HOUSTON -- When No. 25 LSU and No. 22 Texas A&M meet in the only college football game on Thanksgiving day, both teams will be looking to cap the regular-season on a positive note after disappointing and inconsistent years.With eight wins, a victory by the Aggies could help them nab a prestigious New Years Day bowl game.Our guys are aware of it, coach Kevin Sumlin said. Without a doubt we still have opportunity to win double-digit games. Very few teams have that. Thats what most important. In order to do that cant look past Thursdays and say that. Focus still remains on Thursday and trying to be 1-0 this week.A win by the Tigers (6-4) could help interim coach Ed Orgeron keep the job full time. LSUs players have been clear about their support for Orgeron, who took over when Les Miles was fired in September.This Thursday, obviously there will be a lot of different motivations and I dont think itll be hard to be motivated for this game because you want to get the bitter taste of a loss out of your mouth, fullback J.D. Moore said. You want to play for coach O whos willing to take the whole blame of an entire team on his shoulders even when it may not be entirely his fault. So its easy to play for a guy like that.Texas A&M will look for another big game from defensive end Myles Garrett , who had a career-high 4 1/2 sacks last week against UTSA. It was the first game Garrett has been healthy after struggling with an ankle injury for several weeks.LSU quarterback Danny Etling knows hell have to watch out for Garrett, who is predicted to be one of the top picks in the draft if he declares.Hes one of those players who is a special talent, Etling said. They have a good defense as a whole but hes obviously what stands out on film and has made a lot of plays. They use him to kind of disrupt some plays in the passing game and hes a good pass rusher.But in the running game I think hes shown that he can play on all those different downs ... hes kind of an all-down defensive lineman who can make a lot of plays for them all over the field, he said.Some things to know about the LSU-Texas A&M game:FOURNETTES STATUSLSU star running back Leonard Fournette has an ankle injury that may keep him out of Thursdays game. Fournette has been slowed by the injury for much of the season and Orgeron said earlier this week that he was day to day and that he was very sore. Orgeron said it has been tough not being able to have him at full strength for the majority of the season.It was something we had to deal with, Orgeron said. We won three games without him being there. He came in and had a great game against Ole Miss. Wed love for him to be healthy.CLOSING IN ON 1,000Texas A&M RB Trayveon Williams needs 44 yards rushing to become the first true freshman in school history to rush for 1,000 yards. Williams had 80 yards rushing last week and has had three games over 100 yards rushing, including a season-high 217 yards rushing in a win over Tennessee.IN THE MIDDLELSUs defense took a considerable hit when senior starting middle linebacker Kendell Beckwith went out with an apparent left knee injury against Florida. The 6-foot-3, 247-pound Beckwith, a clear-cut NFL prospect., has been LSUs leading tackler with 91 tackles, including six tackles for losses, a sack and fumble recovery. He was also the leader of the front seven, if not the whole defense. While Orgeron downplayed the long-term seriousness of Beckwiths injury, he ruled him out against A&M. Donnie Alexander, a junior from New Orleans and former Edna Karr high school teammate of Aggies receiver Speedy Noil, is slated to make his first start for Beckwith.FOCUSED ON FINISHINGAlthough LSU only scored 10 points last weekend against Florida, it wasnt because they couldnt move the ball. The Tigers racked up 423 yards, outgaining the Gators by 153 yards. Etling was 14 of 26 for 204 yards without an interception. If not for their failure to get more than a field goal out of their last four times inside the Florida 10-yard line because of a fumble, botched field goal and gal line stand, the Tigers might have won last weekend.We put up a lot of yards, we executed our game plan and unfortunately we shot ourselves in the foot when we needed some big plays and especially inside the red zone, Etling said.---AP Sports Writer Brett Martel contributed to this report. Mike Scott Jersey . 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Inter president Erick Thohir says in a club statement on Wednesday that Vidic is "one of the worlds best defenders and his qualities, international pedigree, and charisma will be an asset. What went down in the fifth week of college soccer?The aim each week is to bring you five stories that defined the week in college soccer or help navigate the long road to the Womens College Cup -- wherever that road may lead. Relocated to Cary, North Carolina, earlier this year because of stadium issues in Orlando, the College Cup is on the move again after the NCAA moved all 2016-17 championship events out of North Carolina. A new site has yet to be announced.Arkansas breaks through against FloridaSo what do we know about Arkansas after its second win this season against an opponent ranked in the top five? Well, it is probably safe to assert that the Razorbacks will hear a few more people politely decline invitations to Fayetteville. Not that some visitors have any choice. Thats the case for No. 4 Florida, which lost 2-1 at Arkansas in SEC play Friday. That came two weeks after Arkansas beat Duke by the same score.Conditions were a factor in a game delayed by inclement weather and played on a field that was visibly saturated. Against a Florida team that prefers to connect passes and play on the ground, a soggy surface was more of a home-field advantage for Arkansas than that provided by however many fans stuck around out of a crowd listed at 1,155. But there was nothing weather-aided about the ball Arkansas Jessi Hartzler drove into the top corner from 20 yards out in the 23rd minute for the first goal. And when Hartzler headed home a second goal minutes later on a corner kick, it wasnt the field that earned that corner but aggressiveness on the part of the Razorbacks. They held on under a barrage of second-half shots, but they earned the win.With a 2-1 win Sunday against Lipscomb, Arkansas is 9-1-0, the best start in program history.Upsets accumulating for GeorgetownA man with a sense of humor, Georgetown coach Dave Nolan might want to consider telling his team that its next opponent is East Virginia, with North and South to follow soon thereafter.A week after beating Virginia when the Cavaliers were unbeaten and ranked third in the nation, the Hoyas traveled to West Virginia on Sunday and came away with a 1-0 double-overtime win against an opponent that was ranked second in the nation. When Georgetown beat Rutgers in September, the Scarlet Knights still well regarded after a trip to the College Cup a season ago, it was arguably the programs best regular-season nonconference win in at least a decade. In the space of three weeks, it fell to no better than third on that list.Before Grace Damaska stunned the Mountaineers with a long-distance winner in the 102nd minute, the Hoyas also won Friday at George Washington. That was not an easy assignment in its own right, and it was all the more difficult sandwiched between the Virginia and West Virginia games.NC State escapes the mother of all shadowsArkansas went the first 20 games of its all-time series against Florida without a win. Thats a mere dry spell compared to the drought NC State has endured against its neighbor. A soccer afterthoughtt in a soccer-rich area, NC State entered Fridays game at North Carolina with a 1-44-2 record in the all-time series (19 more losses than against any other school).ddddddddddddThe lone win was in 2002. The Wolfpack had never won on the road at Fetzer Field.Not until a 1-0 win Friday.In a game with just 16 total shots, although enough of them on frame from the home team that NC State goalkeeper Sydney Wootten had to make eight saves, the Wolfpack got one opportunity and took it. Kia Rankins 67th-minute goal from a tight angle held up as the winner. All of that despite playing without leading scorer Jackie Stengel, injured in the teams previous game.ACC opening week doesnt disappointThe game in Chapel Hill was only part of the opening act in what remains the most compelling conference in the sport, even if results so far suggest this isnt the ACCs greatest vintage.Clemson, Duke and Virginia each used league openers to reassert their respective credentials. A loser in its two biggest road games of the first month, at West Virginia and South Carolina, Clemson traveled to Wake Forest and came away with a 2-1 win against the previously unbeaten Demon Deacons. Duke rebounded from a frustrating offensive performance in a loss to West Virginia a week earlier with a 3-2 win against Boston College -- rallying from two goals down against an opponent reduced to 10 players by a red card. And Virginia, fresh off that loss at Georgetown a week ago, got two set-piece goals from defender Kristen McNabb to wear down Virginia Tech 2-0, a game in which the Cavaliers piled up 23 shots and 12 corner kicks.But if those teams needed to win to make a statement, Syracuse did it with a draw. Just 8-23-2 in its first three seasons in the ACC, i.e. the deep end of the pool, Syracuse played Notre Dame to a 1-1 stalemate. Break down the record more, and the Orange are 3-1-1 in their five most recent ACC games.Northwesterns perfect month continuesIt was easy to imagine what Northwestern saw in Michael Moynihan when it tempted him away from Wisconsin-Milwaukee, no small feat given the nearly two decades he spent at a Horizon League school where the soccer field is named after his mother. It grows easier to imagine what he saw in a program that for years barely rippled the Big Ten waves.Northwestern shut out Purdue and Indiana to open Big Ten play this past week, neither result particularly notable on its own. But that gives the Wildcats six clean sheets in as many games this month. Not since DePaul scored in the fourth minute on Aug. 25 has Northwestern allowed a goal. 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