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Montana, North Dakota set future series(STATS) - North Dakota will be joining the Missouri Valley Football Conference in 2020, but it won't be done facing current Big Sky member Montana.The two programs announced a home-and-home series for the 2024 and 2025 seasons on Wednesday. They will play in Grand...

GAINESVILLE, Fla. (AP) Purdue quarterback Austin Appleby is transferring to Florida.A fourth-year junior who graduated last month, Appleby announced his intentions on his Twitter page Monday. He would be eligible to play for the Gators next season under the NCAA's graduate-transfer rule.''It is now time for me to...

AP Sports WriterSEC's Sankey remains critic of early football signing periodBy JOHN ZENORBIRMINGHAM, Ala. (AP) Southeastern Conference Commissioner Greg Sankey has been on the losing end of the argument against an early football signing period.He joins some of the league's coaches who don't think it's a change for...

Huskers WR Wan'Dale Robinson announces plan to transferLINCOLN, Neb. (AP) Nebraska wide receiver Wan'Dale Robinson has announced his plan to transfer, leaving the Cornhuskers without one of their top playmakers in 2021.Robinson revealed his decision on Twitter on Monday, saying he wants to move closer to his family...

Stats Perform FCS Senior Editor=How FCS prospects performed at the NFL CombineBy CRAIG HALEY(Stats Perform) - NFL teams have long found value in many former FCS players, so there was reason to keep a close eye on this year's class of prospects at the NFL Combine which concluded Sunday...

AP College Football Writer'Bama-Georgia draws 2nd-largest CFP championship TV audienceBy RALPH D. RUSSOATLANTA (AP) The national championship showdown between Alabama and Georgia drew 28.443 million viewers for ESPN, making it the second-most watched title game in the four years of the College Football Playoff format.Alabama beat Georgia in...

AP Sports WriterCollege football kicks off COVID-19 style in AlabamaBy JOHN ZENORMONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) With masks, social distancing and mostly empty stands, the college football season kicked off COVID-19 style.Austin Peay and Central Arkansas, two teams fresh from FCS playoff appearances, took the stage at Cramton Bowl Saturday...

Neb WR Stanley Morgan Jr. arrested on pot charge in FloridaLINCOLN, Neb. (AP) Nebraska receiver Stanley Morgan Jr. was arrested in Florida on suspicion of felony possession of marijuana this month, but a prosecutor reduced the charge to a misdemeanor.Omaha television station KETV reported Friday (http://bit.ly/2r6JS56 ) that...

AP College Football WriterAP Top 25: Notre Dame into top 5; Texas top 10; 8 SEC teamsBy RALPH D. RUSSONotre Dame moved into the top five, Texas and UCF reached the top 10 and the Southeastern Conference placed a season-high eight teams in the latest Associated Press college football...

Associated PressPenn State's secondary not discouraged by rough quarterBy TRAVIS JOHNSONSTATE COLLEGE, Pa. (AP) As Appalachian State lined up to try and match his team's touchdown in overtime Saturday, Penn State coach James Franklin bounded up and down the sideline, gesturing wildly for more than 105,000 fans to...

David Ash wasn't sure he would start the Valero Alamo Bowl. No one will remember after the way he finished Texas' rocky season with a validating and dazzling victory. The sophomore threw a 36-yard touchdown strike to Marquise Goodwin with 2:24 left for the last of two fourth-quarter touchdown passes,...

Miami names Houston transfer D’Eriq King starting QBCORAL GABLES, Fla. (AP) — If Miami has a football season, D'Eriq King will be the Hurricanes' starting quarterback.The Hurricanes made the announcement Monday that King, a redshirt senior transfer from Houston, will be the first-string quarterback when — or if —...