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A source told Sporting News that defensive coordinator Matt Eberflus and defensive line coach Mike Phair remain bullish on their roles with the franchise no matter who is named the next head coach. IYER: Why Colts should hire Frank Reich Earlier media reports had linked McDaniels and Eberflus together if the former was going to land a head coaching position. Ballard, though, already had held Eberflus in high regard with the Colts organizationally wanting to resume running a “Tampa-Two” style of defense....

Over the next 36 hours, a quintet of conference championship games will cement the field for the 2022-23 College Football Playoff (CFP). With all due respect to the Group of Five conferences, this article focuses exclusively on the Power Five conference championships, the games that will shape the CFP bracket. Before delving into the best bets for the week, let’s review the schedule and current balance of power. NCAAF Conference Championship Schedule In chronological order, the Power Five conference-championship schedule is as follows:...

A year ago, the Aggies defeated the Tigers 74-72 in College Station, Texas, after seven overtime periods and almost five hours of football. LSU should have won the game in regulation and felt Texas A&M repeatedly got the rub of the green with marginal calls going the Aggies’ way. Controversy didn’t end with the final whistle, with a major scuffle breaking out between LSU director Kevin Faulk and Texas A&M staffer Cole Fisher—the nephew of Aggies’ coach Jimbo Fisher....

It was Washington's first win over a ranked team since Isaiah Thomas' jumper beat then-No. 16 Arizona in the 2011 Pac-10 Conference tournament championship game. Washington (11-6, 3-1 Pac-12) had lost 12 straight against ranked teams. MORE: Box score/stats | Full scoreboard | Stanford-Oregon | Arizona-Southern Cal Colorado (14-3, 3-1) never recovered after leading scorer Spencer Dinwiddie crumbled to the court late in the first half after his left knee buckled while dribbling on a fast break....

Small is part of a rapidly growing campus trend. At his school, 1,425 students have signed pledges this year to abstain from alcohol, tobacco and illicit drugs in their dorm rooms; more than 300 others were turned down for lack of space. At Michigan State, 1,600 students have chosen substance-free habitats this year. At Holy Cross College in Worcester, Mass., some 180 students live on substance-free corridors in Loyola Hall, and 30 more are on waiting lists....

The Line: Oregon -33, Total: 72.5 Line movement: With Colorado’s quarterback Sefo Liufau suffering from concussion symptoms, this line wasn’t posted in Las Vegas until Thursday. He’s been upgraded to probable. For updated spreads and totals from around Las Vegas, visit our live odds page. Trends that matter: Colorado is 7-3 ATS in its last 10 conference games….Oregon is 26-10-2 ATS in its last 38 games against a team with a losing record…....

The Indianapolis Colts kicker’s record-breaking 566th field goal came on a 42-yard effort against the Houston Texans on Sunday. Vinatieri entered Sunday’s game tied with Hall of Famer Morten Andersen and he needs just 34 more points to surpass Andersen’s 2,544 for the most points scored in NFL history. The 45-year-old Vinatieri also holds the NFL record with 44 straight field goals made. 0 votes

In the latest ESPN magazine special edition for which athletes grin and bare (nearly) all, three Colts starters — left tackle Anthony Castonzo, right guard Todd Herremans and right tackle Jack Mewhort — are featured inside. PHOTOS: NFL All-Muscle Team | ESPN Body Issue covers The reaction has been, well, interesting. While Giants wide receiver Odell Beckham Jr. was deemed worthy for one of six covers, Castonzo, Herremans and Mewhort represent the taller, heavier grunts that make up most of the league....

Be sure to click through to the informative and entertaining videos, which are shot at the South Point sports book and our studios in Vegas. The lines and totals listed below are available in Vegas as of Friday. You can check out updated college football point spreads and totals on our live odds page. UCF vs. Missouri (-10, 54.5), 12 p.m. ET, SECN We’re not all that impressed with UCF’s performance against Penn State, as the Knights were able to muster just 24 yards on the ground, and we look for Maty Mauk to have his way against the UCF defense....

There should be movement after Week 11. Michigan State, which opened at No. 3 in the initial CFP rankings, is bound to fall after losing 40-29 at Purdue. What will the CFP do with No. 6 Cincinnati now? The Bearcats escaped with a 28-20 victory against Tulsa that featured two goal-line fumbles in the final minutes. No. 9 Wake Forest lost 58-55 to North Carolina. No. 5 Ohio State had a scare at Nebraska....

Alabama, which lost to Ohio State in the first round of the playoffs, spent the most on a single game. The Crimson Tide forked over $2.6 million to travel to New Orleans, bringing 908 people to the semifinal. MORE: SEC draft gap isn’t closing | Breakout candidates for 2015 | Highest-paid coaches Florida State spent nearly $2.4 million for its trip to the Rose Bowl. The bottom line on expenses does not include postseason revenue from the playoffs and a team’s conference, or bills attributed to the coaches and staff members....

Previous ranking: 1 No player impacts the game more. The only way he has been slowed down the last two seasons is injury: his (in 2013) and numerous on his offensive line (2014). 2. RB Todd Gurley, Georgia Previous ranking: 3 When he’s playing — and we still don’t know how many games he’ll miss while the NCAA investigates a possible rules violation — he’s a throwback to offenses of days gone by....

Pitchers have a tendency to take things a bit personally on the diamond, especially when opposing batters go yard off them. Case in point: A matchup Wednesday between Weatherford College (Texas) and North Central Texas College briefly turned into an AEW-style Texas Death Match on the diamond. A video shows Weatherford pitcher Owen Woodward demolishing North Central batter Josh Phillips as Phillips rounds third base after hitting a go-ahead home run against Woodward....

Police have detained 18-year-old Timur Bekmansurov, who is accused of killing at least six people and injuring dozens more in Monday’s mass shooting at Perm State National Research University, located about 800 miles east of Moscow. Russia’s Investigative Committee said police shot and injured Bekmansurov and has opened a criminal murder case following the attack during which the suspect is said to have walked onto the campus in black tactical gear, entered a building and opened fire on other students....

The Bulldogs’ bats were deathly silent against Virginia’s Griff McGarry, who carried an intact no-hitter into the inning to give his team a 4-0 lead over Mississippi State. To that point of the game, he had allowed only two base runners: one on a walk, another hit-by-pitch. McGarry gave up a lead-off walk to start the inning before designated hitter Kellum Clark finally broke the no-hit bid — and, more importantly, put the Bulldogs on the board — with a two-run home run....

Diane Everett, 51, from Milliken, lost control of the 2012 Honda CBR motorcycle she was riding during the memorial ride southwest of Loveland on Saturday, according to The Coloradoan. The outlet reported Diane had been riding westbound on Larimer County Road 12 when she lost control of the motorcycle while she tried to negotiate a curve. When the motorcycle struck a culvert as it went into a ditch Everett was launched from the vehicle and was seriously injured, even though she was wearing a helmet....

Not surprisingly, three of those named were freshmen and one was the team manager. You can’t help but call those guys ugly, right? It just comes with the territory. In the midst of the Miami Dolphins’ situation with Richie Incognito and Jonathan Martin, this is the proper way to give teammates the business. The uglies, please! No. 5 Dustin Thomas. Twitter handle: @yungbuff_dt13 No. 4 Beau Gamble, a senior walk-on, had no chance, when the picture Dinwiddie posted was this pixelated....