Notre Dame players focusing on themselves for now
Notre Dame coach Brian Kelly has bigger things to worry about right now than defending national champion Alabama. With the national championship game ...

Defense leads top teams in offensive-minded game
Offense is in, but defense is still what it takes to win big. That's the lesson of college football's 2012 season. For the fourth straight year, ...

Blockbuster BCS main event, with iffy undercard
The penultimate Bowl Championship Series gave college football a national championship matchup low on controversy and loaded with star power. No.

Busted! Northern Illinois meets FSU in Orange Bowl
What a weekend for Northern Illinois: Win a conference championship, lose a coach and bust the BCS. The Huskies are headed to the Orange Bowl, set to ...
Notre Dame ends season No. 1 in AP poll; Bama 2
Notre Dame ends the regular season as the No. 1 team in The Associated Press college football for the first time since 1988, the last championship ...

BCS bonanza: Alabama vs. Notre Dame
Alabama vs. Notre Dame. The BCS championship game couldn't get much bigger. The Crimson Tide locked up a spot in the title game in Miami on Jan.

Notre Dame beats eighth-ranked Kentucky 64-50
Notre Dame's experience and raucous home crowd were too much for eighth-ranked Kentucky and its heralded freshmen. Junior guards Eric Atkins and ...

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 ...

Notre Dame reigns atop college football again
The postgame roars from Notre Dame's locker room echoed right through the Coliseum's thick cement walls and metal beams Saturday night, moving around ...

Notre Dame still the 1 in AP rankings
Notre Dame is No. 1 in The Associated Press college football rankings with nothing left to do but wait to find out who its opponent in the national ...
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 ...
Notre Dame-USC: Game of the weekend
No. 1 Notre Dame (11-0) at USC (7-4), 8 p.m. Saturday (ABC) Line: Notre Dame by 7. Series Record: Notre Dame leads 43-35-5. WHAT'S AT STAKE Notre Dame ...

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 ...
Kelly follows unusual path to lead Irish to No. 1
Brian Kelly appears to be the coach with all the right answers. Nearly every decision he's made this season has seemed to work out, from picking ...

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 ...
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 ...