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Syracuse routs West Virginia in Pinstripe Bowl
NEW YORK -- Prince-Tyson Gulley ran for 217 yards and had three touchdowns, Syracuse scored twice on safeties and the Orange bid a snow-covered farewell to the Big East with a 38-14 victory over West Virginia in the Pinstripe Bowl on Saturday....
Tags: Football, Yankee Stadium, College Football, Sports, College Sports
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Chris Dufresne's look at the season's college football bowl games
ESPN's "Octomom" family of networks hopes you enjoy this year's cavalcade of commercials and center snaps as it furiously tries to secure the two games it doesn't broadcast. Conspicuously missing from the lineup is Ohio State (12-0) vs. Louisiana Tech...
Tags: Michigan State Spartans, Barry Alvarez, Mid-American Conference, San Jose State Spartans, Bowling Green Falcons
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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: UCLA Bruins, Periodicals, Bowl Championship Series, College Football, Sports
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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: UCLA Bruins, Phish (music group), Florida State Seminoles, Bowl Championship Series, College Football
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College football TV lineup for Saturday
MORNING No. 16 Texas A&M (6-2) at No. 17 Mississippi State (7-1) 9 a.m., ESPN Two former Big 12 schools joined the Southeastern Conference this season. One has gained instant respect and credibility; the other is Missouri. Texas A&M, in its first...
Tags: Kansas Jayhawks, Bowl Championship Series, College Football, Arkansas Razorbacks, ESPN2 (tv network)
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Oregon keeps winning, and falling in BCS standings
Oregon can't afford to keep winning like this. A few more lopsided victories and the Ducks could finish last in the BCS and end up playing in the Toilet Bowl. On Thursday, Oregon sprinted to a 43-7, second-quarter lead on Arizona State and might have...
Tags: Kansas Jayhawks, Harris Interactive Incorporated, Bowl Championship Series, College Football, College Sports
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Kansas State's Bill Snyder may get shot at redemption for 1998
Mike Riley is an obvious coach-of-the-year choice given the double-double (with fries) charge he injected into an Oregon State team that finished 3-9 last year. The Beavers are 6-0 for the first time since 1907 and deserving of top-10 accolades. Bill O'...
Tags: Big 12 Conference, Football, Bowl Championship Series, College Football, Oregon State Beavers
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Things are heating up in college football
Here is some weekend pigskin to chew on: —How hot will it get for Texas? You thought things couldn't get worse after the Longhorns got scorched by Oklahoma last week at the State Fair of Texas. Friday, though, came word that "Big Tex," the 52-foot...
Tags: Al Capone, Michigan State Spartans, Terrence Cody, Florida State Seminoles, College Football
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Half a college football season has already been full of surprises
USC would break offensive air-speed records, Matt Barkley was a lock for the Heisman Trophy and Oregon State Coach Mike Riley needed thicker pants for the hot seat he was sitting on. Arkansas was the team to beat in the SEC West — it seems so silly...
Tags: Kansas Jayhawks, Robert Griffin III, Bowl Championship Series, Wisconsin Badgers, College Football
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Play it forward: Week ahead in college football
Five things to watch this week in college football. 1. Oregon at Arizona State on a Thursday didn't look like much of a game two months ago with the Sun Devils coming off a 6-7 season. First-year Coach Todd Graham, however, has Arizona State at 5-1 and...
Tags: LSU Tigers, Arizona State Sun Devils, Big 12 Conference, Football, College Football
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Handicapping the season's first BCS standings
There is one problem in trying to project Sunday's first release of the Bowl Championships Series standings: That problem is Saturday. The games could substantially alter all pre-standings prognostications. There would be no huge controversies if the...
Tags: Bowl Championship Series, College Football, Sports, College Sports, Oregon Ducks
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A couple of USCs — one surprising, one not — are making noise
Handshakes and helmet stickers go out to the two schools known as USC in this week's top 10 — we could not be more thrilled for the players and their families. The USC at No. 3 lost the legal right to be called USC, so it will heretofore be...
Tags: Washington State Cougars, College Football, Bowl Championship Series, College Sports, Sports
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