FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. — Arkansas’ football team was in mourning Sunday following the death of backup tight end Garrett Uekman.
The school said Uekman was pronounced dead at Washington Regional Medical Center on Sunday afternoon.
The cause of death wasn’t immediately known, but the university said Uekman was found unconscious and unresponsive in his dorm room on campus at approximately 10:15 a.m. MST. He was last seen playing video games by a roommate approximately an hour earlier.
When emergency services personnel arrived, Uekman was in cardiac arrest and was pronounced dead at 12:10 p.m.
“Garrett Uekman was a special member of our family, and we are all saddened by his passing,” Arkansas coach Bobby Petrino said in a statement. “His loss is a terrible shock.”
University police Lt. Mat Mills said there were no suspicious circumstances about Uekman’s death, and his body will be sent to the state medical examiner for an autopsy.
The 19-year-old Uekman redshirted last season for the Razorbacks and played in nine games this season.
Miami isn’t bowl-bound
CORAL GABLES, Fla. — Miami is not going to a bowl this season, self-imposing a ban that school officials say was “necessary” in response to an ongoing NCAA investigation into the university’s compliance practices.
Players were informed Sunday that Friday’s game against Boston College will be the last this season, even though the Hurricanes have enough wins to qualify for a postseason appearance. By self-imposing a ban, Miami is trying to lessen the impact of whatever sanctions the NCAA hands down once its investigation ends.
SEC rules.
The latest AP college football poll gives a new meaning to the term all-SEC.
The Southeastern Conference is the second league to have the top three spots in the ranking all to itself.
No. 1 LSU held the top spot for the ninth straight week in Sunday’s rankings, while Alabama moved up a spot to No. 2 and Arkansas jumped three places to No. 3.
The only other time in the 75-year history of The Associated Press rankings that the top three teams all came from the same conference was the final regular-season poll of 1971, when Nebraska, Oklahoma and Colorado from the Big Eight were 1-2-3.
Footnotes.
A rented U-Haul that struck and killed a Massachusetts tailgater at Saturday’s Yale-Harvard football game malfunctioned as a Yale undergraduate drove the vehicle into a crowded parking lot, the student’s attorney said.
• Notre Dame running back Jonas Gray has a “significant” injury to his right knee, and Irish coach Brian Kelly is not expecting the senior to play again.
• Alabama safety Will Lowery is out for the season with a torn ACL suffered Saturday against Georgia Southern.
• Columbia fired coach Norries Wilson the day after the Lions beat Brown to avoid a winless season.
