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Best rivalry in college football? It used to be Ohio State and Michigan. Not this year. It’s a question that can be argued in every region of the country. Alabama and Auburn. Brigham Young and Utah. Texas and Oklahoma. Texas and Texas A&M. Florida and Georgia. The entir ...

Get ready for the Iron Bowl: Both the Alabama Crimson Tide and Auburn Tigers have two weeks to prepare for what is arguably the biggest rivalry game in college football. The Tigers currently stand at a measly 5-6, while their crosstown rival will come into the game wit ...

Barring unforeseen circumstances, the Southeastern Conference all but has a representative in the BCS national championship game. The only question is whether top-ranked Alabama or third-ranked Florida can give the league a third consecutive national champion. The two ...

The top 16 teams remained unchanged this week in the AP college football rankings with Alabama still leading the pack by a thin margin over No. 2 Texas Tech. Florida State, South Carolina and Tulsa tumbled out of the rankings, paving the way for Maryland, Miami and Oreg ...

The biggest college football game in school history awaits Texas Tech. Everything – a conference title, an undefeated season, a Heisman Trophy and even a national championship – rides on the outcome of Saturday night’s contest between the second-ranked Red Raiders and ...

Wow, what a difference a week makes. That, and a handy flight-tracking Web site. Until this past Tuesday, not a peep was heard out of Clemson University about its head coaching search since ex-skipper Tommy Bowden’s forced resignation Oct. 13. Athletic director Terry ...

Two weeks ago, it took running back LeGarrette Blount to seal the deal for Oregon against Stanford in the closing seconds. This past weekend against Arizona was no different. For the second consecutive week, the team had to claw its way back to win after becoming conse ...

BYU 38, Air Force 24 Team grade: B-plus RF365 Player of the Game: Austin Collie, BYU (seven receptions, 130 yards, two TDs) This contest was undecided until Max Hall connected with Austin Collie on a 45-yard touchdown pass with 4:46 remaining on the clock. BYU did ever ...

All signs point to another nail-biter for the BYU Cougars this weekend in Colorado Springs. The Air Force Falcons haven’t been winning with many style points this season on their way to compiling a solid 8-2 record, and yet they’re only 15 points shy of registering a p ...

When Daniel Murray’s 31-yard field goal split the uprights last Saturday, it not only gave the Iowa Hawkeyes an improbable 24-23 upset of No. 3 Penn State but also ended the Big Ten’s hopes of placing one of its teams in the BCS national championship game for a third st ...

College football isn't played on paper and that has to be quite the disappointment to both Mark Richt of Georgia and Auburn's Tommy Tuberville this season. Of course, there are degrees of disappointment. Georgia began the season ranked No. 1 with hopes of claiming its ...

The North Carolina State Wolfpack will not win the ACC and will not finish the season with a plus-.500 record. However, behind freshman QB Russell Wilson, this team is improving and has three opportunities left to spoil other clubs’ chances for an ACC championship. Co ...

Michigan recruiting update: The theory is that if you win games, the recruits will come. If you lose games, they will not. Well, in college football, the rich may get richer. But the poor get just as rich sometimes. Think of it as football’s version of communism. ...

In the ACC Atlantic Division, many pundits seem to have already eliminated the Maryland Terrapins from consideration. However, with a win over Wake Forest already, Maryland controls its own destiny in the enigmatic ACC title race. Commentary: Maryland’s season is a mi ...

The annual BCS or playoff issue Which team is the most deserving undefeated non-BCS? The New York Times recently posted a blog posing that question to Utah and Boise State fans. Many of the smack-filled posts by Utah and BSU fans are hilarious. Here’s the link: New York ...

If you had to point out the big orange scuttlebutt at Clemson, look no further than the recent news of athletic director Terry Don Phillips flying to Oklahoma to reportedly meet with Sooner associate head coach and co-defensive coordinator Brent Venables about the forme ...

The Miami Hurricanes and Virginia Tech Hokies face off Thursday night in a game with significant implications on the ACC title race. These schools are no strangers to seeing each other in these types of games, going back to their days in the Big East. Commentary: W ...

Last season, the Auburn Tigers went into Athens to face Georgia and suffered a blackout. With the Bulldogs and their fans in all black, Georgia handed Auburn a 45-20 loss despite the Tigers leading 20-14 in the third quarter. It’s a game that Auburn would like to forg ...

It's hard not to root for the University of Cincinnati Bearcats. And if the team continues on its current path, it will be equally difficult not to vote for Brian Kelly as Big East Coach of the Year. Here are some of the reasons why the Bearcats should not be 7-2 at th ...

Alabama or Florida?: The Florida Gators have the best quarterback in the SEC and all the glitzy speed that teams covet. They’ve now beaten the Arkansas Razorbacks, LSU Tigers, Kentucky Wildcats, Georgia Bulldogs and Vanderbilt Commodores consecutively by a combined sco ...