SN ranked Young at No. 11 and Stroud at No. 18. Too safe. Young finished with 4,872 yards and 47 TDs and won the Heisman Trophy while leading Alabama to an appearance in the College Football Playoff championship game. Stroud passed for 4,435 yards, 44 TDs and six interceptions and capped the season with a record-setting performance in the Rose Bowl. Young and Stroud are easy choices at the top, but this year’s list has a few surprises....

That starts with the top-10 matchup between Florida and Georgia, affectionately known as “The World’s Largest Outdoor Cocktail Party.” The No. 9 Gators and No. 7 Bulldogs will vie for SEC East supremacy — a loss for either team would effectively eliminate them from conference title and College Football Playoff contention. MORE: Watch college football live and on-demand with fuboTV (7-day free trial) In other action, No. 18 Iowa travels to Happy Valley to take on No....

The season closes out in style with four games involving a total of six ranked teams, including two games pitting top-25 teams on the same field. No. 25 Oregon and No. 10 Iowa State meet in the Fiesta Bowl in Glendale Arizona, before No. 5 Texas A&M hopes to show it deserved to be in the College Football Playoff when it face No. 13 North Carolina in the Orange Bowl....

Army-Navy will rightfully take centerstage in Philadelphia on Saturday as one of the greatest rivalries in all of college football; but it does not have championship or bowl eligibility at stake. Meanwhile, the FCS and Divisions II and III will play in their respective championship tournaments. The FCS will play its fourth and final quarterfinal game on Saturday between Holy Cross and South Dakota State (after playing the previous three the night before)....

But Thursday will mark the start of Week 1, with top-ranked Clemson opening its season as well as three other ranked teams. From then until Monday evening, college football will dominate the airwaves across the U.S. with ranked teams playing each day. The only clash of ranked teams will be on Saturday between No. 11 Oregon and No. 16 Auburn. MORE: Stream college football live and on-demand on fuboTV (7-day free trial)...

Week 11 features three such games on Saturday, starting with No. 8 Ohio State at No. 24 Michigan State, No. 18 Mississippi State at No. 1 Alabama and No. 2 Clemson at No. 17 Boston College. MORE: Sporting News’ Week 11 Power Rankings Sporting News has highlights, scores and updates for all those games, plus more. Here are SN’s highlights for Week 11 of college football: College football scores Check out the latest college football scores....

Zac earned 9.5 points with his pick of Missouri, since Florida was favored by 9.5 points. Every week, each expert picks three games and can earn points if their underdog comes through. Our hit rate of 35 percent would likely win you money betting on the moneyline at FanDuel.com. MORE: Week 13 picks | Bowl projections Rivalry week tends to lend itself to upsets as added emotion can lead to wacky results (the “throw out the records” thing)....

Cal and Hawai’i kick off the college football season Friday, August 26 in Sydney, Australia. Six days later, the other 126 teams open their seasons with a Labor Day weekend college football marathon, spanning from Thursday, September 1 to Monday, September 5. It’s time to start planning your TV viewing schedule for the first week of college football. PREDICTIONS: SEC | Big Ten | Big 12 | ACC | Pac 12...

College football fans always will. That was the year Appalachian State opened the season with a shocking upset against Michigan, and the roller coaster didn’t stop until two-loss LSU won the national championship. Does it feel like 2007 yet? After all, ESPN’s “College GameDay” will go to Lawrence, Kan., in Week 6 for a matchup between unbeaten Kansas and TCU instead of the Red River Rivalry or the grudge match between No....

Michigan takes on No. 7 Wisconsin next Saturday at 7 p.m. at the Crisler Center. It will be Wolverines’ second time hosting the GameDay crew, who last came to town for Michigan’s game against Ohio State in February 2012. MORE: Midseason All-Americans | Best hoops states | College GameDay Week 1 The Wolverines are 10-7 on the season, but 3-2 in Big Ten play with losses to Purdue and Ohio State....

Paul A. Steber, a 19-year-old freshman from Boston, Massachusetts, was apprehended by police after campus authorities found firearms and ammunition in his dorm room, the High Point Police Department said in a statement released on Wednesday. Campus officials said one of Steber’s fellow classmates alerted them to the student’s firearms. “Arriving officers responded to the dorm room, observed and seized the firearms and took the student, identified as Paul A....

The College World Series features the eight teams to emerge from the Super Regional round of the NCAA Baseball Tournament. MORE: The greatest MLB Draft No. 1 picks ever Here’s how to watch every game (all times Eastern): College World Series 2016 TV schedule Saturday, June 25 Game 13: Oklahoma State (43-21) vs. Arizona (47-22), 3 p.m. ET | ESPN2 Game 14: TCU (49-17) vs. Coastal Carolina (52-17), 8 p....

JC Cloney has the Arizona Wildcats one win away from a national championship. MORE: SN picks top 50 baseball players | Who missed the cut Cloney tossed a complete-game shutout Monday to lead the Wildcats to a 3-0 victory over Coastal Carolina in Game 1 of the College World Series finals at TD Ameritrade Park in Omaha, Neb. The Chanticleers led the nation with 94 home runs this year and had only been shut out once....

The Cameron Peak blaze has destroyed 425 structures, including 209 homes, according to the director of emergency management for Larimer County, Lori Hodges. The other 216 structures were outbuildings. Grand County Sheriff Brett Schroetlin confirmed “about 100 or so” destroyed homes were identified on Tuesday by the damage assessment team. “We’re finding more every direction we turn around.” That same day, the National Interagency Fire Center said Colorado was its “top priority” due to its six large fires and more than 447,000 burned acres....

Richard Marriott, from Evergreen, Colorado, was attacked by the animal while he was out looking for places to hunt elk around the Big Horn Park in Kremmling on the evening of August 10. Marriott was able to defend himself with his pocketknife by stabbing the animal in the face as it came towards him. Speaking to Sky-Hi News, Marriott said the male lion only left him with a minor cut to one of his legs after he swiped at him....

“A winter storm moving through the Four Corners region will strengthen overnight into Wednesday as it moves across the Plains,” the National Weather Service tweeted early on Tuesday. “Heavy snow is likely over parts of northeastern Colorado through Nebraska. Freezing rain is possible over parts of Kansas, Nebraska, and Iowa.” The winter storm is set to develop over eastern Colorado on Tuesday evening and track into the Great Lakes by Thursday with a mixture of heavy snow, sleet and freezing rain, the NWS said....

Before the Surgery Before your day of surgery, there will be blood tests, imaging scans, and possibly procedures to confirm your diagnosis, give your surgeon information about your condition, and determine if you are ready for surgery. On the day of surgery, however, there is not much left to be tested. When you arrive for surgery, you can expect just a few basic health measurements before surgery begins. These include:...

For rooms with dark walls, layer textured gold accents to add contrast and depth to a space. Elevate a living room with a metallic fireplace screen or gold leaf divider. For a sophisticated space, experiment with gold accents–gilded frames, light fixtures, or floor mirrors. Most golds have a warm undertone, so look for grays that have a yellow, brown, or red tint to them. [4] X Research source To elevate your bedroom or bathroom, replace the hardware on wooden cabinets with gold knobs....

Images taken on Zhengxin Huanghe Bridge, a major crossing connecting the cities of Zhengzhou and Xinxiang in Henan province, showed cars and trucks stopped sideways on the multilane road, which was closed to traffic for several hours. In social media footage circulating on Weibo, Twitter and elsewhere, drivers and passengers were seen standing on top of cars to survey the wreckage after dozens of vehicles had rear-ended one another due to low visibility....