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Running to daylight, Gerhart puts Stanford back in spotlight
Even at 6-1 and 235 pounds, Toby Gerhart is not too big to laugh at himself.
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Stanford Cardinal
BCS leaders face weekend easy as A-B-C
This college football weekend might be viewed as the calm before the storm. With the teams at or near the top of the Bowl Championship ...
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Third-string QB rallies No. 12 Oklahoma State past Colorado
Third-string quarterback Brandon Weeden threw for 168 yards and two touchdowns in the second half, leading No. 12 Oklahoma State ...
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Oklahoma State Cowboys
Colorado Buffaloes
Ohio State kicker Barclay finds success in life after soccer
Chad Marshall, a defender with the Columbus Crew and U.S. soccer team, was a world away from The Horseshoe when he saw his friend, ...
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Ohio State Buckeyes
Cincinnati's Collaros face jail for not resolving drinking case
A judge has warned University of Cincinnati sophomore quarterback Zach Collaros that he could spend the bowl season in jail ...
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Cincinnati Bearcats
Bowden eyes 2010 return, but Florida State won't tip hand
Florida State coach Bobby Bowden has won two national championships and more games than all but one other major-college coach. ...
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Florida State Seminoles
Bobby Bowden
Once-mighty Michigan-Ohio State rivalry now just another game
Nine years ago, ESPN called the Michigan-Ohio State game the greatest sports rivalry in North America, and, for the most part ...
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Ohio State Buckeyes
ESPN
Michigan Wolverines
Michigan's Rodriguez says problem with player logs is fixed
Michigan coach Rich Rodriguez says the process of filing forms that log hours players devote to football was corrected as soon ...
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Michigan Wolverines
Rich Rodriguez
Federal stats show college athletes outperforming others in classroom
College athletes are continuing to graduate at a record rate. For the second consecutive year, the NCAA said Wednesday, the graduation ...
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Vista Murrieta (Calif.) QB Brown models his game after Tebow
Opposing coaches have compared Vista Murrieta junior Derrick Brown's game to Tim Tebow's style of play. It's only fitting that ...
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Tim Tebow
Hiring Florida's Meyer to replace Weis would be good for Notre Dame
With each Notre Dame loss, the firing of coach Charlie Weis travels further down the road of if toward the intersection of when, ...
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Notre Dame Fighting Irish
Charlie Weis
Urban Meyer
Florida Gators
Rutgers RB Kordell Young out for season with knee injury
Rutgers running back Kordell Young will miss the rest of the season with an injury to his right knee. The third-down specialist ...
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Rutgers Scarlet Knights
Lack of winning season leads UNLV to fire coach Sanford
UNLV has fired football coach Mike Sanford after five losing seasons, a 15-43 record and no bowl appearances. Sanford's firing ...
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Mike Sanford
Dalton, TCU offense pick up pace as Horned Frogs stay unbeaten
Defense has been the bedrock in the renaissance of TCU football. But the Horned Frogs' offense took command on Saturday night ...
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TCU Horned Frogs
Month after upset, Ohio State completes run for Rose
Ohio State's season reached a crossroads about a month ago with an upset loss at Purdue. But the potentially dangerous route ...
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Ohio State Buckeyes
Heisman watch: Tebow, McCoy, Ingram lead race
USA TODAY breaks down how Saturday's action impacts the race for college football's top honor.
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Colt McCoy
Tim Tebow
Mount Union sits at top of the Division III playoff field
Ten-time champion and No. 1-ranked Mount Union (Ohio) grabbed one of four top seeds in the 32-team NCAA Division III field announced ...
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No. 4 TCU topples No. 14 Utah to stay perfect at 10-0
In likely its last significant hurdle to an undefeated regular season, No. 4 TCU scored three touchdowns in a 2 1/2-minute span ...
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Texas freshman Monroe charged with DWI after win over Baylor
Texas freshman kick returner D.J. Monroe has been charged with drunken driving after a overnight arrest. Monroe was arrested ...
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Texas Longhorns
No. 9 Pittsburgh withstands Notre Dame rally for 27-22 win
Jonathan Baldwin made two exceptional catches that allowed No. 9 Pittsburgh to open up an 18-point lead in the fourth quarter ...
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Pittsburgh Panthers
Notre Dame Fighting Irish
No. 7 Georgia Tech routs Duke to earn spot in ACC title game
Jonathan Dwyer rushed for 110 yards and two touchdowns, Josh Nesbitt accounted for three scores and No. 7 Georgia Tech clinched ...
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Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets
Jonathan Dwyer
No Best, no problem: California upends No. 19 Arizona
Shane Vereen scored on a 61-yard run after an odd penalty thwarted a potential go-ahead drive for No. 19 Arizona and California ...
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California Golden Bears
Arizona Wildcats
Burney's three thefts help North Carolina upset No. 15 Miami
Kendric Burney returned one of his three interceptions for a 77-yard touchdown and his third pick resulted in a bizarre fourth-quarter ...
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Kendric Burney
North Carolina Tar Heels
Miami Hurricanes
Stanford, Gerhart blow away No. 10 Southern California
Toby Gerhart rushed for 178 yards and three touchdowns, and No. 25 Stanford emphatically followed up its historic 2007 upset ...
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Stanford Cardinal
Southern California Trojans
Central Florida slows down Keenum in upset of Houston
Central Florida not only found a way to slow down Case Keenum and No. 12 Houston, the Knights didn't give the nation's most prolific ...
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Case Keenum
Houston Cougars
Florida Gators
SEC, Big Ten set the standard for media rights money
As the Great Recession lingers, the major-college conferences' competition for media rights bucks has increasingly paralleled ...
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NCAA study shows fewer athletes participate in sports gambling
The NCAA says it's heartened by findings from a new gambling study that, among other things, shows fewer college athletes betting ...
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No. 24 South Florida shut out in regular-season game for first time
Instead of getting even with Rutgers, No. 24 South Florida didn't even get on the scoreboard for the first time in a regular-season ...
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South Florida Bulls
Weekend Preview: TCU faces final obstacle in its BCS quest
No. 4 TCU has been mowing down one opponent after another, thanks to a wrecking-ball defense and an efficient attack that has ...
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No. 4 TCU faces huge hurdle vs. No. 14 Utah
TCU has designs on playing in its first Bowl Championship Series game, and if the cards fall right in the last few weeks of the ...
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Bowl Championship Series
A long way from home, Utah's Smithson is his brother's keeper
Anthony Smithson loves geometry. It is not the ninth-grade football player's only unusual attribute.
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Austin Long
With offense ailing, Iowa defense tries to remain steady
The temptation for linebacker Pat Angerer and his defensive teammates is to overcompensate. With Iowa's starting quarterback ...
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Iowa Hawkeyes
Former Nebraska RB Collins sentenced to life in prison
Former Nebraska running back Thunder Collins said Thursday as he was sentenced to life in prison for his part in the slaying ...
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Nebraska Cornhuskers
New Mexico State's Rutenberg pays dues to chase dream
Clean-cut and well-organized, New Mexico State assistant football coach Mike Rutenberg has earned the nickname "Stockbroker." ...
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New Mexico State Aggies
Three Tennessee football players charged in robbery attempt
Three freshman Tennessee football players are charged with an attempted armed robbery.
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Tennessee Volunteers
Rutenberg pays dues as New Mexico State assistant
Clean-cut and well-organized, New Mexico State assistant football coach Mike Rutenberg has earned the nickname "Stockbroker." ...
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New Mexico State Aggies
SEC, Big Ten set the standard for media rights money
As the Great Recession lingers, the major-college conferences' competition for media rights bucks has increasingly paralleled ...
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Missouri shows how schools pay a price for football success
Missouri's search for the right football coach meandered through three fitful decades until finally, nine years ago, the Tigers ...
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Missouri Tigers
Cut from similar cloth, Spurrier and Tebow square off again
Both Stever Spurrier and Tim Tebow are the sons of preachers, both became known as star quarterbacks and football legends at ...
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Tim Tebow
Boise State's success leads to financial security for assistants
Boise State's football success this decade has turned the Broncos into an annual Bowl Championship Series contender, but at a ...
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Boise State Broncos
Bowl Championship Series
Missouri shows how schools pay a price for football success
Missouri's search for the right football coach meandered through three fitful decades until finally, nine years ago, the Tigers ...
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Missouri Tigers
Assistant coaches collect titles as way to get financial security
Behold today's college football assistant coach. He's an executive associate, senior associate, associate or assistant head coach. ...
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College football coaches see salaries rise in down economy
Jeff Tedford is a proven, program-building football coach who makes no apologies for the contract extension he landed before ...
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Jeff Tedford
Colleges deal with family ties on football coaching staffs
Louisiana-Monroe football coach Charlie Weatherbie thought nothing of tapping one of his sons to fill a hole on his coaching ...
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Louisiana-Monroe Warhawks
Charlie Weatherbie
Boise State's success leads to financial security for asistants
Boise State's football success this decade has turned the Broncos into an annual Bowl Championship Series contender, but at a ...
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Boise State Broncos
Bowl Championship Series
Assistant football coaches see pay rise with unique clauses
There was a time not so long ago when most of college football's head coaches would covet the deal Tennessee laid on its new ...
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Tennessee Volunteers
Collaros will start, Pike will play for No. 5 Cincinnati on Friday
Quarterback Zach Collaros will start for fifth-ranked Cincinnati against West Virginia on Friday night, with Tony Pike expected ...
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Cincinnati Bearcats
West Virginia Mountaineers
Two-sport stars learn to excel on more than one playing field
Have season, will play has become the mantra of a trio of major college athletes who are excelling on the football field after ...
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Affidavit: Dispute over woman led to death of UConn's Howard
An arrest warrant affidavit says the fight that led to the stabbing death of University of Connecticut football player Jasper ...
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Connecticut Huskies
Jasper Howard
Three men charged in death of UConn's Howard due in court
Johnny Hood, Jamal Todd and Christopher Mutchler, three men charged in connection with the stabbing death of University of Connecticut ...
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