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Weekend winners
› The Dodgers. Los Angeles became the first team in a quarter-century to win back-to-back World Series titles. It was a classic finish with an all-time Game 7 capped by an all-time performance from Yoshinobu Yamamoto, who pitched a Game 2 shutout, got a Game 6 win with six innings and a Game 7 win with 2.2 innings of stellar relief.
› College football brand-name teams on the playoff edge. Texas topples Vandy and jumps to 13. Notre Dame has a very manageable schedule and is back in the top-10. THE Ohio State now has multiple mulligans in its bag. Alabama and Georgia have wiggle room too.
› Lane Kiffin. Heck, this has been the Fall of Kiffin, as in the season, not the ending of his stays with the Raiders, Vols or Trojans. His current team, the Ole Miss Rebels, are No. 7 in the country and speeding toward the playoff. Kiffin is the hottest name on the coaching carousel, which means a several million-dollar raises whatever his next ZIP code will be.