
N. Illinois wins MAC in double OT over Kent St
Jordan Lynch and Northern Illinois won a MAC title game that lived up to the hype. Now the Huskies are lobbying for a chance to play on an even bigger ...
BCS implications in NIU vs Kent St MAC title game
The Mid-American Conference championship game this year has a lot more at stake than usual. It's a showcase for two Top 25 teams on long winning ...
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.

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 ...

Embree suggests he would have needed shortcuts
A choked-up Jon Embree suggested Monday that the only way he could have turned around the University of Colorado's flailing football program in his ...

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 ...

Embree out as head coach of Colorado Buffaloes
Jon Embree is out as head football coach at the University of Colorado after just two seasons and four wins in 25 games. Embree told The Associated ...
No. 1 Notre Dame beats USC 22-13, earns title shot
For four straight plays in the waning minutes, Notre Dame's defense was backed up to its 1 with its perfect season in peril. And on four straight ...

Ducks rebound with 48-24 win over Beavers
Kenjon Barner ran for 198 yards and two touchdowns despite leaving the game for a time with an injury and No. 5 Oregon defeated No. 16 Oregon State ...

Freshman QB leads USC against No. 1 Notre Dame
Not many young quarterbacks would even have the audacity to imagine making their first career starts under the circumstances surrounding Max Wittek ...

Cougars rally to stun Huskies 31-28 in OT
Mike Leach looked around and in an instant the mob was already closing in, heading for midfield and encircling the Washington State coach. After a ...

Fighting Irish and Trojans: The best of a rivalry
The story goes that college football's greatest intersectional rivalry began when Notre Dame coach Knute Rockne's wife convinced her husband to play ...

Column: SEC needs to be flagged for soft schedule
Christian Robinson is a competitor. Naturally, the Georgia linebacker would like to see how the Bulldogs stack up against the best teams from around ...
USC hoping to extend dominance over Irish
The Jeweled Shillelagh has been spending an awful lot of time in Hollywood over the past decade. Southern California has won nine of its last 10 ...

Buckeyes close to perfection; Michigan in way
All that separates Ohio State from a season for the ages is a contest so big that everyone simply calls it "The Game." Just five teams in the ...

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 ...

Injured Matt Barkley isn't sorry he stayed at USC
Whenever Matt Barkley thought about his final run down the Coliseum tunnel, the Southern California quarterback never imagined doing it with no ...

California fires coach Jeff Tedford
Jeff Tedford made a downtrodden program relevant as coach at California, putting out competitive teams for a decade, developing dozens of NFL players ...

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 ...

Column: Waking up echoes? Or knees knocking?
That sound emanating from South Bend this week isn't the echoes of past greatness waking up. It's the knees of everyone with a stake in Notre Dame ...

Notre Dame 1 win away from BCS title game
Notre Dame is a victory away from playing for the BCS title. Alabama and Georgia each need two, and could have to go through each other. A day after ...
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 ...