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Stats Perform FCS Senior Editor=North Dakota State a clear FCS No. 1 in 2010sBy CRAIG HALEY(Stats Perform) - The scare that FCS college football received on Halloween in 2011 became a nightmare for any program that harbors national championship potential.North Dakota State basically took control of the Division I...

AP Sports WriterTrial begins for ex-Tennessee players facing rape chargesBy STEVE MEGARGEEKNOXVILLE, Tenn. (AP) The prosecutor and defense lawyers in the rape trial of former University of Tennessee football players A.J. Johnson and Michael Williams as expected offer starkly different accounts of what occurred nearly four years ago.A...

AP Sports WriterGeorgia gets back to work after wrenching loss in title gameBy PAUL NEWBERRYATHENS, Ga. (AP) It's been more than two months since that last play.The one that cost Georgia a national championship.The Bulldogs are still not over it.''It's something I dream about every night,'' receiver Terry...

AP College Football WriterNotre Dame president rips NCAA's denial of Notre Dame appealBy RALPH D. RUSSONotre Dame's president ripped the NCAA's decision to deny the school's appeal to restore 21 vacated football victories from an academic misconduct violation, saying the association ''perverted'' the notion that universities determine how they...

The University of Oregon suspended football strength and conditioning coach Irele Oderinde one month without pay after three players were hospitalized following a series of intense workouts last week. The school announced the decision in a statement Tuesday evening and detailed a review of the incident. It added that all...

UNC coach Fedora receives contract extension through 2022CHAPEL HILL, N.C. (AP) North Carolina has extended coach Larry Fedora's contract through the 2022 season.Team spokesman Kevin Best says the deal was approved Thursday by the school's board of trustees.The new deal will pay Fedora $1.95 million this season, including...

AP Sports WriterNo. 4 Wisconsin's D work in progress with stars and youthBy GENARO C. ARMASMADISON, Wis. (AP) The bar is set high for the Wisconsin defense.The roster might turn over, but the fourth-ranked Badgers' D rarely crumbles. Since 2013, Wisconsin is second nationally in both scoring defense...

3rd ex-Wheaton football player pleads guilty in hazing caseWHEATON, Ill. (AP) A third former member of a Christian college football team in suburban Chicago who faced felony charges in a 2016 hazing incident has pleaded guilty to lesser charges.Samuel TeBos of Allendale, Michigan, pleaded guilty Tuesday to misdemeanor...

AP Sports WriterRosy Cotton Bowl with playoff-snubbed Ohio State against USCBy STEPHEN HAWKINSARLINGTON, Texas (AP) Coach Urban Meyer could have easily stoked a debate about expanding the four-team College Football Playoff after his Buckeyes were the first team left out this season.Instead, he focused - as much as...

AP College Football WriterWeek 1 Preview: Pac-12 statement; transfer QBs; USC's startBy RALPH D. RUSSOThe first full slate of the college football season brings with it another referendum game for the Pac-12, highlighting a schedule light on marquee matchups.No. 11 Oregon against No. 16 Auburn in Arlington, Texas, on...

Texas player Jalen Green apologizes for targeting hitAUSTIN, Texas (AP) Texas defensive back Jalen Green apologized Wednesday for an illegal hit on Kansas State wide receiver Wykeen Gill last week.Green leveled Gill with a helmet-to-helmet hit near the Kansas State sideline in the fourth quarter of Texas' 27-24...

Leo Brown, 1st black Ohio State football captain, dies at 84COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) Leo Brown, Ohio State's first black football captain, has died. He was 84.Ohio State confirmed the death Wednesday through Brown's nephew, Henry Brown, saying the former football player died last weekend at his home in...