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The coronavirus pandemic is already impacting the 2020 college football schedule, with the Sept. 12 game between Lafayette College and Navy the latest to be canceled. Lafayette informed the Naval Academy that it cannot bring its football team back to campus in time to meet medical advisory guidelines. Navy, which...

AP Sports WriterNo. 20 Ducks get San Jose State tuneup before Pac-12 openerBy ANNE M. PETERSONEUGENE, Ore. (AP) The challenge for Oregon is to not look past San Jose State this Saturday in preparing for Stanford next weekend.It may not be easy given the mismatch. San Jose State...

AP Sports WriterGeorgia's search for new QB on hold with no spring practiceBy CHARLES ODUMGeorgia coach Kirby Smart says the cancellation of spring football across the nation due to the coronavirus pandemic hurts quarterbacks more than any position.For Smart's Bulldogs, the timing is especially bad.Georgia is looking for a...

STATS FCS Senior Editor=Week 2 FCS schedule looks even betterBy CRAIG HALEY(STATS) - Leave some room, the first full week of FCS college football was only serving appetizers.The schedule will keep getting better, and it's especially the case in Week 2.There are 26 more matchups between FCS and FBS...

We are Marshall is coming off its best season in years with a 13-1 record. Junior Gunnar Holcombe is taking control as QB with big shoes to fill following Rakeem Cato. What Darrell Hazell did for Kent State is not repeating at Purdue. In the last 6 years, Purdue has...

AP Sports WriterFields throws 5 TDs passes, No. 3 Ohio State beats RutgersBy MITCH STACYCOLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) Justin Fields threw five touchdown passes and ran for another score to help No. 3 Ohio State beat Rutgers 49-27 on Saturday night.Fields, a Heisman Trophy finalist in 2019, added to...

AP College Football WriterWeek 16: Playoff bids likely on line for Clemson, Ohio StateBy ERIC OLSONClemson and Ohio State go into the weekend with the most at stake, and Texas A&M waiting in the wings if it takes care of business.Nine Football Bowl Subdivision conferences will hold championship games...

Charges reduced for Florida freshmen WRs Cleveland, WellsGAINESVILLE, Fla. (AP) Florida freshmen Tyrie Cleveland and Rick Wells are now facing misdemeanor charges for firing BB guns inside a residence hall in July.State Attorney Bill Cervone said Tuesday that felony charges against Cleveland and Wells were reduced to criminal...

Associated PressEx-Baylor athletic director: Black athletes made scapegoatsBy JIM VERTUNOAUSTIN, Texas (AP) The former athletic director at Baylor University alleges that regents schemed to make black football players scapegoats for a decades-long problem of sexual assault at the nation's largest Baptist school, and that he resigned rather than...

AP Sports WriterTexas coach Tom Herman avoids talking about his futureBy JIM VERTUNOAUSTIN, Texas (AP) Texas coach Tom Herman batted away questions about his future with the program on Monday, trying to keep the focus on his players trying to win their last two games of the regular...

NORMAN, Okla. (AP) - Oklahoma coach Bob Stoops says three key offensive players - quarterback Trevor Knight, running back Samaje Perine and wide receiver Sterling Shepard - should be ready to play when the Sooners face No. 18 Clemson in the Russell Athletic Bowl.Stoops said Wednesday that Knight has...

Stats Perform FCS Senior Editor=FCS Kickoff has spotlight, but will game be played?By CRAIG HALEY(Stats Perform) - This year's annual FCS Kickoff appears back to being the first game of the college football season - the kind of spotlight that was intended when it was first held in 2014.But...