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AP College Football WriterAP Top 25 Takeaways: Michigan is B1G's best; Tide-Tigers IV?By RALPH D. RUSSOThere is no more reason to hedge on Jim Harbaugh's team.No. 6 Michigan is the Big Ten's best right now and will enter November as a very real College Football Playoff contender after it...

STATS FCS Senior Editor=Many undrafted FCS players getting NFL shotBy CRAIG HALEY(STATS) - The bargain shopping began immediately after the NFL Draft ended Saturday evening as teams came to terms with the many undrafted free agents who will try to fight their way on to a roster.Going undrafted can...

Baylor hires BYU's Jeff Grimes as new offensive coordinatorWACO, Texas (AP) Jeff Grimes has been named offensive coordinator at Baylor after three seasons in the same position at BYU.Baylor coach Dave Aranda announced the hire Monday. Grimes replaces Larry Fedora, who departed the program after the Bears averaged...

TCU finishes regular season against La. Tech in late addFORT WORTH, Texas (AP) TCU is set to finish the regular season with its only non-conference game instead of starting the pandemic-altered year that way as planned.Linebacker Garret Wallow hasn't really concerned himself with which opponent the Horned Frogs...

Test confirms sprained shoulder for Texas QB EhlingerAUSTIN, Texas (AP) Follow-up tests Sunday confirmed Texas quarterback Sam Ehlinger has a sprained throwing shoulder.Ehlinger left the Longhorns' 23-17 win over Baylor on Saturday on Texas' first possession of the game and did not return. He had taken a couple...

Michigan-Ohio State finale highlights 3rd Big Ten scheduleBy The Associated PressThe Big Ten's third football schedule of the 2020 season is highlighted by Michigan-Ohio State on Dec. 12, the final day of the conference's regular-season and the latest date the rivals have ever played.The Big Ten released an eight-games-in-eight-weeks...

Associated PressBob Davie says he ‘put every ounce’ into leading New MexicoBy GLEN ROSALESALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) New Mexico coach Bob Davie says he’s leaving the Lobos without anything to apologize for.“I put every ounce into this,” Davie said Tuesday. “My family has put every ounce into this.”Davie and...

Correction: Alabama-Assistants storyTUSCALOOSA, Ala. (AP) In a story Feb. 22 about Alabama football's promotion and hiring of assistants, The Associated Press misspelled the name of new defensive coordinator Tosh Lupoi.A corrected version of the story is below:Alabama promotes Locksley, Lupoi, hires 2 more assistantsAlabama coach Nick Saban has...

Investigators to give Ohio St report on Meyer next weekCOLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) Ohio State says factfinders investigating coach Urban Meyer's handling of domestic abuse allegations against a former assistant will deliver a report to university leaders sometime next week.The school announced Friday that the investigation will wrap up...

AP Sports WriterCollege football coaches facing tough adversary: uncertaintyBy HANK KURZ Jr.College football coaches are facing the daunting challenge of getting their players to maintain the required focus to prepare for season-openers when the prevailing question swirling around the sport is when, or if, the season will even be...

AP Sports WriterMississippi's AJ Brown 1 of nation's top college receiversBy DAVID BRANDTOXFORD, Miss. (AP) Mississippi's A.J. Brown is used to people having strong opinions about him.That's what happens in the Magnolia State after a prized recruit chooses to play football at Ole Miss despite growing up just...

AP College Football WriterNew-look Nebraska is out to atone for awful finish in 2016By ERIC OLSONLINCOLN, Neb. (AP) Unpleasant as it is to look back, Nebraska's Mick Stoltenberg isn't ready to put the second half of the 2016 season in the rearview mirror quite yet.''Some of the things...