Fast Break

NFL

Sunday’s results

Bears 34, Lions 7

Dolphins 17, Chargers 10

Falcons 27, Packers 24

Giants 44, Seahawks 6

Titans 13, Ravens 10

Colts 31, Texans 27

Panthers 34, Chiefs 0

Redskins 23, Eagles 17

Broncos 16, Buccaneers 13

Cowboys 31, Bengals 22

Cardinals 41, Bills 17

Patriots 30, 49ers 21

Steelers 26, Jaguars 21

Today’s game

Minnesota at New Orleans, 5:30 p.m. (ESPN)

College football

Ball State cracks Top 25

David Letterman is going to love this: At No. 25 in the AP college football poll, his alma mater, Ball State.

The Cardinals, who have remained unbeaten while losing one of their best players to a career-ending spine injury, are ranked in the Top 25 for the first time.

After a week with few upsets, the top of media poll underwent only slight alterations.

Oklahoma was No. 1 with 51 first-place votes and 1,608 points, gaining a few points and top votes in its second week on top of the rankings this season.

No. 2 Alabama has 13 first-place votes and 1,537 points. Missouri moved up one spot to No. 3 after winning 52-17 at Nebraska.

LSU dropped a spot to No. 4 after an off week, and Texas remained No. 5.

Ball State, located in Muncie, Ind., is probably best known for being the place Letterman went to school. The gapped-toothed host of the “Late Show” has another reason to boast about Ball State now.

The Cardinals are off to their best start since going 9-0 to begin the 1965 season.

“It’s flattering, obviously, but there’s so much season left to play,” sixth-year coach Brady Hoke said in a conference call with reporters Sunday. “You have to evaluate the season at the end. We’ve got a lot of big games ahead of us.”

SOCCER

Team pitches in for gas money

Things were bad enough for the players and coaches of the French soccer club Olympique Marseille last week when they were beaten by Atletico Madrid in a European Champions League game in Spain.

But when they got to the airport to fly home, they found that their charter flight was grounded because the pilot’s credit card had been rejected by Exxon and he couldn’t refuel the plane.

What to do? The players and coaches passed the hat and came up with the necessary 3,000 euros ($4,090) to buy the fuel.

Marseille Coach Eric Gerets, a former Belgian World Cup player, was not amused.

“I wanted to buy two cigars, but I gave 100 euros, which meant I was not able to smoke today,” he said. “I felt as though I was in a film, a bad one. Had we won, I would not have cared, but because we lost it was a little more difficult to take.”