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STILLWATER, Okla. (AP) Oklahoma State has utilized at least 11 different receivers in each of its three games, but senior David Glidden has led the way.Sophomore quarterback Mason Rudolph has distributed the ball fairly evenly to a deep corps of talented receivers through three games - all victories...

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) Somewhat unexpected championship runs by Michigan State and Iowa last season fueled expectations of potential repeats in 2016. It doesn't look like either team will make it back to Indianapolis this December. The Spartans (2-5, 0-4 Big Ten) are a staggering four games behind No. 2 Michigan...

SALT LAKE CITY (AP) Troy Williams signed with Washington as a top-ranked dual-threat quarterback in 2013. Two years later, Williams is the starter for Utah and he wants to show the fourth-ranked Huskies' coaching staff what they missed out on. The Utes (7-1, 4-1 Pac-12) host Washington (7-0, 4-0) on...

AP College Football WriterMidseason Report: Pleasant surprises, flops, halfway HeismanBy RALPH D. RUSSOThe first half of the 2016 college football featured the emergence of a new star quarterback, the re-emergence of an old Pac-12 power and the end of an era at LSU.Texas is back! Nope.Houston to the playoff!...

AP College Football WriterPurdue fires coach Hazell after 3-plus seasons and 9 winsBy RALPH D. RUSSOPurdue fired coach Darrell Hazell on Sunday midway through his fourth season, ending his tenure with the worst winning percentage of any Boilermakers coach in 95 years.Hazell was 9-33 overall (.220) since taking over...

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) The latest in the trial of Florida State running back Dalvin Cook, accused of punching a woman in the face outside a bar (all times local):---11:20 a.mA woman says Florida State running back Dalvin Cook boasted that he would be able to buy her when...

EAST LANSING, Mich. (AP) Tom Izzo's basketball team is undefeated, ranked No. 1 in the nation, and right now has to settle for second billing on its own campus.That's how high the bar has been raised at Michigan State.It's the football Spartans who are tantalizingly close to a...

TULSA, Okla. (AP) First-year coach Philip Montgomery has brought his offensive philosophy from Baylor to Tulsa, and already, changes are evident for the Golden Hurricane.Montgomery hopes these changes will equate to a change in fortune for a program with just five victories in the past two seasons.If last...

HOUSTON (AP) - James ''Froggy'' Williams, a 1949 All-America end on Rice's 1949 Southwest Conference football championship squad, had died. He was 87.A family statement Wednesday says Williams died Tuesday at his Houston home surrounded by loved ones.The Waco native led the Owls to a Cotton Bowl win over...

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) - Florida State quarterback Jameis Winston was cleared of the accusations he faced at a student code of conduct hearing involving an alleged sexual assault two years ago, according to documents obtained by The Associated Press on Sunday.Former Florida Supreme Court judge Major Harding wrote in...

AP Sports WriterWith no clear favorite, Pac-12 promises memorable fall raceBy GREG BEACHAMLOS ANGELES (AP) Stanford coach David Shaw only needed a few words to epitomize why his Cardinal are the Pac-12 football favorites this fall - and also why that distinction doesn't mean much.''I think we have...

MADISON, Wis. (AP) Wisconsin running back Corey Clement has returned to practice but isn't participating at full speed three weeks after the team announced he needed sports hernia surgery.Still, Badgers coach Paul Chryst said before practice on Thursday that Clement was day to day, and would not rule...