College Sports

Alabama, Oregon, Florida State and Ohio State have been selected to play in the first College Football Playoff.

Jameis Winston threw for 309 yards and three touchdowns, and second-ranked Florida State held off No. 12 Georgia Tech 37-35 Saturday night to win their third consecutive ACC championship.

Former Gainesville High standout Blake Sims threw a pair of touchdown passes, T.J. Yeldon and Derrick Henry each had a couple of touchdown runs, and top-ranked Alabama pulled away in the fourth quarter to win its 24th Southeastern Conference championship with a 42-13 rout of No. 14 Missouri on Saturday.

Ty Greene is not one of the five Georgians on USC-Upstate's roster, but the senior guard looked like the most excited Spartan Saturday after scoring 13 of his game-high 16 points in the second half as USC-Upstate stretched its winning streak against ACC schools to two with a 59-54 win at Georgia Tech.

Phillip Leonard and Ike Nwamu each had 18 points as Mercer finished strong to knock of VMI 90-81 in a Southern Conference battle Saturday night.

Georgia Tech and head coach Paul Johnson have agreed in principle to a four-year contract extension through the 2020 season

The North Georgia women's basketball team took down Chowan University, 75-57, Friday afternoon in the opener of the Heritage Bank Classic at Clayton State.

Becca Mills scored the game-winning basket with 54 seconds to play in overtime Thursday night and No. 16 Michigan State rallied to beat Georgia Tech 79-73 in an ACC/Big Ten Challenge game.

Shacobia Barbee was one of three Georgia players to score a dozen points and she also made six steals in helping the 19th-ranked and undefeated Lady Bulldogs take a 68-49 victory over Mercer on Thursday night.

Florida athletic director Jeremy Foley wanted a coach with an offensive track record of success.