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BOISE, Idaho (AP) Akron claimed its first-ever victory in a college football bowl game by defeating Utah State 23-21 on Tuesday in the Famous Idaho Potato Bowl, with Robert Stein kicking three field goals.In the day's other bowl game, Toleldo beat Temple in a rain-affected Boca Raton Bowl.Akron's...

AP Sports WriterNo. 4 Washington, No. 17 Utah meet in Pac-12 showdownBy KAREEM COPELANDSALT LAKE CITY (AP) The road to the Pac-12 championship hasn't taken the usual route in 2016 with traditional powers such as Stanford and Oregon struggling.The premier game of this season could take place in...

STATS Editor=UND's Schweigert Big Sky Coach of YearBy MATT BECKER(STATS) - North Dakota's Bubba Schweigert was named the Big Sky Coach of the Year after leading the Fighting Hawks to an 8-0 record in the conference and the seventh seed in the FCS playoffs.Schweigert took over a program that...

The playoff race cleared up pretty quickly. There is still plenty of time for things to get messy.The first Saturday after the College Football Playoff rankings debuted separated some of the contenders from pretenders and provided a distinct pecking order for the teams vying to play for the national...

The Florida State Seminoles and the Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets will both be gunning for a victory on Saturday when they meet at Bank of America Stadium. Florida State at Georgia Tech When: 8:00 PM ET, Saturday, December 6, 2014 Where: Bank of America Stadium, Charlotte, North Carolina TV: 8 p.m. ET, ABC....

It's step up week in college football. Time to show you belong, prove your worth, make some plays, bounce back from adversity. Week 2 is loaded with players moving in for sidelined stars, teams coming off huge upsets and others determined to rebound following startling defeats. And, of course, there's a...

HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) Jurors in former Penn State president Graham Spanier's child endangerment case are preparing to resume their discussions after failing to reach a verdict over six hours. The panel of seven women and five men are scheduled to restart their closed-door talks Friday morning at a courthouse in...

STILLWATER, Okla. (AP) A woman faces second-degree murder charges after authorities said she plowed a car into the crowd at an Oklahoma State University homecoming parade, killing four people, including a toddler.Adacia Chambers, a 25-year-old resident of the college town, was arrested after the Saturday crash on a...

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (AP) The Air Force football team will visit to the White House this week to be honored as winners of the Commander-in-Chief's Trophy. The Gazette (http://bit.ly/2oKajgW ) reports that the Falcons are scheduled to fly to Washington, D.C., on Monday and meet President Donald Trump at the...

COLUMBIA, Mo. (AP) Missouri promoted defensive coordinator Barry Odom on Thursday to replace the retiring Gary Pinkel as head coach.The school said in a release that Odom agreed in principle to a five-year deal that will need to be approved by the school's board of curators next week.''Coach...

RENO, Nev. (AP) The Mountain West Conference has fined Nevada coach Brian Polian (POH'-lee-uhn) $10,000 after he was called for two unsportsmanlike conduct penalties during Saturday's 44-20 loss to Arizona.Nevada athletic director Doug Knuth (Newth) said Tuesday in a statement that any future offense will bring an automatic...

COLUMBIA, Mo. (AP) The president of the University of Missouri system and the head of its flagship campus resigned Monday with the football team and others on campus in open revolt over what they saw as indifference to racial tensions at the school.President Tim Wolfe, a former business...