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Dozens of fans arrived at the Superdome for the BCS title game between No. 1 LSU and No. 2 Alabama to find their seats were taken for auxiliary press seating Monday night. The top two rows of the upper deck were turned into an overflow area for the NEW ORLEANS — The Alabama defense took [...]

The final 2012 college football rankings are coming out, and there is plenty of intrigue over how many first-place votes the LSU Tigers will receive in the poll. The final ESPN/USA Today Coaches Poll, on the other hand, must put the Alabama Crimson This season has been devastating for those of us who believe that [...]

The Hurry Up runs weekdays at SBNation.com's college football news hub. Games Ahhhh yes, the SOPA GoDaddy Bowl, which provided the world with one last taste of MACtion before the college football Kansas State quarterback Collin Klein (7) throws under pressure from Arkansas Alonzo Highsmith (45) and Chris Smith (42) during second half of the [...]

It will be college football at its best. (It may even include some touchdowns!) Oklahoma State and a potential one-loss LSU team would certainly have high-quality resumes, but let's stop trying to sully the championship just for sport before we even LSU Tigers football have found a gem in Tyrann Mathieu because he's proven to [...]

1 team in the BCS standings after the regular season against the No. 4 team in a bowl game, and No. 2 against No. 3 in another, creating two national semifinals. The winners would play in a championship game the following week. By Ted Lewis, The Times-Picayune Oklahoma State Coach Mike Gundy admits to being [...]

Cincinnati Bengals at Houston Texans, 4:30 p.m., NBC: The Bengals are going to be a dangerous playoff team. They have a good offensive and defensive line and no major weaknesses. I like them a lot. The Texans have lost Rookie Matt Bosher averaged 42.7 yards per punt on 70 attempts in his NFL debut. The [...]

Oliver and his youngest daughter, Emily, traveled here Tuesday for the Orange Bowl. No. 23 WVU (9-3) played No. 14 Clemson (10-3) in a nationally televised Orange Bowl in Luck's second season in charge of the athletic department, and Dana Holgorsen's West Virginia defensive back Brodrick Jenkins, left, defends former South Fort Myers High teammate, [...]

Points figure to be aplenty when 23rd-ranked West Virginia takes on 14th-ranked Clemson in the 2012 Discover Orange Bowl at Sun Life Stadium tonight in Miami Gardens, Fla. And judging from the scores of many of the bowl “Yeah, that's exactly how we draw it up, right?” — Dana Holgorsen, 1/5/2012. MIAMI, Fla. — The [...]

by Michael Dailey CHARLESTON, W.Va. — The West Virginia State men's basketball team was one of the few West Virginia Conference units that didn't move up its Wednesday night game to accommodate West Virginia University in the Orange Bowl. Layout starts Area starts: top Module starts: top-hdr (AdApt) advertisement | your ad here Module west [...]

Clemson. West Virginia. Yet another undercard Orange Bowl. By Andrea Adelson MIAMI — West Virginia blew open the Discover Orange Bowl against Clemson with a huge second quarter and leads 49-20 at halftime. Here is a quick first-half analysis. Turning point: Easy. Clemson running back Andre Ellington was going by Spencer Hall • Jan 5, [...]