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Big dog Alabama will be visiting SEC rival Tennessee, which has become an anomaly in college football this year. All but one of the Vols’ games have been decided by a touchdown or less, with the last two games featuring spectacular second-half comebacks. Meanwhile, ACC foes Miami and North Carolina will be looking to bounce back from bitter losses as the Tar Heels go to the Hurricanes’ home turf, while upset-minded N....

MORE: SN’s Dirty Dozen | Cheers from the sidelines Definitely — but in his first season? Just run with it Wolverines. Times are good for Michigan football. — Three consecutive shutouts. — Five consecutive wins. And all eyes will be on The Big House next Saturday at 3:30 when the fourth-ranked Spartans visit. Michigan State has won two in a row in the series and six of the past seven....

Booker scored a career-high 27 points, 11 in the last 4:40, and Dinwiddie scored 16 of his 23 in the second half as No. 20 Colorado rallied from a 10-point deficit to hand No. 10 Oregon its first loss of the season, 100-91 on Sunday. MORE: Box score/stats | Full scoreboard | Video "You've got to fight fire with fire," Colorado coach Tad Boyle said. "When they're trapping you and they're attacking you defensively, you've got to attack them....

Indianapolis will turn to Nick Foles to start at quarterback for Matt Ryan and with Jonathan Taylor (ankle) lost for the season at running back, Deon Jackson and Zack Moss will split the main duties there. Los Angeles will keep rolling with the electric offensive combination of Justin Herbert and Austin Ekeler. Its injury-riddled defense is starting to improve at the right time, too. Here’s everything to know about betting on Colts vs....

Fresno State looked absolutely abysmal last week in a 52-13 loss at USC, and the public obviously took notice in moving the number in favor of the Utes to nearly two touchdowns. Johnny Avello, the Wynn’s executive director of race & sports operations, told The Linemakers on Sporting News on Friday afternoon that this move is typical of bettors wagering mainly on last week’s performance. “I guess that’s kind of indicative of Fresno’s team last week,” Avello said....

“8. Participants. There shall be no limit on the number of teams that may participate from one conference in the playoff semifinals and the associated bowl games.” Which means that, in theory, if the selection committee determines Alabama-South Carolina is a proper 1-vs.-4 matchup and LSU-Georgia is a worthy 2-3 game, then that’s how the playoff would look. An all-SEC (or all-Big Ten, Pac-12, etc.) playoff won’t happen, of course, in part because the first principle of determining the playoff matchups is “conference championships won....

Ohio State, LSU and Clemson and Georgia ranked as the Nos 1-4 teams, respectively, while Utah, Oklahoma and Baylor slotted in the Nos. 5-7 spots. The Bulldogs have the best bet of making the final field with a win over LSU, but Utah and the winner of the Big 12 championship likely need to make a statement that can’t be ignored by the selection committee. MORE: A guide to conference championship weekend...

Tennessee is no longer among the ranks of the unbeaten, falling 27-13 to Georgia in Sanford Stadium in a game that never felt particularly close. The Bulldogs smothered Hendon Hooker, Jalin Hyatt and Co., limiting them to just one touchdown late in the fourth quarter. Clemson also lost its first game of the season Saturday, falling 35-14 to Notre Dame in a game in which the Irish controlled all phases....

No. 6 Oklahoma is no longer part of that group after suffering a 41-34 upset to Kansas State in Norman, Okla. The Wildcats were led by a Herculean effort from quarterback Adrian Martinez, who completed 21 of 34 passes for 234 yards and a score. He also added 21 rushes for 148 yards and another four touchdowns. The Sooners’ offense upheld its end of play, putting up 550 yards in the loss (including 330 passing yards from Dillon Gabriel)....

That said, there will be great football to watch from all across the nation, and Sporting News is on hand to make sure you get the most of it. MORE: Sporting News’ Week 4 Power Rankings SN has all the highlights and big plays from Saturday. Follow along to keep up: PICKS: Straight up | Against the spread College football scores Check out the latest college football scores. Live college football highlights

No. 3 Notre Dame faces No. 12 Syracuse at Yankee Stadium at 2:30 p.m. in a huge matchup with College Football Playoff implications. The primetime 8 p.m. spot features matchups between No. 11 UCF and No. 19 Cincinnati and No. 13 Texas and No. 18 Iowa State. MORE: College football’s biggest remaining storylines Sporting News picks games involving the AP Top 25 each week, and we are coming off one of our best weekends of the season:...

The underdog BYU Cougars have seen a decent move in their direction for Saturday’s primetime matchup at Texas (7:30 p.m. ET, Fox Sports 1). Texas quarterback David Ash experienced a recurrence of concussion-related symptoms during the Longhorn’s win over North Texas on Saturday, and the betting market has reacted. “That game’s dropping this morning,” Johnny Avello, The Wynn’s Executive Director of Race & Sports Operations, told The Linemakers on Sporting News on Monday morning....

Heading into Week 6, our College Football Playoff picks have not changed, but we switched the matchups. We have No. 1 Alabama meeting No. 5 Clemson in the CFP semifinal at the Chick-fil-A Peach Bowl, and that means No. 2 Georgia and No. 3 Ohio State would be in the other semifinal in the Vrbo Fiesta Bowl. Why is this significant? If the SEC gets two teams, then the conference champion is going to want that semifinal in Atlanta....

According to the Daily Camera, the incident began when the girlfriend read a text message on Crowder’s phone from one of his ex-girlfriends. She took some items Crowder had given her while they were dating – she told police eight months – and followed him outside. MORE: Week 3 photos | Pre-snap read | Bowl projections He threw the bag of items into a yard and she followed him. She asked Crowder if she could walk with him because she did not feel safe after some men passed by earlier and whistled at her, the Daily Camera reported....

It is not surprising for lifestyle brands to get into the Animal Crossing: New Horizons hype. Fans are constantly generating new content, whether replicating popular video game settings on their islands, or dressing up their villagers into highly beloved characters. With ColourPop known for incorporating pop culture series such as Sailor Moon and Star Wars into its collections, it was only a matter of time before the make-up brand took notice of all the attention Animal Crossing: New Horizons has garnered since its launch....

NFL team mascots were invited to Arizona, and before the game started, they participated in some sort of musical chairs championship. What began an innocent game quickly turned violent when the Indianapolis mascot, Blue, went rogue. The Colts’ mascot used a chair to beat down the Patriots’ mascot, Pat Patriot. Sources tell me the Colts’ mascot may have over-inflated the chair for maximum beat-down power (joking). There’s no telling why Blue did what he did....

The Colts (5-3 SU, 6-2 ATS) put two eye-popping streaks on the line Monday when they visit the well-rested Giants (3-4 SU, 3-4 ATS) at MetLife Stadium (8:30 p.m. ET, ESPN). Indy is 15-2 ATS off a straight-up loss, and 15-2 ATS in its last 17 games against losing teams. The Colts gave up a ridiculous 522 passing yards in last week’s 51-34 loss at Pittsburgh. New York had a bye week to stew over a two-game losing streak in which it was outscored 58-21....

The Linemakers on Sporting News offer our opinions and picks on several of the weekend’s best games. The lines and totals listed below are the Las Vegas consensus as of Friday afternoon. You can check out updated college football point spreads and totals on our live odds page. Indiana vs. Ohio State (-34.5, 65.5), 12 p.m. ET, BTN/BTN2 This feels like a classic let-down spot for Ohio State, and Indiana has held its own versus the Buckeyes from a wagering perspective, having covered the spread in three straight meetings, two of which have been in Columbus....

The first is the Big Noon Kickoff between No. 5 Penn State and No. 13 Minnesota, followed by the “Game of the Century” between No. 1 LSU and No. 2 Alabama. Get the latest NCAA odds & betting advice at Sportsbook Review Other games of note this week include No. 18 Iowa at No. 16 Wisconsin in a game of huge importance for the Big Ten West. Then there’s the question of whether No....