Category: College Sports

In a matchup of Elite Eight teams from last season, No. 8 Alabama took a 100-87 win over No. 25 Illinois on Wednesday.

UConn coach Geno Auriemma stands alone atop the college basketball all-time wins list, earning his 1,217 career victory with an 85-41 win over Fairleigh Dickinson on Wednesday.

Javon Tracy had 79 yards receiving on six catches and threw a 30-yard touchdown pass for Miami to defeat Northern Illinois on Tuesday.

Northwestern beat Montana State by three points in Evanston while Loyola held off Southern Utah by four points in Chicago on Tuesday.

Boise State would get the fourth and final bye based on the new College Football Playoff rankings, placing the Big 12 alongside the SEC as power conferences with a gripe.

The Big Ten announced Tuesday that after extensive evaluation, there were “no conditions whereby the Ducks do not finish No. 1 or No. 2” in the conference.

Indiana has made the type of turnaround that had only happened once before at the power-conference level over the last decade.

Kansas strengthened its grip on No. 1 in the AP Top 25. The rest of the top 10 turned into a jumble of teams swapping places.

Oregon remained the unanimous No. 1 team in The Associated Press Top 25 college football poll after its close call at Wisconsin.