College Football
Critics shouldn't bash Bowden
By JOHN TUCKER
Thursday, November 09, 2006
It is painfully frustrating when you have to watch your team fall on hard times. Especially when it's a tradition-rich program with a longstanding history of success on the college gridiron...
After turning down USC, BYU lineman wants a title
By PATRICK KINAHAN
Thursday, November 09, 2006
Two national championships and possibly four league titles _ the mind can do wonders when it wanders.
While most college football players only fantasize of such accomplishments, Jake Kuresa could have lived at least some of them.
East Carolina no longer laughingstock
By JIM MASILAK
Wednesday, November 08, 2006
There was no hiding how much East Carolina's overtime victory Saturday over Southern Miss meant to the Pirates.
It was written all over their faces.
College Football Capsules
By JOHN LINDSAY
Wednesday, November 08, 2006
Capsule previews for this week's top college football games. All times Eastern and all rankings Coaches poll.
THURSDAY:
No. 3 WEST VIRGINIA (7-0) at No.
Proctor dealing with criticism
By GREG WALLACE
Wednesday, November 08, 2006
Will Proctor knew this was coming.
Clemson's quarterback knew last year, when Internet sites and newspapers criticized four-year starting QB Charlie Whitehurst for uneven play.
Buckeyes gear up for November to remember
By MATT MARKEY
Wednesday, November 08, 2006
Just before his noon press conference Tuesday, Ohio State coach Jim Tressel sat down at a table filled with television crew members and held an informal conversation for about 10 minutes while working on a plate of lasagna.
When asked light-heartedly how he planned to dress for Halloween, Tressel seemed unaware that trick-or-treat was going to be held later that evening.
But Tressel was fully cognizant, however, of the fact that November was just 12 hours away, since he considers that the month when champions are made.
"There have been a lot of good teams at Ohio State over the years, and the ones that are considered great teams are the ones that played great in November," Tressel said.
Fresno State-Boise State capsule
by JOHN LINDSAY
Tuesday, November 07, 2006
Capsule preview of Wednesday night's Fresno State-Boise State game. All times Eastern and all rankings Coaches' poll.
FRESNO STATE (1-6) at No.
BCS race already getting ugly
By JOHN LINDSAY
Tuesday, November 07, 2006
We're still six weeks away from the only set of Bowl Championship Series standings that mean a thing. But already the politicking makes next week's mid-term congressional elections seem civil by comparison.
Just as Congress fights over control of those red and blue states, college football remains mired in its own class war _ much of it antagonized by the creation of the Bowl Championship Series eight years ago.
Even though the system is usually stacked in their favor, the haves _ schools from the traditional power five conferences, the Southeastern, Atlantic Coast, Big Ten, Big 12 and Pac-10 _ are already bent out of shape.
Smith cruising atop SHNS Heisman Poll
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Tuesday, November 07, 2006
For the third consecutive week, Ohio State quarterback Troy Smith swept all 10 votes in the Scripps Howard Heisman Trophy Poll.
Guiding the Buckeyes to the No.
Tigers still in position for solid season
By GREG WALLACE
Monday, November 06, 2006
It all seems so strange, so out of place.
How can a team be tenth in the nation one week and fourth in its division the next?
That's the predicament Clemson finds itself in today.
