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On Thanksgiving afternoon, as LSU and Texas A&M prepared to play a turkey of a football game in College Station, a report surfaced on the internet that Houston’s Tom Herman was close to being named the head coach of the Tigers. The story spread like a swamp fire, prompting LSU athletic director Joe Alleva to issue a statement in the middle of his team’s Thursday night game, calling the report “unsubstantiated rumors.”

Ivan MaiselNovember 26, 2016 TUSCALOOSA, Ala. -- On the same Saturday that Ohio State and Michigan played perhaps the most heart-stopping of their 113 games, No. 1 Alabama closed out the only undefeated regular season among the Power 5 conferences with all the drama we've come to expect from the Crimson Tide this season. That is to say, none. Alabama is powerful. Alabama is dominant. Alabama is much better than its archrival, a game but beat-up No. 13 Auburn, and the 30-12 final score failed to reflect the one-sided nature of the 81st Iron Bowl. Top-ranked Alabama completed its first...

This is it. The day is here. And by the end of it we will know the identity of the 104th Grey Cup champion: The Calgary Stampeders or the Ottawa Redblacks.

Notre Dame coach Brian Kelly has reached out through representatives to explore coaching options outside Notre Dame, sources told Yahoo Sports. Kelly just completed his seventh season as coach of the Fighting Irish, a 4-8 debacle that was the school’s second-worst record of the last 52 years. The disappointment was compounded by news Tuesday that the NCAA is vacating 21 Notre Dame victories in the 2012-13 and 2013-14 seasons for academic misconduct involving eight players.

Game lived up to the hype. Some thoughts: Michigan gave up 14 points on turnovers.Michigan's defense ran out of gas in the 4th quarter.THE Ohio State University might actually prefer Penn State to beat Michigan State. Penn State will play in the Big 10 = 14 Conference game instead of THE Ohio State University. In this case, THE Ohio State University has punched their ticket the playoff.Hated THE Ohio State University wearing the all black helmets.

Ed Orgeron, who led the Tigers to a 5-2 mark as interim coach over the past two months, has been named LSU's head football coach, vice chancellor and director of athletics Joe Alleva announced on Saturday.

Texas will fire head coach Charlie Strong on Saturday morning, SI's Pete Thamel has confirmed. Chip Brown of Scout.com first reported the news. Texas men's athletic director Mike Perrin issued a statement last Sunday, saying that the school will "evaluate the body of work after the regular season," after Thamel confirmed that the school had made the decision to fire Strong.

The new face of America’s Team is a biracial, tatted-up, whip-smart, unflappable 23-year-old, who in about the time it takes to open the roof at AT&T Stadium went from being a let’s-see-what-the-unheralded-rook-can-do emergency starter to The Man on the NFL’s hottest club. Prescott’s stunning rise (remember, dude was a fourth-round pick whom the Cowboys backed into) has been the talk of the league – and the conversation hasn’t been confined to his success on the field. To even the non-woke, it’s obvious that the Cowboys are in a new place. That means the rest of the NFL is, too.

Jimmie Kaylor November 24, 2016Who Vegas Is Now Picking to Win the 2016 College Football National Title After close to three months full of shocking upsets, legendary individual performances, and games we won’t forget, we finally reached the point in the 2016 college football season where we can accurately separate the national title contenders from the pretenders. Needless to say, quite a bit has changed since the first month of the season. Teams like Florida State, Houston, Stanford, and Louisville — all thought to be among the top national championship contenders in the country — have proven to be pretenders....

LSU has zeroed in on Houston's Tom Herman as its next head coach and could have a deal in place as early as Saturday, sources told ESPN.com's Chris Low on Thursday night. Florida State's Jimbo Fisher was also near the top of LSU's wish list, but Fisher opted to stay put before talks with LSU ever got too far down the road. He's told some close to him that he thinks he could have some of his most talented teams at FSU over the next two years.

NFL Live Thread Week 12 Thursday, Nov. 24 12:30 p.m. ET Vikings at Lions 4:30 p.m. ET Redskins at Cowboys 8:30 p.m. ET Steelers at Colts Sunday, Nov. 27 1 p.m. ET Titans at Bears 1 p.m. ET Jaguars at Bills 1 p.m. ET Bengals at Ravens 1 p.m. ET Cardinals at Falcons 1 p.m. ET Giants at Browns 1 p.m. ET Rams at Saints 1 p.m. ET 49ers at Dolphins 1 p.m. ET Chargers at Texans 4:05 p.m. ET Seahawks at Buccaneers 4:25 p.m. ET Panthers at Raiders 4:25 p.m. ET Patriots at Jets 8:30 p.m. ET Chiefs at...

Top 10: 1: 'Bama2: THE Ohio State University3: Michigan4: Clemson5: Washington6: Wisconsin7: Penn State8: Oklahoma9: Colorado10: Okie State

Notre Dame has been ordered to vacate wins from 2012 and 2013 after a student athletic trainer committed academic misconduct on behalf of multiple football players. The program will appeal the punishment. The NCAA announced its findings and the penalties on Tuesday. The trainer was found to be in violation of ethical conduct rules after committing misconduct by completing coursework for two student-athletes and providing impermissible academic benefits to six others. Another student athlete was found to have committed academic misconduct on his own.

58-0. 78-0. 49-0. 39-0. FCS schools against their bigger FBS brothers? Not quite. These are the poundings Rutgers has taken in Big Ten play this season against Ohio State, Michigan, Michigan State and now Penn State, respectively. The Scarlet Knights are now 0-8 in Big Ten play after the Penn State Nittany Lions came into Piscataway and seemingly scared all the Rutgers fans out of the misnamed High Point Solutions Stadium on Saturday.

Kansas ended its 19-game conference losing streak and likely sealed the fate of Texas coach Charlie Strong in the process. The Jayhawks shocked the Longhorns 24-21 in overtime to notch their first Big 12 victory since Nov. 8, 2014. Kansas kicker Matthew Wyman hit the game-tying 36-yard field goal with seven seconds remaining to force overtime. And after Texas quarterback Shane Buechele threw his third interception of the game to open the extra frame, Wyman drilled the game-winner from 25 yards to clinch KU’s first win over Texas since 1938. Yes, folks. 1938.

Houston Texans players are being advised by the team not to leave the hotel and not to order room service during their trip to Mexico City for Monday night’s game against the Oakland Raiders. The game is part of the NFL’s international series and the first NFL game in Mexico City since 2005. The Associated Press obtained a memo distributed to the team on Wednesday that included a page of information concerning the trip to Mexico, including those two rules.

Perhaps panic over the NFL’s evaporating television audience was premature. On the first post-election Sunday, the league’s ratings surged thanks to two marquee match ups. According to NBC, Seahawks-Patriots drew the network its biggest Week 10 Sunday Night Football audience in five years. Meanwhile in Fox’s late-afternoon window, the Cowboys’ 35-30 win over the Steelers was the NFL’s highest-rated individual game this year. However it’s indisputable that NFL viewership lagged over the season’s first half. Entering Week 9, industry experts peg total NFL consumption down about 14 percent. In a memo sent from the NFL office in early October, the...

Top 10: 1: 'Bama2: THE Ohio State University3: Michigan4: Clemson5: Louisville6: Washington7: Wisconsin8: Penn State9: Oklahoma10: Colorado

NFL Live Thread Week 11 Thursday, Nov. 17 8:25 p.m. ET Saints at Panthers Sunday, Nov. 20 1 p.m. ET Steelers at Browns 1 p.m. ET Ravens at Cowboys 1 p.m. ET Jaguars at Lions 1 p.m. ET Titans at Colts 1 p.m. ET Bills at Bengals 1 p.m. ET Buccaneers at Chiefs 1 p.m. ET Bears at Giants 1 p.m. ET Cardinals at Vikings 4:05 p.m. ET Dolphins at Rams 4:25 p.m. ET Patriots at 49ers 4:25 p.m. ET Eagles at Seahawks 8:30 p.m. ET Packers at Redskins Monday, Nov. 21 8:30 p.m. ET Texans at Raiders Bye week:...

Texans love high school football and pump exorbitant amounts of taxpayer dollars into funding NFL-style stadiums, but now one school boasts a brand new $1.35 million state-of-the-art jumbotron system, only it remains unclear how the district plans to pay for it.