Former Auburn tight end Landon Rice has been accused of first-degree rape in relation to an alleged incident that occurred in April.  According to Tom Green of AL.com, the accuser—an unidentified 19-year-old woman—filed for and was granted an order of protection against Rice on Sept. 15. Auburn head coach Gus Malzahn said on Sept. 11 that Rice had left the program for "personal reasons," per Matthew Stevens of the Montgomery Advertiser. Rice's attorney, Augusta Dowd, released a statement Tuesday insisting ...

Week 3 was the Big Ten's showcase week on the national stage, and it started off disastrously, as West Division contenders Iowa and Wisconsin struggled. The Hawkeyes fell to FCS foe North Dakota State 23-21, while the Badgers barely squeaked past a winless Georgia State team, needing a fourth-quarter rally to earn a 23-17 victory. But the conference made a lasting impression on Saturday evening, as Michigan beat a peskier-than-it-looks Colorado team, Nebraska bested Oregon in ...

Alabama reigns as the beast of college football, but that doesn't necessarily mean it's always a good bet. In fact, thanks mostly to some stiff spreads, the Crimson Tide are only 4-7 against the spread over their last 11 home games. Alabama will face a huge spread again when it hosts Kent State out of the MAC on Saturday afternoon in Tuscaloosa.      Point spread: The Crimson Tide opened as 41.5-point favorites, according to sportsbooks monitored ...

The Baylor Bears continue to run into a problem that can plague the best teams in college football: They're so often favored by so much, that even when they win, they can't cover the spread. Baylor is 7-3 straight up over its last 10 games, stretching back into last season, but only 2-8 against the spread. The Bears will give at least a touchdown on the spread when they host Oklahoma State in a big game ...

The Duke Blue Devils aren't exactly known as road warriors, but they are 13-4 straight up and 12-5 against the spread over their last 17 games away from home. Duke faces a stiff road test this week as it heads up to South Bend to take on the Fighting Irish of Notre Dame on Saturday afternoon.      Point spread: The Fighting Irish opened as 20-point favorites, according to sportsbooks monitored by Odds Shark (line updates and ...

The fourth week of the college football season will feature conference-defining matchups, including Florida's quest to top Tennessee for the 12th straight season, Michigan State's cross-division battle with Wisconsin and the "Hot Seat Bowl" between LSU and Auburn. Who will survive? Who will falter? Bleacher Report experts Adam Kramer, Barrett Sallee, Chris Walsh, Ben Axelrod, Greg Couch and Michael Felder pick the week's biggest games of the fourth Saturday of the season.Begin Slideshow

History says that no matter what Notre Dame does, it still gets all the votes, all the love, all the money. But paying too much attention to history has left the Irish where they are today. Notre Dame isn't even the top ND in college football: North Dakota State has more votes for a spot in the AP Top 25. This isn't really about which ND is better. All of Notre Dame's players are better than all ...

Regardless of which team you're a fan of, this is one of the best weeks of SEC football all season. Not only are there three matchups between ranked opponents, but the fourth-best game of the weekend is one that is frequently a great showdown between Auburn and LSU at Jordan-Hare Stadium. In other words, it's an ideal Saturday to channel surf between all the top-notch conference games. There's a huge SEC East game between two hated rivals, a ...

At some point in the past nine years, the black, unlabeled VHS tape that helped ignite a multibillion-dollar industry went missing. There are working theories as to its whereabouts. One is that it's at the bottom of a cardboard box in an attic like buried treasure, melting away in sweltering Texas summers. Another is that it was simply discarded and lost for good.     Either way, only a select few have ever seen it—the full, unedited ...

One of the only things in sports tougher than replacing a coaching legend is following in the footsteps of a star, and there are 12 college basketball teams that need to figure out how to replace last season's Player of the Year candidates. In choosing last year's biggest stars, we went straight to the granddaddy of the national POY trophies: the Wooden Award. On March 5, the Los Angeles Athletic Club announced the ballot of 15 ...