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3:28 AM Thanks to Greg McElroy's four-yard touchdown pass to Roy Upchurch with 1:24 left, Alabama squeaked past Auburn 26-21 to finish the regular season undefeated. Next up is Florida in the SEC Title Game, with a trip to Pasadena at stake.

3:24 AM 48 hours after he reported Allen Iverson was retiring, Stephen A. Smith is now reporting Iverson is likely coming back to join the Sixers.

10:58 PM After today's events, John Ziegler, the man who operates the website Tiger Woods Is God is pretty upset. How upset? He asks, "Does anyone want to buy a website?" If my attempted auction of RickPitinoisgod.com is any indication, he might wanna hold off.

8:00 PM Hit of the day comes from Rutgers safety Zaire Kitchen, who laid out Louisville WR Doug Beaumont. Kitchen was flagged on the play, while Beaumont was taken off the field on a stretcher. Fortunately, Beaumont had movement in all his extremities, and X-rays came back negative.