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Penn State plans to host full-capacity crowds at all sporting events this fall, which means the football Whiteout at Beaver Stadium will be restored after going quiet in 2020. In addition, Penn State said that tailgating, team-arrival festivities and gameday traffic patterns will return to normal.

The culture of college football won the war and beat the doomsayers. Here’s to getting back to normal, tailgating, and crazy student sections in 2021.For those who don’t remember, we were told College Football Playoff games were never going to happen, let alone reach the conclusion safely without any deaths. But after months of fearmongering from sports media about how players would die if games were played, we can all exhale. We made it to the finish line. The war to save football is over. And, in this case, the culture of college football won and beat the doomsayers. January...

Rep. Ilhan Omar finds herself at the center of controversy about her personal tax returns. The Campaign Finance Board discovered she filed tax returns stating she was married to one man when, in fact, she was married to another. The revelation was a part of an investigation into allegations that Omar had misused campaign funds. Omar agreed to repay $3,500 and pay a $500 fine, but the controversy over her tax filings continues. When it comes to the issue of filing joint married tax returns with one man while legally married to another, the only statement the Minnesota congresswoman has...

Here's one highlight from the list: SMU likes to think of itself as the Duke of the Southwest. And it is, in that half the students are really good-looking people from the Northeast who didn’t get into Duke. But seriously, it’s an astonishingly good-looking student body, even if most of the dudes should be punched in the hair for Dave Matthews concert cuts they’ll be trimming the moment they waltz into their finance job.

Florida State quarterback Jameis Winston didn’t face prosecution in the wake of sexual assault accusations made in 2012. He also will not face any discipline from Florida State.

The CFB rankings are out and TCU is #3. Surprising. They jumped Florida State. Alabama remains #1, then Oregon followed by TCU and FSU.

Sporting a brace on his left knee, Mariota turned in his worst performance of the season in Oregon's loss to Stanford, its first of the year. He finished with negative rushing yards for the first time this season and could not get the Ducks on the scoreboard until the fourth quarter, when he threw two touchdowns. The comeback effort fell short after Oregon could not recover a second onside kick.

USC tops preseason football poll New York, NY (Sports Network) - The University of Southern California is the top team in the nation heading into the 2007 college football season, earning the distinction as the preseason No. 1 in the Associated Press college football poll. USC received 62 of a possible 65 first-place votes from a nationwide media panel and earned a total of 1,622 points to easily outdistance LSU for the top spot. The Trojans, also the top team in the coaches poll, are the AP preseason No. 1 for the sixth time. LSU garnered two first-place votes...

Over the next ten weeks before the start of the season, CFN will examine some of the great historical questions around college football from the best games, worst Heisman winners, all-time offensive and defensive teams, and more.

A group of nearly 200 soldiers from CFB Kingston, Ont., has started the journey to Afghanistan's Kandahar region. The troops are part of a team whose job is to provide ongoing support for the Afghan government and work on reconstruction projects. The full reconstruction team that will ultimately be based in Afghanistan, is made up of soldiers, Mounties, Foreign Affairs personnel and members of the Canadian International Development Agency. Members of the commando unit known as Joint Task Force 2 are reported to be providing protection for the team. In addition, soldiers from CFB Petawawa will be heading for Camp...