College Football

San Jose State’s Nick Nash has a chance to win the Fred Biletnikoff award

SAN JOSE, Calif. – San Jose State wide receiver Nick Nash is a finalist for the Fred Biletnikoff award, which recognizes the college football season’s most outstanding receiver at any position. He’s the first spartan in school history to earn this kind of recognition. The once dual threat quarterback didn’t see this coming to fruition. “I think it is a …

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New book chronicles historic moments examining 100 years of BYU football

BYU coach LaVell Edwards holding conference championship trophy with punter Lee Johnson (No. 10) on Nov. 24, 1984. | Mark Philbrick, BYU Photo In 1953, the population of the United States was 158 million and on Nov. 26, that year, Thanksgiving Day, the BYU-Utah football game televised nationally on NBC, drawing 60 million viewers. That’s more than last year’s No. …

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Penn State will open against SMU at home in the College Football Playoff

INDIANAPOLIS – Penn State was seeded sixth and will face 11th-seeded SMU at Beaver Stadium in the first round of the inaugural 12-team College Football Playoff, it was announced Sunday. The Nittany Lions (11-2) and the Mustangs (11-2) will play at noon on Saturday, Dec. 21, on TNT. It will be their first meeting since Penn State’s 26-21 win in …

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Lobos mired in world of have-nots

Dec. 8—Is intercollegiate football at the highest level worth continuing at the University of New Mexico? Probably not, but good sense has little to do with the politics of running an institution of higher learning. No university president wants to be remembered for disbanding the football team. No member of the board of regents can abide an angry earful about …

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