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A late field goal gave the Seminoles a victory over Boston College on Saturday. That, combined with Alabama’s blowout of cupcake Western Carolina, assures the ‘Noles will remain No. 1 in the polls. Right? Wrong: The Tide were atop the coaches poll. The AP rankings left Florida State at No. 1, but not by much. SN’s Matt Hayes calls Florida State “a team that slogs through games and finds a way to win in the fourth quarter....

Many eyes will be fixed on the New Year’s Six bowl games slated to occur on the dawn of the 2023. But there’s a host of intriguing matchups on the docket before that happens. Some involve glitzy Power 5 teams. Others center around Group of 5 standouts. One even revolves around a pair of stateside rivals. Regardless, it should make for an enthralling watch. Between the balmy beaches of Honolulu, the picturesque fields of Alabama and the bustling backdrop of Detroit, the bowl games taking place over the next few days, each matchup should have a distinct feel to it....

Stratosphere sports book director Ed Malinowski wanted to shake things up last week and became the first oddsmaker in Las Vegas to post lines on the first week of the 2015 college football season. “I just wanted to create some buzz and get some foot traffic through at a slow time,” Malinowski told The Linemakers on Sporting News. “We’re only taking dimes ($1,000), so we’re not going to get hurt, and so far the action has been good with some limit plays and surprisingly a lot of action on the parlays already....

The Arica and Victory Pass projects were approved in California’s Riverside County, and would generate as much as 465 megawatts of electricity, enough to power an estimated 132,000 homes, according to the Associated Press. Officials requested nominations of about 140 square miles of land within “solar energy zones” in the three other states. Bureau of Land Management Director Tracy Stone-Manning said officials are considering around 40 “large-scale” solar energy proposals in the West....

Colorado’s coronavirus mitigation stay at home orders are expected to expire Sunday. Governor Jared Polis announced a second phase of guidelines known as Safer at Home, expected to begin Monday. Restaurants, bars and nightclubs are to remain closed under the Safer at Home orders and no set date for their reopening has been set. Fitness facilities are also to remain closed. “This is not a free-for-all,” Polis said at a Wednesday news conference....

However, when he went to take out the refuse on Wednesday night at around 11.30 p.m., he did not return, according to Fox affiliate KDVR. Deputies and officers with the Brighton Police Department have scoured the area, and while he could not be found, they did come across his inmate-issued clothing and inmate identification card. He was due for release on October 31 after he was jailed on charges of failing to comply on a theft charge and failing to comply on a forgery/possession of a controlled substance charge....

No officers were injured in the shooting, which happened at a traffic stop in Aurora on September 16. The 16-year-old suspect was found a few miles away, allegedly with a gun. On the day of the shooting, Aurora Police Chief Vanessa Wilson told FOX31 had caused “grave concern”. She said: “This investigation is a priority, and should it reveal our officers were targeted we will be pursuing prosecution to the fullest extent of the law....

A car dashcam captured the moment a ground-floor restaurant in Shenyang, Liaoning, blew up at 8:19 a.m., releasing a shockwave that shattered windows and damaged nearby vehicles and structures. Debris including glass and concrete pelted cars and pedestrians, while a large plume of smoke and dust rose from the site, the video showed. The blast happened at the intersection of Taiyuan South Street and South 7th Road following a suspected gas leak, according to a notice by the Heping district government’s propaganda department....

MORE: Brees pays tribute to Graham | How Darrelle Revis became major dealmaker | First-round offer for Bradford trade? A photo posted by Andre Johnson (@ajohnson1500) on Mar 11, 2015 at 1:06pm PDT Johnson appeared in seven Pro Bowls with the Texans, although his numbers dipped to 85 catches for 936 yards and only three touchdowns last year, leading to his release earlier this week. However, paired with star quarterback Andrew Luck in Indy, with young star T....

Luck, 28, who had been out since undergoing surgery to repair a torn labrum in January 2017, played just two series in the Colts’ pre-season win against the Seattle Seahawks and completed six of nine passes for 64 yards. “I was excited, I was nervous,” Luck told the Indianapolis Star. “It’s just a pre-season game, but it’s still a game. For a moment there, I was like, ‘How do I approach it?...

According to a release from the Carmel (Ind.) Police Deptartment made available to The Indianapolis Star, Irsay was driving a silver Toyota Highlander at a slow speed, stopped in the roadway, then failed to signal a turn. After he was pulled over around 11:40 p.m. Sunday, police Lt. Joe Bickel says "Irsay subsequently failed several roadside field sobriety tests.'' In addition, "multiple prescription drugs were discovered in pill bottles," police said....

Obviously, Robert Griffin III, by Washington. MORE: Let’s laugh at Colts’ snapocalypse, Redskins QBs | Flake Punt ‘complete cluster’ | Bad moments And yes, Andrew Luck, by the Colts. The regressing Colts. The 0-2 start Colts. The all-in, but now sliding-out Colts. The desperate fake-punt Colts. The Colts who might be starting from scratch in January, with a new head coach or general manager or both, steered by an impatient, impetuous owner — all just a year after finishing one game short of the Super Bowl....

Sporting News will have bowl projections each week leading up to the event. This year’s bowl season with a schedule that includes 42 bowl games between FBS teams. The College Football Playoff championship game is Jan. 10 at Lucas Oil Stadium in Indianapolis. The semifinals are Dec. 31 at the Capital One Orange Bowl and Goodyear Cotton Bowl Classic. Our bowl projection is for how we believe the rest of the season will play out....

We can’t talk about a four-team playoff without naturally sliding into talk of an eight-team, 12-team or 16-team playoff. Here’s what all those options — both more and less — would have looked like based on this season’s final College Football Playoff Rankings. MORE: Making the case for four, six, eight-team playoffs Two teams No. 1 Alabama (13-0) vs. No. 2 Clemson (12-1) Who likes this: Fans of the old BCS rankings who love focusing on No....

That is where an innovative and well-known software solution called Teamworks comes in. Already used by the majority of Division I FBS programs, Teamworks boasts a platform that allows the four teams in the College Football Playoff to streamline the team collaboration process and focus on what happens on the field. MORE: 2015 Trends| Digital audience profiling | Student-Athlete experience | Memphis football rebirth “Working with the College Football Playoff is a natural step for Teamworks,” said Zach Maurides, Founder and President of Teamworks....

The top-five teams in the preseason poll remain unbeaten through the first month of the year and will look to create some separation as the season rolls along. As for the top games this weekend, No. 1 Alabama is on the road against No. 24 Texas A&M, Big Ten foes No. 10 Penn State and No. 17 Iowa go at it, the Red River Showdown pits No. 6 Oklahoma against No....

Speaking of Iowa, we now turn our attention to Week 2, when one of the showcase games features the Hawkeyes waging football warfare against Iowa State for the beloved Cy-Hawk Trophy. As a reminder as to how this contest works: Each panelist picks three upsets and is awarded as many points as the team was an underdog if he is correct. We all managed a win in Week 1. Let’s see who can keep it up....

Yes. Rivals national recruiting director Adam Gorney told SN this about Young earlier this summer: “He is a dynamic playmaker and incredible decision-maker. He will run on the field and you will say ‘Wow, that kid is small’ and he will go dominate.’” That summed it up in a 44-13 blowout against No. 14 Miami in Atlanta. Young looked the part in yet another neutral-site beatdown under Nick Saban. Young finished 27 of 38 for 344 yards and four TDs in an impressive debut that left little doubt the Crimson Tide offense is fully operational in 2021....

Calvin Riley, 20, was shot in the chest by an unknown assailant shortly before 10 p.m. PT near San Francisco’s popular tourist attraction Ghirardelli Square, according to police (via SFGate.com). He was pronounced dead at the scene. MORE: Lions player quit Pokemon Go | Pokemon Go in stadiums He was set to begin his sophomore year at San Joaquin Delta College in Stockton, Calif. Investigators did not say whether the game may have been a factor in Saturday’s killing, perhaps distracting Riley or his smartphone being the target of thieves....