
Friday college football: five final recaps from Indiana to Clemson
From Friday’s completed slate.
By Beat Chuck College Football Desk / Published September 26, 2026
Five Friday college football games are final, with four results from the Eastern and Central time zones followed by Clemson's late finish at California. Each matchup has its own reported recap, linked below. This page is a guide to the completed Friday window, so the individual articles remain the place for scoring sequences, player lines and source detail.
Friday results
- Indiana 29, Northwestern 23: Lee Beebe Jr. ran for 203 yards and Indiana held off a late Wildcats push.
- Army 21, Temple 17: Cale Hellums scored three touchdowns as Army erased a deficit.
- UAB 24, Navy 20: UAB found the late go-ahead play after Navy led in the fourth.
- Rutgers 58, Howard 7: Rutgers pulled away behind a rushing attack led by Antwan Raymond.
- Clemson 24, California 10: Bryant Wesco Jr. returned a punt for a touchdown and Gideon Davidson ran for 159 yards.
Indiana's narrow win and Army's rally supplied the closest margins. Navy held a fourth-quarter lead before UAB's late score; Rutgers' result was the widest margin of the group. The Clemson-Cal game was still live after midnight Eastern and was added only after ESPN marked it final at 24-10. Wesco's punt return broke a third-quarter tie, and Davidson's long fourth-quarter run gave the Tigers separation.
The five matchups were separate games with different turning points. Their scores should not be treated as a single trend or a set of predictions for Saturday. Readers looking for the completed box scores can follow the individual reports above, each tied to its own game record and final result. This collection is an index of those five published recaps and is not a sixth game article.
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