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Stats Perform FCS Senior Editor=Sanders makes memorable start to Jackson State careerBy CRAIG HALEY(Stats Perform) - What Jackson State University has in hiring Deion Sanders as the 21st head football coach in school history was on full display during his introductory news conference on Monday.Actually, it was as much...

AP College Football WriterScott Frost keeping eye on Huskers' response to tough startBy ERIC OLSONLINCOLN, Neb. (AP) Minutes after his team lost to Troy to drop to 0-2, Nebraska coach Scott Frost struck an ominous tone when he announced to reporters he had just told his team in...

Judge rules University of Dayton hazing lawsuit can proceedDAYTON, Ohio (AP) A judge has denied a motion by the University of Dayton to dismiss a lawsuit filed by a former student claiming the school covered up allegations of football team hazing by not disclosing a campus police investigation...

STATS FCS Senior Editor=2016 FCS vs. FBS: Big SkyBy CRAIG HALEY(STATS - Cinderella is allowed out more often than in the month of March. During college football season, FCS programs are adept at drawing national attention as they seek upsets of the larger FBS.Many of the games are played...

STATS FCS Senior Editor=Seven takeaways from the FCS playoff fieldBy CRAIG HALEY(STATS) - It's Thanksgiving week, but it felt like Christmas morning for many FCS teams on Sunday because of the announcement of the 24-team playoff field.OK, some schools didn't like what Scrooge left in the stocking.The opinions are...

AP Sports WriterYoung Virginia Tech defense shows signs of growing painsBy HANK KURZ Jr.When the Virginia Tech offense gave up a touchdown against Notre Dame, Hokies defensive coordinator Bud Foster said his defense reacted as though they had come up short.Late in the first half of Virginia Tech's 45-23...

Hal Bedsole, star on USC's 1962 national title team, diesLOS ANGELES (AP) Hal Bedsole, a consensus All-America receiver on Southern California's undefeated 1962 national championship team and a member of the College Football Hall of Fame, has died. He was 76.USC said Bedsole died Friday in Arizona after...

Marshall RB Knox named C-USA MVP by league coachesBy The Associated PressMarshall sophomore running back Brenden Knox has been named Conference USA's most valuable player, as voted on by the league's 14 coaches.First-year Western Kentucky coach Tyson Helton has been selected by his peers as the league's top coach...

Arizona set to return to sports after false positivesTUCSON, Ariz. (AP) The University of Arizona could return to athletic activities next week after retests of COVID-19 for 13 student-athletes have shown 11 false positives.There also were four false positives among 12 non-athletes tested at the campus health center...

STATS FCS Senior Editor=Morgan State, Grambling State receive APR penaltiesBy CRAIG HALEY(STATS) - The overall picture for both the FCS level and its historically black colleges and universities improved yet again this year with only two schools impacted by NCAA Division I Academic Progress Rate penalties announced Wednesday.Morgan State,...

FCS trio has future games against Tulsa(Stats Perform) - FCS programs UC Davis and Jacksonville State announced future games at Tulsa on Monday.Both are first-time meetings with Big Sky member UC Davis playing at H.A. Chapman Stadium on Sept. 2, 2021 and Ohio Valley Conference power Jacksonville State following...

2 McMurry football players indicted in Fort Worth killingABILENE, Texas (AP) Two NCAA Division III McMurry University football players have been indicted on capital murder charges in the January killing of a man in Fort Worth, but the grand jury declined to indict another.The Fort Worth Star-Telegram (http://bit.ly/2qE3bjw...