USA TODAYPASADENA, Calif. — Most of the season, college football watched in amazement as Florida State’s Jameis Winston put together what looked like perhaps the greatest season a freshman quarterback ever had. What he needed,…
USA TODAYWhile former contestant Jesse Palmer was taking part in ESPN2’s “BCS Title Talk” program, ABC’s reality-show dynamo The Bachelor returned for its 18th season Monday night with another former athlete in the title role….
USA TODAYPASADENA, Calif. — The Bowl Championship Series is dead. And the Southeastern Conference’s stranglehold on college football’s national championship has been snuffed. Top-ranked Florida State of the Atlantic Coast Conference completed a perfect …BCS…
CNNStewart Mandel and Michael Rosenberg discuss Florida State’s 34-31 win over Auburn in the BCS title game. 1 Florida State. 34. 2 Auburn. 31. Final. PASADENA, Calif. — It looked eerily familiar. It was every…
USA TODAYPASADENA, Calif. – All week, the Auburn Tigers had whispered about the fourth quarter. If they could just get there with a chance, if they could just hang around and put the pressure on…
USA TODAYFlorida State was able to complete one of the most impressive seasons in recent college football history by defeating Auburn, 34-31, in the BCS National Championship Game. How did the Seminoles do it? By…
USA TODAYNEWPORT BEACH, Calif. — Maybe nobody has ever had more of a roller-coaster combination of controversy and greatness in a freshman season of college football than Florida State quarterback Jameis Winston, who on Dec….
USA TODAYIt all comes down to this. No. 1 Alabama and No. 2 Auburn will face off in the BCS title game at 8:30 p.m. ET. The game will be broadcast on ESPN. Follow along…
ESPNPASADENA, Calif. — The final game of the BCS era (or error, take your pick) isn’t about the legacy of a rusted, obsolete national title mechanism. [+] Enlarge Fisher/Malzahn. AP Photo/David J. Phillip It has…
CBSSports.comOur senior college football writers and bloggers pick their winners for Monday night’s BCS title game between Florida State and Auburn and explain the reasons behind their selections. Dennis Dodd. Florida State is confident, bordering…
USA TODAYNo. 1 Florida State faces No. 2 Auburn tonight in the 16th and final championship game of the Bowl Championship Series era. How the teams compare, unit-by-unit: Offensive line. Each of Florida State’s starting…
USA TODAYSure, Monday night’s Bowl Championship Series national title game is about the crystal football trophy, rings and the chance to say, “We’re No. 1.” But as with everything in major-college sports, it’s also about…
USA TODAYNEWPORT BEACH, Calif. — Their schools have been on this stage before, but they haven’t. Florida State played in the first three BCS championship games, and won one of them, when Bobby Bowden was…
Los Angeles TimesGus Malzahn coached high school football for 14 years before he became a college assistant in 2006. Eight years later, he has guided Auburn to Monday’s Bowl Championship Series title game against Florida…
Wall Street JournalNEWPORT BEACH, Calif.—Monday’s college-football national championship is a matchup between one team, Auburn, that survived this season with quadruple-bypass surgery and another team, Florida State, whose trip here was basically a long stroll…
Chicago TribuneBy Mark Lamport-Stokes LOS ANGELES, Jan 4 (Reuters) – One of the biggest questions looming ahead of Monday’s crunch BCS National Championship game is whether the second-ranked Auburn Tigers can deliver one more moment…
USA TODAYNEWPORT BEACH, Calif. — Because Florida State hasn’t been here in more than a decade, because its brand had been so diminished by the time Bobby Bowden finally stepped down and because Alabama was…
SportingNews.comAuburn RB Tre Mason has rushed for over 1,600 yards and scored 22 TDs for the Tigers this season. By: The Linemakers | More Experts Published: Jan 04, 2014. This year’s BCS National Championship will…
FOXSports.comHere are four things we gleaned from No. 12 Clemson’s 40-35 upset of No. 7 Ohio State on Friday, detailing one of the most epic Orange Bowls in history: 1. It’s weird to say, but…
ABC NewsJameis Winston whispered and giggled with teammate Kenny Shaw on the dais as two Florida State coaches answered questions, many about him. The Heisman Trophy winner and his star receiver looked at times like…
SportingNews.comDefending BCS champion Alabama ended its season with consecutive losses, falling to Oklahoma 45-31 in the Sugar Bowl on Thursday. Alabama entered the game as a 16.5-point favorite. Jalen Saunders (AP Photo). The Sooners scored…
Los Angeles TimesAuburn quarterback Nick Marshall is probably best known for heaving the last-minute pass that was tipped by a Georgia defensive back and resulted in a game-winning touchdown for the Tigers. But Marshall’s talents…
San Francisco ChronicleORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — UCF began the 2013 football season as an afterthought. The afterthought is now the new flavor of the month. With its 52-42 upset of sixth-ranked Baylor in the Fiesta…
ABC NewsA decade after a winless season, Central Florida earned its first trip to a BCS bowl. Once the Knights got there, they were given no chance at winning. Not against Baylor, the nation’s best…
ESPNGeorge O’Leary has brought No. 15 UCF to the Tostitos Fiesta Bowl, arriving at the BCS party just as the band is breaking down and the barkeep is cleaning up. But O’Leary’s career has been…
SportingNews.comThe former Heisman Trophy winner and two-time BCS national championship-winning quarterback will join the new SEC Network on ESPN, which launches in August. I am so excited that ESPN has given me this incredible opportunity….
Zac Brown to perform Winter Classic, Super Bowl showsUSA TODAYZac Brown gets into all the good games. The Grammy-winning country singer began the year singing the national anthem at the BCS college-football national championship in…
FOXSports.comCheck out FOX’s College Football Pick ‘Em Game. 2013-2014 COLLEGE FOOTBALL BOWL GAME SCHEDULE ***All times ET. Rankings shown are final BCS rankings. Thursday, Dec. 26. Little Caesars Pizza — Bowling Green (10-3) vs. Pitt…
The Birmingham News – al.com1 – In dominant fashion, Alabama wins 3rd BCS national title in 4 seasons. -043a899c29648334.jpg. Alabama head coach Nick Saban is dunked with Gatorade in the final seconds of the BCS…
USA TODAYTo recap the 2013 regular season, USA TODAY Sports is counting down some of the year’s memorable moments, significant stories, noteworthy trends, biggest surprises and biggest disappointments. Today, we look at the regular season’s…
CBSSports.comDerek Carr threw for just 4.0 yards per attempt. (USATSI) Derek Carr threw for just 4.0 yards per attempt against USC. (USATSI) After the BCS bowl-denying meltdown against San Jose State’s David Fales a few…
Philly.comMountain West champions Fresno State take on USC in an intriguing early bowl matchup in Las Vegas. The Bulldogs looked on track for a BCS-busting bid, starting the season 10-0 with wins against Boise State…
BusinessweekRussian steelmakers may be frustrated by an agreement between President Vladimir Putin and his Ukrainian counterpart Viktor Yanukovych to strengthen ties, according to BCS Financial Group and Deutsche Bank AG. “Domestic producers may face a…
The 2013 Heisman Trophy competitors are Jameis Winston of Florida State, Alabama’s AJ McCarren, Texas A&M’s Johnny Manziel, Jordon Lynch of Northern Illinois, Auburn’s Tre Mason, and Andre Williams of Boston College. While Tre Mason…
USA TODAYWith the BCS bowl matchups all set, there’s plenty of star power when it comes to the 10 teams’ quarterbacks. We take a look at the quarterback matchups in all five games and rank…
USA TODAYIn their pursuit of perfection, the Florida State Seminoles say the opponent really didn’t matter. According to coachspeak, the opponent is always faceless; the real battle is against a standard of excellence, and so…
USA TODAYWith Saturday night’s action of BCS influence in the books, a look at what matchups might be when the final Bowl Championship Series standings and pairings are set Sunday night. HIGHLIGHTS: How the top…
USA TODAYUSA TODAY Sports takes an early look ahead to the BCS bowl matchups. ROSE BOWL: Michigan State (12-1) vs. Stanford (11-2), Jan. 1, ESPN, 5 p.m.. No other BCS bowl pits two teams cut…
USA TODAYFlorida State and Auburn are the clear top two seeds in the final Football Four Playoff Projection, but the competition for the remaining spots could offer a glimpse of what we may see when…
USA TODAYATLANTA — From last to first. From winless in the Southeastern Conference to confetti-splashed champions. From dysfunction to destiny. The story of Auburn’s turnaround was too improbable to dream, too unbelievable to ever see…
