
TCU coach Gary Patterson isn't worried about it. Neither are seniors Evan Frosch and Bart Johnson.

Dayne Crist is directing an offense he wasn't recruited to run, playing for a coach who didn't bring him to Notre Dame and adjusting to life as the center of attention for a 4-4 football team.

Paul the Octopus, the tentacled tipster who fascinated football fans by correctly predicting results at this year's World Cup, died Tuesday.
Rex Ryan and his coaching staff huddled up before the bye-week break and drew up a game plan for an imposing opponent: the New York Jets.

Doug Marrone's Syracuse Orange defeated a Top 25 team on the road in one of the most difficult venues in the nation, and one of his players was named national defensive player of the week.

Bill Belichick has seen a lot in his 36 NFL seasons. But a league executive praising a player who simply observed the rules?
Several groups are working with the NCAA to find new ways to enforce rules prohibiting improper agent-related benefits for student-athletes, including possible post-NCAA financial penalties that reach into a player's potential NFL career.
Darrelle Revis is ready to shut down receivers _ and questions about his balky left hamstring.

Running back Fred Jackson couldn't find much consolation in how the Buffalo Bills nearly won their first game of the season. Ryan Fitzpatrick didn't feel any better when informed his quarterback rating is second in the NFL to Peyton Manning.