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No. 14 Nebraska hoping for title luck vs. Badgers
Nebraska's Will Compton may never forget the agonizing details of his first two conference championship game. A third one could finally put those ...
MAC championship has BCS implications
Time to put the BCS puzzle together. There's not a lot of mystery going into championship weekend. Mostly, everything should simply fall into place.
Young Frogs prove they can compete in Big 12
The biggest question when two-time BCS buster TCU made the move to the Big 12 was whether the Horned Frogs could handle the week-to-week grind of ...
Tulane, ECU to join Big East in '14, leaving C-USA
The Big East moved quickly to replace Rutgers and braced for more possible departures, getting Tulane and East Carolina to agree to join the ...
Will Manziel break Heisman Trophy frosh curse?
In the 77-year history of the Heisman Trophy, no freshman has ever won the award. Texas A&M's Johnny Manziel, the player who proved coach Kevin ...
Balancing wins and losses with dollars and cents
Deciding whether to fire a college football coach often comes down to balancing wins and losses with dollars and cents. Five coaches were fired ...
Heisman hopeful Manziel happy to talk to media
The legend of Johnny Football has grown all season while Johnny Manziel piled up yards and the Texas A&M Aggies piled up wins. On Monday, the freshman ...
No. 12 Sooners right on schedule for Big 12 title
Casey Walker looked squarely into a television camera, clapped his hands and uttered words no Oklahoma player is accustomed to saying: "Let's go ...
Big 12 to send 9 teams to postseason
The health of the Big 12 has been a topic of debate since Nebraska and Colorado kicked off a four-team exodus a few years back. Judging by the results ...
SEC holds national bragging rights yet again
With the majority of conference regular-season games in the books, the SEC again holds national bragging rights. It appears that for the second year ...
Notre Dame is 1 and waiting for SEC to play out
Breaking down the AP college football poll after Week 13 of the regular season. ___ MAKING A STATEMENT Notre Dame is No. 1 in The Associated Press Top ...
BCS standings set up semifinal in SEC title game
Two years before the playoffs start in college football, the Southeastern Conference is staging a semifinal to determine who plays Notre Dame in the ...
Clay's TD lifts No. 14 Sooners to 51-48 Bedlam win
After the first overtime game in the Bedlam rivalry, a wild celebration on Owen Field and yet another 500-yard passing game, it all settled in for ...
Hardaway scores 23, No. 4 Michigan beats K-State
Tim Hardaway Jr. brought the ball up the court, then dribbled between his legs and headed to the left. Then he flashed back to his right, rose up and ...
Defense sparks TCU over No. 18 Texas 20-13
TCU could get used to these Thanksgiving games. Given their first chance to play one since 1928, the Horned Frogs beat No. 18 Texas to get the biggest ...
Sumlin's switch from defense to offense pays off
Texas A&M coach Kevin Sumlin has led one a top-five offense in four of the five seasons since becoming a head coach. If not for a push from Mike Price ...
Irish trying to turn USC rivalry their way
The Notre Dame-USC rivalry has been defined by dominance over the last four decades. Two of college football's most celebrated teams have alternated ...
No peace: Conference realignment revs up again
Just when it looked as if there would be peace, that the conferences were done realigning, the Big Ten struck another blow that will send shock waves ...
Nation's top 2 all-purpose outings come in losses
The top two all-purpose performances in the nation were turned in on the same weekend — both in losses. Tavon Austin of West Virginia piled up a Big ...
Notre Dame No. 1, Alabama No. 2 in AP Top 25
Surprise! Surprise! Two straight weekends of seismic upsets not only sent tremors throughout college football from the Deep South to the Pacific ...
Notre Dame stays unbeaten, then get more good news
No. 3 Notre Dame stayed undefeated with an uncharacteristically easy victory at home and then had the rest of the night to watch as the teams in front ...
No. 14 Stanford upsets No. 1 Oregon 17-14 in OT
As Stanford's game-winning field goal tumbled through the goal posts, Oregon running back Kenjon Barner fell to his knees in dejection. With a clear ...
A night of upsets and Irish, Tide rise in football
Coming into Saturday, Oregon and Kansas State had the inside track to college football's national championship and the Southeastern Conference's run ...
No. 2 Kansas State, Klein upset 52-24 at Baylor
Collin Klein and second-ranked Kansas State can still get to a BCS game. Getting to the BCS championship game is all but lost. "Anger, frustration, ...