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The Associated Press has released its preseason college football poll and Oklahoma is their top choice. It's the tenth time the Sooners have been rated preseason #1 by the AP, the most of any school. But that might not be a good thing...

The Ohio St. Buckeye football program now has a winless football season on their resume. Well, technically, anyway.

USC gets stripped of its BCS title, while the latest BCS champion is being investigated.  Tennessee appears before the NCAA Committee on Infractions.  Bill Stewart has to resign at West Virginia.  Ditto Jim Tressel at Ohio State.  The Fiesta B...

After already being suspended for the first five games of the 2011 season, Ohio State quarterback Terrelle Pryor announced today he will not return for his senior season. In a statement through his attorney, the scandal-ridden quarterback said the decision was in the best interest of his teammates...

In any given year, a Division I school can give out as many as 25 football scholarships. Yet, for many years, schools "oversigned," meaning they would sign more than 25, knowing that some of them wouldn't qualify academically.  Even if they all qualified, a school could talk a prospective student-athlete into delaying his enrollment until January, a process known as greyshirting. ... Rea

Jim Tressel, whose Ohio State football teams have won six consecutive Big 10 titles, has resigned as fallout continues from his failure to be truthful with the NCAA about improper benefits to players. Tressel, who had already been suspended for the first five games of the season, was 106-22 in his career with the Buckeyes...

The NCAA has sent a "notice of allegations" to Ohio State University and has spefically named head coach Jim Tressel as having committed "potentially major violations." Tressel has already been suspended for the first five games of the 2011 season after admitting that he knew of improper benefits to five players for several months before the payments came to light.

The NCAA has approved several rules changes for college football for the 2011 season. The changes include adopting the "ten second runoff" in the final minute of each half, similar to what the NFL does.  Also included is a clarification of the intentional grounding rule and, as announced a year ago, celebrations which come before a touchdown is scored will now take points off the board.

HBO's "Real Sports with Bryant Gumbel" reports four former Auburn players received cash from various schools trying to entice them to make their college choice. The report, airing Wednesday night, says the players claimed they received thousands of dollars in cash from boosters ov various schools, including LSU...

College football has several rule changes proposed for the 2011 season. The new rules may give the college game more of an NFL vibe.

Auburn is first in the BCS, but the human voters like Oregon most. Check out the latest AP and USA Today top 25 poll here.