National Sports

National sports stories from The Associated Press.

No. 1 Ohio State-No. 4 Texas rekindle Big Ten-SEC supremacy debate

It's Big Ten vs. SEC Week. No. 1 Ohio State at No. 4 Texas has been a red-letter game on the college football calendar for months, a litmus test in the debate over conference supremacy and possibly a factor down the road in College Football Playoff seeding but definitely not a knockout ...

LSU cracks top 10; Wolverines, K-State fall out of AP Top 25

LSU jumped back into the top 10 in the first Associated Press Top 25 college football poll of the regular season on Tuesday, Oregon slipped out of the top five and Michigan fell out of the rankings altogether after it needed a second-chance Hail Mary try at home to beat Western Michigan. Ohio ...

Big 12 steps up in Week 2 with seven matchups against the Big Ten, SEC and ACC

LAWRENCE — Kansas coach Lance Leipold saw enough of Missouri playing on television the night before his Jayhawks opened their own season with a romp over lower-level Long Island University that he could confidently deliver an obvious message to his team afterward. "We know," Leipold said, ...

No. 6 Indiana takes one last championship victory lap before routing North Texas

BLOOMINGTON, Ind. (AP) — The Indiana Hoosiers took one last victory lap before Saturday's season opener against North Texas. And while coach Curt Cignetti kept his team in the locker room for the unveiling of football's version of a championship banner shortly before kickoff, the fans inside ...