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Rivalry Week is here, from the Iron Bowl to the Egg Bowl to the Old Oaken Bucket. Or was Rivalry Week this past Saturday, from the Golden Boot to the Big Game to The Game (congrats, Yale, on beating Harvard for the first time since 2006)? Big rivalries are sprinkled throughout the college football season, and as much grief as we give the schedulers (see first item below), they dont save the best for last. We get the Red River Rivalry and Floyd of Rosedale in early October, we get newbie rivalries such as Clemson-Florida State later in October and we get games such as Notre Dame-USC bouncing from October to November from year to year. Its great to be in Rivalry Week, but its good that we didnt have to wait all season for rivalries.1. One benefit from the way that LSU swiped a home game from Florida due to Hurricane Matthew is that it broke up SEC Chump Saturday. Just remember: When the SEC voted against playing nine conference games, Saturdays originally scheduled competition is what the league voted for: Alabama-Chattanooga, Auburn-Alabama A&M, Kentucky-Austin Peay, South Carolina-Western Carolina, Georgia-Louisiana Lafayette, LSU-South Alabama and Florida-Presbyterian. In mid-November. Its as if the final round of the Masters stopped at the 15th hole for an hour for the field to grab a beer and a pimiento cheese sandwich.2. But LSU-Florida provided even more benefits. First, the Tigers comeuppance: losing 16-10 when they failed to score twice from the 1-yard-line in the last 12 seconds. Second, South Alabama. Not only did the Jaguars get a $1.5 million buyout from LSU for giving up their slot in SEC Chump Saturday, but they played Presbyterian, which Florida had to abandon. The Jags beat the Blue Hose 31-7 and raised their record to 5-5 instead of falling to 4-6. In other words, South Alabama might qualify for a bowl game, thanks to LSU. And third, theres always the knowledge that LSU has to play at Florida the next two seasons.3. Only one win over an FCS team may count toward the six wins needed to qualify for a bowl. However, the NCAA gave South Alabama a waiver, given the reason why the Jags have two FCS victories. Army, 6-5, with two FCS wins, must beat Navy or else the Black Knights will fall into the pool of five-win teams hoping for a shortage of six-win teams. Last season, three 5-7 teams played in bowls (and Nebraska, Minnesota and San Jose State all won). This season, if needed, the NCAA will select the 5-7 teams with the highest Academic Progress Rate (APR) scores, which a good way to connect academic success to athletic success. Here are a few 5-6 teams (and Army), their APR scores and their next opponents: Northwestern 992 vs. Illinois (3-8) Vanderbilt 990 vs. Tennessee (8-3) Army 989 vs. Navy (8-2) Boston College 981 at Wake Forest (6-5) Indiana 979 vs. Purdue (3-8) Maryland 977 vs. Rutgers (2-9) Texas 971 vs. TCU (5-5) NC State 969 at North Carolina (8-3) SMU 945 vs. Navy (8-2)4. When Luke Falk is on, there is no passer in the country more dangerous than the Washington State junior. He might look like Clayton Kershaw in shoulder pads -- the 6-foot-4, 225-pound Kershaw has 10 pounds on Falk -- but in the first half on Saturday at Colorado, Falk threw more like Hall of Famer Greg Maddux. He picked a spot and delivered a tight spiral with the exact pace he needed -- not 1 mph faster, not 1 mph slower. Falks anticipation is such that as the ball sails to its spot, your eye has time to find the receiver and watch the two intersect. Falk was victimized by drops, and he had less time in the second half than in the first. But when Falk is on, he is fun to watch.5. I wrote a note last week about Rutgers being shut out three times, and the Scarlet Knights failed to score again on Saturday against No. 8 Penn State. Rutgers march to infamy hasnt included many trips to the red zone. It has gotten there only 23 times all season. The next fewest is from Georgia State, with 25, yet the Panthers rank 35th in red zone efficiency because they have scored 22 times. Rutgers has combined not getting to the opponents 20 with not doing well once they arrive there. The Scarlet Knights have scored eight touchdowns, kicked eight field goals and failed to score seven times. By comparison, Michigan has made 58 trips to the red zone and scored 53 times.6.?DOnta Foreman?of Texas overtook Donnel Pumphrey of San Diego State for the lead in FBS rushing yards on Saturday, perhaps the lone bright spot in the Longhorns overtime loss to Kansas. 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MIAMI -- Andrew Cashner finally resembled like the pitcher the Miami Marlins hoped he would be when they acquired him in a trade with San Diego.Cashner struck out nine over 5 1/3 innings to win his first game for the Marlins, a 6-0 victory over the Phillies on Wednesday night.Obviously good, Marlins manager Don Mattingly said. He had a lot of pitches to get there. He was changing speeds a lot and was obviously successful.Acquired from San Diego on July 29, Cashner (5-11) allowed four hits and matched his season high for strikeouts. He had been 0-4 in his first six starts following the trade.Its kind of been a struggle since Ive been over here, Cashner said. We had a different lineup tonight. Its good to have some guys back and get us rolling.Cashner walked two and kept the Phillies off balance by pitching to all parts of the plate.He had a good mix of his pitches, fastball and slider, and he was effectively wild at times as well, Phillies first baseman Tommy Joseph said. He pitched to his game plan.Martin Prado drove in three runs for the Marlins, who faded from playoff contention by losing their previous five games and 10 of 11.We still have a lot of baseball left, Cashner said.Mike Dunn, Kyle Barraclough, A.J. Ramos and Austin Brice combined for hitless relief.Jeremy Hellickson (10-9) gave up four runs -- three earned -- and nine hits in six innings.I made too many mistakes early in the count especially the first couple of innings, Hellickson said.Ichiro Suzuki tripled in the first and scored Prados groundout. Sacrifice flies by Realmuto in the second and Prado in the fifth boosted the lead to 3-0.Third baseman Andres Blancos throwing error allowed Marcell Ozuna to reach in the sixth, andd Ozuna scored on J.ddddddddddddT. Realmutos double-play grounder.Prado and Christian Yelich hit consecutive RBI doubles in the seventh off Severino Gonzalez.Cesar Hernandez had two hits for the Phillies.Back to no offense, Phillies manager Pete Mackanin said. Cesar had a couple of hits and we had a couple of men in scoring position, but couldnt get them in.ICHIROSuzuki had two hits, passing Rafael Palmeiro and increasing his career total to 3,021. He needs two hits to tie Lou Brock.TRAINERS ROOMPhillies: 3B Maikel Franco did not play after jamming his right thumb during Sundays game against Atlanta.Marlins: LHP Adam Conley (finger) could return to the Marlins this season in a relief role after being a starter prior to his injury that has sidelined him since Aug. 14. Is it going to be build back up to 100 pitches, Im not quite sure thats going to happen this season, but I think there is a chance if everything continues on a good path we could see him some time, manager Don Mattingly said.UP NEXTPhillies: RHP Alec Asher is to make his season debut Thursday to begin a four-game series at Washington. Asher was 0-6 with a 9.31 ERA in seven starts last season. He will go up against Nationals RHP A.J. Cole (1-1, 3.86 ERA). The two young right-handers went to high school 75 miles apart in Florida.Marlins: RHP Jose Fernandez (13-8, 3.03) will oppose Dodgers LHP Clayton Kershaw (11-1, 1.79) on Friday. I look forward to every match-up, but of course theres certain guys that you think, `I wish that I could pitch against this guy so Im looking forward to it, Fernandez said. ' ' '