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LOS ANGELES (AP) — Notre Dame’s offensive skill players gathered on the sideline and looked up at an unfamiliar sight on the scoreboard. The Fighting Irish hadn’t faced a double-digit deficit at any point in their perfect season before Southern California jumped to a 10-0 lead Saturday night.

Wolverines quarterback Shea Patterson had a long road to the college gridiron, a road that led through the constant gunfire from Mexican drug cartels on the other side of the Rio Grande from his home in South Texas.

Tempers flared between Mississippi State and Ole Miss during the Egg Bowl on Thursday, resulting in a sidelines-clearing brawl that spilled out onto the field at the end of the third quarter.

Alabama, Clemson, Notre Dame and Michigan were at the top of the College Football Playoff rankings Tuesday night, marking the first time in the five-year history of the postseason system that the same teams held the first four spots for three straight weeks.

All is fair in love and war. However, while passions similarly run deep in the turbulent world of college football, not all emotional expressions are fair or allowed.

At some point, most fans will have their loyalties to their teams brought into question. Most fans will have that happen to them, but probably not Jim Ross.

Most fans pride themselves on the fact that football is a game which can be played through almost any weather condition. Whether the conditions be rain, sleet, heat, or snow, it normally makes no difference.

During his post-game press conference after a 48-47 loss to OU on Saturday, Oklahoma State University Football Coach Mike Gundy took a moment to slam all those “snowflake” student transfers who are too “non-committal.”

The Iowa State and Baylor game on Saturday featured a lot of action. The game had scoring, it had big plays, it had controversy, and it had a superman punch.

An Ave Maria University football player has been arrested and charged with pointing a gun at a teammate’s head, according to police.

An Alabama Crimson Tide fan has died due to injuries he sustained in a bar fight with LSU fans, following the LSU-Alabama game on Saturday night.

AIR FORCE ACADEMY, Colo. (AP) — An Air Force falcon injured at West Point during a prank Saturday before the annual rivalry football game between the service academies is back home and showing signs of improvement.

If you don’t like the first College Football Playoff selection committee rankings, don’t worry. Saturday’s slate of huge games guarantees major changes are coming next week.

Two former college football players are suing their school and a fellow a student for falsely accusing them of rape in 2016.

The Michigan football program got support from a highly unlikely place on Tuesday. Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, the former dictator of Iran, tweeted that he hopes to see Michigan football return to its “Glory Days.”

MIAMI GARDENS, Fla. (AP) — The Turnover Chain became the Touchdown Chain. Miami tied a school record with three defensive touchdowns, N’Kosi Perry threw for a score in his first start and the No. 16 Hurricanes downed North Carolina 47-10 on Thursday night.

TUSCALOOSA, Ala. (AP) — Tua Tagovailoa passed for 387 yards and four touchdowns and ran for another score to lead No. 1 Alabama to a 45-23 rout of No. 22 Texas A&M on Saturday.

WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. (AP) — No. 8 Notre Dame threw the Book at Wake Forest. Ian Book rushed for three touchdowns and threw for two more in his first start of the season, leading the Fighting Irish past Wake Forest 56-27 on Saturday.

AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — A Southern California-Texas rematch was supposed to be an early-season blockbuster. With both programs struggling, it feels more like a fight for survival, and the pressure is mounting to find a win to keep their seasons from spinning off course.

MANHATTAN, Kan. (AP) – Nick Fitzgerald returned from a suspension two throw two touchdown passes, Kylin Hill ran for 211 yards and accounted for three scores, and No. 18 Mississippi State’s swarming defense shut down Kansas State in a 31-10 rout on Saturday.

Sept. 2 (UPI) — New starting quarterback Dwayne Haskins Jr. tossed five touchdown passes and Ohio State zipped past visiting Oregon State 77-31 on Saturday as head coach Urban Meyer watched from home.

Alabama doesn’t rebuild. The Crimson Tide simply reload.

LANDOVER, Md. (AP) — It was one of those rare occurrences when the sequel proved even more impressive than the original.

EAST HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — No. 21 UCF has a new coaching staff — and an offense that looks very similar to the one that helped the Knights go undefeated a year ago.

No games in the opening week of the 2018 college football season have quite the pizazz of last year’s meeting between No. 1 Alabama and No. 3 Florida State.

Remember last year, when everyone was eyeing the season-opening Alabama-Florida State game as one of the most anticipated matchups?

Just a week ago, Ohio State coach Urban Meyer insisted that he knew nothing of a 2015 accusation of domestic violence against a Buckeyes coach. However, according to a report, it looks like he may have known after all.

The state of California has banned travel to Oklahoma over its supposed “discriminatory” gay adoption law, but OU-UCLA football will likely be exempted, a report says.

An awkward tackle left Georgetown linebacker Ty Williams paralyzed in 2015. Williams vowed to walk again to receive his diploma, and he did just that Saturday with the help of a brace, walker and a spotter. The crowd applauded Williams

While college seniors prepare for graduation in the coming weeks, the following student-athletes chose to instead enter this week’s NFL draft before their senior year of college football. We took a look at the teams hurt the most by talented players leaving early.

MOBILE, AL – West Point graduate Brett Toth is a top offensive line prospect in the 2018 NFL draft.

PULLMAN, Wash. (AP) — Washington State quarterback Tyler Hilinski has died from an apparent self-inflicted gunshot wound.

SHERMAN OAKS, Calif. (AP) — Keith Jackson, the down-home voice of college football during more than five decades as a broadcaster, has died. He was 89.

Even as the NFL’s TV ratings for both the regular season as well as the playoffs have tanked this year, college football’s playoff games have soared.

President Donald Trump is in attendance for Monday’s National Championship game and Alabama Crimson Tide running back Bo Scarbrough is not happy about it. Before the game with Georgia started, Scarbrough was caught on camera walking in from pregame warmups yelling,

President Donald Trump took the field Monday night in Atlanta, GA, for the College Football National Championship game between the University of Georgia and the University of Alabama, mostly to cheers. Trump, escorted by members of the ROTC, waved to