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Heisman Trophy winner Robert Griffin III has decided to enter the NFL draft. The exciting dual-threat quarterback is bypassing his senior season at Baylor and is projected to be one of the top picks in April. The news came Tuesday, exactly a month after Griffin became the first Baylor player to win college football’s highest individual honor. ESPN, citing an anonymous family source, first reported that Griffin was going pro and in the final stages of picking an agent. A person familiar with the decision told The Associated Press that Griffin opted to declare for the draft. The person spoke [...]

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NEW ORLEANS – Jarrett Lee will go down in LSU annals as going 9-0 as a starter in his senior year and, perhaps more remarkably, never complaining publicly about the way he was marginalized after the starting job was returned to Jordan Jefferson. “It’s just been a crazy ride but I don’t regret it at all,” Lee said after not playing a snap in LSU’s 21-0 loss to Alabama in Monday night’s BCS title game. “It’s made me a better player, a better person. So I really enjoyed it. … It’s been special. I met some special people here.” Through [...]

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2012: A look ahead Posted by John Taylor on January 10, 2012, 3:28 AM EST Each of the past two years, before the last piece of title-game confetti had fluttered to the ground and while the corpse of the previous season was still somewhat warm, we dusted off the trusty crystal ball and flung a few predictions up against the next season’s wall with the hope that something, anything, would stick. Hilarity ensued when we asked things like “Can Texas Two-Step Back to Its Rightful Place?” – eight wins coming off a five-win season says no – and picked Virginia [...]

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NEW ORLEANS – The Bowl Championship Series as college football fans have come to know it is going away. Over the next six months, the people who oversee the much-maligned postseason format will talk about how to reconstruct the system for crowning a national champion. In the tumultuous 14-year history of the BCS, the appetite for change among college football’s leaders has never been stronger. “It’s my impression that … there will be meaningful discussion about possible changes to the BCS,” Southeastern Conference Commissioner Mike Slive said last week as SEC rivals LSU and Alabama prepared to play in the [...]

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MOBILE, Ala. – Martel Moore caught eight passes for 224 yards and a touchdown, and Northern Illinois rallied for a 38-20 victory over Arkansas State in the GoDaddy.com Bowl on Sunday night. The Huskies trailed 13-0 late in the first quarter, but the Mid-American Conference champions scored 31 unanswered points on the way to their ninth straight victory. It was the third time this season Northern Illinois (11-3) rallied from a double-digit deficit to win. Arkansas State (10-3) had its nine-game winning streak broken. The Sun Belt champions couldn’t overcome five turnovers- including three interceptions thrown by Ryan Aplin. NIU’s [...]

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UCF corner Josh Robinson answers the NFL call Posted by John Taylor on January 8, 2012, 4:07 PM EST The silence on a relatively quiet day on the declaration front has officially been broken. In a press release, UCF announced that junior cornerback Josh Robinson has decided to leave a year of eligibility on the table and make himself available for the April NFL draft. “I’ve been in discussions with the Robinson family over the holidays, and after I met with them Saturday regarding the pros and cons of entering the draft as well as staying in school, the family [...]

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EUGENE, Ore. – Oregon running back LaMichael James is skipping his senior year and declaring himself eligible for the NFL draft. James, a Heisman Trophy finalist in 2010, said Friday he has not hired an agent. “I feel like I’m leaving with a bang,” said James, less than a week after he helped the Ducks to a victory over Wisconsin in the Rose Bowl. A 5-foot-9, 195-pound All-American, James rushed for a school-record 1,805 yards this season despite missing two games with a dislocated right elbow. He led the nation with an average of 150.4 yards rushing per game. James [...]

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Report: WVU trying to cut Florida State game Posted by Ben Kercheval on January 6, 2012, 2:54 PM EST The primary story of West Virginia’s 70-33 spanking of ACC champ Clemson in the Orange Bowl the other night, besides all the broken records, was the momentum the Mountaineers would ride into the Big 12 conference provided everything worked out from a legal standpoint with the Big East. Well, that’s an ongoing dilemma, and as much as WVU would love to have you believe the school will be in their new conference starting July 1, the truth is that negotiations between [...]

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