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Main event: Clemson at Florida State Revenge won’t come easy. Clemson looks to avenge an embarrassing 51-14 loss against defending national champion Florida State on Sept. 20. That game put Jameis Winston in the national spotlight, both for his pregame speech and 444-yard, three-TD performance against the Tigers. The implications aren’t that much different in 2014. The winner will have a leg-up in the ACC Atlantic Division race, and the loser will be in an uphill battle to reach the four-team College Football Playoff....

Too bad it cannot figure out its postseason. In the eight-year history of the College Football Playoff, there have been 24 playoff games. All have been at neutral sites. When the CFP expands to 12, the plan is to have 11 playoff games per season, with seven on neutral fields. Has anyone contributing to this plan been to an on-campus game lately? BENDER: Seven games that will define college football’s second half | Bowl projections...

No ranked teams played each other last week, but Georgia vs. Notre Dame is one of three Week 4 games between ranked teams, as No. 11 Michigan opens Big Ten play against No. 13 Wisconsin and No. 8 Auburn visits No. 17 Texas A&M in the SEC. Here is the full schedule for teams in the AP Top 25 (all times Eastern), including kickoff times and TV channels for every game....

But when the winning, overtime play is made by a walk-on who has yet to play offense all season, and his parents have the thing on some shaky i-phone video from the opposite end zone, well, it goes to another level. As you know by now, we love the upset here at the Underdog Challenge, and we try to spot them before they happen. The rules of our contest are as follows: Each expert picks three upsets per week....

Heavyweights Alabama and Clemson are among six Top 25 teams favored by 35 points or more. No. 4 Oklahoma faces Houston (7:30 p.m., ABC) on Sunday, and No. 9 Notre Dame takes on Louisville (8 p.m., ESPN) on Monday. Every week, Sporting News will survey the landscape looking for Heisman contenders, coaches on the spot, upset alerts and other trends. With that in mind, get ready for Week 1....

That includes defending national champion Clemson. The Tigers play Georgia Tech in the launch of the ACC Network. It will be our first look at Trevor Lawrence since the 44-16 blowout victory against Alabama in last year’s College Football Playoff championship game. MORE: Week 1 Heisman watch, upset picks and more Sporting News has picks against the spread for all the top-25 games here, but we’re giving you the Thursday picks for now ....

See the week’s full college football schedule below. (All times E.T., standings are AP poll) PHOTOS: Must-see from week 11 | Seven most-hated teams Tuesday, Nov. 11 8 p.m. | Akron at Buffalo | ESPNU 8 p.m. | Toledo at Northern Illinois | ESPN2 Wednesday, Nov. 12 8 p.m. | Ball State at Massachusetts | ESPNU 8 p.m. | Kent State at Bowling Green | ESPN2 Thursday, Nov. 13 7 p....

Virginia opened the 2015 College World Series by scoring all of its runs with two outs in beating Arkansas 5-3. The Cavaliers (40-22) broke a 3-3 tie in the top of the eighth as Daniel Pinero singled with one out and stole second and third. Kenny Towns plated him with a two-out double. Virginia moves on to face Florida (47-19), which used an 11-run fourth inning to rout Miami 15-3 in the nightcap....

The criminal gang of hackers known as DarkSide who took responsibility for the attack gained access to the Pipeline’s system through an unprotected VPN account that had been set up to allow employees to access the company’s computer networks remotely, according to an interview Charles Carmakal, senior vice president at the security firm Mandiant gave to Bloomberg. He noted that the account was no longer in use by an employee, but was still active and accessible to the hackers....

Surgery Follow-Up You will typically be discharged from the hospital two days or so after your colorectal surgery if it was done laparoscopically. When you are discharged, you will need someone to drive you home. You will also be given medications to help manage your pain, prevent infection, and address other issues like nausea or constipation. Recovery Timeline Generally speaking, you will be able to return to your normal activities—like showering, driving, and sexual intercourse—about one to two weeks after your surgery if you had laparoscopic colorectal surgery....

In fact, Indianapolis general manager Chris Ballard believes Luck is using such doubts as motivation as he continues to recover from the damage that cost him the entire 2017 NFL season. “I think he’s got a little bit of a chip on his shoulder to prove some people and naysayers wrong,” Ballard told co-host Bill Polian and me earlier this week on SiriusXM NFL Radio. “That’s a beautiful thing with a quarterback that I think is top five in this league....

Starting in 2024, there will be a 12-team playoff in place. The four top teams may still end up in the semifinals, but the field will give more teams realistic chances to make the single-elimination field late in the regular season and set up more win-or-go-home games in the postseason. MORE: Tracking the selections for all 42 bowl games in 2022-23 What a 12-team playoff bracket would look like A 12-team field would consist of the six highest rated conference champions and the six highest-rated at-large teams....

Top-10 teams Georgia, West Virginia, Washington and Penn State all lost on Saturday, prompting a shakeup in the top 25 rankings. The Bulldogs fell from No. 2 to No. 8, the Mountaineers fell from No. 6 to No. 13, the Huskies fell from No. 7 to No. 15 and the Nittany Lions fell from No. 8 to No. 18. MORE: Week 8 Playoff picture The teams that earned those upsets benefited in the polls....

The day after beating Oregon in this year’s College Football Championship game in Arlington, the Buckeyes were installed as the 9-to-2 chalk to win the 2016 game, set for Monday, Jan. 11 in Glendale, Ariz. OSU’s odds have since shrunk to 3-to-1. SN’s Bill Bender: 100 reasons we can’t wait for season to start Elsewhere on the oddsboard: – Alabama and TCU have switched places as the second and third favorites....

The Buckeyes climbed up to third—their highest ranking this year—in the Associated Press Top 25 poll after crushing Northwestern 52-3 on the road last week to improve to 7-0. With No. 1 ranked Alabama playing Arkansas without star quarterback Tua Tagovailoa and No. 2 LSU facing No. 9 Auburn, Ohio State could end Week 9 even higher than it started. Doing so, however, will in all likelihood require the Buckeyes to produce their best performance of the season....

This week, we get to see three matchups between top 15 teams: No. 2 Ohio State against No. 9 Michigan State, No. 4 Oklahoma State against No. 10 Baylor and No. 7 Oklahoma vs. No. 11 TCU. And let’s not forget No. 17 LSU against No. 25 Ole Miss. Get ready for a monster weekend. MORE: SN Power Rankings | Week 12 bowl projections (All times Eastern) Tuesday, Nov. 17...

12:15 p.m., Chapel Hill The college road trips I mentioned in my preview of today’s road trip all started with the same song. We couldn’t pull onto the highway without hearing the opening notes of “Today” by Smashing Pumpkins (yes, this was the mid-’90s). The song’s opening stanza seemed perfect. You know, “Today is the greatest day I’ve even known. Can’t wait for tomorrow. Tomorrow’s much too long.” Right? The excitement of starting an adventure into the unknown was intoxicating....