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Penn State is a name brand team with a potential top draft QB in Christian Hackenberg. The O line is looking promising this season but test day is Saturday. Temple hasn't beaten Penn State over the last 31 games - since 1941. The Owls come to their home field with 11...

KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (AP) Tennessee's Jauan Jennings says he wasn't even thinking about the possibility of cracking the starting lineup for the season opener when he moved over from quarterback to wide receiver last month.Now he is on top of the depth chart as the 25th-ranked Volunteers prepare for...

AMES, Iowa (AP) Opening day losses have all but doomed Iowa State in each of the last two seasons.This year's schedule should give the Cyclones a chance for a better start.Iowa State opens its seventh season under coach Paul Rhoads with an immediate must-win game on Saturday against...

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) The Minnesota football program has hardly been prone to some catchy nickname like Cornerback College or Safety School.Now, in another sign of progress under coach Jerry Kill and his staff, the Gophers have an all-senior group of legitimate NFL prospects manning the four defensive back positions.''They'll...

COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) So Steve Spurrier finally settled on South Carolina's starting quarterback. He just wishes that was his only question on offense.The coach went with third-year sophomore Connor Mitch for Thursday night's opener against North Carolina, and the third-year sophomore is one of several variables on the...

(STATS) - Gutsy. Dangerous. A tad diabolical.It's all rolled up into new Montana football coach Bob Stitt's style of offense that he unveiled on Saturday against a team that, oh, has won the last four FCS national championships.Stitt's punch-you-in-the-mouth style of offense has its detractions, but as No. 13...

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) Florida State has completed preseason drills without coach Jimbo Fisher naming a starting quarterback.Fisher says Saturday he will handle the quarterback situation when he is ready. He says he knows exactly what he is going to do.The No. 10 Seminoles open next Saturday against Texas...

WACO, Texas (AP) Baylor University President Ken Starr is proposing an independent investigation of the athletic department's handling of the sexual assault complaint against defensive end Sam Ukwuachu.Starr proposed the hiring of outside counsel after reviewing the results of the internal inquiry of sexual assault case, for which...

LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) Nebraska offensive lineman Alex Lewis doesn't run away from that spring night in 2013 that threatened to derail his football career. He owns it but refuses to let it define him.It was 15 months ago that he walked out of a Colorado jail where he...

BERKELEY, Calif. (AP) Former California and NFL star Andre Carter has returned to the Golden Bears' football program as a student assistant coach.Head coach Sonny Dykes said Thursday that Carter will assist with the team's defensive line.Carter enrolled as an undergraduate at Cal earlier this year to pursue...

STATE COLLEGE, Pa. (AP) When DaeSean Hamilton made his college football debut last season, he looked like a man trying to make up for lost time.Team doctors discovered a broken bone in Hamilton's left wrist during his physical in 2013 and shut him down before training camp. By...

Virginia Tech athletic director Whit Babcock quickly responded to defensive coordinator Bud Foster's suggestion that coaches might fine players from their cost of attendance stipends by saying no such thing will happen.New NCAA rules allow schools to pay a stipend of several thousand dollars to athletes that cover school...