This a showdown of Pac-12 powers and will have a huge impact on who will play No. 7 Oregon in the Pac-12 championship. Utah is 7-1 overall and 4-1 in conference play and tied with USC (5-3 overall, 4-1 in conference), but USC holds the tie-breaker over Utah because of a 30-23 win over the Utes earlier this season. Utah needs help to move ahead of the Trojans. The Utes do not have to wait long for that help to arrive, as USC hosts No....

The Crimson Tide’s hopes of keeping its playoff bid alive came to an end as Joseph Bulovas’ 30-yard field goal hit the upright, condemning Alabama to a 48-45 road loss to Auburn in the Iron Bowl. Alabama dropped to 10-2 after the loss and were the big loser in the latest Associated Press Top 25 poll, falling from No. 5 to No. 9. Baylor, Utah and Oklahoma, meanwhile, went the opposite way....

The Badgers and the Hawkeyes debuted at No.13 and No.18 respectively in the first College Football Playoff ranking of the season and both sit at 6-2, two games behind Minnesota in the Big Ten West. With the 17th-ranked Golden Gophers hosting No.4 Penn State at 12 p.m. ET, Wisconsin and Iowa could have the chance of closing the gap from the divisional leaders to one game by the time they take the field in Madison, Wisconsin, four hours later....

The Nittany Lions arrive into the weekend as the No. 7 ranked team in the nation after moving up three spots in the Associated Press Top 25 poll on the back of a 17-12 road win over Iowa, who saw the Hawkeyes slip from 17th to 24th. Penn State improved to 6-0 with the win over Iowa last weekend as is firmly knocking on the door of the College Football Playoff, while Michigan moved to 5-1 after beating Illinois on the road 46-25....

Baylor and North Carolina are in. Texas and Virginia are out (for now). The undefeated Bears join the New Year’s Day 6 after another victory against Texas Tech, and right now the Tar Heels are our best guess to win the ACC Coastal and slip into the Orange Bowl. Our playoff picks of Alabama, Clemson, Ohio State and Oklahoma remain intact. MORE: Week 8 Playoff picture The 2019 college postseason schedule features 40 bowl games between FBS teams, with the finale at the national title game on Jan....

No. 13 Wisconsin travels to No. 3 Ohio State (Noon ET, FOX) in a pivotal Big Ten matchup. No. 9 Auburn visits No. 2 LSU (3:30 p.m. ET, CBS) in the next-big top-10 showdown, and prime time features the classic rivalry between No. 8 Notre Dame and No. 19 Michigan (7:30 p.m. ET, ABC). That makes for some tough Week 9 picks against the spread. MORE: Get the latest college football odds at Sportsbook Review...

Sanders stood atop the latest Chegg/College Pulse weekly poll of Democrat and Democrat-leaning U.S. college students with 30 percent of support. He was followed by Massachusetts Senator Elizabeth Warren with 26 percent, and Andrew Yang, who at 10 percent had the most consistent week-over-week increases in backing. Trailing back in single digits was Biden, who has seen his support among liberal college students fall dramatically from 23 percent in March to just nine percent this week....

The Arizona Wildcats continue to ride their pitching. After allowing just two total runs in their first two games at the College World Series, the Wildcats stayed alive Wednesday with a 3-0 victory over UC Santa Barbara at TD Ameritrade Park in Omaha, Neb. MORE: Each team’s most painful draft regret The two runs allowed over three games is the fewest in the aluminum bat era, which began in 1974....

For those who received vaccines in their home countries that are not approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration or the World Health Organization, most universities will require another jab. Among the vaccines in this category are those produced in China, Cuba, India, Kazakhstan and Russia. “We are headed into a very chaotic phase,” Alicia Ely Yamin, senior fellow at Harvard Law School’s Petrie-Flom Center for Health Law Policy, Biotechnology and Bioethics, told Zenger....

However, after operations were halted due to a ransomware attack, officials from the company said there is no fuel shortage. Colonial said it is in the process of restarting some of its network. While the main pipeline remains offline, some smaller lines are operational, the company said Sunday. There is no word yet when the company will completely restart the pipeline. “The time of the outage is now approaching critical levels and if it continues to remain down we do expect an increase in East Coast gasoline and diesel prices,” IHS Markit Executive Director Debnil Chowdhury told the Associated Press....

The Pueblo County Sheriff’s Office identified the student as 24-year-old Robert James Killis. The sheriff’s office said that Killis attended Colorado State University Pueblo. “The Pueblo County Sheriff’s Office is the law enforcement agency responsible for the CSU Pueblo campus,” the sheriff’s office said in a press release on Wednesday. Deputies were recently notified that Killis allegedly made “threatening and concerning statements” toward staff and students at CSU Pueblo....

Dr. Eric France, Colorado’s chief medical officer, announced the state was reactivating Crisis Standards of Care for Emergency Medical Services amid a rapid surge in COVID-19 cases. “There has been a rapid increase in COVID-19 cases, largely due to the highly contagious Omicron variant,” France wrote in his order. “Furthermore, these shortages of professional staffing, combined with the case surge, necessitate efforts to respond to and mitigate the effects of the pandemic, prevent further spread, preserve our health care and emergency medical services resources, as well as provide the needed flexibility to address the consequences of the pandemic....

From photos with dogs to cute selfies, if you’re a serial dater you’ve probably seen it all (and learned how important the pineapple on pizza debate really is.) In a bid to make himself stand out from the crowd, one Colorado man went to incredible lengths to prove why he’d make the perfect date. Another singleton spotted his profile on popular site Tinder, and was so taken with his efforts to market himself they shared it on Reddit, with the full post available to be seen here....

Indianapolis announced Tuesday it signed Freeman and Lindley. Andrew Luck hasn’t played since Week 9, Charlie Whitehurst was placed on injured reserve and 40-year-old Matt Hasselbeck has been beaten to a pulp. MORE: Colts’ worst football moment, remembered | IYER: Colts should have shut down Luck It’s too early to tell whether Morris or Freeman will be the Colts’ starter. Morris has been with the team longer but has never played in an NFL regular-season game....

A source told Sporting News that Chuck Pagano will be returning for the 2017 season after receiving assurance from Irsay that his job is safe. MORE: Ranking the NFL head-coaching openings Pagano’s status was in question because the Colts finished without a playoff appearance. Pagano is 49-31 since becoming Indianapolis head coach in 2012, but the Colts have finished 8-8 the past two seasons. The Colts finished eighth in the NFL with 411 points (25....

The Colts owner on Tuesday said he hopes to sign Luck to a contract extension worth roughly “nine figures” during the offseason. “Obviously being this early, there’s no reason to think that we would have had major negotiations yet, but that’s going to be happening as this month gets later and March comes in and all that sort of thing,” Irsay said, via ESPN.com. “I think there’s a good chance we’ll get something done....

A coma is not the same as sleep. In a coma, the brain doesn’t go through normal sleep cycles. Someone who is sleeping may move if they’re uncomfortable, but a person in a coma will not. In this article, you’ll learn what causes comas, what it takes to recover from a coma, and what some similar states of unconsciousness are. What Causes a Coma? Many types of illnesses and injuries can damage your brain cells and put you in a coma, including:...

The France winger has been out of action since damaging his left knee and ankle on international duty, having last featured for Bayern in their 1-1 draw with Hoffenheim on November 5. ‘Replacing Robbery a big task’ Coman resumed regular training during the mid-season break and is now ready to make his return to the first-team fold. Vidal, meanwhile, suffered a rib injury during last week’s Telekom Cup, but is expected to be fit enough to feature versus Freiburg....

Tournament organizers announced the 17-time Grand Slam champion departed ahead of Friday’s second-round match against Juan Martin del Potro. MORE: Loss at Aussie | Angry response | Federer’s U.S. Open championships Federer, 34, had been due to make his return in Miami after knee surgery. He revealed this week that he tore a meniscus shortly after the Australian Open while preparing a bath for his twin daughters. The world’s third-ranked player, Federer was winner of the Miami tournament in 2005 and 2006....