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Dayton sets 2020 schedule(Stats Perform) - Dayton will host five of its 11 opponents during a 2020 schedule in which coach Rick Chamberlin seeks his 100th career win.Chamberlin has posted winning records in 11 of his first 12 seasons, going 93-41 overall. Last season, the Flyers were 8-3, including...

STATS FCS Senior Editor=2019 Southland Conference spring outlookBy CRAIG HALEY(STATS) - Southland Conference power Sam Houston State's step backward last season seemed to allow almost every other program in the conference to step forward.That's overstating reality, of course, but it created the kind of parity that commissioner Tom Burnett...

(STATS) - The Ivy League is playing an integral role in college football's 150th anniversary season this year, and a great title race would add to its spotlight. The league's preseason media poll predicted just that Thursday with Yale installed as the favorite as five of the eight teams received...

Associated PressUnited Airlines, USC agree to modify LA Coliseum naming dealBy JOHN ANTCZAKLOS ANGELES (AP) United Airlines and the University of Southern California have reached a new naming rights agreement for Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum to resolve criticism that placing a corporate name on the stadium would disrespect...

AP Sports WriterTennessee, former AD Currie agree to $2.5 million settlementBy STEVE MEGARGEEKNOXVILLE, Tenn. (AP) Tennessee has agreed to pay former athletic director John Currie $2.5 million as part of a settlement reached less than four months after he was suspended in the midst of a football coaching...

Phillip Fulmer named special adviser to Tennessee presidentKNOXVILLE, Tenn. (AP) University of Tennessee President Joe DiPietro has hired former Volunteers football coach Phillip Fulmer as his special adviser for community, athletics and university relations.DiPietro announced the hiring Tuesday.Fulmer had been a candidate for the athletic director job given...

STATS FCS Senior Editor=2017 FCS draft class reviewBy CRAIG HALEY(STATS) - For the FCS, Friday night lights basically shined brighter than the sunlight did Saturday afternoon during the 2017 NFL Draft.While this year's outdoor draft was held on the same Philadelphia Art Museum steps that Rocky made famous for...

STATS FCS Senior Editor=FCS 2018: Southern Conference PreviewBy CRAIG HALEY(STATS) - Defending champion Wofford has the schedule a Southern Conference team doesn't want this year.The Terriers have to go on the road to face the other four teams in the top five of the SoCon preseason coaches poll -...

AP Sports WriterSEC's new coaches try to build winning foundation in springBy DAVID BRANDTMore than a decade after Nick Saban took over as the coach of Alabama, the rest of the Southeastern Conference is still trying to figure out how to consistently beat him.A lot of coaches have tried....

AP Sports ColumnistColumn: Coach O turns out to be the perfect choice for LSUBy PAUL NEWBERRYATLANTA (AP) He comes at you with that raspy Cajun timbre, his words delivered from deep in the throat in rapid-fire succession, often requiring subtitles for those not raised in the backwaters...

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 WriterSwift wants more creative play-calling from No. 10 GeorgiaBy CHARLES ODUMATHENS, Ga. (AP) D'Andre Swift is still looking for No. 10 Georgia's offense to play its first complete game.He suggests some changes may be necessary to make that happen.Swift, the leader of the Bulldogs' running attack,...