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Jennings has 3 TDs as No. 13 SMU routs Virginia 33-7 to clinch a spot in the ACC title gameVideo
CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. — Kevin Jennings threw for a career-high 323 yards and two touchdowns and ran for another, and No. 13 SMU clinched a spot in the ACC championship game by routing Virginia, 33-7, on Saturday. Isaiah Smith and Jared Harrison-Hunte had two sacks each to help the Mustangs (10-1,...
Mark Madden’s Hot Take: College Football Playoff could use less committee involvement
The new and improved 12-team College Football Playoff isn’t improved. It’s just a different version of screwy. It’s the word “committee.” Things get better if you ditch that word. Eliminate subjectivity. Make it about standings and winners. Provide an exact pathway. Right now, Ohio State is seeded fifth. The Buckeyes...
UConn coach Geno Auriemma breaks all-time wins record, getting 1,217th career victoryVideo
STORRS, Conn. — Geno Auriemma soaked in the moment. The UConn Hall of Fame coach now stands alone atop the NCAA college basketball all-time wins list. Auriemma broke a tie with former Stanford coach Tara VanDerveer, earning his 1,217 career victory with an 85-41 win over Fairleigh Dickinson on Wednesday...
Deion Sanders dismisses speculation about future with No. 16 Colorado, says he’s happy in BoulderVideo
BOULDER, Colo. — Each win brings Deion Sanders and the 16th-ranked Colorado Buffaloes closer and closer to a spot in the Big 12 title game. It also brings more and more speculation about his future in Boulder. Sanders tamped that down Tuesday. “I’m happy where I am, man. I’m good....
It’s Boise State, not BYU, with a bye in latest College Football Playoff rankings, with Oregon at No. 1Video
Boise State received the fourth and final bye in Tuesday night’s College Football Playoff rankings, leaving BYU out of that mix and placing the Big 12 alongside the SEC on the list of power conferences with a gripe. Undefeated Oregon received top billing again, delivered by the committee a few...
Molded by Western Pa. roots, Curt Cignetti guides Indiana into national spotlight
In the 1970s, they were a couple of pre-teens running around Mountaineer Field on the campus of West Virginia University, sons of the head football coach. They mixed easily with players at practice and in the locker room but never took their proud eyes off their dad, Frank Cignetti Sr....
Kansas remains No. 1 in AP poll, top 10 shuffled with losses by 3 teams; Wisconsin joins rankings
Kansas strengthened its grip on No. 1 in the AP Top 25. The rest of the top 10 turned into a jumble of teams swapping places. The Jayhawks picked up five first-place votes in The Associated Press men’s college basketball poll released Monday, receiving 49 from a 61-person media panel....
AP Top 25: Oregon is the unanimous No. 1 team again; Penn State stays at No. 4
Oregon remained the unanimous No. 1 team in The Associated Press Top 25 college football poll Sunday after its close call at Wisconsin, Notre Dame and Alabama each jumped up two spots and Georgia returned to the top 10. LSU is unranked for the first time in two years. The...
Indiana rewards Curt Cignetti for 10-0 season with new 8-year contract
BLOOMINGTON, Ind. — Indiana Hoosiers coach Curt Cignetti, a Pittsburgh native, has been rewarded for a historic season with a new eight-year contract worth an annual average of $8 million, university officials announced Saturday. The contract, which runs through 2032, includes a $1 million retention bonus. University officials made the...
North Allegheny grad Luke Colella a bright spot for Princeton football
The wait was worth it for North Allegheny graduate Luke Colella. After biding his time for two seasons at Princeton behind a group of talented pass-catchers, Colella has become the Tigers’ top wide receiver. Colella, a senior, moved into the starting lineup last season and earned honorable mention all-Ivy League...
Pittsburgh native Curt Cignetti helps turn unbeaten Indiana into the toast of college footballVideo
Ed Miller has attended Indiana football and basketball games since the early 1970s, and he’s never seen a fall quite like this. As the leaves change colors and flutter to the ground, and the action ramps up for one of college basketball’s true blueblood programs, everyone around Bloomington is focused...
ACC still fighting for respect in CFP rankings
Rhett Lashlee has done the math. It rolls around in the SMU coach’s head every week. The more he thinks about it, the more it doesn’t add up. Why, Lashlee wonders, is the ACC fighting what seems to be an uphill battle for respect from the College Football Playoff committee?...
Oregon No. 1 in 2nd week of College Football Playoff rankings; Penn State 4thVideo
Undefeated Oregon stayed on top in the second batch of College Football Playoff rankings, while Tuesday’s poll shoved Georgia completely out of the bracket after its lopsided loss to Mississippi. Led by the Ducks, then Ohio State, the Big Ten captured four of the top five spots — a string...
The Big 12 leads the way when it comes to nail-biters with 13 games decided in the final minuteVideo
Seventh-ranked BYU and the Big 12 are taking games down to the wire. No other conference is keeping things so close this season. The Cougars (9-0, 6-0 Big 12) are one of four remaining undefeated FBS teams after their 22-21 win at Utah. Will Ferrin kicked a 44-yard field goal...
Minnesota QB Max Brosmer has proven this season the FCS transfer route can lead to successVideo
MINNEAPOLIS — When Max Brosmer was at New Hampshire, spring practice was conducted before dawn and, sometimes, even in the aftermath of a snowstorm. For the Wildcats to conduct those 6 a.m. workouts in the frigid air made colder still by the coastal winds, the field needed to be plowed...
Olympic champion wrestler Gable Steveson ends retirement, returns to University of MinnesotaVideo
Gable Steveson, who won a gold medal at the Tokyo Olympics in 2021, said Tuesday he is coming out of retirement and will return to the University of Minnesota for a fifth and final season of college wrestling. Steveson won gold as a freestyle heavyweight in Tokyo at age 21,...
Jack Del Rio leaving Wisconsin’s staff after arrest on charge of operating vehicle while intoxicated
MADISON, Wis. — Former NFL head coach Jack Del Rio was arrested by Madison police for operating a vehicle while intoxicated and will step down from his role on Wisconsin’s coaching staff, coach Luke Fickell announced Monday. Del Rio, the former head coach of the Jacksonville Jaguars and Oakland Raiders,...
Burrell grad Jordyn Kowalkowski hopes to end soccer career at U of Rochester with another NCAA berth
The past 12 months have been quite the ride for Burrell grad Jordyn Kowalkowski. On Nov. 4, 2023, Kowalkowski and the U of Rochester women’s soccer team completed an undefeated regular season (12-0-5, 3-0-4 University Athletic Association) under second-year coach Ashley Van Vechten. It earned the Yellowjackets their first NCAA...
Utah AD Mark Harlan apologizes after Big 12 fine for blasting officiating crew in loss to BYUVideo
SALT LAKE CITY — Utah athletic director Mark Harlan apologized on Sunday after he was publicly reprimanded and fined $40,000 by the Big 12 for blasting a conference officiating crew following BYU’s 22-21 win over the Utes for controversial calls on the Cougars’ winning drive. Harlan took the podium shortly...
It was a lost college football weekend in Florida. The state’s FBS and FCS teams went 0-9Video
CORAL GABLES, Fla. — Worst day ever? Worst week ever? There was no joy, at least of the major-college football variety, in Florida this weekend. There were eight games involving the state’s FBS and FCS teams Saturday. There were nine such games this weekend. There were no wins. For only...
AP Top 25: Oregon remains No. 1 as Big Ten grabs 4 of top 5 spots; Georgia, Miami out of top 10
Oregon was the No. 1 team in the Associated Press Top 25 college football poll for the fourth straight week Sunday as Penn State and Indiana climbed into the top five, Georgia and Miami dropped out of the top 10 and losses by four other ranked teams shuffled the rankings...
DeVries, Hansberry lead West Virginia in narrow 75-69 win over UMass
MORGANTOWN, W. Va. — Tucker DeVries scored 17 points, Amani Hansberry added 16 and West Virginia held off Massachusetts 75-69 on Friday night. After trailing by 17 points at halftime UMass rallied in the second half, primarily behind a defensive effort that held West Virginia to six made field goals...
Report: Florida coach Todd Golden faces sexual harassment allegations
GAINESVILLE, Fla. — Florida basketball coach Todd Golden is facing allegations of sexual harassment, sexual exploitation, stalking and cyberstalking multiple women — including students — over the past 12 months, according to a report published Friday in the school’s student newspaper. According to the Independent Florida Alligator, the claims against...
No. 4 Miami, No. 13 SMU sit unbeaten and tied atop ACC and as surprise options for 12-team playoffVideo
The ACC’s guaranteed berth in the College Football Playoff could include a surprise representative. Maybe a couple. Unbeaten and fourth-ranked Miami (9-0, 5-0), predicted this summer by media to finish third in the ACC behind defending champion Florida State and Clemson, is rated No. 4 as a projected league champion...
Faking it? SEC teams warned by league about a practice to slow down high-tempo offenses
COLUMBIA, S.C. — South Carolina coach Shane Beamer had a final farewell for Mississippi last month as Rebel after Rebel went down on the ground with injuries, some serious, some minor, and created stoppages that slowed things down. “First of all,” Beamer said after the Gamecocks’ 27-3 loss on Oct....
