College Football

Scandals aside, college students who play football and basketball don't get paid. They receive scholarships. That's all the compensation they get until they turn pro. But the issue of whether college athletes should be paid legally is always a hot debate. So Drexel University did a study to find a player’s fair-market value. Read the results on the next page.

While many of this weekend’s games were just tune-ups for showdowns to come, there were several great battles to keep things exciting, including Michigan’s last-second win over Notre Dame, South Carolina’s shootout victory over Georgia and Auburn stuffing Mississippi State at the goal line to win their 17th straight game. With that, here are the highlights from the top 25 and other games of intere

As you might expect this time of year, there are not a lot of marquee games and only one matchup between top 25 teams (#3 Alabama vs. #23 Penn State). But there are still a lot of intriguing matchups that will start to tell us who are contenders and who are pretenders...

The college football season is underway. Week one was mostly a humdrum affair, with Notre Dame and TCU suffering the biggest upsets among ranked teams. Here’s a complete look at how the top 25 did: #1 Oklahoma 47, Tulsa 14 Junior walk-on RB Dominique Whaley rushed for 131 yards and four touchdowns in the top-ranked Sooners’ season opener...