CFB

STATS FCS Senior Editor=Potential springboard to successBy CRAIG HALEY(STATS) - Success is measured in many ways, but in the 24-team FCS playoffs, only the national champion can end its season with a win.Few FCS teams will enter the 2017 season with a long winning streak, although national champion James...

AP Sports WriterVirus precautions, uncertainty mark opening of Ohio St campBy MITCH STACYCOLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) Ohio State opened preseason training camp Thursday with strict coronavirus protocols in place and under a cloud of uncertainty about whether the revised 10-game season will even be played at all.Rules requiring testing,...

AP Sports WriterMiles and miles of Miles inside Kansas football programBy DAVE SKRETTALAWRENCE, Kan. (AP) Les Koenning has to be careful every time the new offensive coordinator at Kansas walks into one of the Jayhawks' meeting rooms, making sure to address the right person by the right name.It...

AP Sports WriterAresco: AAC's profile boosted by Big 12 expansion processBy PAT EATON-ROBBSTORRS, Conn. (AP) American Athletic Conference Commissioner Mike Aresco noted the difference on Tuesday.His conference, which a day before had been facing the potential loss of two or even four of its highest-profile programs to the...

AP College Football WriterFootball coaches transfer idea: Graduates earn a year backBy RALPH D. RUSSOSCOTTSDALE, Ariz. (AP) The American Football Coaches Association wants the NCAA to consider allowing players who transfer and sit out a season at their new school to earn back that year of eligibility by...

Clemson's Lawrence, Alabama stars Maxwell Award finalistsBy The Associated PressClemson quarterback Trevor Lawrence and Alabama stars Mac Jones and DeVonta Smith are the finalists for the Maxwell Award given to college football's top player.The finalists for nine college football awards were announced Tuesday, including those honoring the top defensive...

AP Sports WriterGa Tech finally gets home finale in makeup vs PittsburghBy PAUL NEWBERRYATLANTA (AP) Georgia Tech will try to send the seniors out in style when it finally plays the last game of the season at Bobby Dodd Stadium.Of course, in this most unusual of years, there's...

AP Sports WriterNo. 16 Virginia Tech vs Boston College used to be rivalryBy JIMMY GOLENBOSTON (AP) It wasn't so long ago that Boston College and Virginia Tech built a rivalry - first in the Big East and then in the Atlantic Coast Conference.With quarterbacks like Michael Vick, Matt...

Wisconsin WR Quintez Cephus returns to practiceMADISON, Wis. (AP) Wisconsin receiver Quintez Cephus has returned to practice and his coach says pending eligibility issues stem from a lack of credits because he was expelled amid sexual assault allegations this spring.Cephus was charged a year ago with sexually assaulting...

STATS FCS Senior Editor=Delaware's Adderley injures hamstring at pro dayBy CRAIG HALEY(STATS) - Delaware safety Nasir Adderley's pro day ended early on Friday because of a pulled hamstring suffered while running the 40-yard dash.Adderley competed in four events before getting hurt. The top FCS-level prospect didn't compete in the...

AP Sports WriterOregon's Willie Taggart era: a lone season of what-ifsBy ANNE M. PETERSONWillie Taggart's lone season at Oregon may well be remembered for what-ifs.The most prominent among them: What if quarterback Justin Herbert had been healthy? But also: What if Taggart had decided to stay?What's known is that...

Ex-Tennessee QB Dormady says he's transferring to HoustonKNOXVILLE, Tenn. (AP) Former Tennessee quarterback Quinten Dormady is transferring to Houston.Dormady issued an Instagram post of himself in a Houston uniform with the word ''Committed'' below it. Dormady had announced in mid-January that he would earn his degree from Tennessee...