2024: Week 16

11 games. One ranked team lost, to an unranked team. Winners are listed first; numbers before names are AP ranks going in.

The week in review

Upsets

Dec 14, 2024Navy 31, 19Army 13upsetBox score

A ranked team beaten as the betting favorite, or, where no line is on file, by an unranked or lower-ranked team.

Big days

Defense

  1. Justin Reed Navy10 tackles, 1.5 for loss
  2. Kalib Fortner Army8 tackles
Ranked by a points score for each kind of game (yards, touchdowns, tackles, sacks).
How we rankRanked by yards plus 20 for each touchdown (passing: less 20 for each interception); defense (from 2016, when the box scores carry tackles) by points: 8 a tackle, 12 a tackle for loss, 30 a sack (a sack is also a tackle for loss, so 42 in all), 40 an interception, 60 a touchdown.
Photos: Wikimedia Commons, free licenses; credits on each player’s page.

The week’s biggest individual games by FBS players, from CollegeFootballData box scores.

FBS vs. FBS

Dec 14, 2024Navy 31, 19Army 13upsetBox score

Everyone else

Dec 13, 2024Montana State 52, Idaho 19Box score
Dec 14, 2024South Dakota State 55, Incarnate Word 14Box score
Dec 14, 2024Mount Union 38, Salisbury 17Box score
Dec 14, 2024Susquehanna 24, Bethel (MN) 21Box score
Dec 14, 2024Johns Hopkins 17, Mary Hardin Baylor 10Box score
Dec 14, 2024Valdosta State 35, Minnesota State 21Box score
Dec 14, 2024North Central College 27, Springfield 3Box score
Dec 14, 2024North Dakota State 31, Mercer 7Box score
Dec 14, 2024Ferris State 48, Slippery Rock 38Box score
Dec 14, 2024South Dakota 35, UC Davis 21Box score