10 Straight! Memphis Becomes First Bowl-Eligible Team With 45-7 Win Against Tulsa…The Belichick Experiment’s curiosity factor is gone; now it’s just a joke; Fans flee as Belichick, Tar Heels blown out in ACC opener vs. Clemson … NC State snaps 2-game losing skid with dominant 56-10 win over Campbell… AP Top 25 preview: Penn State could drop out of Top 25 after loss to UCLA. Texas teetering, too

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• Pirates Wrap Up Second Weekend of Fall Competition at Elon Fall Invitational
• East Carolina Drops Dual Meet At Liberty, 194-155
• Pirates Set To Face Tulane In Minges On Sunday

Pirates volleyball set for AC home opener Greenville Daily Reflector (sub req’d)

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American Conference

• 10 Straight! Memphis Becomes First Bowl-Eligible Team With 45-7 Win Against Tulsa
• Florida Atlantic Picks Up First Conference Win, 27-21, Against Rice
• Temple Rallies Past UTSA, 27-21
• Army Scores 31-13 Road Win Against UAB
• Horvath, Heidenreich Power Navy Past Air Force, 34-31
• South Florida Opens American Play With Win Against Charlotte

USF sloppy in rout of Charlotte, but still in playoff driver’s seat  Tampa Bay Times

Memphis Commercial Appeal

• Memphis eases to win over Tulsa to become 1st bowl-eligible team
• What Memphis coach Ryan Silverfield believes will keep winning streak going

Owls stop Roadrunners, secures first conference win  Temple News

Temple rallies in second half to secure a 27-21 comeback win over Texas-San Antonio Philadelphia Inquirer

Poll: ‘The Drive’ in UNT’s win over UTSA in 2017 ranks a top moment in recent history for fans Denton Record-Chronicle

San Antonio Express-News

• UTSA coach Jeff Traylor aims to weather storm after tight loss to Temple
• Will other schools keep coveting Jeff Traylor? Why UTSA should hope so
• 3 takeaways as UTSA falls flat in American Conference opener at Temple

Tulsa World

• Tulsa dominated by Memphis in three interception night from Kirk Francis
• TU’s Kirk Francis glad to be back despite loss

Florida Atlantic holds off Rice to hand Owls second straight loss in American Athletic play Houston Chronicle

Times Record-Herald

•  Army football: Black Knights finish strong, win at UAB
•  Lots of little plays added up to a big victory for Army football

Annapolis Captial

• Navy football edges Air Force, 34-31, behind record-setting performances
• Former Spalding safety Trent Gillis learning all he can with rare Navy spot
• Navy football takes down Air Force | PHOTOS

The Associated Press

• Lewis throws 3 touchdown passes, runs in another as Memphis rides turnovers to 45-7 win over Tulsa
• Veltkamp pours in 3 TDS, leads FAU over Rice 27-21
• Temple rallies in second half for AAC football win over UTSA

David Teel: Navy and Air Force football weekend pulls at heartstrings  Norfolk Virginian-Pilot

 

Regional Headlines: The Carolinas and beyond

Raleigh News & Observer

• UNC football clobbered again, this time by ACC foe Clemson. What we learned
• Belichick, Lombardi pledge long-term plan for UNC football. The short term? Ugly
• UNC men’s basketball holds Blue-White scrimmage. Here’s what we learned
• UNC football, Bill Belichick go from Ludacris to ludicrous in Clemson stomping
• Duke surges to 45-21 ACC road win over Cal. What we learned about Blue Devils
• Four-star basketball recruit, Hillsborough native Cole Cloer commits to NC State
• NC State football dismantles Campbell. What we learned in the Wolfpack win

WRAL

• Fans flee as Belichick, Tar Heels blown out in ACC opener vs. Clemson
• Rapid reaction: UNC, Bill Belichick embarrassed again in 38-10 loss to Clemson
• NC State snaps 2-game losing skid with dominant 56-10 win over Campbell
• Duke starts slow then rolls past California 45-21

NC State football vs Campbell highlights as Wolfpack routes Fighting Camels Fayetteville Observer

Charleston Post & Courier

• Inside the Clemson WR pass that fooled Belichick’s UNC defense and jump-started a struggling offense
• Clemson gets season ‘reset’ with rout of North Carolina
• Hamilton: The Belichick Experiment’s curiosity factor is gone; now it’s just a joke
• CSU falls to Gardner-Webb on game-ending field goal

Norfolk Virginian-Pilot

• ODU crushes Coastal Carolina in Sun Belt Conference opener
• No. 24 UVA wins at Louisville in OT, goes to 3-0 in ACC
• Hampton U rallies to beat Norfolk State in 60th Battle of the Bay
• Virginia Tech suffers first defeat under Montgomery, falls to Wake Forest

Undefeated through 5 games, BYU knows it must play better as degree of difficulty ratchets up Deseret News

The Associated Press

• AP Top 25 preview: Penn State could drop out of Top 25 after loss to UCLA. Texas teetering, too
• Deion Sanders ‘hurting like crazy’ and believes he has more blood clots
• Josh Hoover accounts for 5 TDs as TCU beats Colorado 35-21 in Deion Sanders’ return to Fort Worth
• Duke starts slow then rolls past California 45-21
• Carson Beck throws 4 TD passes to help No. 3 Miami hold off No. 18 Florida State, 28-22
• Concepcion has 2 TD catches to lead No. 6 Texas A&M past Mississippi State, 31-9
• Sayin, defense propel top-ranked Ohio State to 42-3 rout of Minnesota
• No. 11 Texas Tech dominates Houston 35-11 to improve to 5-0
• QB Arch Manning delivers more mistakes in the latest road loss for No. 9 Texas
• Colandrea, special teams power UNLV past Wyoming 31-17 on hail-covered field
• Joseph accounts for 5 TDs and Old Dominion cruises past Coastal Carolina 47-7
• No. 7 Penn State stumbles for 2nd week in a row, losing to UCLA
• Braden Davis helps Hampton hold off Norfolk State for 41-34 victory
• Hughes good for 3 TDs, defense makes stand, and William & Mary rallies past NC A&T 38-34
• Nebraska breaks away from the Spartans late to win 38-27
• Dabo Swinney and Clemson find positives after a bye. Bill Belichick and UNC find more of the same
• UCLA stuns No. 7 Penn State with Iamaleava’s 5 touchdowns, ends 16-game skid against Top-10 teams