the committee watching the games or are they looking at a stat sheet at the end of the game to say, 'Oh, well they won by this many points, they must've played really good.'"

Cristobal was only too happy to return serve and use Florida (4-8) as an example, a common opponent of both teams. The Hurricanes beat the Gators 26-7.

"I get it, everybody's trying to posture themselves for their programs and whatnot. The great part about stuff like that when coaches try to speak about themselves like that, they also gotta take a look at the common opponent between us and that particular coach," Cristobal said on Canes In Sight. "Seeing that we had the opportunity to really dominate that opponent while that opponent dominated them."

Miami played one top-10 team, beating Notre Dame 27-24 in its season opener.

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Sarah Strong scores 14 to lead No. 1 UConn over South Florida 85-51

TAMPA, Fla. (AP) — Sarah Strong had 14 points and 10 rebounds to lead the No. 1 UConn Huskies to an 85-51 win over South Florida on Tuesday.

Blanca Quinonez added 13 points including three 3-pointers for the defending national champions. Azzi Fudd and Ashlynn Shade each scored 10 points. UConn shot 51% (32 for 63) from the floor.

UConn (8-0) scored the first 10 points of the game and took a 29-10 lead after the first period. The Huskies led 48-16 at halftime.

L'or Mputu had 12 points and seven rebounds to lead South Florida (5-4). Carla Brito had eight points and seven rebounds. The Bulls had 20 turnovers.

The Huskies went on a 15-2 run to end the first period and pushed their lead to 42-12 midway through the second period. UConn led by as many as 38 in the second half.

UConn is 143-0 all-time against American Conference opponents.

UConn: Hosts Depaul on Sunday.

South Florida: Hosts Houston Christian on Friday.

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Alabama's playoff fate could hinge on SEC championship clash with Georgia

Alabama's trip to theSEC championshipoffers some reward and plenty of risk.

The Crimson Tide's path to the playoff narrowed before the calendar flipped to September after a loss to Florida State inWeek 1. Months later, despite winning 10 of their last 11 games and clinching the SEC championship game, Alabama still isn't a sure thing for the College Football Playoff.

That could change this weekend. A win against Georgia on Saturday would secure a spot for Alabama as one of the five highest-ranked conference winners. A loss would put the Tide's fate in the hands of the CFP committee, which could dock them for a third loss — even if it stemmed from a championship game competitors didn't qualify for.

Saturday gives Alabama the chance to take control of its own destiny, and the Tide have no interest in giving any outsiders final say.

As far as second-year coachKalen DeBoeris concerned, his team's future shouldn't be a topic of debate. The Tide are 10-2 this season. Their only loss aside from a Week 1 blunder was a close one against a ranked Oklahoma team in Week 12. That was after knocking off six conference opponents, four of which were ranked.

"We're in the championship game with a 7-1 record, won four conference games on the road in the toughest conference," DeBoer said Monday. "I just think when you're really trying to have a playoff, you need your best teams in there. There's no doubt in my mind that we are one of the best teams. I don't say that arrogantly. I just really believe that's what it is."

It doesn't help that the CFP committee is subjective by nature, and the playoff race is overcrowded. But no matter how the numbers are crunched, even with a loss, DeBoer argues his squad has proved it belongs.

"There's a ton of metrics I know people look at: strength of record, FPI. We're right at the top," he said. "Playing in your conference championship in the SEC shouldn't be something that we're worried about as far as what that would do to our playoff hopes. We got here by earning it."

Should Alabama lose on Saturday, earning aCFP bidwould be historic. No three-loss team has ever appeared in the playoff. Alabama would have to compete for one of the seven remaining spots. In the SEC alone, Texas A&M, Mississippi, Oklahoma and Vanderbilt would have stronger overall records. In other words, Alabama's back is against the wall, but that's not a new feeling this season.

"Man, I feel like honestly we've kind of had that mindset ever since our first loss," senior linebacker Deontae Lawson said. "Just control what we can control, and that's doing our best to win the game, leave nothing up for chance."

The Crimson Tide have had Georgia's number in recent years. Kirby Smart is 1-7 against his former team, and Bama has won the past three. In September, Alabama snapped Georgia's33-game win streakat home with a 24-21 victory. That offers the locker room some peace of mind ahead of the heavyweight showdown.

"We've already beat this team before. We're going to go out there and make sure we do the same thing," Tim Keenan III said. "We're going to make sure we handle business on our own end and not leave it up to the committee to make decisions for us."

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It's a Halloween party on the Plaza and all the *Today* cohosts brought their A-game.

Hosts Savannah Guthrie, Craig Melvin, Jenna Bush Hager, Carson Daly, Al Roker, and more went all out for their annual spooky celebration with fans during Fridays' episode of the NBC morning show.

After last year's iconic blockbuster-themed costumes that embraced the the '80s, '90s, and '00s — when the VHS still ruled — this year *Today* took its hosts on a road trip around the country, representing various icons from around the good old U.S. of A.

From Melvin, Willie Geist, and Sheinelle Jones dressing up as real-life musical stars Prince, Wayne Newton and Beyoncé, to Guthrie and Hager going for *Devil Wears Prada *character Miranda Priestly and her real-life inspiration, Anna Wintour, this year's costumes definitely give *superstar*.

Peter Alexander, Laura Jarrett, Savannah Guthrie, Sheinelle Jones, Jenna Bush Hager, Craig Melvin, Al Roker, Dylan Dreyer, Carson Daly, and Willie Geist in their 2025 Halloween costumes.

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Dylan Dreyer kicked things off repping for the Garden State. The meteorologist dressed up as New Jersey native and legendary singer Frankie Valli, the founding member of the Four Seasons.**

"My dad was a mechanic, and he would record the oldies station for me on cassette tapes and bring them home," Dylan said of her love for music from the '50s and '60s. "I know every lyric to every song from that era."

Carson Daly as Rocky Balboa.

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Daly threw his hat in the ring as the rep for Philadelphia, costumed as the one and only Rocky Balboa, made iconic by Sylvester Stallone in the Oscar-winning franchise. Roker, who was dressed as Balboa's *Rocky III* opponent Mr. T's Clubber Lane, even had a bro-out moment with Daly in their ultimate tough-guy fits.

Jones brought the Texas Bama to the Plaza in her showstopping costume as Grammy winner Beyoncé.

Sheinelle Jones as Beyoncé.

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Jones recreated Beyoncé's look from the singer's 2024 Christmas Day halftime show — a.k.a. Beyoncé Bowl — with the horse included and cemented her eternal membership to the BeyHive by performing "Texas Hold 'Em" from the history-making *Cowboy Carter* album.

No one is giving out prizes but if they were, Jones definitely took the reins. (See what we did there?)

"I have this 'Mount Rushmore' of women that I admire and this is the last one of the women in my mind," Jones told Today.com ahead of Halloween. "I see it as a tribute to all the women who've poured into me, and they don't even know they have."**

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Laura Jarrett came in to represent the California girls by dressing as *Saved by the Bell*'s ultra fashionista Lisa Turtle. She even gave fans a throwback with a fun call to Mario Lopez, a.k.a. the real A.C. Slater.

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Geist took on Mr. Las Vegas himself, Wayne Newton, who has performed in Sin City for more than 65 years. The cohost took the stage backed up by Vegas showgirls, dressed to the nines in a dapper tux and performing Newton's iconic song "Danke Schoen."

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Peter Alexander took New Yorkers to Margaritaville with his Jimmy Buffet costume, performing the enduring hit that made Mr. Island-Time a legend.**

Peter Alexander as Jimmy Buffett.

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Two fashion icons collided when Guthrie and Hager showed off their costumes as the fictional Miranda Priestly and her (rumored) real-life inspiration, Anna Wintour.**

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The duo even staged a meeting of the divas for the show's Instagram page, and it's safe to say that if it could happen in real life, the fashion world would never be the same.

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- *Bugonia* director Yorgos Lanthimos discusses the wildly different interpretations viewers have had on the film's shocking ending.

- Stars Emma Stone and Jesse Plemons share their thoughts on the film's bloody final moments, which Stone describes as "really disgusting" to shoot.

- Plus, Lanthimos reveals whether they ever considered or filmed alternate endings.

**This article contains spoilers for *Bugonia*.**

*Bugonia* features one of the most bloody, wild, go-for-broke endings in recent memory, so it's only fitting that it's eliciting vastly different reactions from audiences — and no one welcomes this more than director Yorgos Lanthimos.

The film follows a conspiracy theorist named Teddy (Jesse Plemons), who kidnaps and tortures powerful CEO Michelle Fuller (Emma Stone), convinced she is an alien sent to destroy humankind. As bizarre as his beliefs sound at first, by the end of the film, after days chained up in his basement, Michelle concedes that she is an alien empress from the Andromeda Galaxy.

She confirms many of his outlandish theories (like that her hair is a secret communication device), but she insists he was wrong about her people's intentions. Far from wanting to destroy humanity, she says her Adromedan ancestors actually created humans, and they've been trying to save us from ourselves ever since.

Emma Stone in 'Bugonia'.

While Teddy believes her, it remains unclear until the film's final moments whether she is telling the truth or bluffing in a last-ditch effort to escape her tormentor.

"The thing that I grew to appreciate more and more was the fact that throughout the film, Teddy says some things that, from an objective standpoint, you can look at and think that's true, and then he'll follow that up with something that is objectively bananas and insane," Plemons tells * *alongside his costar.* *

"And the same thing goes for Michelle," he adds. "It felt very, very close to the very myopic ways in which a lot of us can go through life, where there is very little room for multiple ways of thinking or for multiple things to be true at once. We get this tunnel vision."**

Jesse Plemons stars as Teddy Gatz in director Yorgos Lanthimos' 'Bugonia'.

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Thrilled that Michelle is finally coming clean, Teddy asks to be taken to her mothership. So, Michelle leads him to her office at her pharmaceutical company and punches some numbers on a seemingly innocuous calculator, which she tells him is really a teleportation device. After typing in the code, she tells Teddy to stand in her closet, where she insists he will be beamed up to her ship.

But when he closes the closet door, the homemade bomb he'd strapped to his chest explodes, which sends his decapitated head hurtling into Michelle, knocking her unconscious. When she awakes in an ambulance on the way to the hospital, she jumps out the back door and runs back to her office. Back inside, she goes into the closet (still filled with bits of Teddy) and is beamed aboard her ship, proving that she is, indeed, an alien.**

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At a council meeting aboard the mothership, she and her fellow Andromedans decide once and for all that the human experiment has failed. With tears in her eyes, she goes to a model of Earth and pops a bubble around it, wiping out all human life on the planet.

As the film ends, a montage of collapsed bodies around the world is shown, while other species, notably bees (whose impending extinction was a preoccupation of Teddy's), appear to be flourishing.

While the eradication of our species might sound like a bleak ending note, Lanthimos tells EW that* *audiences are divided on whether the film presents a hopeful or pessimistic view of the future.

Emma Stone stars as Michelle in director Yorgos Lanthimos' 'Bugonia'.

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"I've noticed that some people say, 'Oh, it's really dark and bleak, the ending,' and then some other people find it very hopeful, because in a sense you don't take it literally," the director says. "It's a film, and nature survives, and it kind of allows the hope of a second chance at everything restarting."

He continues, "So some people see it this way instead of *it all ended*. So I think it says things about the viewer themselves, how they feel in the end. And I think sometimes it might change. If it sticks in their head, maybe they think about it [later] and go like, 'Yeah, maybe it is hopeful. It's not that bleak, actually.'"

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As the director intended, the film is filled with moments that audiences are sure to interpret differently. Teddy's death, for example, is never fully explained. While police guess that friction or his body heat triggered the homemade bomb, could Michelle have used her alien teleporter to set it somehow off?**

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"Yeah, I mean, I always assumed it was Teddy, really. There was a friction situation, and he got stuck, and that thing was a homemade [bomb]," Stone tells EW before taking a moment to praise the film's prosthetic designers.

"I'm going to be honest with you. I think [Teddy's decapitated] head was one of the most incredible pieces of prosthetic work I've ever seen," she says to Plemons, who sits alongside her for the interview. "I'm being really serious. It was unbelievable. But stepping into that closet was *really* disgusting."

"But," her costar adds with a mischievous glint in his eye, "I like the [kill switch] beaming thing. That's the *one* thing he didn't think about."

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Pollard rose to fame on &34;Flavor of Love&34; in the aughts. Tiffany 'New York' Pollard reunites with 'Flavor Flav' on Halloween: 'Bye Pumkin!'

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Beyoncé!? Not quite, but Tamron Hall welcomed a special celebrity guest to her talk show for a *Flavor of Love* "reunion" on her 2025 Halloween episode, nonetheless.

Midway through her holiday-themed episode, which saw the Emmy-winning host channel a revolving door of men with her multiple costume changes across her Halloween installment, the 55-year-old introduced a special game show segment while dressed as iconic recording artist and VH1 reality show host, Flavor Flav.

With a crown on her head, a crisp blue suit on her shoulders, and a giant clock around her neck, Hall tasked a man with choosing the best cake-decorating woman among a trio of contestants.**

"I didn't pick New York," Hall-as-Flav said. "I missed out on the greatest lady ever. Now, it's time for our *Flavor of Fright *challenge to find out which one of y'all knows how to throw down in the kitchen. But, we need a little help."

Tamron Hall as Flavor Flav on the 'Tamron Hall Show'.

Hall then enlisted a special celebrity guest to them judge the game, as legendary *Flavor of Love *contestant* *and pop culture icon* *Tiffany "New York" Pollard sashayed out to the set.

Pollard embraced Hall-as-Flav, mounting a notable "reunion" between the pair.**

"New York is in the house!" Pollard yelled as the audience cheered.

"New York, you look so fine, so amazing," Hall said, before segueing into the game, which tasked the contestants with decorating a Halloween cake in two minutes, while Dan, the segment's other guest, was asked to select a champion from the round.

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"The biggest mistake in the history of my show so far is that lady over there, not going with the clock. So, don't make a mistake," Hall-as-Flav advised Dan.**

After New York helped the ladies decorate their cakes for the next 120 seconds, Dan ultimately eliminated one of them in pursuit of the prize.

Upon the elimination, Pollard repeated one of her most memorable phrases from the show, as she shouted "Bye Pumkin! Bye Pumkin!" as the contestant left the cake competition, and Hall threw the show to a commercial break shortly thereafter.

Tiffany Pollard on the 'Tamron Hall Show'.

In a past interview with **, Pollard admitted that, though the moniker helped rocket her to stardom, she initially disliked the nickname Flav gave her on the dating series' first season in 2006.

"I f---ing hated it!" she said in October 2023. "I'm like, 'Why is he calling me New York?'"

She continued, "You're giving this one the name of Bubbles, and Delicious, and all these sexual names. But as soon as I told him I'm from upstate New York, he goes, 'Oh, I'm just gonna call you New York.'"

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Pollard finished season one as runner-up, and returned for season 2, where she finished in the same position. She was ultimately given her own dating show, *I Love New York*, which ran for two seasons from 2007-2008.

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&34;They seem to have done a pretty good job at getting away with it,&34; the actor said of the Parisian jewel thieves. George Clooney says Ocean's 14 should in

"They seem to have done a pretty good job at getting away with it," the actor said of the Parisian jewel thieves.

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"They seem to have done a pretty good job at getting away with it," the actor said of the Parisian jewel thieves.

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- George Clooney said he was "very proud" of the thieves who recently stole historic jewels from the Louvre.

- "They seem to have done a pretty good job at getting away with it," said the actor behind the professional thief Danny Ocean.

- Clooney also suggested that the upcoming *Ocean's 14 *should rip its plot from the headlines: "I think we should rob the Louvre."

The Louvre heist has prompted reactions of awe, disbelief, and outrage — but George Clooney is one of the few onlookers who feel both pride and a tinge of jealousy.

The actor, who portrayed dapper casino thief Danny Ocean in *Ocean's Eleven* and its sequels, reflected on the audacious burglary in which a group of thieves stole more than $100 million worth of historic jewels from Paris' foremost museum on Sunday.

"It was cool," Clooney said of the Louvre theft during an interview with *Variety* on the *Jay Kelly* red carpet. "I mean, it's terrible. But if you're a professional thief like I am, I was very proud of those guys."

George Clooney in 'Ocean's Eleven'.

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The *Michael Clayton* star added that he's unsure if the culprits will evade authorities. "I wonder if they're going to catch these guys," he said. "They seem to have done a pretty good job at getting away with it."

Clooney's comments came as part of a broader conversation about another *Ocean's* installment, which the actor has sporadically teased over the past few weeks. "I think we should rob the Louvre," he suggested for the long-awaited sequel's plot. "But somebody's already done it, man, I dunno."

It seems that Clooney would settle for just being retroactively inserted into existing footage of the thieves descending from the museum on an electric ladder. "I think you gotta put me in, CGI me into that basket coming out of the Louvre," Clooney told the Associated Press at the same event. "I think you should do that."

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The *Fantastic Mr. Fox* star also expressed his admiration for the thieves' audacity during an interview with *Entertainment Tonight* at the same event. "I was amazed that it was in the middle of broad daylight. Insane," he said. "But every place gets robbed, I guess."

Clooney weighed in on the forthcoming *Ocean's* prequel starring Margot Robbie, for which Bradley Cooper is reportedly in talks to join the *Barbie* star. "They're gonna play my parents," Clooney said, noting that he'll have no creative input on that particular project. "They're all very gifted and talented, and they'll all figure it out. I get to go and watch as a fan."

Earlier this month, Clooney confirmed that a new *Ocean's* sequel is moving forward in the near future with his involvement and that a "great script" has already been submitted. "We just got the budget approved at Warner Bros. and we're trying to set up," he said. "It's just scheduling, so it's just setting a start date for us. Probably start in about nine or 10 months shooting."

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The 2001 movie *Ocean's Eleven* — itself a remake of the 1960 Rat Pack film of the same name — starred Clooney, Brad Pitt, Julia Roberts, Matt Damon, Andy Garcia, Don Cheadle, Elliott Gould, Bernie Mac, Carl Reiner, Eddie Jemison, Qin Shaobo, Casey Affleck, and Scott Caan. They all reprised their roles in 2004's *Ocean's Twelve*, which added Catherine Zeta-Jones, Vincent Cassel, and Eddie Izzard to the fold. Roberts and Zeta-Jones did not return for 2007's *Ocean's Thirteen*, but the rest of the cast reprised their roles alongside newcomers Al Pacino and Ellen Burstyn.

There's no official word at this point regarding who, besides Clooney, would return for a potential *Ocean's *sequel. Mac and Reiner both died in the years since their last appearance in the franchise, while Gould and Shaobo both returned for brief cameos in the 2018 spinoff *Ocean's Eight*, which starred Sandra Bullock, Cate Blanchett, Helena Bonham Carter, Anne Hathaway, Mindy Kaling, and Rihanna.

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