Thanksgiving Football Scores - NFL And College Football Scores

Turkey and the NFL are two key ingredients to an All-American Thanksgiving Day, and in most households across the country both the television and the oven have been on since 11 am. It was an NFL tripleheader this Thanksgiving, with the Jets and the Bengals joining the usual suspect Cowboys and Lions and their erstwhile opponents this year.

The player of the day was Tom Brady who threw four TD passes and racked up a perfect quarterback rating as the Patriots offense cranked into high gear in the second half of their game at Detroit.

NFL Scores for Thursday Nov. 25, 2010

New England 45 Detroit 24

The first NFL match up of the day was a tight, back and forth game until the fourth quarter when Tom Brady and the Patriots caught fire and left Detroit in their rear view mirror.

New Orleans 30 Dallas 27

Drew Brees and the Saints rallied to score with just 1:55 remaining to hold off the Cowboys, who had mounted a big second half comeback in trying to notch their third win in a row.

Cincinnati 10 NY Jets 26

The Jets finally jump-started their offense in the second half of this game, scoring 23 points (including a safety) in the third and fourth quarters.

College Football Scores for Thursday Nov. 25, 2010

Texas A&M 24 Texas 17

The Aggies get some long-delayed revenge against their arch-rival Longhorns in their annual Thanksgiving weekend showdown, although both teams tried to give the win away in a mistake filled game with 7 total turnovers.

Thanksgiving Day NFL and College Football Notes

Tom Brady of the New England Patriots went wild in the 4th quarter of what had been a close game to toss two TD passes as the Patriots revved it up to cruise by the Lions. Brady had a total of 341 yards and four touchdowns on the day, all four in the second half. The performance earned Brady a perfect quarterback rating of 158.3 for only the second time in his career.

Kicker David Buehler of the Cowboys made a 53-yard field goal in the Cowboys loss to the Saints, and just missed a 59-yard effort at the end of the fourth quarter that would have sent the game into overtime.

Cyrus Gray of Texas A&M ran wild over the defense of the Texas Longhorns racking up 223 yards and 2 touchdown in route to the Aggies big win in Austin.

College Football Rivalry Weekend

Tomorrow kicks off 2010 college football rivalry weekend and there are several big games on tap both Friday and Saturday before we get back to the NFL action Sunday. Cam Newton and No. 2 Auburn travel to No. 9 Alabama in what could be the biggest game of the season so far. And No. 1 Oregon has to take on No. 20 Arizona in another big rivalry game. Saturday's late offers both Florida vs Florida State and Oklahoma vs Oklahoma State.

For more on college football see:

College Football Scores - NCAA Top 25 Football Scores and Summaries

College Football Scores for Nov. 18-20