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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 College Football WriterRed River revival with Herman, Riley can turn around Big 12By RALPH D. RUSSOFor the sake of the Big 12, Lincoln Riley and Tom Herman better live up to the hype.Following a season in which Big 12 football bottomed out, and with speculation about the long-term...

Top rusher Isom leaving Salukis(STATS) - Southern Illinois' leading rusher Daquan Isom is leaving the program, coach Nick Hill said.The 5-foot-8, 186-pound speedster rushed for a team-high 491 yards last season and 1,344 yards in three years. He also caught 75 passes and returned kicks with the Salukis."I love...

AP Sports WriterDetails finally trickle out on Ohio State position battlesBy MITCH STACYCOLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) Preseason camp for Ohio State has been anything but normal. Superstar coach Urban Meyer has been absent, and reporters have been kept away from acting coach Ryan Day and players. Happenings from inside...

AP Sports WriterIndiana, Purdue keep focus on football during home stretchBy MICHAEL MAROTIndiana coach Tom Allen understands the challenges his team faces this weekend.No. 4 Michigan is the Big Ten's highest-ranked team and the one most likely to carry the conference banner into the College Football Playoff if anyone...

2019 FCS head coaching changes(STATS) - It's expected the head coaching carousel in FCS college football will spin less following the 2019 season than the way it did in the last two dizzying years.There were 24 different schools with a change atop their program between the start of the...

AP Sports WriterOregon hosts Arizona looking for 7th straight Pac-12 winBy ANNE M. PETERSONEUGENE, Ore. (AP) It’s pretty simple: if the Oregon Ducks want even a chance to get into the College Football Playoff field, they have to keep winning.Ranked No. 6 in both the CFP rankings and...

AP College Football WriterFear of 'slip-ups' continuing to fuel No. 4 Buckeyes' rollBy ERIC OLSONLINCOLN, Neb. (AP) It's been pounded into the heads of Ohio State players since the winter, how losses to unranked opponents from the Big Ten West ended bids for the College Football Playoff the...

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...

Stats Perform FCS Senior Editor=Practices are silver lining in cloudy FCS forecastBy CRAIG HALEY(Stats Perform) - The recent start of preseason practices across FCS campuses helps to keep hope alive for a season this fall, but the players and coaches involved appear to be like everybody else, wondering if...

Maryland Gov. Hogan says Durkin firing not the end of storyBALTIMORE (AP) Though DJ Durkin has been fired as Maryland's football coach, Gov. Larry Hogan says questions remain regarding the decision to reinstate him in the first place.Hogan was among several state politicians who criticized the University System...

Police: LSU's Ingram arrested on sexual assault chargesBATON ROUGE, La. (AP) Authorities in Dallas say LSU offensive lineman Ed Ingram was arrested on sexual assault charges in early August, around the same time the projected starter was suspended from the Tigers' football program for an unspecified violation of...