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LSU quarterback Joe Burrow thinks it is “pretty cool” that President Donald Trump wants to attend his team’s upcoming game against Alabama.

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump is expected to attend Saturday’s college football matchup between top-ranked University of Alabama and Louisiana State University.

Hall of Famer Earl Campbell believes he knows what the University of Texas needs to reclaim its former football glory: A talented, black quarterback.

The No. 1 vs. No. 2 game between Alabama and LSU in two weeks looks set, though the order of the Crimson Tide and Tigers changed in the AP Top 25 in one of the closet votes ever.

The Minnesota university that was booted out of Division III play for winning too many games has now been offered a spot in Division I.

Police have released footage of the September arrest Tennessee linebacker Jeremy Banks, where he tells officers, “Where I’m from, we shoot at cops.”

A referee was shot in the face by a cannon while officiating during a football game in Castine, Maine, over the weekend. 

In an interview with Jewish Insider, 2020 Democratic presidential hopeful and South Bend, Indiana, Mayor Pete Buttigieg insisted that it was not “fair” to expect college athletes to play without being paid.

Washington State coach Mike Leach took a swipe at the State of California over a new law to compensate college athletes. Leach said that California has “trouble keeping their streets clean,” and should focus on that instead.

Appearing on ESPN’s First Take, Heisman Trophy winner and minor league baseball player Tim Tebow spoke out against the growing call to pay college athletes.

The Texas Longhorns welcomed the LSU Tigers to Austin, Texas, for what promised to be the biggest game of the week, but LSU fans did not exactly feel the warmth, especially the LSU band.

In an article for the Atlantic, “social justice” columnist Jemele Hill advised all black student athletes to leave “white” colleges because of inherent racism.

Notre Dame recently announced the three students who will serve as their team’s leprechaun mascot this season, but some social media users were not pleased with the choices.

The Jackson State Tigers mascot was handed a slap down by the refs on Sunday, after inexplicably jumping into a touchdown scrum with the players.

Notre Dame quarterback Ian Book struggled mightily with his accuracy on Monday night, and none felt the full weight of his struggles more than the Louisville cheer squad.

In a world full of clickbaity attempts to draw eyeballs with stories that are at best, tenuously connected to the truth. There’s perhaps no more clickbaity thing than the release of the college football preseason rankings.

LYNCHBURG, Va. (AP) — Liberty coach Hugh Freeze made his coaching debut for the Flames in a hospital bed set up in the coaches’ box during his team’s 24-0 loss to No. 22 Syracuse on Saturday night. The bed was being used to support his healing back.

The Louisiana Republican Party released an ad Friday, reminding voters that Louisiana Democrat Gov. John Bel Edwards threatened to cancel college football if the state legislature did not pass a budget raising taxes on Louisianans.

University of Tennessee football player Bryce Thompson, 19, was arrested on Saturday for threatening to “slap the sh*t” out of his girlfriend and saying he would “shoot up” the school. He was also indefinitely suspended from the team.

Officials at Louisiana State University are taking heat after the wording on a sports promo seemed to exclude women.

Both Florida and Miami fought hard and “left it on the field,” during Saturday night’s Camping World Kickoff. However, some fans took the intensity of the rivalry in the stadium and brought it to the parking lot after the game.

Cross off another milestone for Clemson, college football’s newest superpower.

Police released body cam footage of the arrest on drug charges of Georgia Southern quarterback Shai Werts who was suspected of having cocaine

Aug. 1 (UPI) — The Clemson Tigers are ranked No. 1 in the preseason Amway Coaches Poll for the first time in program history after going 15-0 last season.

In 2018, college football had its lowest average attendance in 22 years, and Northwestern coach Pat Fitzgerald thinks he knows why.

Big 12 football players who choose to mock the University of Texas’ “Horns Up” gesture, with the reciprocal “Horns Down” sign, will be penalized” like any other celebration foul.”

Coach Dabo Swinney may be a native of Alabama, but as the coach of the Crimson Tide-beating Clemson Tigers, he often feels like he is no longer a favorite son of the Yellow Hammer State.

The University of Georgia has decided to relax the restrictions on alcohol sales at Samford Stadium this year. But only for donors who reach deep into their pockets.

The University of St. Thomas has been removed from the Minnesota Intercollegiate Athletic Conference (MIAC) because it has won too many games.

One of the top quarterbacks in the 2020 high school class has signed with Clemson. When explaining his decision to do so, he said: “They’re all big Christians.”

April 26 (UPI) — Clemson has signed football coach Dabo Swinney to a 10-year contract extension through the 2028 season.

Georgia Tech defensive tackle Brandon Adams died on Saturday, the university said in a statement. He was 21 years old.

The University of Texas fired former Longhorn quarterback Vince Young for poor performance, repeatedly missing work, and for not keeping supervisors appraised of his situation, according to reports.

Football history was made this week, when a 22-year-old woman became the first female football player to sign a non-kicker scholarship offer.

A running back for the Nebraska Cornhuskers has been charged under California’s new “revenge porn” law, after sending a sexually explicit video to an ex-girlfriend.

Clemson Tigers coach Dabo Swinney is speaking up in defense of several players accused of taking performance-enhancing drugs and saying that the school may have mistakenly given the substance to them, 247Sports reported.