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Indiana rewards Curt Cignetti for 10-0 season with 8-year contract
BLOOMINGTON, Ind. (AP) — Curt Cignetti needed 10 games to make good on his promise to change the direction of Indiana football. Now he'll have eight more years to continue working his magic. The Hoosiers' 60-year-old coach was rewarded on Saturday for the first 10-0...
Perfect season has done the unthinkable — turned Indiana into the toast of college football
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...
No. 11 Alabama meets No. 14 LSU in a showcase of how the new CFP means more high-stakes games
BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — The annual Alabama-LSU rivalry is Exhibit A this weekend for how the expanded College Football Playoff has changed what constitutes a high-stakes game in November. Both teams have two losses and neither has a top-10 ranking in the AP Top 25, yet the winner...
Once top 10 teams, Alabama and Missouri square off as they fight for their playoff lives
Those top 10 rankings have fallen by the wayside for Alabama and Missouri. Still clinging to now-precarious playoff hopes, the 15th-ranked Crimson Tide (5-2, 2-2 SEC) and No. 21 Tigers meet Saturday in Tuscaloosa for what amounts to an elimination game. “The sense of...
DeBoer's first Alabama team falls from No. 1 to brink of playoff elimination
Alabama looked every bit the Nick Saban-style juggernaut through the first 15 minutes against fellow Southeastern Conference power Georgia. Kalen DeBoer's 15th-ranked Crimson Tide team has looked downright mortal, perhaps even mediocre, since then during a sputtering run that has...
No. 1 Texas gets biggest SEC test yet vs. No. 5 Georgia, the team that started season on top
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Texas is undefeated midway through its debut in the Southeastern Conference, with the nation's top defense, a pretty good offense and the No. 1 ranking that Georgia had at the start of this season. “The most complete team that we’ve seen or faced this year,...
Najee Harris runs angry all the time. The Steelers relied on that fury in a win over the Raiders
PITTSBURGH (AP) — Najee Harris caught himself mid-sentence and said what's become readily apparent across the Pittsburgh Steelers running back's three-plus seasons in the NFL. Asked if he felt more “nimble” on Sunday than usual while running for 106 yards and a touchdown in a...
DeBoer, No. 7 Alabama trying to rebound from stunning loss to Vanderbilt
For Nick Saban, it was Louisiana-Monroe. Kalen DeBoer also has now endured a stunning loss in his debut season at Alabama with a loss to Vanderbilt that dealt a significant but not necessarily fatal blow to the now seventh-ranked Crimson Tide’s playoff and Southeastern Conference...
AP Top 25 Extra Points: A week that started on a low note at UNLV ends with program's 1st ranking
UNLV's football program, which rarely finds itself in the national spotlight, found it twice in a week for reasons both bad and good. Last Tuesday, starting quarterback Matthew Sluka announced he would sit out the rest of the season because he discovered he wouldn't be receiving the...
AP Top 25 Takeaways: Georgia-Alabama play a thrilling classic, undiminished by expanded CFP
No. 2 Georgia and No. 4 Alabama played a classic Saturday night, a wild affair that included a 28-0 run by the Crimson Tide to start the game, a resilient comeback by the Bulldogs and 142 yards worth of touchdown passes in a 13-second span of the fourth quarter. When it was done,...
