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- The Minutemen flip the script! This is The Sports Reset for Friday September 4th In college football, the Massachusetts Minutemen stunned the Rutgers Scarlet Knights 37 to 21. Pop Watson III threw for 197 yards and three touchdowns, two to Elijah Faulkner, as UMass built a 24 to 7 halftime lead and ended the FBS’s longest active losing streak at 16 games. The Minutemen were 29.5-point underdogs, making it the sport’s largest point-spread upset since 2021. The Colorado Buffaloes edged the Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets 14 to 13 after Julian Lewis found Charlie Williams for a 20-yard touchdown with 42 seconds left, then Boo Carter blocked a 45-yard field-goal try at the horn. In MLB, Adley Rutschman homered twice in his return to Baltimore as the Boston Red Sox beat the Baltimore Orioles 6 to 5, leaving the Orioles one and a half games outside the final AL wild-card spot. The Los Angeles Dodgers also slipped past the St. Louis Cardinals 3 to 2, with Freddie Freeman hitting his first homer since July 4. Looking ahead, in MLB, the New York Yankees open a three-game series at the San Diego Padres with Max Fried carrying a 2.80 ERA into the opener. San Diego has lost seven of nine and sits a half-game behind the final National League wild-card position. In college football, the seventh-ranked Miami Hurricanes open their season at the Stanford Cardinal after finishing as national runners-up last year. The 14th-ranked USC Trojans host the Fresno State Bulldogs, with USC seeking a second straight win after scoring 42 points in its opener. Saturday brings the week’s marquee game, as the 11th-ranked LSU Tigers host the Clemson Tigers in Lane Kiffin’s debut, with Arizona State transfer Sam Leavitt starting at quarterback for LSU and Christopher Vizzina taking over a rebuilt Clemson offense. Beyond the scoreboard, the Houston Rockets signed Amen Thompson to a five-year, 208 million dollar extension after the 23-year-old posted career highs of 18.3 points, 7.8 rebounds and 5.3 assists per game.