Case Keenum threw five touchdown passes to lead Houston to a 55-3 win over Southern on Saturday night. Giving Kevin Sumlin a victory in his first game as the Cougars’ coach.
L.J. Castile and Mark Hafner each caught two touchdowns from Keenum, who was 33-of-43 for 392 yards. The quarterback threw four touchdown passes, a career [...]
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Coach Rich Rodriguez first game day at Michigan started with a storm of sights and sounds.
It ended silently.
Before kickoff of his debut - a 25-23 upset loss to Utah - Rodriguez and players had strolled through a crowd of screaming fans in maize and blue. Then, a bit later, they knelt around him.
“You guys can’t [...]
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Georgia defensive tackle Jeff Owens left the top-ranked Bulldogs game Saturday. Against Georgia Southern because of a right knee injury.
Owens was supported by two Georgia trainers as he walked off the field with 7:15 left in the first quarter. Georgia announced Owens would not return to the game. No details of the injury were immediately [...]
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Arkansas running back Michael Smith was suspended for the team opener against Western Illinois on Saturday night. For improper use of scholarship textbooks.
A school spokesman said the matter involved an NCAA secondary violation, which the school has turned in.
Freshman Dennis Johnson started at running back for the Razorbacks, who are trying to replace stars Darren [...]
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Playing its first football game in 48 years, Lincoln University beat George Mason 34-7 on Saturday.
Kareem Dennis threw two touchdown passes and ran for another score for the Lincoln Lions (1-0), who last played on Nov. 24, 1960, losing to Howard on Thanksgiving Day.
Lincoln disbanded its program following an 0-7 season in which the Lions [...]
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Andre Roberts caught two touchdown passes and added a 64-yard punt return. For a score to lead The Citadel to a 54-7 victory over Webber International on Saturday.
Roberts had touchdown catches of 9 and 78 yards, and finished with three catches for 91 yards as the Bulldogs improved to 1-0. He also had 116 yards [...]
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Dale Steele had one of the toughest jobs in college football. Convincing recruits to play for a Campbell program that didn’t exist.
There weren’t any highlight reels he could show young players, no bowl trophies, no jerseys of Camels-turned-NFL-stars hanging in the fieldhouse behind the stadium. Until recently, there wasn’t a stadium, either.
No wonder that, time [...]
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Coach Urban Meyer called his running backs pathetic. Trash and inadequate during his first three seasons at Florida.
He threatened to play without a tailback two years ago and turned most of the running game over to quarterback Tim Tebow and receiver Percy Harvin last season.
He expects things to be very different this fall.
Meyer has praised [...]
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Funny how the first game of the season often provides a revealing glimpse of what will happen in Pitt football season.
In 2005, the Panthers began coach Dave Wannstedt’s first season ranked No. 23, with huge expectations going into a much-hyped opener against unranked Notre Dame. But all the Panthers’ previously unseen weaknesses were quickly revealed [...]
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Look out, West Virginia opponents. Noel Devine anticipates his workload could quadruple this season.
That’s right, the one-time backup to Steve Slaton who averaged 8.6 yards per carry as a freshman has moved into the starting role at running back for the run-happy Mountaineers.
With Slaton gone to the NFL, Devine is expected to get the majority [...]
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