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Twenty five years after Welles Crowther, BC lacrosse No. 19, went back up the South Tower stairs, the Eagles host Rutgers at 7:30 on the date the tribute is actually about.
Three of the ten names at the front of the Heisman conversation share one field, the fourth time in 10 seasons that has happened before October. September does not decide the trophy, but it writes the casting list.
Archie Manning got a novelty record and a slow build into being famous. Arch was a national name at fifteen, and the Ohio State matchup is the one everybody plans to judge him by.
The league's presidents and chancellors convened Thursday and walked out without imposing a thing. No penalty, no public findings, and a charter member since 1932 still sitting in its chair.
GameDay sets up in Austin for a top-five Week 2, but my radar is parked on the noon window: Oklahoma at Michigan, Oregon's cross-country body-clock trip, and a Friday breakfast kickoff in Albuquerque.
An ESPN analyst put that label on Michigan's sophomore quarterback ahead of Saturday's noon kick against Oklahoma, one year after the Sooners handled the Wolverines in Norman.
A No. 1 versus No. 3 non-conference heavyweight and a quarterback room in Ann Arbor that nobody can vouch for are both sitting on the far side of a list built before either happened.
A formal procedure to keep the broadcast clock and the official game clock telling the same story, born from a disputed Michigan finish, arrives on a Week 2 card built for close endings.
Chapel Hill files the report, hands itself the punishment, and turns Saturday's noon home opener into the quietest recruiting weekend of the year. Nobody has said what the violation was.
Wade Rousse told Greg Sankey the Tigers have "complied" and the issue is "moot." One word, and the expulsion talk stopped. A U.S. senator was already warming up.
One second that the broadcast clock said had already expired is now a national rules problem, and the fix lands on every stadium clock operator in the country.
Leaders opened an exclusive negotiating window with ESPN, the sport's sole rights holder, because nobody can price 12 extra postseason games without asking the only buyer in the room what they're worth.
Michigan won on a last-second Hail Mary and fell out of the AP Top 25 anyway. That kind of perception gap is what I circle on a Tuesday, and it points straight at a noon kick with Oklahoma.
Seven SEC schools drew playoff votes, LSU's title math jumped off the Clemson win, and Iowa hung 40 on Northern Illinois and barely moved a computer. Week 1 verdicts, one weekend deep.
Iowa pitched a 40-0 shutout and the computer barely blinked. That is not a snub, it is a predictive model doing exactly what it was built to do, and Cy-Hawk is the real test.
Belichick answered a school review of conduct inside his program with one word: totally. In Chapel Hill, that answer starts a process rather than ending one.
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One game on the calendar, a Week 1 hangover on the wire, and a model that just docked West Virginia after a win. Three spots on the radar, zero cleared.
Lane Kiffin's LSU debut headlined the weekend, Michigan won with a clock controversy attached, and Ole Miss is now Trinidad Chambliss's team. One game of evidence, a whole lot of crowning.
Both exits were lower left leg, one on the interior line and one in the back end, and nothing in the reporting out of Green Bay put a timetable on either man.
The committee does not vote on anything real until November, Week 1 is not even finished, and Notre Dame already lost two defensive starters at Lambeau. What the exercise is actually worth.
CJ Carr threw two scores and Aneyas Williams ran for 90 yards and two more as No. 4 Notre Dame turned a game into a runaway after halftime in a Sunday night opener at Lambeau Field.
Two 7:30 kicks share the Sunday window, SMU and Florida State get Monday to themselves, and one poll already bumped Ohio State off No. 1 for winning exactly the way it was supposed to.
It was a 24-24 football game before the Bruins closed it out, Wayne Knight got into the end zone twice down the stretch, and two old Pac-12 neighbors needed a nonconference date to see each other at all.
Ninety-nine degrees, a heat index of 108, and a conference safety limit did what no defense has done in thirty years: it forced a college football game to end level.
Three storylines out of the opening weekend, and the loudest one is a first-year LSU coach turning his debut into a red-carpet event while his old team plays on without him.
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