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Reports: Northern Illinois earns BCS berth to Orange Bowl
Well, sometimes the little guys do win. Northern Illinois has earned a Bowl Championship Series bowl bid, according to several media reports. The champions of the Mid-American Conference will play Florida State in the Orange Bowl. It will be the MAC's...
Tags: Notre Dame Fighting Irish, Nebraska Cornhuskers, Northern Illinois Huskies, Bowl Championship Series, Louisville Cardinals
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USC idle; Lane Kiffin still center of attention
Unbuckling the mailbag: Question: The temptation to cheat grows in proportion to Lane Kiffin's failures. Why does Pat Haden plan on keeping him? Matt McKillop Answer: Kiffin doesn't need to cheat to win. Players are not USC's problem. The Trojans had...
Tags: Michigan Wolverines, Auburn Tigers, Collin Klein, Bowl Championship Series, Johnny Manziel
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Notre Dame better cover its bases to avoid another upset loss at USC
Let's see if I've got this straight or crooked: Notre Dame needs one win to get to the national title game and Sports Illustrated puts the Irish on this week's cover? I don't believe in genies or goblins, but the SI cover jinx is real. If you don't...
Tags: Heisman Trophy, Maryland Terrapins, Baylor Bears, Bowl Championship Series, Big East Conference
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Larry Scott says latest expansion news will not impact Pac-12
Just when you thought you had your favorite colleges finally matched with their current and future conferences comes word that the landscape is shifting again. The latest thunderbolt came Monday when Maryland said it will leave the Atlantic Coast...
Tags: Boise State Broncos, The Boston Globe, Maryland Terrapins, Utah Utes, Big East Conference
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A South'easter roars over college football
Saturday is the reason they play the regular season all the way to the end. Just when you think you know everything, you know nothing. Kansas State was No. 1 in the Bowl Championship Series standings but now it's not. Oregon was No. 2 but now it's...
Tags: Notre Dame Fighting Irish, Fiesta Bowl, Collin Klein, Brian Kelly, Auburn Tigers
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BCS title game: Which championship team is the best of the era?
Writers from around the Tribune Co. offer their picks on which BCS champion team is the best ever in the 15-year history of the format. Feel free to join the conversation with a comment of your own. Gary Klein, Los Angeles Times Tough call because...
Tags: Heisman Trophy, Ed Reed, Shaun Cody, Frank Gore, Bowl Championship Series
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Texas track coach Bev Kearney resigns, admits affair with athlete
Bev Kearney, a Hall of Fame track coach at the University of Texas, has resigned due to an "intimate consensual relationship" with a Longhorns athlete in 2002. A statement released by the school Saturday reads in part: "Coach Bev Kearney informed...
Tags: Colleges and Universities, Teaching and Learning, University of Texas at Austin, Students, College Sports
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Johnny Manziel, Manti Te'o and Collin Klein are Heisman finalists
Texas A&M quarterback Johnny Manziel, Notre Dame linebacker Manti Te’o and Kansas State quarterback Collin Klein were announced Monday as finalists for the Heisman Trophy. The winner will be announced Saturday in New York. USC receiver Marqise...
Tags: Notre Dame Fighting Irish, Collin Klein, Big 12 Conference, Bowl Championship Series, Kansas State Wildcats
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The Times' top 25 college football teams
The Southeastern Conference, taken out of the national title hunt for as long as three non-SEC teams keep winning, mostly takes the week off as it openly cheers for upsets of Oregon, Kansas State and Notre Dame. SEC schools bully up to play seven 1-AA...
Tags: LSU Tigers, Auburn Tigers, Florida State Seminoles, Maryland Terrapins, Bowl Championship Series
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Texas A&M's speed bottles up a slow Tide
Everyone wondered what a team like Oregon would do if it met Alabama on a field that could also serve as a laboratory beaker. Would Oregon's up-tempo offense fizzle when mixed with Alabama's bone-crushing defense, or explode like Mentos combined with...
Tags: LSU Tigers, Bowl Championship Series, Johnny Manziel, Vince Lombardi, College Football
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Patterns have Notre Dame, USC attention
We combed the hills and scoured the wires for this batch of weekend tidbits: • Boston College has knocked undefeated Notre Dame out of the national title race in each of the last two decades: 1993 and 2002. Notre Dame (9-0) plays at Boston College...
Tags: Nebraska Cornhuskers, Auburn Tigers, Washington Redskins, Minnesota Golden Gophers, Troy Aikman
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Darrell Royal dies at 88; noted University of Texas football coach
Darrell Royal, the legendary Texas coach who led the Longhorns to three national college football titles and 11 Southwest Conference titles in a 20-year tenure that ended in 1976, died Wednesday in Austin after a battle with Alzheimer's disease, the...
Tags: Alzheimer's Disease, ABC (tv network), College Football, Richard Nixon, Alabama Crimson Tide
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