Iowa volleyball snapped a seven-match losing streak against UCLA. A subtle defensive adjustment helped the Hawkeyes get more stops and create more scoring opportunities.
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Teams collecting frequent-flyer miles and losses make up a healthy chunk of this week’s list. Turns out conference realignment comes with baggage.
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Iowa volleyball snapped a seven-match losing streak with an upset of UCLA. Now the Hawkeyes hope that confidence carries into a challenging West Coast trip.
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With the first two months of the season completed, all we’ve learned is that the race for the national championship is as wide open as we expected it to be.
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Iowa volleyball learned a painful lesson against USC. Two days later, the Hawkeyes put it to use in a five-set upset of UCLA.
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Iowa's quarterback competition remains unresolved. Hank Brown and Jeremy Hecklinski are again listed as co-starters ahead of Saturday's matchup with No. 25 Wisconsin.
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One week after moving three unbeaten teams into the top nine of the US LBM Coaches Poll, the Big 12 returned to form with a Week 8 flop involving its two top contenders.
How far should BYU fall in the Week 8 college football power rankings after losing to UCF? The Cougars entered the weekend at No. 1 on PFN's list, but another round of upsets has changed the Top 25 and raised new questions about the College Football Playoff race. Hosted by PFN's Cam Mellor a…
DALLAS — Dave Aranda wasn’t the first college football coach to be fired this season, just the first this week. He won’t be the last, either. Coach season usually beats deer season by a couple weeks around these parts. A .500 record in Aranda’s not-quite seven seasons suggests Baylor was well within its rights to move on, though mediocrity is the historical norm in Waco even in the best of ...
The No. 1 team holds onto the top spot, but the rest of the top 10 gets a shakeup in the US LBM Coaches Poll after Week 8 of the college football season.
MIAMI — The Miami Hurricanes easily handled their first test as the No. 1 team in the country with a 52-23 win over the Pittsburgh Panthers on Saturday. The Hurricanes retain their top spot in the standings as a result, although the order below them is being shaken up once again as college football experienced a third consecutive weekend filled with upsets. Miami held steady at No. 1 in the ...
Iowa tried two quarterbacks against Minnesota. Neither delivered enough to win, leaving Kirk Ferentz with another difficult decision ahead.
The Iowa football team fell to Minnesota at Huntington Bank Stadium on Saturday. See photos from the action. 🏈
No. 15 Iowa suffered its first loss at Minnesota since 2014. Hear from Kirk Ferentz and Hawkeyes players after the defeat.
Four turnovers, inconsistent quarterback play and a sputtering running game doomed No. 15 Iowa in a 13-10 loss to Minnesota. Here are four takeaways.
The Hawkeyes enter Saturday's rivalry matchup with Minnesota facing uncertainty at two key special teams positions.
UNIVERSITY PARK, Texas — Another week of football at Ford Stadium brought a tale of two halves for SMU once again. But unlike the last few, SMU finished this week off with a dominant win. No. 23 SMU (6-1, 4-1) overcame a halftime deficit to defeat California 59-20 on Saturday, securing its fourth consecutive win and third straight in the ACC. SMU overcame another slow start, dominating Cal in ...
It’s time to come to grips with hard truths about Arch Manning, one particular reality more disturbing than all others.
It's hard to believe the college football regular season will more than halfway done when Saturday ends.
DALLAS — Of all the aspirations Steve Sarkisian harbored going into his tenure at Texas, conference championship games and scoring records and CFP runs and national titles were certainly high among his top 10. Pretty sure "the coach who screwed up a Manning" wasn't on the list. But here we are going into Saturday's game in Austin against seventh-ranked Ole Miss, with questions about Arch ...
Marshall Faulk is an extraordinarily active 53-year-old. The first-ballot NFL Hall of Fame running back is the head football coach at Southern University in Baton Rouge, La. He runs a foundation in his name that assists underprivileged youth. He works out. He plays a lot of golf. And he has Parkinson's disease. Faulk revealed his diagnosis on The Caring Neurologist podcast this week, saying he ...
Longtime former LSU men’s basketball coach Dale Brown has died, the university confirmed Friday, Oct. 23. He was 90 years old.
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The CFP’s 13-member selection committee will convene at the Gaylord Texan Resort & Convention Center in Grapevine, Texas, to craft its first of six weekly rankings on Nov. 3.
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Minnesota is reeling and Iowa is coming off a bye week. Here's what to know about the Gophers ahead of Saturday's Big Ten matchup.
GRAPEVINE, Texas — In about two weeks, the College Football Playoff’s 13-member selection committee will convene at the Gaylord Texan Resort & Convention Center in Grapevine, Texas, to craft its first of six weekly rankings on Nov. 3. The final of those rankings on Dec. 6 will determine the 12-team field that will participate in the playoff for the right to be national champions. Before that ...
RALEIGH, N.C. — It seems like everyone is trying to follow the money when it comes to the fallout from the canceled college football game between N.C. State and Virginia in Brazil, but nobody knows where the cash is. N.C. State was due $1.5 million for the game’s cancellation, according to its contract with promoter Athlete Advantage. The contract stipulates payment was due no later than 30 ...
DALLAS — People think the 1966 NFL championship game at the Cotton Bowl, a 34-27 Green Bay Packers victory, was the Cowboys’ first playoff game. Technically, it wasn’t. In 1965, after finishing second in the Eastern Conference for the first time, the Cowboys flew to Miami to face the Baltimore Colts in the Playoff Bowl. The Colts won, 35-3, even with a running back (Tom Matte) playing ...