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Part-time starting Miami DT Courtel Jenkins 'academically ineligible'
Tuesday morning, Miami announced that it had suspended backup safety Jamal Carter and sent him home from the Hurricanes' bowl game for violating unspecified team rules. Later that day, another player was sent packing. → Read More
Phillip Ely, Toledo fend off Temple to win Boca Raton Bowl
Toledo lost coach Matt Campbell to the Iowa State job earlier this month, while Temple coach Matt Rhule rejected overtures from Power Five programs to stay in Philadelphia. But in the Boca Raton Bowl, it was the team that lost its head coach that played far better than the team that kept its guy. → Read More
Temple RB Jahad Thomas injured as Toledo leads Boca Raton Bowl at halftime
Toledo leads Temple at halftime of the Boca Raton Bowl, 12-3, but the more concerning development for Matt Rhule's Owls was running back Jahad Thomas leaving the game late in the second quarter with an apparent leg injury. → Read More
Akron tops Utah State, wins first bowl game in program history
For the first time in Akron’s 30-year history at college football’s top level, it won a bowl game. The 8-5 Zips shut down Utah State’s offense and capitalized on a few mistakes en route to a 23-21 win in the Famous Idaho Potato Bowl Tuesday afternoon in Boise. → Read More
TCU WR Josh Doctson won’t play vs. Oregon in Alamo Bowl
A few days after it was revealed Baylor receiver Corey Coleman won't play in the Russell Athletic Bowl, the Big 12's other All-American receiver was ruled out of his bowl game as well. → Read More
Louisiana-Monroe finds its coach, hires McNeese State's Matt Viator
A month after firing Todd Berry in November, Louisiana-Monroe will hire McNeese State's Matt Viator as its next coach, according to multiple reports. KTVE/KARD's Gene Ponti was the first to report Viator's hiring. → Read More
Navy’s Ken Niumatalolo lands in Utah to meet with BYU officials
Navy coach Ken Niumatalolo arrived in Utah Sunday evening and is expected to meet with BYU officials on Monday about the program's vacant head coaching position, per the Deseret News. → Read More
Alabama deserves a break, which means playing Charleston Southern
In the thick of the College Football Playoff race, Alabama will play Charleston Southern this weekend. Naturally, this leads to plenty of questions. Why doesn't Alabama schedule anyone? How could t... → Read More
University of Missouri president resigns; Mizzou-BYU is still on
A student movement on the campus of the University of Missouri has led to the resignation of university president Tim Wolfe. A day after issuing a statement saying he will not step down from his po... → Read More
Memphis begins life with a target on its back tonight at Tulsa
Can Memphis win the American Athletic Conference and earn the group of five New Year's Six bowl bid? Could they even make a push, however unlikely, for a spot in the College Football Playoff? Whate... → Read More
SEC scenarios: East could clear up, West could be in chaos after this weekend
After this weekend's slate of SEC games, we could get a pretty good idea of what games to circle on the schedule as the second half of the season gets underway. → Read More
Powered by Christian McCaffrey, Stanford’s College Football Playoff path comes into focus
Behind Christian McCaffrey's four touchdowns, Stanford proved once again Thursday night that its turgid season-opening loss at Northwestern was a fluke. The No. 15 Cardinal smoked No. 18 UCLA, 56-35, in Palo Alto, and are firmly in control of the Pac-12 North with a 4-0 conference record. → Read More
Was Washington loss the beginning of the end of the Steve Sarkisian era at USC?
Steve Sarkisian's win totals in his six previous seasons are both a positive and a negative. On one hand, he resurrected a moribund Washington program that went 0-12 under Ty Willingham in 2008 and took them to four consecutive bowl games from 2010-2013. → Read More
No B1G regrets for Jim Delany in adding Rutgers
Well, at least for public consumption there's not. In recent weeks, Rutgers head coach Kyle Flood was suspended for three games because of improper contact with an RU faculty member, an embarrassme... → Read More
Jim Harbaugh’s Michigan coaching debut is an awfully hot ticket
The eyes of college football will train toward Salt Lake City tonight, but if you want to get a last-minute ticket to Jim Harbaugh's Michigan coaching debut against Utah, you'll have to pay up. Granted, there are only 39 tickets left on StubHub. → Read More
P.J. Fleck still has it, beats one of college football’s best CBs on stop-and-go route
Western Michigan coach P.J. Fleck is only 34 years old, played wide receiver at Northern Illinois and spent a couple seasons on an NFL roster. But it's still pretty impressive he's still able to do stuff like this: That's Fleck burning senior Broncos cornerback Donald Celiscar, who himself... → Read More
Ole Miss’ Huge Freeze, Mississippi State’s Dan Mullen call for Mississippi to change state flag
Ole Miss coach Hugh Freeze and Mississippi State coach Dan Mullen were among the prominent Mississippi public figures to sign a full-page ad in the Jackson Clarion-Ledger petitioning the state to remove the Confederate Flag from Mississippi's state flag. → Read More
Lane Kiffin on choosing to stay as Alabama’s OC: ‘This chapter wasn’t over yet’
Lane Kiffin could've explored the possibility of being a one-and-done offensive coordinator at Alabama, but decided to rebuff advances from the NFL and other programs and stick around Tuscaloosa for Year 2 under Nick Saban. → Read More
Ohio State QB Cardale Jones takes a two-week break from Twitter, chasing Ronda Rousey
With Ohio State beginning preseason camp -- and a high-stakes quarterback competition -- on Monday, Cardale Jones is taking a break from running one of the better player Twitter accounts in college football. → Read More
In defense of FCS
The FCS doesn't exactly have a good reputation when its three letters are brought up by Power Five conferences and teams. The Big Ten last week forbade its members from scheduling future games against FCS opponents. → Read More