COLLEGE STATION, Texas -- Derrius Guice ran for a school-record 285 yards with four touchdowns and Danny Etling threw for 324 yards and two scores to give short-handed? LSU a 54-39 victory over Texas A&M on Thursday night.The Tigers were playing without star running back Leonard Fournette and leading tackler Kendell Beckwith because of injuries. But Guice and Etling did plenty to allow LSU (7-4, 5-3 SEC) to handle Texas A&M, and gave the Tigers a 300-yard passer and a 200-yard rusher in the same game for the first time in school history.It certainly wasnt the first time Guice has had a big game this year, with Fournette struggling with an ankle injury for a big chunk of the season. His performance pushed his career-high rushing total to 1,249 and his four TDs were a career high. The game gave him one more yard than Fournette gained to set the schools single-game rushing record last month.The Tigers spoke this week about wanting a win to help boost interim coach Ed Orgerons chances of keeping the job. But on Thursday reports surfaced that LSU was zeroing in on Houstons Tom Herman. The reports prompted LSUs vice chancellor and athletic director Joe Alleva and university administration to issue a statement denying they had chosen a new coach and praising Orgerons work since taking over in September when Les Miles was fired.While LSU wasnt at full strength, the Aggies (8-4, 4-4) were the healthiest theyve been in weeks, with defensive end Myles Garrett over an ankle injury and quarterback Trevor Knight back from a shoulder injury. Knight made an unexpected return after missing the last two games with the injury. Coach Kevin Sumlin said days after he was injured that he would miss the remainder of the regular season but would return for A&Ms bowl game. Instead he returned to throw for 211 yards and three touchdowns before leaving the game late in the fourth quarter with what looked to be a knee injury.The Aggies cut the lead to 10 with a field goal on the opening drive of the second half, but soon Guice was at work again. His second 45-yard touchdown run came on LSUs next drive to extend the lead to 27-10. Texas A&M failed to convert on fourth-and-4 to give the Tigers the ball back and Guice got to the end zone again, this time on a 6-yard run, to make it 34-10.Texas A&M cut to deficit with touchdowns three times after that, but each time LSU responded with TDs of its own to keep the game out of reach.Guice, who had 37 carries, had 65 yards rushing on LSUs first possession, highlighted by a 45-yard touchdown run that made it 7-0. The Aggies tied it in the first with a 36-yard touchdown pass from Knight to Christian Kirk.The Tigers added two field goals before Devin White forced and recovered a fumble by freshman Trayveon Williams late in the second quarter. He returned it for what was initially ruled a touchdown but was called back after a review. It didnt matter much though as Etling connected with Malachi Dupre two plays later on a 20-yard scoring pass that extended LSUs lead to 20-7.THE TAKEAWAYLSU: The Tigers responded to the adversity of missing their top players with a nice win to cap what has been a disappointing regular season.TEXAS A&M: The Aggies missed a chance to improve their bowl status and possibly move into a prestigious New Years day bowl game despite the return of Knight.UP NEXTBoth teams will wait for their bowl pairings. Joe Smith Jersey .J. Ellis hit two-run homers and the NL West champion Los Angeles Dodgers defeated the San Diego Padres 4-0 Saturday night. 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Real Madrid needed a late goal by substitute Jese Rodriguez to earn a 3-2 victory at Valencia to stay in third place and three points behind its title rivals. Rob Smedley says Felipe Massa found the perfect way to end his Formula One career by holding off Fernando Alonso for ninth in Abu Dhabi.Massa kept former Ferrari teammate Alonso at bay at the Yas Marina bay at what was the 250th and final start of his career. The pairs tenure at Ferrari is best remembered for the 2010 German Grand Prix, when then-race engineer Smedley gave Massa the veiled team order Fernando is faster than you so he would let the Spaniard past.Smedley, who moved with Massa to Williams in 2014, was happy to see his friend bow out with a determined drive.It was a tough race, as we expected it to be, Smedley said. Unfortunately, Valtteri [Bottas] went out with a rear suspension failure so we will look into that. Felipe drove a really good race in the car that he had and it was a fitting end to his career. Fernando Alonso gambled on a different tyre strategy bbut Felipe was able to hold him off until the end and finished ninth.ddddddddddddIts not where we really want to be but it was a good job by all the guys.While the dramatic title finale was unfolding at the front, deputy team boss Claire Williams admits her garage was preoccupied with Alonsos lap times as he cut the gap to Massa in the closing stages.That wasnt good, when we saw the margins dropping between him and Alonso, Williams laughed in her post-race media session. It was like, I hope Alonsos nice to him, because I know he went over to hug him before the race and wish him well. I know drivers dont behave like this but I just hoped, just dont do that to him on his last race, its not going to make any impact on anybody so let him take ninth! ' ' '