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Prairie View faces tough road in Dooley debut(STATS) - Prairie View A&M is excited to have coach Eric Dooley as its new coach, but he won't coach a game on campus until mid-October.The Panthers will face a challenging 11-game schedule as they seek to win the SWAC title. It...

STATS FCS Senior Editor=FCS attendance average drops slightly in 2017By CRAIG HALEY(STATS) - The average attendance at FCS games dropped by less than 2 percent this past season, although the number of overall fans rose slightly to over 5.5 million because there were more games than in 2016.The NCAA's...

AP College Football WriterGeorgia holds on this time to finish No. 1 in recruitingBy RALPH D. RUSSOGeorgia was not about to blow this lead.The Bulldogs, who let a 13-0 halftime advantage get away in a national championship game loss to Alabama, finished their 2018 recruiting class with a flourish...

Frost Fever: 1st spring game at Nebraska sells out in dayLINCOLN, Neb. (AP) Call it Frost Fever.Nebraska's spring football game at 85,000-seat Memorial Stadium - the first under new coach Scott Frost - sold out one day after tickets went on sale.The school announced Wednesday morning that all...

Associated PressNotre Dame signs 6 to complete top-10 signing classBy JOHN FINERANSOUTH BEND, Ind. (AP) Notre Dame finished off a top-10 recruiting class by filling positions of need.After signing 21 players in the early period just before Christmas, the Fighting Irish received six more signed letters of intent...

AP College Football WriterGeorgia holds on this time to finish No. 1 in recruitingBy RALPH D. RUSSOGeorgia was not about to blow this lead.The Bulldogs, who let a 13-0 halftime advantage get away in a national championship game loss to Alabama, finished their 2018 recruiting class with a flourish...

The Latest: Jerry Jones' grandson signs with ArkansasBy The Associated PressThe Latest on college football national signing day (all times Eastern):4:15 p.m.The grandson of Dallas Cowboys owner Jerry Jones is carrying on the family tradition at Arkansas.John Stephen Jones signed with the Razorbacks on Wednesday, and his granddad attended...

AP Sports WriterEarly period makes for calm national signing day around ACCBy JOEDY McCREARYSigning day was a lot less frantic than usual around the Atlantic Coast Conference.Schools mostly topped off their recruiting classes Wednesday, roughly two months after most programs took care of refilling their rosters during the inaugural...

AP Sports WriterPac-12 signings: USC inks No. 6 recruiting class for 2018By JOHN MARSHALLClay Helton has proven to be an adept recruiter in his three full seasons in Southern California, annually bringing in loaded recruiting classes.His 2018 class may be the best of the bunch.Headlined by a quartet of...

Georgia rehires Fountain, also adds Hankton from VanderbiltATHENS, Ga. (AP) Georgia coach Kirby Smart has rehired Scott Fountain as an assistant following Fountain's one month on Mississippi State's staff.Smart on Wednesday also confirmed he has hired Cortez Hankton, who was Vanderbilt's wide receivers coach the past three years.Fountain...

Clemson says running back CJ Fuller is transferringCLEMSON, S.C. (AP) Clemson's one-time starting running back C.J. Fuller is leaving the Tigers.Clemson coach Dabo Swinney said Wednesday Fuller would graduate this spring and then find a new school to finish his football career.Fuller, a redshirt junior, opened the year...

AP College Football WriterWhere are top QBs going? What competition awaits in college?By RALPH D. RUSSOIn the past three years Georgia has signed a five-star quarterback who started as a freshman, a four-star quarterback who started as a freshman and led the Bulldogs to the national championship game and...