Pinnix sees Ahlers effect…With Hurricane Florence bearing down on the Carolinas, East Carolina relocates football team to Orlando …ECU defense flexes its muscle with dominant second half showing…AAC Daily: Rain and Storms are Causing Chaos Everywhere…Big-Game Hunting: Illini take another crack at USF in Soldier Field rematch…Charlotte 49ers win C-USA opener against Old Dominion, eclipse last season’s win total…Mistakes catch up with Wake Forest in loss to Boston College…Why Clemson is playing a football game Saturday as South Carolina, others cancel…Davidson sets program records, tops D-III Guilford 91-61…
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Around the American Athletic Conference
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- UConn Renews New England Rivalry With Rhode Island
- Temple Heads to Maryland For First Road Trip of 2018
- American Stories: In Return To The East, Navy Takes Lead In The West
- Tulane Visits UAB In Search of Second Straight Win
- Six From The American Among ITA Men’s Singles Preseason Rankings
AAC Daily: Rain and Storms are Causing Chaos Everywhere BCSNN
Anticipating Pressure, Protecting Warren Critical for Cincinnati Against Alabama A&M Down the Drive
Veer-and-variety: USF mixing things up on offense Tampa Bay Times
Big-Game Hunting: Illini take another crack at USF in Soldier Field rematch Chicago Sun-Times
3 ways Illinois can beat South Florida on Saturday at Soldier Field Chicago Tribune
AAC Power Rankings: UCF still on top after banner weekend for league Orlando Sentinel
Maine challenges ‘national champs’ UCF to game in only a way Twitter can love; Knights respond al.com
UConn Knows Not To Look Down On Rhode Island Entering Critical Game Hartford Courant
Temple next for Maryland football team’s season of adversity Philly.com
Rousing success: Turnover beads off the chain for Tulane New Orleans Advocate
New Orleans Times Picayune
SMU prediction: Michigan and its 100,000 fans will give the Ponies all they can handle Dallas News
Memphis-Georgia State football: 5 things to know for Friday Memphis Commercial Appeal
TU’s game against Arkansas State could be important for bowl eligibility Tulsa World
Former teammates pay tribute to Calvin Huey, key figure in Navy football history Annapolis Capital
Regional Headlines: The Carolinas and beyond
Winston Salem Journal
- Mistakes catch up with Wake Forest in loss to Boston College
- ACC releases basketball schedules – Wake Forest starts on the road
Charlotte Observer
- Charlotte 49ers win C-USA opener against Old Dominion, eclipse last season’s win total
- Whew! On record-setting night, how unbeaten Davidson blitzed Guilford 91-61 in football
After heading to Charlotte early, Monarchs will return 0-3 Norfolk Virginian Pilot
Hampton Roads Daily Press
- ODU goes to 0-3 for first time with loss at Charlotte
- Florence college football viewing guide for Saturday
Columbia The State
- Even before game was canceled, Gamecocks planned to gave up hotel rooms for evacuees
- Will Muschamp addresses South Carolina game cancellation
- Why Clemson is playing a football game Saturday as South Carolina, others cancel
Raleigh News and Observer
- Here are the easiest and most difficult stretches in UNC’s 2018-19 basketball schedule
- Is NC State’s basketball schedule better in Year 2 under Kevin Keatts?
- Kentucky, Indiana and two games each with UNC and Virginia mark Duke’s basketball schedule
- More than 30 inches in 24 hours. A Hurricane Florence rainfall record in Atlantic Beach.
- The Triangle is starting to feel effects of Hurricane Florence as thousands lose power
Canceled Colgate-Furman football game turns into free meals for Hurricane Florence evacuees Charleston Post & Courier
The Associated Press
- Brown throws 5 TDs, BC beats Wake Forest, 41-34
- Charlotte edges Old Dominion 28-25 in Conference USA opener
- James Madison builds 52-0 halftime lead, beats Robert Morris
- Davidson sets program records, tops D-III Guilford 91-61
- Coastal Carolina beats Campbell 58-21 in a game played early
- No. 16 Mississippi State focuses on details against ULL
- No. 1 Alabama looks to contain talented Ole Miss offense
- Nonconference losses can prove costly for top Big Ten teams
- After a 2-year wait, Haskins takes control at Ohio State
- Clemson’s Kelly Bryant continues ‘to grind’ in 2 QB system
- Spotlight week in Big 12 with Power Five foes looming
Nuggets and Briefs: National and Professional articles of interest
Baltimore Sun
- Doomed from the start in road opener, Ravens fall behind by 21 points, lose to Bengals, 34-23
- Ex-Ravens WR Steve Smith Sr. does not tolerate snubs, especially on live TV
Brind’Amour, on first day, sets different tone — with different captain Raleigh News and Observer
Charlotte Observer
- For Panthers’ James Bradberry, career-defining stretch starts Sunday with Julio Jones
- Sunday Gamechanger: Dontari Poe offers some sound advice on wrecking his former team
Washington Post
- Victor Robles flashes his skills, but Cubs end Nationals’ winning streak at five
- Solis knows he’s pitching for his future
- NFL Week 2 ATS picks: The top games worth betting on
- Redskins’ stretch of facing elite quarterbacks begins Sunday with Andrew Luck
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- Peterson wasn’t invited to any camps. So he created his own.
- How the ‘Redskins Talk’ podcast became a hit
- New facility is D.C. mayor’s blueprint for luring Redskins
- CFB betting Week 3: USC may be in trouble
- New Capitals Coach Todd Reirden will dial up intensity as Stanley Cup defense begins
New York Times
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