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What We Learned: Hawkins back on the hot seat
Sporting News' Dave Curtis analyzes what Friday's buzz means to college football.
Where the Buffalo roam
The buzz about Dan Hawkins getting dismissed (and bought out) at Colorado grew hot not because the Buffs lost by three on the road to a ...
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Colorado Buffaloes
Florida State Seminoles
Florida Gators
Dan Hawkins
Don't count on a Saturday snoozefest
Matt Hayes
These are the bland Saturdays when no one is safe.
No, really.
How often have we seen this is the past: the relatively uneventful developing into the remarkably ...
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Michigan Wolverines
Oregon Ducks
Ohio State Buckeyes
Texas Longhorns
Stanford Cardinal
Kansas State Wildcats
Spotlight game: No. 11 Oregon at Arizona
Place: Tucson, Ariz.
Time: 8 p.m. ET
TV: ABC
Line: Oregon by 6
Three reasons Oregon will win
He's back: LeGarrette Blount could contribute for Oregon against Arizona.
Double trouble: After LeGarrette Blount TKOd much of ...
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Oregon Ducks
Arizona Wildcats
Beat my grandma: Week 12 college football picks
Dave Curtis
The Week 12 slate for Grams looks curious because of who didn't make the cut. No Florida, Alabama or Texas. No Ohio State-Michigan. No forecast on the future of Notre Done ...
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NCAA Football
Penn State Nittany Lions
Ole Miss Rebels
Michigan State Spartans
Stanford Cardinal
Kansas State Wildcats
Arizona Wildcats
Hayes' Week 12 picks: Ohio State dominance over Michigan will continue
Sporting News' Matt Hayes picks the 10 best games of the weekend and throws in his upset pick of the week as a bonus.
Ohio State 27, Michigan 14: This will be another Buckeyes-Wolverines game in the mold of yesteryear: Neither team can throw ...
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Ohio State Buckeyes
Michigan Wolverines
North Carolina Tar Heels
Bowl Championship Series
Penn State Nittany Lions
What We Learned: Irish are onto something (but not Notre Dame)
Sporting News' Matt Hayes analyzes what Thursday's buzz means to college football.
Replay madness
If only college football were so simplistic.
Ireland challenged France to replay a World Cup qualifying match after television replays clearly ...
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Cincinnati Bearcats
Notre Dame Fighting Irish
Alabama Crimson Tide
Auburn Tigers
Week 12 story lines: RichRod hasn't embraced The Game like Tressel
Sporting News college football writer Matt Hayes prepares you for the weekend in college football.
1. The Game
Remember way back, when there was this nice, buttoned-down gentleman with the sparkling NCAA lower division record walking onto the ...
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Ohio State Buckeyes
Michigan Wolverines
Stanford Cardinal
Boise State Broncos
Gophers linebacker Maresh suspect in assault
Sporting News staff reports
The St. Paul Pioneer Press reports that Minnesota freshman linebacker Sam Maresh is a suspect in an alleged assault on Nov. 9 of a 26-year-old male student ...
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NCAA Football
Minnesota Golden Gophers
Tressel not in favor of later date for future Ohio State-Michigan games
Sporting News staff reports
The Michigan-Ohio State game will move to the first Saturday after Thanksgiving next season, a decision that doesn't sit well with Buckeyes coach Jim Tressel. ...
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Ohio State Buckeyes
Michigan Wolverines
Jim Tressel
Rich Rodriguez
Rich Rodriguez says Michigan now logging players' practice hours
Sporting News staff reports
Michigan coach Rich Rodriguez says the process of filing forms that log hours his players devote to football was corrected as soon as he learned it wasn't ...
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NCAA Football
Michigan Wolverines
Rich Rodriguez
ACC coach tells N.C. State coach that replay official erred
Sporting News staff reports
North Carolina State coach Tom O'Brien has been told by Doug Rhoads, head of ACC football officials, that a replay official should have overturned a call ...
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North Carolina State Wolfpack
Clemson Tigers
Tom O'Brien
C.J. Spiller
Robinson's backup getting reps at Oklahoma State practices
Sporting News staff reports
While there has been no official announcement about whether QB Zac Robinson will play in Saturday night's home finale against Colorado, reports have surfaced ...
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NCAA Football
Oklahoma State Cowboys
Colorado Buffaloes
Mike Gundy
Dan Hawkins
UTEP AD says Price will be back next season
Sporting News staff reports
Texas-El Paso coach Mike Price's job is safe, the school's athletic director says, regardless of how the Miners finish the season.
Athletic director Bob ...
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NCAA Football
Mike Price
Players say Mangino provoked them physically, verbally
Sporting News staff reports
Tuesday's news that Kansas coach Mark Mangino is being investigated by the athletic department was followed Wednesday by a story in the Kansas City Star ...
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NCAA Football
Kansas Jayhawks
Mark Mangino
Oklahoma's Stoops continues to shoot down Notre Dame talk
Sporting News staff reports
Oklahoma coach Bob Stoops on Wednesday again tried to dismiss rumors that he is a candidate to take over at Notre Dame if the school fires coach Charlie Weis ...
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NCAA Football
Oklahoma Sooners
Notre Dame Fighting Irish
Bob Stoops
Charlie Weis
What We Learned: Spiller should book his trip to NYC now
Sporting News' Dave Curtis analyzes what Wednesday's buzz means to college football.
And the award goes to...
C.J. Spiller? Through 11 weeks, the only quarterback in America who deserves Heisman Trophy hype is Boise State's Kellen Moore. In ...
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C.J. Spiller
Clemson Tigers
Kansas Jayhawks
Saturday could help decide USC's Rose replacement
Jeremiah Masoli has thrown for 1,581 yards and run for 558 more this season.
After watching his team get walloped for the second time in three weeks, USC coach Pete Carroll confessed the obvious: The gap between his Trojans and the rest of ...
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Oregon Ducks
Arizona Wildcats
Southern California Trojans
What We Learned: Mangino Situation Shows That Coaches Are Losing Pull
Sporting News' Dave Curtis analyzes what Tuesday's buzz means to college football.
Players taking charge
The details of the dissension involving Kansas football and coach Mark Mangino will shake out soon enough. The good bet is against ...
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Kansas Jayhawks
Michigan Wolverines
Ohio State Buckeyes
Stanford Cardinal
Texas Longhorns
Mark Mangino
Eight new things in college football that you can take to the bank
USC won't make the BCS. SMU is good, and Temple is better. The national title game should include two unbeaten teams.
A lackluster Big East record shows that Jim Leavitt's teams aren't built to last a full season.
All sorts of alleged ...
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South Florida Bulls
Michigan Wolverines
Oklahoma Sooners
Oregon State Beavers
North Carolina Tar Heels
Wisconsin Badgers
Hayes' Hot Seat: Millions don't alleviate coaches' stress
Sporting News' Matt Hayes analyzes those feeling the heat heading into Week 12.
1. A coach's life
So I've got this guy who emails me every so often, more frequently in previous years but less so this fall.
It seems as though the target of his ...
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NCAA Football
Pittsburgh Panthers
Clemson Tigers
Oregon Ducks
Iowa Hawkeyes
Oklahoma State Cowboys
James Brown
Introducing ... Western Michigan RB Brandon West
West, a 5-10 senior, has enjoyed the best November of any college football player east of Stanford. On Nov. 7, the senior from Brunswick, Ga., set a new Division I-A record for career kickoff return yards. Then Saturday at Eastern Michigan, he ...
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NCAA Football
Michigan Wolverines
Brandon Spikes
What We Learned: Things about to get worse for Michigan
Sporting News' Matt Hayes analyzes what Monday's buzz means to college football.
A turn for the worse
For those who think Michigan's slide since September has hurt coach Rich Rodriguez in Ann Arbor, it's about to get much, much worse.
The ...
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NCAA Football
Michigan Wolverines
Louisville Cardinals
Texas Longhorns
Rich Rodriguez
Five bowl matchups we'd like to see
Sun and Holiday Bowl selectors are salivating over the prospect of USC winding up in their games. Cincinnati appears on the verge of a perfect season … or the Meineke Car Care Bowl? And Notre Dame, whose tradition and following still ...
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NCAA Football
Boise State Broncos
Penn State Nittany Lions
Cincinnati Bearcats
Oklahoma State Cowboys
Notre Dame Fighting Irish
Tennessee Volunteers
Sporting News' bowl projections
Dave Curtis, Sporting News
Dec. 19
New Mexico Bowl: Air Force vs. Fresno State
St. Petersburg Bowl: Rutgers vs. Southern Miss
Dec. 20
New Orleans Bowl: Troy vs. UCF
Dec. 22 ...
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North Carolina Tar Heels
Boise State Broncos
Conference Call: Mountain West tops non-BCS leagues
Each week, Sporting News' Matt Hayes ranks the Division I-A conferences—and the teams within each league.
7. Mountain West
1. TCU
2. Utah
3. BYU
4. Air Force
5. Wyoming
6. San Diego State
7. UNLV
8. Colorado State ...
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NCAA Football
Boise State Broncos
Tennessee Volunteers
Michigan Wolverines
Conference Call: South Florida's annual second half swoon
Each week, Sporting News' Matt Hayes ranks the Division I-A conferences—and the teams within each league.
6. BIG EAST
1. Cincinnati
2. Pitt
3. West Virginia
4. Rutgers
5. South Florida
6. Connecticut
7. Louisville
8. ...
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South Florida Bulls
Pittsburgh Panthers
West Virginia Mountaineers
Matt Barkley
Tate Forcier
Rutgers Scarlet Knights
Conference Call: Ohio State is Big Ten's best -- again
Each week, Sporting News' Matt Hayes ranks the Division I-A conferences—and the teams within each league.
5. Big Ten
1. Ohio State
2. Iowa
3. Wisconsin
4. Penn State
5. Michigan State
6. Northwestern
7. Minnesota
8. Purdue ...
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Ohio State Buckeyes
Penn State Nittany Lions
Michigan State Spartans
Michigan Wolverines
Conference Call: Oklahoma State up, Kansas down
Each week, Sporting News' Matt Hayes ranks the Division I-A conferences—and the teams within each league.
4. BIG 12
1. Texas
2. Nebraska
3. Oklahoma State
4. Oklahoma
5. Texas Tech
6. Missouri
7. Kansas State
8. Iowa State ...
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Oklahoma State Cowboys
Kansas Jayhawks
Kansas State Wildcats
Iowa State Cyclones
Houston Cougars
Conference Call: Georgia Tech is rolling
Each week, Sporting News' Matt Hayes ranks the Division I-A conferences—and the teams within each league.
3. ACC
1. Georgia Tech
2. Clemson
3. North Carolina
4. Virginia Tech
5. Miami
6. Boston College
7. Florida State ...
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Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets
North Carolina Tar Heels
Virginia Tech Hokies
Florida State Seminoles
Conference Call: USC's fall comes as no surprise
Each week, Sporting News' Matt Hayes ranks the Division I-A conferences—and the teams within each league.
2. PAC-10
1. Stanford
2. Oregon
3. Oregon State
4. Arizona
5. USC
6. California
7. UCLA
8. Arizona State
9. ...
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Stanford Cardinal
Southern California Trojans
Oregon State Beavers
Arizona State Sun Devils
Washington State Cougars
Conference Call: Auburn tumbles in SEC
Each week, Sporting News' Matt Hayes ranks the Division I-A conferences—and the teams within each league.
1. SEC
1. Alabama
2. Florida
3. LSU
4. Mississippi
5. Auburn
6. Georgia
7. Tennessee
8. Arkansas
9. South ...
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Auburn Tigers
Arkansas Razorbacks
Ole Miss Rebels
South Carolina Gamecocks
Mississippi State Bulldogs
What We Learned: Cincinnati's unorthodox moves pay off
Sporting News' Dave Curtis analyzes what Sunday's buzz means to college football.
Inside BK's brain
Cincinnati coach Brian Kelly went unorthodox Friday night, subbing Tony Pike in for quarterback Zach Collaros in some scoring situations against ...
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NCAA Football
Cincinnati Bearcats
BCS breakdown: TCU's big win further clouds picture
Think about the statement, and take in the enormity of it all.
Utah coach Kyle Whittingham on TCU: "I have been a coach for five years, and that is the best team I've faced." Utah has faced a handful of BCS teams in Whittingham's tenure, ...
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Bowl Championship Series
Texas Longhorns
Southern California Trojans
TCU Horned Frogs
BCS bowl projections
Sporting News college football expert Matt Hayes projects the BCS bowl games:
BCS national championship game: Alabama vs. Texas
Rose Bowl: Ohio State vs. Stanford
Fiesta Bowl: Boise State vs. Iowa
Sugar Bowl: Florida vs. TCU
Orange ...
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Bowl Championship Series
Alabama Crimson Tide
Ohio State Buckeyes
Boise State Broncos
Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets
Pittsburgh Panthers
Legends Poll: Who comes after the Big 3?
Jeff D'Alessio, Sporting News
More polls: AP | Coaches | Sporting News | BCS
USC, a BCS regular the past seven Januarys, is suddenly ...
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NCAA Football
Bowl Championship Series
Play of the day: Three plays save Buckeyes' season
Before the weekend, Ohio State's seven most recent wins all had come by at least 17 points. But the Buckeyes stuffed a season's worth of drama into Saturday evening, when they withstood Iowa's fourth-quarter comeback to win 27-24 in overtime. Three ...
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Ohio State Buckeyes
Iowa Hawkeyes
Week 11 Sporting News Top 25 college football poll
Sporting News
Team
Record
Pvs
1. Alabama
10-0
3
...
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Boise State Broncos
Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets
Pittsburgh Panthers
Ohio State Buckeyes
Penn State Nittany Lions
Jimmy Clausen: We had to dig ourselves out of a hole
Notre Dame quarterback Jimmy Clausen threw for 283 yards and a touchdown in the Irish's 27-22 loss to Pitt . Clausen met with Sporting News' Matt Hayes and other reporters after the game.
Q: Any specific reason you guys struggled ...
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Jimmy Clausen
Notre Dame Fighting Irish
Pittsburgh Panthers
Bowl Championship Series
Top teams roll; storied programs take plummet
College football, like much of the 2009 season, held to form Saturday. No. 1 Florida , No. 2 Texas and No. 3 Alabama kept the national title chase a three-team derby with typical wins.
No. 4 TCU looked like a sure BCS bowl team ...
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Michigan Wolverines
Notre Dame Fighting Irish
Florida Gators
Alabama Crimson Tide
Texas Longhorns
Notre Dame AD says buyout won't affect Weis decision
Matt Hayes, Sporting News
PITTSBURGH — Somebody better come up with a boatload of cash.
If this truly was the last chance for Charlie Weis to save his job at Notre Dame, if the ...
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NCAA Football
Notre Dame Fighting Irish
Charlie Weis
Florida brings you the letter of the day: W
COLUMBIA , S.C. -- The Florida Gators know that, at this point in their undefeated season, margin of victory doesn't matter. They're the No. 1 team in the country, and each win -- regardless of any perceived style points -- takes them one step ...
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Florida Gators
South Carolina Gamecocks
Tim Tebow
Week 11 postgame, the teams: When you say Wisconsin, you've said it all
Sporting News' Derek Samson covers the best and worst performances of Week 11 in college football.
Making history
Louisville's 10-9 victory over Syracuse -- a nail-gnawer seen by approximately 10 people -- snapped a nine-game ...
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NCAA Football
Wisconsin Badgers
Terrelle Pryor: 'We really didn't have to pass the ball'
Going to Michigan with his teammates? That's all the love Terrelle Pryor needs.
College start No. 21 for Terrelle Pryor delivered Big Ten championship No. 2. And Ohio State's sophomore quarterback says that's all that matter, despite all ...
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Terrelle Pryor
Ohio State Buckeyes
Iowa Hawkeyes
Brandon Spikes
Florida's Justin Trattou: 'It felt like it was up there for like five seconds'
COLUMBIA , S.C. -- Florida defensive end Justin Trattou made the play of the game for the Gators in their 24-14 victory over South Carolina. Trattou snagged a deflected pass for an interception on the first play of the fourth quarter and returning ...
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NCAA Football
Florida Gators
South Carolina Gamecocks
Week 11 postgame, the players: McCluster sets a cluster of records
Sporting News' Derek Samson covers the best and worst performances of Week 11 in college football.
Gameballs
1. Danario Alexander, Missouri WR. One of the nation's most underrated wideouts, Alexander caught 10 passes for 200 yards and ...
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NCAA Football
Ole Miss Rebels
North Carolina Tar Heels
Missouri State Bears
Stanford Cardinal
Texas Longhorns
Ohio State needs to take the next step in Rose Bowl
COLUMBUS, Ohio – Congratulations, Ohio State. Way to hit the benchmark again. Now comes the part where things have to change.
A Big Ten title and a BCS bowl berth have become birthright in these parts. Saturday's 27-24 overtime victory over ...
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NCAA Football
Ohio State Buckeyes
Cincinnati RB Pead: 'He was just probably caught up in the fire'
Cincinnati running back Isaiah Pead rushed for a career-best 175 yards on a career-high 18 carries—meaning for one night this season, the unbeaten Bearcats morphed into a running team. Following Cincinnati's 24-21 victory over West Virginia, ...
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Cincinnati Bearcats
Cincy's QB drama proved more interesting than Kelly-to-Irish talk
CINCINNATI—There was an intrinsic beauty to the quarterback debate that seized this town during the six days before the Cincinnati Bearcats put their perfection at risk against West Virginia.
It was extraordinary on account of the fact it ...
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Cincinnati Bearcats
Spotlight Game: No. 16 Utah at No. 4 TCU
Place: Fort Worth, Texas
Time: 7:30 p.m. ET, Saturday
TV: CBS College Sports
Line: TCU by 20
Three reasons TCU will win
A BCS bowl is within reach: The big prize is there, waiting to be embraced. Beat Utah, and the Frogs are a ...
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What We Learned: Marrone has no regrets
Sporting News' Dave Curtis analyzes what Friday's buzz means to college football.
No buyer's remorse
Most Sundays, Doug Marrone finds himself absorbed with trying to make Syracuse a football success again. But when he does emerge from his office ...
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