— 49ers 20, Panthers 9
McCaffrey had 89 rushing yards, 53 receiving yards against his old team.
49ers were 7-13 on third down, Carolina 1-7
SF won even though Purdy threw 3 INTs on their first four drives.
49ers outgained Carolina, 340-230
Down 7-3, Carolina had ball on SF’s 1-yard line, but Young threw an INT
Carolina in first half: 30 plays, 52 yards, 3 points.
Panthers are 8-15-1 ATS last 24 games as a road underdog.
Panthers are 2-5 when they score less or fewer points.
— Big baseball trade Sunday night; Mets traded OF Brandon Nimmo to Texas for 2B Marcus Semien, in an exchange of highly-paid veterans.
Semien is owed $72M over the next three years; he’s seen as a defensive upgrade at 2B.
Nimmo is owed $101M over the next five years; Texas dumped Adolis Garcia last week.
— Iowa State 83, St John’s 82
Really good game, seemed like a late March game.
Red Storm was 23-30 on foul line, Iowa State 20-25.
6-8 junior Momcilovic scored 23 points for the Cyclones.
— Gonzaga 95, Alabama 85
Zags scored 1.23 points/possession, had 20 offensive rebounds.
Alabama shot only 9-29 on the arc.
6-9 senior Ike had 21 points, 11 boards for Gonzaga.
— Auburn 84, Oregon 73
Game was 37-37 at halftime.
Teams combined to shoot 14-56 on the arc.
Ducks out-rebounded Auburn 46-34.
Oregon turned ball over 18 times, Auburn had only six turnovers.
— Baylor 81, Creighton 74
Baylor had 22 offensive boards, out-rebounded Creighton 45-28.
Bears led by 12 in first half; game was tied with 8:46 left to play.
Baylor only played 7 guys (8th guy played 3:00); could be an issue Tuesday.
— Seton Hall 85, NC State 74
Pirates were 10-point dog; they shot 64.7% inside the arc.
This was Seton Hall’s first top 200 game; they’re #29 in experience.
NC State trailed 35-33 at halftime.
— Cal-San Diego 91, Temple 76
Tritons shot 71.9% inside arc, 12-24 on the arc (1.34 ppp)
Cal-San Diego was 30-5 last year; they’ve got #8 eFG% in country.
Temple is 0-2 vs teams in top 150, giving up 76-91 points.
— Houston 78, Syracuse 74 OT
Houston led by 11 with 3:06 in regulation.
Syracuse lost an OT game when they were 12-29 on foul line.
Cougars shot only 33.3% inside arc, Syracuse 59.4%.
— USC 70, Boise State 67
Trojans shot 11-23 on the arc.
Rodney Rice had 27 points; no other Trojan had more than 11.
USC is 5-0, winning last two games by a combined four points.
— Famous birthdays, November 25th:
John Larroquette, 78
Bernie Kosar, 62
Cris Carter, 60
Mark Whiten, 59
Jill Hennessy, 57
Anthony Peeler, 56
Donovan McNabb, 49
Jerry Ferrera, 46
Nick Swisher, 45
Trevor Booker, 38
Alec Burleson, 27
Blake Corum, 25
— Las Vegas Raiders fired offensive coordinator Chip Kelly Sunday, 11 games into his first season with the Raiders. Raiders had previously fired their special teams coach a few weeks ago.
Las Vegas is:
tied for last in the NFL in points per game (15.0)
30th in total yards per game (268.9)
31st in rushing per game (79.5 yards)
30th in offensive EPA (minus-77.8)
28th in red zone efficiency (48.1%).
Kelly is making $6M this season. Maybe the Raiders should acquire a better QB.
— New Jersey Giants fired defensive coordinator Shane Bowen; they’ve lost five road games this year that they led in by 10+ points. Giants have lost their last 12 road games- they fired head coach Brian Daboll a couple weeks ago.
— NFL divisional trends:
AFC East
Underdogs 5-3 ATS divisional games
11-6 ATS non-divisional underdogs
AFC North
Home teams 5-0 ATS divisional games
13-21 ATS non-divisional games
AFC South
Home teams, favorites 4-1 ATS divisional games.
12-7 ATS non-divisional underdogs
AFC West
Home teams 3-1 ATS divisional games
4-10 ATS non-divisional road team
NFC East
Home teams 5-2 ATS divisional games
6-10 ATS non-divisional underdogs
NFC North
Favorites 4-1 ATS divisional games
11-9 ATS non-divisional favorite
NFC South
Underdogs 3-1 ATS divisional games
14-20 ATS non-divisional games
NFC West
Home teams 1-5 ATS divisional games
18-11 non-divisional games
— College football trends, conference games:
American
Road favorites 16-8 ATS
All favorites 30-19 ATS
ACC
Home favorites 16-21 ATS
Big 18
Home underdogs 16-13 ATS
Big X
Home favorites 26-18 ATS
Home underdogs 8-14 ATS
All favorites 40-26 ATS
Conference USA
Home teams 27-14 ATS
Mid-American
Home teams 29-17 ATS
Mountain West
Home favorites 15-13 ATS
SEC
Home favorites 22-17 ATS
Sun Belt
Home teams 28-22 ATS
