CFB

(STATS) - The most common theme among FCS prospects working toward the NFL Draft is that they have a chip on their shoulder. It never fails, they can be all-conference or All-American, yet they feel they have to do more to prove themselves to the next level. Leading into next week's...

Jake Spavital returns to WVU as offensive coordinatorMORGANTOWN, W.Va. (AP) Jake Spavital is returning to West Virginia as offensive coordinator.Mountaineers coach Dana Holgorsen announced Spavital's hiring Saturday. He'll also coach the quarterbacks.Spavital was interim coach at Cal after Sonny Dykes was fired last Sunday. Spavital had finished his...

KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (AP) Tennessee coach Butch Jones believes holding one open practice each year helps prepare his team for the Neyland Stadium environment.Of course, it helps when that workout draws the type of crowd that many programs can't attract during the regular season.Even without a quarterback competition to...

The college football season is only half over and already four FBS coaches have been fired, one was suspended for three games and another future Hall of Famer has resigned. Four preseason top-10 teams are no longer ranked. Injuries to key players have been rampant. Scoring is up as...

COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) There's a new 80-foot poster planned at South Carolina's football stadium to replace the giant Steve Spurrier banner that has hung there in 2014 and 2015. The banner will feature a Gamecocks football player wearing No. 1 with a reflective shield on his helmet, now showing a...

Bowling Green's Matt Johnson is back, and he's better than ever.The fifth-year senior has had career games two weeks in a row, following his 424-yard passing day against Tennessee with 491 yards and a school record-tying six touchdowns in a 48-27 win at Maryland on Saturday.Johnson is the only...

DETROIT (AP) Central Michigan coach Jon Bonamego made a surprise appearance Wednesday at the Mid-American Conference's media day, showing up a few hours after receiving a chemotherapy treatment.Bonamego, who has cancer in his left tonsil, had been scheduled to be represented by his offensive and defensive coordinators, but...

Associated PressNorth Dakota State president: Some texts 'not appropriate'By BLAKE NICHOLSONBISMARCK, N.D. (AP) North Dakota State University President Dean Bresciani said Monday that some text messages he sent regarding heavily criticized and now-rescinded media guidelines for covering Bison athletics were ''not appropriate.''Bresciani in a campus-wide email also continued...

FORT WORTH, Texas (AP) Oklahoma goes to Rocky Top this weekend and Texas Tech follows next week with a trip to the foothills of the Ozark Mountains.For the sake of the Big 12 Conference, the 19th-ranked Sooners and Red Raiders need to do more than just visit two...

COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) Urban Meyer has a bond with each of his departing senior classes, but the group playing its final game in Ohio Stadium on Saturday has a special meaning for the Ohio State coach.Now, if he could only enjoy the moment more than exchanging hugs and...

FARGO, N.D. (AP) The emotional boost North Dakota State gets from its star quarterback's return to practice may not matter if the Bison can't stop Northern Iowa's vaunted running game.Senior signal-caller Carson Wentz, a top-tier pro prospect who last year led the Bison to their fourth straight FCS...

Former Oklahoma All-American DE Jimbo Elrod killed in crashCHANDLER, Okla. (AP) James ''Jimbo'' Elrod, an All-American defensive end who played on Oklahoma's 1974 and 1975 national championship teams, died in a car wreck Monday, the Oklahoma Highway Patrol said. He was 62.The single-vehicle crash happened at about 3:45...