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Forty names, games, teams and minutiae making news in college football : Throwback football -- or, no throwback football A Dash retro cheer -- Rah, rah, rah! Fight, fight, fight! -- for Ball State and Navy , both of which went pre-Dorais-to-Rockne to win Saturday.

Starstruck Bronco Mendenhall is obviously a good coach. It's just that sometimes you wonder if he's all the way, you know, humanoid.

Each Sunday, our bloggers review what happened over the past weekend. What did they learn in Week 6? ACC Wake Forest is the team to beat in the Atlantic Division.

USC and Cal enter Saturday's games as flawed products. The fact that neither UCLA nor Stanford is ranked can be attributed to the usual: voters not paying attention.

Will Jacory Harris and Miami go to 3-0 by beating Virginia Tech? Let's hear your picks, too.

One weekend, rookie cornerback Derek Cox finishes his first defensive series in the NFL by intercepting the Indianapolis Colts' Peyton Manning in the end zone - and then halts the second series by recovering a fumble.

The voices inside University of Louisville coach Steve Kragthorpe's headset bombard his mind with every facet of information he'll need to call the next play.

The Cardinals returned to practice Monday, will have Tuesday off, and then resume their preparation for the 49ers Wednesday.

College football is a game of trends and tendencies. For example, Oklahoma rarely loses on its home field.

The Cardinals distributed the press release for Thursday's game against the Steelers.

The Cardinals distributed the press release for Thursday's game against the Steelers.

The Broncos start training camp today, and, sure, you could go watch. But unless you sneak into the locker room and hide behind Brandon Marshall's ego, going to camp won't give you even a hint of what life is really like for the Broncos.

A while back, I posted some work relating to the principles of kicking that were laid out in Stephan Fatsis' book ' A Few Seconds of Panic '. In it, Fatsis describes the process of learning to kick, and of extending the 'life' of the kicking leg.

It has become more apparent in the past few years that teams from outside the glamour conferences can in fact become gatecrashers to the BCS party and do some damage when they get there.

Although the Denver Broncos are keen on competition, they've invited in no one to challenge kicker Matt Prater , who faded down the stretch last year and went into the offseason wondering about his job security.

Mike Rice offers up a transcript of an interview he had with Knowshon Moreno. This has nothing to do with how good of a choice he was or what type of back he'll turn into, but you can't read/listen to this kid and not be impressed.

Cowboys special teams coach Joe DeCamillis broke his back and 11 more were injured when winds just shy of tornado strength ripped through the roof of the team's indoor practice facility in Irving, Texas, during a rookie minicamp Saturday.

One of the most consistent secondary players in school history, safety Darcel McBath will take his talents to the next level as the Denver Broncos made him their second-round selection in the 2009 NFL Draft on Saturday.