No bend for Badgers' Beckum
Wisconsin tight end Travis Beckum broke his left leg in Saturday's 27-17 win against Illinois and is out for the season. He had surgery on his fibula Saturday night after injuring it in the third quarter. Beckum decided to return for his senior season, forgoing the NFL draft as one of the nation's top pass-catching tight ends to pursue a Big Ten title.
But he sustained a hamstring injury that kept him out of the first two games and most of a third to start the year, and Wisconsin (4-4, 1-4 Big Ten) lost four in a row after rising as high as ninth in the poll.
Beckum ended his career with 159 receptions for 2,149 yards and 11 touchdowns.
Yates not ready to return yet for UNC: Injured North Carolina quarterback T.J. Yates is getting back to work -- sort of.
Coach Butch Davis said Sunday that he expects Yates to do some light throwing this week, but added that there's ''no expectation'' yet that he has healed enough to play next week against Georgia Tech.
Saturday marks six weeks since Yates broke his left ankle Sept. 20 against Virginia Tech. The injury was expected to cost the quarterback six weeks.
The 21st-ranked Tar Heels are off this week and play the Yellow Jackets on Nov. 8.
SUNDAY'S GAME
No. 19 Tulsa, UCF 19: At Tulsa, Okla., David Johnson threw for 264 yards and a touchdown, ran for two more scores and brought No. 19 Tulsa's high-powered offense to life in the second half to overpower UCF 49-19 in the Golden Hurricane's first game in the Top 25 in 17 years.
Damaris Johnson made up for a critical early fumble by returning the second-half kickoff 70 yards to set up a go-ahead touchdown. Johnson zoomed in from 10 yards out to give Tulsa (8-0, 5-0 Conference USA) a 21-19 lead, and he kept the nation's top-ranked offense in gear from there on out.
