ECU Sets 2018 Baseball Banquet For February 10…Volleyball Adds JUCO All-American Page Hiebert For 2018 Season…Fleming bringing winning, vibrant personality…No. 25 Cincinnati, UCF, Memphis Defend Home Courts on Tuesday…Road leads Sonny Dykes home to Texas and SMU…SMU to start construction on indoor practice facility in 2018…Temple again looks forward to facing a No. 1 Villanova team…JMU’s chasing another FCS title … with a little help from some ex-FBS guys…Packers QB Aaron Rodgers updates his status for game vs. Panthers – on Instagram…Jay Gruden taking blame for Redskins’ woes. Sound familiar?

Pirate Press: East Carolina Headlines

ecupirates.com

• ECU Sets 2018 Baseball Banquet For February 10
• Volleyball Adds JUCO All-American Page Hiebert For 2018 Season

Greenville Daily Reflector

• Fleming bringing winning, vibrant personality
• Connelly to speak at baseball banquet

ECU Volleyball Signs JUCO All-America Page Hiebert For 2018 Season WITN 7

 

Around the American Athletic Conference

theamerican.org

• No. 25 Cincinnati, UCF, Memphis Defend Home Courts on Tuesday
• Cincinnati, Memphis & Wichita State take home first indoor track & field weekly honors

Dallas News

• New SMU coach Sonny Dykes gets nostalgic before focusing on two key matters of business at introduction
• SMU to start construction on indoor practice facility in 2018
• 5 things SMU fans should know about bowl opponent Louisiana Tech, including a warning to Ben Hicks
• 5 things Texas Tech fans should know about Birmingham Bowl foe South Florida, including familiar face

The Associated Press

• Road leads Sonny Dykes home to Texas and SMU
• Memphis holds off Albany for 67-58 win
• UCF wins 3rd straight, knocking off SE Louisiana 61-53
• No. 25 Cincinnati sends Mississippi State to 1st loss 65-50

Temple again looks forward to facing a No. 1 Villanova team Philly.com

Memphis holds off Albany, 67-58 Memphis Commercial Appeal

Cincinnati Enquirer

• Instant analysis: UC rolls past Mississippi State
• One month in, a glance at UC and other AAC teams

Orlando Sentinel

• Hallelujah! Scott Frost is back where he belongs — coaching his UCF Knights in the Peach Bowl
• Scott Frost leads UCF practice Tuesday, reaffirms plans to coach Peach Bowl

Tampa Bay Times

• Quinton Flowers’ top 10 plays at USF
• USF’s Marquez Valdes-Scantling to help homeless on Christmas

Jeff Jacobs: Would Edsall Leave Over Son’s Contract? Hartford Courant

 

Regional Headlines: The Carolinas and beyond

Norfolk Virginian Pilot

• JMU’s chasing another FCS title … with a little help from some ex-FBS guys
• JMU locks up football coach Mike Houston for 10 more years
• James Madison leads with 3 on AP FCS All-America team
• U.Va.’s Blanding, Kiser pick up more All-America honors

FCS playoffs: South Dakota State faces its biggest challenge yet in No. 1 James Madison Argus Leader

Deacons, Clawson relish the benefit a bowl berth provides while on recruiting trail Winston Salem Journal

Columbia The State

• Dabo Swinney to Nick Saban ‘Kind of a rebuilding year for us’
• The text from Swinney to Spurrier that had the HBC laughing
• Who made the best SEC coaching hire? Who made the worst?
• Jim Harbaugh has Michigan ‘mired in mediocrity,’ former receiver says

The Associated Press

• Pay for new Power Five football coaches
• College coaches’ salaries increase despite threat of new tax
• Bennett will not join Edwards’ staff at Arizona State

Ex-Michigan DB Keith Washington says he’s transferring to West Virginia MLive.com