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The Big East will have a 10-team league this fall without divisions after Boise State and San Diego State decided to remain in the Mountain West. Those defections forced the Big East to scrap its planned home-and-away opponents, which was announced in December. A new list of opponents was released...

GLENDALE, Ariz. (AP) Welcome to the epic national championship club Alabama and Clemson.Your game is a unanimous choice to join the short list of some of the most dramatic, exciting, fantastic finishes to a college football season.With one big play after another - by both teams - Alabama...

(STATS) - Former Charleston Southern offensive tackle Erik Austell has been selected to play in the East-West Shrine Game on Jan. 21 at Tropicana Field in St. Petersburg, Florida. The 6-foot-4, 285-pound Austell made the STATS FCS All-America second team as a senior, playing left tackle for the Big South...

Alcorn State said in a release Wednesday that it was placed under two years' probation and must vacate wins that involved the ineligible student-athletes and pay a $5,000 fine. The violations involved a combined 26 student-athletes in football, men's basketball, men's and women's tennis, baseball, men's and women's cross country,...

(STATS) - Hampton will face Delaware State in the AT&T Nation's Football Classic at Washington's RFK Stadium as part of an 11-game schedule this year. The matchup will be played Friday night, Sept. 8. Hampton, which will celebrate its 150th anniversary as a university, will host five opponents - Livingstone (Sept....

FORT COLLINS, Colo. (AP) Colorado State coach Mike Bobo stood in a large campus parking lot 3 1/2 hours before kickoff against Minnesota on Saturday and jokingly issued an old-fashioned dare to the Gophers and coach Jerry Kill.''I think we ought to call coach Kill at Minnesota and...

We pontificate and analyze and study for months, and then the games start, and we find out how much we don't know. We write and speak with good intentions. We're as excited about the season getting here as you are. But then, like most newborns, it acts nothing like imagined....

(STATS) - The hiring of former Virginia and Richmond coach Mike London at Howard on Monday continued the recent flurry of coaching changes in the FCS. Fifteen schools have made a change since the end of the regular season, and only one remains without a coach as Indiana State is...

PISCATAWAY, N.J. (AP) Rich Ash isn't going to stray far from his roots when it comes to rejuvenating the football program at Rutgers.It's going to be modeled after what he learned at Ohio State the past two seasons as its defensive coordinator.Speaking at a news conference on Tuesday,...

JACKSON, Miss. (AP) Mississippi's football team will not play in the postseason next year. The Rebels might be facing more penalties, too, now that the NCAA says the program has committed more than 20 rules violations over the past several years. Ole Miss officials said Wednesday that the university has...

Associated PressTight end Gesicki becoming key cog for Penn State's offenseBy TRAVIS JOHNSONSTATE COLLEGE, Pa. (AP) Penn State tight end Mike Gesicki gets a quick pep talk from a teammate or two before every game.''Be Mike,'' they say.It's taken him some time to figure out exactly what that...

WACO, Texas (AP) A second former Baylor football player has been arrested on charges that include sexual assault. The U.S. Marshal's Service confirms that 23-year-old Shamycheal ''Myke'' Chatman was arrested Thursday in Houston. A McLennan County grand jury earlier indicted Chatman along with another former player, 22-year-old Tre'Von Armstead, who was...