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Marshall-ECU game date moved, will honor 1970 crash victimsGREENVILLE, N.C. (AP) Marshall and East Carolina will open the 2020 football season a week earlier than scheduled to accommodate a national television broadcast marking the 50th anniversary of the worst disaster in U.S. sports history.The schools announced Thursday that...

USC athletic director: UC Davis game will be canceled(Stats Perform) - USC athletic director Mike Bohn said his school has informed UC Davis officials of its plan to cancel a scheduled game between the programs on Sept. 4, 2021.Speaking on a 24/7 Sports podcast, Bohn said USC will replace...

Boilermakers hire Callaway as newest coaching staff memberWEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. (AP) Purdue coach Jeff Brohm hired longtime assistant coach Neil Callaway as the Boilermakers' new senior analyst Wednesday.Callaway was Brohm's offensive line coach in 2014 and 2015 at Western Kentucky before Callaway took the same job at Southern...

AP College Football WriterAP Top 25 Podcast: Next up on never-ending coaching carouselBy RALPH D. RUSSOMore than a month after the season ended, at least one major college football team was still trying to find a head coach.On the latest AP Top 25 College Football Podcast, Adam Rittenberg of...

FCS head coaching change tracker(Stats Perform) - The head coaching carousel in FCS college football has spun less following the 2019 season than the way it did in the previous two dizzying years, but it's been active.There were 24 different schools with a change atop their program between the...

Bethune-Cookman finalizes 2020 schedule(Stats Perform) - Bethune-Cookman has completed its 2020 schedule with the addition of a home game against first-year FCS program Tarleton on Oct. 31.The matchup is one of five set for Memorial Stadium in Daytona Beach, Florida. The Wildcats will have a late start to the...

Mississippi Valley State sets 2020 schedule(Stats Perform) - Mississippi Valley State is seeking considerable improvement in coach Vincent Dancy's third season this year.The Delta Devils have announced an 11-game 2020 schedule, including five home games at Rice-Totten Field in Itta Bena, Mississippi. The Southwestern Athletic Conference program will kick...

Michigan State adds Courtney Hawkins as wide receivers coachEAST LANSING, Mich. (AP) Michigan State has hired Courtney Hawkins as wide receivers coach.Spartans coach Mel Tucker announced the addition to his new staff on Wednesday.Hawkins was the head coach and athletic director at Flint Beecher High School in Michigan,...

3 UConn football players face charges in campus burglaryVERNON, Conn. (AP) Three members of UConn's 2019 football team face charges stemming from a November burglary on campus.Running back Khyon Gillespie and defensive backs Oneil Robinson and Ryan Carroll are accused of stealing about $5,000 worth of items, including...

Tennessee's Trey Smith wins Jason Witten Man of Year AwardFRISCO, Texas (AP) Tennessee offensive lineman Trey Smith has won the Jason Witten Collegiate Man of the Year Award given annually to a Division I football player who has shown exceptional courage, integrity and sportsmanship on and off the...

Report: Mich St investigating allegations of NCAA violationsEAST LANSING, Mich. (AP) Michigan State is reportedly investigating allegations of NCAA violations made by a former football staffer in a lawsuit.Curtis Blackwell, a former Michigan State football employee, filed a lawsuit claiming his employment agreement was violated when he was...

Kansas hires Air Force assistant Wallace for special teamsLAWRENCE, Kan. (AP) Kansas has hired Jonathan Wallace to coach special teams and running backs, completing an overhaul of Les Miles' staff as the Jayhawks head into Year 2 of the former national championship-winning coach's regime.Miles announced the hiring in...