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College Football Playoff managers will meet this week at the Big Ten offices outside Chicago.

3 key takeaways from the state’s football scene -- and a glimpse at what’s to come next week.

The anguish was evident all over the face of Notre Dame coach Marcus Freeman.

Colorado fell out of The Associated Press college football poll after a resounding loss in one of the weekend’s showcase games and the teams toward the top of the rankings were shuffled and tightened.

Jonathon Brooks ran for two touchdowns and No. 3 Texas got a dominant game from its defense to overpower Baylor in a 38-6 win Saturday night to launch the Longhorns into their final Big 12 season.

Top-10 senior Jalil Bethea committed to playing for the Miami Hurricanes on Wednesday, becoming the program’s highest-ranked recruit in nearly 40 years.

Iowa basketball star Caitlin Clark has won the 93rd AAU James E.

Baylor University has settled a years-long federal lawsuit brought by 15 women who alleged they were sexually assaulted at the nation’s largest Baptist school.

Alabama is turning the offensive reins back over to Jalen Milroe, but the messy quarterback situation has been only part of the problem.

Slow starts and big finishes.

Colorado State's penalty problems are not exclusive to its two-overtime loss at Colorado.

No. 13 Alabama is out of the top 10 of The Associated Press college football poll for the first time in eight years and Georgia remains No. 1.

University of Colorado two-way star Travis Hunter was taken to a hospital for an evaluation during the third quarter of the Buffaloes’ 43-25 overtime win against Colorado State on Saturday night.

CJ Donaldson rushed for 102 yards and a touchdown before getting hurt as West Virginia beat Pittsburgh 17-6 in the ‘Backyard Brawl.

Dante Moore passed for 182 yards and two touchdowns, Collin Schlee ran for a pair of scores and No. 24 UCLA scored on its first seven drives in a 59-7 rout of North Carolina Central Saturday.

No. 10 Alabama made a change at quarterback on Saturday, starting Notre Dame transfer Tyler Buchner on the road at South Florida.

Tyler Van Dyke threw for 247 yards and two touchdowns while playing only the first half and No. 22 Miami eased past FCS member Bethune-Cookman 48-7 on Thursday night.

Former President Donald Trump will give his first broadcast network interview since leaving office this week, sitting down with Kristen Welker as she debuts as host of NBC’s “Meet the Press” Sunday.

After a routine win over Rice to start the season, Texas coach Steve Sarkisian lamented no one seemed to be talking about how good the No. 4 Longhorns’ defense could be.

Texas jumped to No. 4 in The Associated Press college football poll after beating Alabama and the Pac-12 became just the second conference to place as many as eight teams in the AP Top 25.

Miami All-America safety Kamren Kinchens was carted off in the fourth quarter of a 48-33 victory over No. 23 Texas A&M Saturday after he appeared to take a big hit to his upper body.

This season for the Miami Hurricanes was about re-instituting a winning culture led by the players and shown through energetic plays on the field.

Redshirt freshman Hudson Clement caught three of Garrett Greene’s four touchdown passes in his first college game, leading West Virginia to a 56-17 win over Duquesne.

Jordan McCloud hit Kaelon Black with a 10-yard tuchdown pass with 55 seconds to play, capping a fourth-quarter rally and James Madison beat Virginia 36-35, spoiling the Cavaliers’ first home game since three players were fatally shot last November.

The CyHawk Game ratchets up the intensity of the Iowa and Iowa State fan bases every year.

No. 11 Texas and No. 4 Alabama are set to meet again a year after going down to the wire.

The American Athletic Conference has been in contact with Army as it looks for a replacement for Atlantic Coast Conference-bound SMU, according to two people with direct knowledge of the discussions.

Dillon Gabriel completed 19 of 22 passes for 308 yards and two touchdowns in the first half and No. 20 Oklahoma defeated Arkansas State 73-0.

Tyler Van Dyke’s first pass of the year resulted in the first of four Miami Hurricanes touchdowns Friday night, and they defeated the Miami (Ohio) RedHawks 38-3 in the season opener for both teams.

North Carolina coach Mack Brown is calling out the NCAA for dragging its heels on the case of transfer wide receiver Devontez Walker, who has not yet been ruled eligible.

The Atlantic Coast Conference has voted to add Stanford, California and SMU next year.

Bryson Barnes threw a 70-yard touchdown pass to Money Parks on Utah’s first play of the game, rushed for another score and No. 14 Utes beat Florida 24-11 on Thursday night in the opener for both teams.

North Carolina State safety Rakeim Ashford was injured and taken off the field on a stretcher Thursday night during the third quarter of the Wolfpack’s season opener against UConn.

With Atlantic Coast Conference university leaders seemingly on the verge of deciding whether to expand with Stanford, California and SMU, two members of North Carolina’s board of trustees announced their opposition to the move.

The Big 12 Conference sprung from the old Big Eight, a bunch of entirely public and largely agricultural schools.

The Big Ten says it will require its football teams to provide an availability report of its players to the conference office no more than two hours before their games kickoff.

Michigan will give four assistant coaches the chance to be head coach while Jim Harbaugh is serving a suspension during the first three games of the season.

LSU defensive tackle Maason Smith’s long-awaited return from a major knee injury last season will be delayed by one game because of a suspension that will sideline him for the No. 5 Tigers’ opener against eighth-ranked Florida State on Sept. 3.

The Atlantic Coast Conference is making progress toward an expansion that could grab Stanford and California from the sinking Pac-12, a person with direct knowledge of the ACC’s potential move told The Associated Press.

Former Southern California running back Reggie Bush plans to file a defamation lawsuit against the NCAA over a statement made by college sports’ governing body about the circumstances of its decision not to restore the Heisman Trophy winner’s records.

Michigan coach Jim Harbaugh will serve a three-game suspension to start this season as part of self-imposed penalties for NCAA recruiting infractions.

Approximately 1,000 former Northwestern University athletes have sent a letter condemning hazing while defending the school’s culture.

There was some shoving and pushing and hollering at the University of Colorado's football practice on Wednesday, and Buffaloes coach Deion Sanders wasn't at all happy.

It is unclear if a four-game suspension Michigan proposed to settle a case involving recruiting violations by football coach Jim Harbaugh will be accepted by the NCAA Committee on Infractions.

Kirk Ferentz says it's a deal-breaker if it's proven some of his Iowa football players made wagers on their own games.

Jirehl Brock and three other Iowa State football players along with three current or former Iowa football players and a student assistant have been charged in connection with the state’s investigation into illegal sports wagering at the two schools.

It's not easy picking a preseason Top 25.

The foundation that supports Texas A&M athletics says it is closing a branch set up for donors to support endorsement deals for Aggies athletes.

Auburn fans will once again be able to celebrate victories by rolling the oak trees at Toomer’s Corner with toilet paper.

Atlantic Coast Conference presidents and chancellors held a conference call but took no action on West Coast expansion with California and Stanford.

One of the state agencies involved in the ongoing investigation of alleged sports wagering violations by Iowa and Iowa State athletes announced there is no evidence suggesting the integrity of any contest involving the schools was affected by gambling interests.

Gambling investigations at Iowa and Iowa State have resulted in criminal charges filed against seven current or former athletes.

The NCAA's first girls basketball academy is being called a big success.

Iowa State quarterback Hunter Dekkers is accused of gambling on Cyclones sports events, including a football game, and has been charged with tampering with records related to an Iowa Criminal Division investigation into sports gambling.

Christine Sinclair.

Wake Forest coach Dave Clawson says roughly six to eight of his players returned despite tampering efforts by other schools hoping to persuade them to transfer.

The governing body of swimming says it will set up an “open category” that will include transgender competitors.

Northwestern has been added to a long list of American universities to face a scandal in athletics and may eventually join the trend of making large payouts following allegations of sexual abuse.

The NCAA has fined Tennessee more than $8 million and issued a scathing report outlining more than 200 infractions during the three-year tenure of former football coach Jeremy Pruitt.

The legal headaches could only be starting for ex-Northwestern football coach Pat Fitzgerald and West Virginia's Bob Huggins.

Longtime ESPN college basketball analyst Dick Vitale says he has been diagnosed with cancer for a third time.

Two-time Olympic gold-medalist and former ABL MVP Nikki McCray-Penson has died.

An independent infractions panel handed a two-year show-cause penalty and a 10-game suspension to former LSU and current McNeese State men’s basketball coach Will Wade on Thursday for multiple rules violations.

An NCAA infractions panel has imposed a three-game suspension for Memphis coach Penny Hardaway for recruiting violations tied to two in-home visits with a prospect two years ago.

An NCAA medical committee is recommending the removal of marijuana from its banned drug list and suggesting that testing should be limited to performance-enhancing substances.

U.S. metropolitan areas are increasing in population again, growing by almost half a percent last year.

The College Football Playoff released a schedule for the 12-team format that will be used in the 2024 and 2025 seasons, which will feature New Year’s Day quarterfinal tripleheaders but no games played on Saturday.

The spring transfer window for college football players is now closed.

The family of a man who was fatally struck by a vehicle driven by former Syracuse University basketball coach Jim Boeheim in 2019 has agreed to settle a lawsuit against Boeheim and the university.

Miami Hurricanes basketball player Norchad Omier is ready to take the next step.

Penn State coach James Franklin says major college football players being paid is inevitable and the sooner it happens the better it will be for the sports.

Isaiah Wong is heading to the NBA draft.

Trinity Thomas of Florida tied the record with her 28th career perfect 10 and Oklahoma won its second consecutive team title at the NCAA women’s gymnastics championships.

Michigan State coach Mel Tucker hopes he doesn’t have this long of an offseason ever again.

Jacob Quillan scored 10 seconds into overtime to give Quinnipiac a 3-2 victory over Minnesota for its first NCAA hockey title.

The attorneys who beat the NCAA in the Supreme Court have filed a new class-action antitrust lawsuit against the association and the five wealthiest college sports conferences.

President Joe Biden has scrapped the idea of inviting to the White House the NCAA champion Louisiana State women’s basketball team along with Iowa’s players, who lost the title to LSU.

UConn's NCAA champion basketball team arrived back on campus Tuesday to more than 7,000 cheering fans inside Gampel Pavilion, the team's home arena.

LSU's win was not the big talking point for many after the game.

A great run has come to an end for two South Florida basketball programs.

Those who stay will be champions has been a Michigan football mantra for generations, dating to Bo Schembechler saying those six words to his first team in 1969.

Iowa's Caitlin Clark is The Associated Press college women’s basketball Player of the Year.

Students and fans gave the Miami Hurricanes men’s basketball team their final send-off Wednesday morning before the team headed to Houston for the Final Four.

The NCAA has gotten mostly positive reviews for its new women's Sweet 16 format during March Madness.

Students at Florida Atlantic University are sharing videos of their ecstatic celebrations following the Owls win on Saturday that sent them to the Final Four.

Miami coach Jim Larrañaga wants to know how much money athletes at other schools are making through name, image and likeness deals.

March has gone from madness to unprecedented.

Florida Atlantic, playing in just its second NCAA Tournament, moved within a victory of the Final Four by using a second-half push led by Michael Forrest to beat fourth-seeded Tennessee 62-55.

Women’s college basketball believes it has the makings for a hit reality TV show.

Women comprised less than half the head coaching positions and just over half of the assistant coaching spots for women's college sports teams in the 2021-22 school year.

An estimated 68 million Americans are expected to place bets on this years NCAA Men’s Basketball Tournament.

St. John’s introduced 70-year-old Rick Pitino as its new men's basketball coach with a news conference at Madison Square Garden.

The women’s college basketball Sweet 16 features a new format and a bit of history when it begins later this week.

Destiny Harden made a shot in the lane with 3.5 seconds left to send ninth-seeded Miami past top-seeded Indiana 70-68, lifting the Hurricanes to their first Sweet 16 since 1992.

An event that would have been unthinkable not even a decade ago is coming to Las Vegas this week.

Antoine Davis has ended his pursuit of the “Pistol” Pete Maravich’s NCAA scoring record.

Rick Pitino is back in the Big East Conference.

After nearly getting upset in the first round of the NCAA Tournament, Miami had a point to prove. Indiana paid the price.

Sydney Parrish scored 19 points and had eight rebounds and Lilly Meister added seven points and three blocks in her first career start to lead the top-seeded Indiana Hoosiers past Tennessee Tech 77-47 in the first round of the women's NCAA Tournament.

The Washington State Cougars have adopted Shania Twain's “Man, I Feel Like A Woman” song as their official anthem on the way to March Madness.