The College Football Playoff's first round averaged 9.9 million viewers across multiple networks, marking a 7% drop from last year.
Dante Moore threw four touchdown passes and ran for another score and No. 5 Oregon beat No. 19 James Madison 51-34 on Saturday night in a College Football Playoff opener.
Trinidad Chabliss and Mississippi have aced their first test without former coach Lane Kiffin.
Bettors aren't rushing to place wagers on the opening week of this season's College Football Playoff, except for Friday night's Alabama-Oklahoma showdown.
Curt Cignetti has been named The Associated Press coach of the year in college football for the second consecutive season.
The Associated Press has released its All-America team, featuring four Ohio State players among 10 first-team picks from the Big Ten.
No. 1 Indiana is keeping defensive coordinator Bryant Haines after he agreed to a new contract that will make him one of the highest-paid assistant coaches in the nation, according to a person with knowledge of the deal.
Indiana is the No. 1 team in The Associated Press college football poll for the first time after going through the regular season and Big Ten championship game 13-0.
From the moment Curt Cignetti took Indiana’s head coaching job, he made it clear this would be a different program.
Alabama and Miami are in, Notre Dame is out and Indiana is No. 1 in the College Football Playoff’s 12-team bracket.
Duke has won its first outright Atlantic Coast Conference title since 1962 and thrown the College Football Playoff into chaos.
Duke's overtime win against No. 16 Virginia in the Atlantic Coast Conference title game attracted its share of curious onlookers, given the league's uncertain footing for College Football Playoff bids.
Alabama is forcing the group that will set the College Football Playoff bracket to ask: Should a 12-team tournament include a team with three losses.
No. 19 James Madison believes it has the resume to earn a spot in the College Football Playoff if it wins Friday's Sun Belt championship against Troy.
Ole Miss lost a coach but gained in the College Football Rankings, moving up a spot to No. 6 despite the sudden departure of Lane Kiffin to LSU.
Texas A&M is out of the top five in The Associated Press college football poll for the first time in two months.
The final regular season week of college football has set the stage for conference championships.
With one week remaining, almost every conference title game spot is still up for grabs across the FBS.
Oregon’s move up to No. 5 in The Associated Press Top 25 means the Ducks would play at home against the Group of Five representative in the first round of the College Football Playoff if the bracket were based on the new poll.
Eight of the top 10 teams in the AP Top 25 poll either had the day off or faced easy opponents on Saturday.
North Texas is in the AP poll for the first time since 1959, but it hasn't cracked the College Football Playoff rankings yet.
North Texas is in The Associated Press college football poll for the first time since 1959.
Georgia has moved up to No. 4 in The Associated Press poll, Oklahoma is back in the top 10 and North Texas is ranked for the first time since 1959.
The trend of college football teams going for it on fourth down instead of punting or attempting field goals is continuing to rise, and so is the success rate.
Instead of simply pushing for a limited number of automatic qualifiers in the next version of the College Football Playoff, leaders in the Southeastern Conference are now suggesting they don’t want any at all.
Kevin Willard takes on the challenge of leading Villanova's basketball team after Kyle Neptune's departure.
Cam Schlittler has become an instant star for the New York Yankees, delivering a dominant performance against the rival Boston Red Sox in a playoff elimination game.
Alonza Barnett III accounts for three touchdowns to lead James Madison to a 31-13 victory over Liberty. On Saturday, Barnett's 21-yard touchdown pass to Landon Ellis tied the game 10-all at halftime. He then scored on a 9-yard run early in the fourth quarter, extending the Dukes' lead to 24-13, and capped the scoring with a 13-yard run. Barnett completed 17 of 25 passes for 213 yards and added 45 yards rushing. Wayne Knight contributed an 81-yard drive, finishing with 89 yards rushing. Liberty was limited to 75 yards passing and 233 yards of total offense.
The clearing of homeless encampments in the nation's capital is unfolding under what President Donald Trump calls his Making D.
A spat over congressional redistricting in Texas marks the latest episode in a long national history of gerrymandering.
The principle of “checks and balances” is rooted in the Constitution’s design of a national government with three distinct, coequal branches.
Secretary of State Marco Rubio notes at the end of President Trump’s marathon Cabinet meeting that the U.S. has brought home 47 wrongfully detained Americans so far in Trump’s second term.
Only one person in U.S. history has defied the two-term example set by the first president, George Washington.
Wisconsin grinded its way back into the March Madness win column, getting double-digit scoring from five players on the way to an 85-66 victory over Montana.
Vanderbilt freshman Mikayla Blakes knows each time she drops the ball in the basket it will bring more attention.
Vanderbilt’s Mikayla Blakes scored a Division I women’s freshman record 55 points in a 98-88 overtime victory over Auburn.
Coach Pat Kelsey started with a clean slate at Louisville, where he rebuilt the roster with transfers who had won at other places.
Florida Sen. Marco Rubio painted a dark vision of the consequences of America’s “unbalanced relationship” with China.
Indiana coach Curt Cignetti pursued Kurtis Rourke in the transfer portal because he wanted a proven winner.
Terrence Edwards Jr. scored 14 points and James Madison pulled off the first 12-5 upset of the NCAA Tournament by beating Wisconsin 72-61.
Virginia Cavaliers, JMU, and Longwood all representing the Commonwealth in NCAA Tournament
Football Bowl Subdivision newcomers James Madison and Jacksonville State along with five-win Minnesota are bound for bowls because of a shortage of six-win teams.
Kaedin Robinson barely broke the goal line with the football before it squirted out of his hands, scoring the winning touchdown in overtime as Appalachian State beat previously unbeaten and 18th-ranked James Madison 26-23.
The Virginia Attorney General has hired a law firm to represent James Madison University regarding the NCAA’s decision Wednesday night not to grant the Dukes a waiver from a rule that prevents the unbeaten No. 18 football team from an automatic bowl berth.
Kansas remained at No. 1 in the first Associated Press men's college basketball poll of the season.
Terrence Edwards had 24 points and Raekwon Horton made a 3-pointer with 8.6 seconds left in overtime, sending James Madison past No. 4 Michigan State for a 79-76 victory.
3 key takeaways from the state’s football scene -- and a glimpse at what’s to come next week.
Jordan McCloud hit Kaelon Black with a 10-yard tuchdown pass with 55 seconds to play, capping a fourth-quarter rally and James Madison beat Virginia 36-35, spoiling the Cavaliers’ first home game since three players were fatally shot last November.
Virginia hoped its first home football game in 10 months would prove a high point of a long, emotional journey that started in a horrific way.
As part of the latest extension, Cignetti will also have one year automatically added to his contract by achieving eight wins against FBS opponents in any season during the length of the contract.
Kyle Vantrease threw four touchdown passes, including a 22-yarder to Derwin Burgess Jr. with 1:10 remaining, and Georgia Southern beat No. 25 James Madison 45-38 to spoil the Dukes’ first appearance in the AP Top 25.
Radford University recently named Alex Guerra as the next baseball head coach. The Highlander alum spent the last six seasons at James Madison as an assistant, and returns to the area with a clear vision of what his program will look like.
James Madison announced Wednesday that Virginia Tech Women’s Basketball head coach Kenny Brooks has been selected for the James Madison Athletics Hall of Fame Class of 2022.
Southeastern Louisiana quarterback Cole Kelley, East Tennessee State running back Quay Holmes and Montana State linebacker Troy Andersen highlight The Associated Press FCS All-America team.
With Virginia Tech parting ways with head coach Justin Fuente, speculation already has started as to who his replacement will be.
James Madison decided Saturday to pursue a move to the Sun Belt Conference despite being told by the Colonial Athletic Association that it will be barred from participating in CAA championships before its actual departure.
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No. 8 seed Missouri utilized a six-run second inning en route to a 7-1 win against James Madison to even the best-of-three Super Regionals on Saturday night at the Mizzou Softball Stadium.
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The Liberty Flames are back in the NCAA Regionals and will face James Madison Friday. The ASUN Champions are no stranger to the postseason, and last found themselves in this position in 2018, when they lost to South Carolina in the Region Championship game.
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