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(STATS) - If the FCS playoff field was announced a week earlier than next Sunday, the conference that might feel the best about itself is the Southern Conference, where champion The Citadel, Chattanooga, Samford and Wofford appear ready to go into the field. The last time the SoCon had four...

Stats Perform FCS Senior Editor=12 FCS players invited to NFL CombineBy CRAIG HALEY(Stats Perform) - The FCS contingent headed to the NFL Combine has dropped yet again this year.The NFL invited 337 players, but only 12 from the FCS, to its annual pre-draft scouting spectacle, which will be held...

Stats Perform FCS Senior Editor=Could SWAC, FCS playoffs be match in spring?By CRAIG HALEY(Stats Perform) - The NCAA hosting FCS playoffs in the spring would be wild enough, but here's something to make it even wilder: a SWAC team competing in them as part of the conference's 100th anniversary...

EL PASO, Texas (AP) - Arizona State and Duke have a lot of unfinished business - and a lot of similarities - heading into the 81st Sun Bowl.The Blue Devils (9-3) are playing in a bowl for the third consecutive season, but they're still looking for their first postseason...

AP Sports WriterNo. 14 Notre Dame routs Iowa State in Camping World BowlBy FRED GOODALLORLANDO, Fla. (AP) So much for the notion that No. 14 Notre Dame didn't have anything to play for in the Camping World Bowl.A year removed from an appearance in the CFP national semifinals,...

Florida's Edwards arrested on misdemeanor battery chargeGAINESVILLE, Fla. (AP) Florida defensive back Brian Edwards has been released from the Alachua County Jail after being arrested on a misdemeanor battery charge.Edwards was accused of grabbing his girlfriend of two years by her neck Monday as she attempted to leave...

AP Sports WriterA lenient NCAA imposes two-year probation on RutgersBy TOM CANAVANNEWARK, N.J. (AP) The NCAA has placed Rutgers on two-year probation and publically reprimanded and censured the university for failing to monitor its football program over a five-year period between 2011 and 2015.The Division I Committee on...

Wake adds Villanova to 2020 schedule in series of changesWINSTON-SALEM, N.C. (AP) Wake Forest has added Villanova to its 2020 schedule while its game with Tulane that season has been pushed back to 2027.Wake Forest officials announced a series of schedule changes Wednesday.The Demon Deacons were scheduled to...

Associated PressClose-knit Nittany Lions confident and ready to keep rollingBy TRAVIS JOHNSONSTATE COLLEGE, Pa. (AP) Nearly three years ago, James Franklin was charged with lifting a roster full of Bill O'Brien holdovers and dotted with veterans from the Joe Paterno era out of the darkest period in Penn...

Associated PressHeisman hopeful Drew Lock faces juggernaut No. 2 GeorgiaBy CHARLIE CLARKECOLUMBIA, Mo. (AP) As time was expiring in Missouri's duel with Purdue, Tucker McCann drilled a winning 25-yard field goal to move the Tigers to their first 3-0 start since 2015.He probably wouldn't have had the chance...

AP Sports WriterBig Ten scraps nonconference football games due to pandemicBy JOHN ZENORThe Big Ten Conference announced Thursday it will not play nonconference games in football and several other sports this fall, the most dramatic move yet by a power conference because of the coronavirus pandemic.The conference cited medical...

AP Sports WriterTexas freshman QB Shane Ehlinger crushing defendersBy JIM VERTUNOAUSTIN, Texas (AP) Deep into overtime against Kansas State, Texas freshman quarterback Sam Ehlinger burst into the middle of the line and veered right. A Wildcats defender in his sight, Ehlinger lowered his shoulder, threw a forearm and...