James Madison’s lack of eligibility for postseason play — the Sun Belt Conference Championship Game and bowl season are off limits to the Dukes this year — became a pressing issue quicker than…
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Seeing one of the nation’s most prolific passers go down on the road could have been a frightening proposition for Troy Saturday at Western Kentucky, but the Trojans (3-2, 1-1 SBC) had the lux…
As James Madison jumped out to a perfect 4-0 record to open the season, the national recognition has come with it.
Almost every time redshirt junior running back Latrele Palmer took a handoff against Texas State, he shed tacklers with ease.
A perfect start to the Sun Belt era at James Madison hasn’t been absolute perfection.
Though James Madison had some trouble finishing first half drives with touchdowns — the offense reached the end zone just once in the first half of the Dukes’ 40-13 blowout of Texas State Satu…
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BOWLING GREEN, Ky. (AP) — Jarret Doege threw two touchdown passes in the fourth quarter, DK Billingsley ran for 122 yards with a touchdown and Troy defeated Western Kentucky 34-27 on Saturday night.
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CONWAY, S.C. (AP) — CJ Beasley ran 24 yards for the go-ahead touchdown in the final minute, leaping over a defender on the way to the end zone, and Coastal Carolina defeated Georgia Southern 3…
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JONESBORO, Ark. (AP) — Johnnie Lang ran for one touchdown, caught a pass for a score and returned a kickoff 98 yards for a third as Arkansas State rolled to a 45-28 win over UL Monroe in a Sun…
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NORFOLK, Va. (AP) — Dae Dae Hunter ran for 121 yards and accounted for three touchdowns to lead Liberty to a 38-24 victory over Old Dominion on Saturday night.
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LAFAYETTE, La. (AP) — Diego Guajardo kicked a 43-yard field goal as time expired and South Alabama gave up a 10-point fourth-quarter lead before the Jaguars beat Louisiana-Lafayette 20-17 Satu…
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Darren Grainger ran for a touchdown and threw for another as Georgia State repelled Army on Saturday for a 31-14 win, the Panthers' first of the season.
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BOONE, N.C. (AP) — Chase Brice threw for four touchdowns, ran for another and Appalachian State rolled to a 49-0 win on Saturday over The Citadel.
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HUNTINGTON, W.Va. (AP) — Henry Colombi threw two first-half touchdown passes, Khalan Laborn ran for two scores in the second half and Marshall rolled to a 28-7 victory over FCS-member Gardner-…
When sophomore linebacker Jailin Walker picked off Appalachian State’s Chase Brice last week, head coach Curt Cignetti joked that he wanted the sophomore linebacker to return it for a touchdown.
After knocking off Appalachian State in upset fashion last weekend, James Madison is trying to avoid a letdown game — something other Sun Belt Conference teams have had coming off of big wins …
Shortly after James Madison’s FCS championship appearance against North Dakota State in 2019, then-Sacramento State punter Sam Clark met up with former Dukes punter Harry O’Kelly.
As the Sun Belt Conference continues to garner national headlines, much of it starts with the league’s deep stable of experienced quarterbacks.
During the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020, Harry O’Kelly couldn’t go home to Australia with travel restrictions in place and neither could his brother Seamus, a punter at Texas State.
A few games into James Madison’s initial run at a Sun Belt championship, there is one thing you can count on from the Dukes’ women’s soccer team. JMU isn’t going to give up many goals.
Entering the 2022-23 season, for which the James Madison women’s basketball team officially started practice Monday, the Dukes expect to have plenty of scorers on the roster.
Late in the first half against Norfolk State earlier this season, James Madison was struggling with 1-on-1 fade routes and head coach Curt Cignetti thought of an idea to help limit the Spartan…
James Madison’s defense turned the tide against Appalachian State on Saturday, helping the Dukes to a 25-point comeback as it continued its dominance against the run.
James Madison stole the national headlines after a 25-point comeback against Appalachian State, but perhaps one of the most consequential victories of the week in the Sun Belt Conference belon…
BOONE, N.C. — In the week leading up to James Madison’s game at Appalachian State, head coach Curt Cignetti talked with his team about what it would take to upset the Sun Belt Conference favor…
BOONE, N.C. — After keeping itself out of third-and-unmanageable situations in its first two games, third-down plays gave James Madison trouble for much of the day Saturday at Appalachian State.
BOONE, N.C. — James Madison linebacker Jailin Walker saw it on film and was waiting for Appalachian State quarterback Chase Brice to throw the ball on a run-pass option early in the fourth quarter.
BOONE, N.C. — Even at an altitude 3,333 feet above sea level, it’s hard to see Saturday’s gigantic, improbable comeback to beat Appalachian State 32-28 as the mountaintop for James Madison.
For the first time this fall, redshirt senior defensive lineman Isaac Ukwu might flip on a Netflix show — the go-to was “Law and Order SVU” or “Criminal Minds” last season — or listen to rap a…
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ATLANTA (AP) — Grayson McCall threw two long scoring strikes to freshman Jared Brown and ran for a score — all in the first quarter — and Coastal Carolina breezed to a 41-24 victory over Georg…
Appalachian State enters Saturday’s game against James Madison having played down-to-the-wire thrillers in each of its first three games. The Dukes, meanwhile, won a pair of laughers in the se…
As James Madison prepares to hit the road to take on an Appalachian State team that has a Top-10 upset to its credit and received votes in the latest AP Poll, the Dukes do so with the comfort …
When Mickey Matthews watches football on the weekends, he’s reminded of James Madison’s first-round playoff loss at Appalachian State in 2007 during almost every close game.
Appalachian State has gone to the wire with North Carolina at home, upset then-No. 6 Texas A&M on the road and won on a Hail Mary against Troy on Saturday.
The Sun Belt Conference race begins in earnest this week with five games between SBC teams highlighting the schedule, starting with a nationally-televised game between Coastal Carolina and Geo…
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The basketball-crazed state of North Carolina has something other than college hoops to get excited about. It turns out its football teams are pretty good, too. For the first time ever, the state’s “Big Four” Atlantic Coast Conference schools of North Carolina, North Carolina State, Wake Forest and Duke -- have all started at least 2-0. And Appalachian State of the Sun Belt Conference pulled off a huge upset by winning at No. 6 Texas A&M. No. 16 N.C. State and No. 19 Wake Forest represent the state in the AP Top 25 while Appalachian State and UNC are just outside the poll.
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UNDATED (AP) — Thirteenth-ranked Miami travels to play No. 24 Texas A&M in an ACC-SEC clash involving ranked teams to highlight the week's action in the Atlantic Coast Conference. Miami le…
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There may be no reason to put second-ranked Alabama and No. 17 Baylor on upset alert even though both are playing Sun Belt Conference teams in Week 3. Two Sun Belt teams beat Top 10 teams last Saturday. Appalachian State won 17-14 at Texas A&M, and Marshall won 26-21 at Notre Dame. Alabama slipped out of the AP’s No. 1 spot after escaping Texas with a 20-19 victory. But the Crimson Tide are nearly 50-point favorites against Louisiana-Monroe. Texas State is a more than a four-touchdown underdog going to Baylor.
Late in the first half against Norfolk State, James Madison ran a flea flicker near midfield and graduate quarterback Todd Centeio found redshirt senior tight end Drew Painter for a 31-yard gain.
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Last week was a good reminder to never shrug off a Saturday slate of college football games that appears to be short on marquee matchups. Intrigue arises in odd places, even without the obvious “big games.” This week’s schedule pops even less than that. If not for No. 24 Texas A&M and No. 25 Oregon squeezing into the bottom of the AP Top 25 there would be no games matching ranked teams this week. Still, there is still plenty of alluring games heading into the weekend.
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Marshall's campus is still buzzing after the Thundering Herd toppled Notre Dame in South Bend. Marshall beat a Top 10 team on the road for the second time in school history and became the talk of college football. Marshall coach Charles Huff, who was hired off Nick Saban's staff at Alabama in 2021, says he responded to 350 text messages after the Notre Dame win. Quarterback Henry Colombi says the Marshall community is still abuzz, a feeling he says won't go away any time soon. The challenge for the team is setting aside the attention and turning to the next tasks, another game on the road, against Bowling Green.
You don’t have to stretch the imagination too far to get an idea of the competitive nature of James Madison’s third-year guard Terell Strickland’s family.
Shortly after James Madison’s blowout win over Norfolk State on Saturday, the focus on the locker room flipped to the Dukes’ next opponent: Appalachian State.
Keith Gill, then the athletic director at Richmond, was on campus at James Madison in October of 2015 when his Spiders were in Harrisonburg to take on JMU. The Dukes were hosting ESPN’s Colleg…
The first time James Madison head coach Curt Cignetti saw nose guard James Carpenter, he attended a camp at Elon as an offensive lineman.
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Just two weeks into the season and it looks like so much we thought might be true in college football is wrong. No. 1 Alabama needed every little bit of misfortune that conspired against Texas, plus a Heisman-worthy performance by its Heisman Trophy winner, to avoid its first regular-season nonconference loss since 2007 against the Longhorns. No. 6 Texas A&M and No. 8 Notre Dame were not so fortunate. The Aggies and Irish were Sun Belted, losing at home to Appalachian State and Marshall, respectively. Throw on top of that Washington State knocking off No. 19 Wisconsin in Madison, and it was a difficult day for double-digit favorites.
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SOUTH BEND, Ind. (AP) — Steven Gilmore returned an interception 37 yards for a touchdown late in the fourth quarter and Khalan Labron ran for 163 yards as Marshall shocked No. 8 Notre Dame 26-…
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Kyle Vantrease scored on an 8-yard run with 36 seconds left after Nebraska had taken its first lead, and Georgia Southern beat the three-touchdown-favorite Cornhuskers 45-42. The Huskers’ Timmy Bleekrode was wide left with a 52-yard field goal attempt as time ran out and Georgia Southern players ran onto the field to celebrate the program’s first win in 13 games against Power Five opponents. The loss turns up the pressure on embattled Nebraska coach Scott Frost, who now faces a home game next week against No. 7 Oklahoma.
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Nebraska has fired football coach Scott Frost after a 1-2 start to the season. The situation was so dire that athletic director Trev Alberts made the move only three weeks before Frost's contract buyout would have been cut in half. The Cornhuskers lost 45-42 to Georgia Southern as a three-touchdown favorite at home on Saturday night. Frost was 16-31 three games into his fifth season. Associate head coach Mickey Joseph was named interim coach for the rest of the season. Alberts said there was no attempt to negotiate a lower buyout and that Frost would receive the $15 million owed to him.
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Georgia has reclaimed the top spot in The Associated Press college football poll and Oklahoma State, Kentucky and Arkansas moved into the top 10 after an upset-filled weekend. The defending national champion Bulldogs started the season at No. 3 in the AP Top 25. It took them two weeks to get back to where they spent most of last year. Georgia received 53 of 63 first-place votes. No. 2 Alabama, which needed a late field goal to hold off Texas, received nine first-place votes and No. 3 Ohio State got one. No. 4 Michigan and No. 5 Clemson held their places. Oklahoma moved up a spot to No. 6. And Southern California jumped three places to No. 7. Notre Dame tumbled out all the way from No. 8 to snap a streak of 80 straight poll appearances.
