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WASHINGTON — The athletic directors who lead the schools that play Division I college football at the highest level want the sport to continue be governed by the NCAA — if that governance can be streamlined. LEAD1, an association of Football Bowl Subdivision ADs, convened 105 of its 131 members last week for a meeting [...]
ARLINGTON HEIGHTS, Ill. — The Chicago Bears say they will need taxpayer assistance if they are going to construct an enclosed suburban stadium that could host Super Bowls, Final Fours and College Football Playoff games and anchor a surrounding entertainment and residential complex. Chairman George McCaskey said the team would not seek public funding to [...]
CLEVELAND — First down, 10 to go for the Browns. With Deshaun Watson sidelined while serving his 11-game NFL suspension, Cleveland figured to lean on its strong running game, trust the defense and count on improved special teams, led by a rookie kicker with an other-worldly right leg. They followed that plan almost to a [...]
DALLAS — In a meeting room just down the hall from where the plan for a 12-team College Football Playoff came to life almost 2 1/2 years ago, the conference commissioners who manage the postseason system finally began the next phase of expansion: implementation. The 11-member management committee gathered last week for 4 1/2 hours [...]
Wake Forest coach Dave Clawson remembers the old days of college recruiting. "You used to talk about graduation rates and majors," Clawson said. "Now the first question is, 'What are you guaranteeing me year one, two, three and four?'" Clawson isn't necessarily talking about playing time, either. After more than a year, prospects are far [...]
BEREA, Ohio (AP) — Jacoby Brissett had other options, better choices. There were definitely more stable ones for a well-respected veteran quarterback, but Cleveland, with its penchant for chaos and controversy, didn’t scare Brissett. Just the opposite. The disorder around the Browns intrigued Brissett and actually made them more appealing. So much so that he [...]
CLEVELAND — Myles Garrett's face cringed as if he had just missed a certain sack by letting a quarterback escape. On the brink of a new season, Garrett hates to think about how Joe Burrow and the Cincinnati Bengals, coming off three straight fourth-place finishes and expected to do little in 2021, turned the AFC [...]
SOUTH BEND, Ind. — Notre Dame is as confident as ever that the treasured football independence of the Fighting Irish is safe despite the maelstrom that is college sports. Notre Dame Athletic Director Jack Swarbrick told The Associated Press that the program's position is even stronger now than when he stepped into the job in [...]
Glance around the parking lot of the Woody Hayes Athletic Center at The Ohio State University this fall and you might come across a $200,000 palace on wheels, the kind of luxury ride more likely to be found in the garages of movie stars, music moguls and titans of business than on a college campus. [...]
COLUMBUS — Last year at this time, C.J. Stroud was an unknown, untested redshirt freshman who still hadn't thrown a pass in a college football game. Stroud was named the starting quarterback late in the 2021 preseason, having wrested the job from another heralded freshman. The gig brought with it outsized expectations: win every game [...]