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Andy Knight column: OSU enjoying season of redemption — even after national title

NCAAF College Football News, Photos, Stats, Scores, Schedule & Videos… For fans, coaches and players alike, it always comes down to The Game. Without exception, the success or failure of every Ohio State football season hinges on the outcome of the annual post-Thanksgiving clash with Michigan — That Team Up North. When you’re born and raised in Ohio, you grow up hating all things maize and blue. Winning The Game provides 364 days’ worth of euphoria, while a loss …

UVA positioned for playoff game at Ole Miss; JMU cracks CFP rankings

NCAAF College Football News, Photos, Stats, Scores, Schedule & Videos… Less than a week before Selection Sunday, Virginia is positioned for a first-round College Football Playoff matchup at Ole Miss, the sport’s undisputed drama king. Moreover, James Madison’s only path to the playoff is clear. JMU must defeat visiting Troy in Friday’s Sun Belt Conference championship game and then hope Duke upsets Virginia in Saturday’s ACC title contest in Charlotte. Those were …

Column: For college coaches like Lane Kiffin and Pat Fitzgerald, the past is no problem

NCAAF College Football News, Photos, Stats, Scores, Schedule & Videos… Lane Kiffin and Pat Fitzgerald couldn’t be more different. Kiffin, an offensive guru, is known as a serial wanderer, always chasing a better coaching job and the money that comes with it. Fitzgerald, a defensive guru, was ensconced at Northwestern for 17 years and, until a few years ago, seemed in line for a lifetime job at his alma mater. The two big-name college coaches’ paths crossed in a …

Column: Not even mad; just disappointed

NCAAF College Football News, Photos, Stats, Scores, Schedule & Videos… Nov. 20—It would have been cool. The ESPN College GameDay program that airs each Saturday morning during football season seemed like it would be in Missoula this week. A source who had a source said ESPN had reserved a block of hotel rooms in the Garden City; the combined 20-2 record of the Bobcats and Grizzlies made the 124th Brawl of the Wild, set for Saturday at Washington-Grizzly Stadium, …

Penn State gains relief after win, wonders what might have been [opinion]

NCAAF College Football News, Photos, Stats, Scores, Schedule & Videos… EAST LANSING, Mich. – They celebrated Saturday night like they won a championship that they expected to win when all of this began. They carried their coach on their shoulders when it was over. They raised a clunky trophy and posed for photos with it. They banged lockers in the bowels of Spartan Stadium. All that after Penn State’s 28-10 victory over hapless Michigan State for the Land Grant …

Column: A Michigan takeover at Wrigley Field ends in a wild 24-22 comeback win over Northwestern

NCAAF College Football News, Photos, Stats, Scores, Schedule & Videos… Big-game atmosphere arrived at Wrigley Field on Saturday afternoon when Northwestern played host to Michigan in a Big Ten affair, complete with a big-game announcer in Fox Sports’ Gus Johnson. Everything was in place for a great day of football, and perhaps an advertisement for a future bowl game at Wrigley Field, a long-held dream of Chicago Cubs owners. The weather resembled a Cubs-Cardinals …

Prep football: Longtime head football coach Jerry Staton dies at 84

NCAAF College Football News, Photos, Stats, Scores, Schedule & Videos… ALBIA — Longtime head football coach and teacher Jerry Staton died on Thursday in Oskaloosa, according to an obituary published by his family. Staton was 84. The former Ottumwa native and Ottumwa High School graduate served as the head coach for several successful area high school programs over 53 years, including leading Oskaloosa High School to a state championship in 1996. Besides coaching …

Penn State’s Terry Smith draws strength from his daughter [opinion]

NCAAF College Football News, Photos, Stats, Scores, Schedule & Videos… Terry Smith has been reliable, direct and effective since he joined the Penn State football staff as James Franklin’s first assistant coach in 2014. That hasn’t changed since he became the interim head coach last month when director of athletics Pat Kraft fired Franklin. “He’s a straight-up guy,” linebacker Amare Campbell said. “He calls everybody out. It doesn’t matter who you are, what your …

Penn State players, coaches describe unknown as nerve-wracking [opinion]

NCAAF College Football News, Photos, Stats, Scores, Schedule & Videos… Interim head football coach Terry Smith described Ethan Grunkemeyer as Penn State’s quarterback of the future this week. That might be true, but Grunkemeyer could just as easily wind up at another school after the season ends. It all depends on what the next Nittany Lions coach thinks of him or if he brings in a hand-picked quarterback. To describe the emotions and the tension inside the Lasch …

High School Football: Sophomores step in all over the field for this CT team as it earns big win

NCAAF College Football News, Photos, Stats, Scores, Schedule & Videos… Southington’s starting quarterback went down with an injury a few weeks ago. A sophomore stepped in. The team’s top two running backs got hurt, one last Friday against Windsor, and another sophomore stepped in. Ben Beaulieu rushed for 248 yards and three touchdowns – all in the second half – in a 28-7 win over Windsor, which was ranked fourth last week in the Courant state coaches football …