AP Sports - College Football

From Knoxville, Tennessee, to Tallahassee, Florida, with stops in Blacksburg, Virginia, and Atlanta along the way

Joe West is set to break the record for most games as a major league umpire with No. 5,376 when he works the Cardinals-White Sox matchup in Chicago

A committee is proposing that the University of Michigan remove Fielding Yost’s name from the campus ice arena

South Carolina is opening to full capacity at Williams-Brice Stadium next football season

Stanford coach David Shaw says if he were king of college football it would take him about 30 minutes to fix the playoff

ESPN’s opening weekend of college football features defending national champion Alabama facing Miami in Atlanta and Clemson vs

Jordan Staal scored twice and Nino Niederreiter beat Juuse Saros for the go-ahead goal early in the third period, helping the Carolina Hurricanes to a 5-2 win over the Nashville Predators in the first game of the teams' first-round playoff series

Eric Schmid's third TD pass was a 10-yarder to Ife Adeyi with 16 seconds left as Sam Houston wrapped the longest and most unusual college football season with its first FCS national title

The Pac-12 hired sports entertainment executive George Kliavkoff to be the conference’s next commissioner, replacing Larry Scott with another college sports outsider

The Pac-12 hired sports entertainment executive George Kliavkoff to be the conference’s next commissioner, replacing Larry Scott with a person with a similar resume short on college sports experience