NCAA Football Games

Kevin Jones scored 19 points and No. 8 West Virginia never trailed in dismantling Rutgers 86-52 on Wednesday night. West Virginia (12-1, 3-0 Big East) bounced back from a 15-point loss and its lowest point total of the season at Purdue with its second-highest output and perhaps most complete game. Da'Sean Butler and Darryl Bryant added 15 points apiece for West Virginia, which built a 17-point halftime lead and cruised from there. Rutgers (9-5, 0-2) was held to its lowest point total of the season and lost its third straight game. Jonathan Mitchell led the Scarlet Knights with 17 points. After turning the ball ... Read Full Story

Italee Lucas scored 23 of her 28 points in the first half to help No. 7 North Carolina beat No. 20 Georgia Tech 89-78 on Wednesday night. Cetera DeGraffenreid and She'la White added 13 points apiece for the Tar Heels (12-1, 1-0 Atlantic Coast Conference), who won their league opener for the 15th time in the last 16 seasons. Deja Foster, Sasha Goodlett and Alex Montgomery scored 15 points each to lead Georgia Tech (13-3, 0-1 ACC), which lost to North Carolina for the 14th time in the teams' last 15 meetings. Brigitte Ardossi added 12 points for the Yellow Jackets. The Tar Heels ... Read Full Story

Now we're getting somewhere. For nearly two decades, railing against the Bowl Championship Series was like tilting at windmills. The guys who hijacked college football's postseason in 1992 had no reason to budge. They had TV contracts, sponsors aplenty, college presidents, conference commissioners and chambers of commerce in a handful of cities in their pockets. They even had a quasi-secret formula to justify their decisions, backed by computers powerful enough to run NORAD. All we had was public opinion. "It's like communism," Texas congressman Joe Barton said about BCS not long ago. "It can't be fixed." Just about everyone, though, from President Barack Obama ... Read Full Story

Jonathan Dwyer took the handoff on Georgia Tech's first snap, wrapped the ball tightly and burst untouched through Iowa's defensive line with a clear path to the end zone. Flag. It was the first of many mistakes that turned Tuesday night's Orange Bowl into a ramblin' wreck for the Atlantic Coast Conference champions. An abysmal first half and a horrible decision by quarterback Josh Nesbitt midway through the final quarter cost No. 9 Georgia Tech, which lost to No. 10 Iowa 24-14 in a game that once had so much statistical domination by the Hawkeyes, it simply defied logic. Georgia Tech came in with ... Read Full Story

Ricky Stanzi threw for 157 yards and two touchdowns, and No. 10 Iowa's defense clamped down on No. 9 Georgia Tech as the Hawkeyes took a 14-7 lead over the Yellow Jackets after the first quarter of the Orange Bowl on Tuesday night. Playing for the first time since Nov. 7 after surgery on a badly sprained right ankle, Stanzi completed nine of 10 passes, though his lone mistake was a big one — an interception that Jerrard Tarrant ran back 40 yards for a touchdown with 24 seconds left in the period. Other than that, the first 15 minutes were all Iowa, even ... Read Full Story