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AP Sports WriterFootball coaches favor adding 2nd signing day in DecemberBy TERESA M. WALKERNASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) Coaches unanimously support creating an early signing period for college football in December, but the executive director of the American Football Coaches Association says none of them want a third signing day...

AP Sports WriterAlabama QB Tua Tagovailoa says he is entering 2020 NFL draftBy JOHN ZENORTUSCALOOSA, Ala. (AP) Alabama quarterback Tua Tagovailoa put an end to the initial question about his future, announcing Monday that he is entering the NFL draft and closing the book on a college career...

TAMPA, Fla. (AP) A second University of South Florida football player is now accused of firing a gun on campus.University police arrested junior cornerback Lamar Robbins on Thursday. He remained in the Hillsborough County Jail early Friday with an $8,000 bond.Police say they arrested Robbins after an investigation...

STATS FCS Senior Editor=2018 FCS vs. FBS: MEACBy CRAIG HALEY(STATS) - The 2017 season ended quite well for the MEAC with conference champ North Carolina A&T being the only unbeaten team in the FCS.But a September to remember helped get the season started for the MEAC as A&T and...

AP Sports WriterNC State hosts Wake Forest in Wolfpack's delayed debutBy AARON BEARDRALEIGH, N.C. (AP) North Carolina State spent a week watching other Atlantic Coast Conference teams play after having its original opening game postponed amid coronavirus clusters involving Wolfpack athletes and elsewhere on campus.Coach Dave Doeren's squad...

'SEC on CBS' schedules starts with Alabama-South CarolinaBy The Associated PressAlabama at South Carolina on Sept. 14 will start CBS' Southeastern Conference football schedule this season, and Notre Dame's trip to Georgia the next week is positioned to be a prime-time game for the network.The schedule for the 19th...

AP Sports WriterMoorhead, Mississippi St pushing for quick spring transitionBy DAVID BRANDTSTARKVILLE, Miss. (AP) Mississippi State's Joe Moorhead is going through the same problems and having the same headaches that first-year coaches always go through when establishing the way they want their football program run.One difference: He won't...

AP Sports WriterSpecial teams blunders proving problematic for BoilermakersBy MICHAEL MAROTPurdue coach Jeff Brohm watched the momentum swing in the blink of an eye Saturday.With two backups filling in for injured players on the kickoff coverage unit, Aron Cruickshank brought the ball out from the end, found a seam,...

Minnesota hires Mike Sanford Jr. as co-offensive coordinatorMINNEAPOLIS (AP) Minnesota coach P.J. Fleck hired Mike Sanford Jr. and promoted Matt Simon to fill his offensive coordinator vacancy Friday.Sanford, who will also serve as quarterbacks coach, held the dual role at Utah State in 2019. He was the head...

LOS ANGELES (AP) UCLA cornerback Ishmael Adams has been charged with misdemeanor battery over a run-in he had with an Uber driver shortly before the start of the season.The Los Angeles city attorney's office filed the charge Monday.The office received the case after the district attorney declined felony...

Stats Perform FCS Senior Editor=Austin Peay forges through offseason filled with anxietyBy CRAIG HALEY(Stats Perform) - The uncertainty of when they will be back at campus, back on the field together, back to a familiar routine that leads to the start of the season is harder than any preseason...

STATS FCS Senior Editor=FCS Playoff Review: Illinois State 24, Southeast Missouri 6By CRAIG HALEYThe Score - Illinois State (9-4) beat Southeast Missouri (9-4) 24-6 in the first round of the FCS playoffs.Story Line - Redbirds senior James Robinson set career highs with 41 carries and 297 rushing yards and...