College Football

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College football Ex-Navy coach Hardin selected for HOF Former Navy football coach Wayne Hardin will be inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame, the National Football Foundation announced Tuesday. Hardin is the 24th person affiliated with the Naval Academy to be inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame and the third head coach, joining Gil Dobie (17-3 at Navy from 1917 to 1919) and George Welsh (55-46-1 at Navy from 1973 to 1981). Hardin will be officially inducted at the National Football Foundation's awards dinner Dec.10 at the Waldorf-Astoria in New York and will be enshrined in the summer of 2014 at the College Football Hall of Fame in Atlanta.

No more deception Teddy Greenstein Chicago Tribune Absolutely. Especially after USC's Lane Kiffin made a fool of himself last week by suspending a beat writer for (correctly) reporting that a Trojans kicker had undergone surgery. Kiffin ignored his own policy, which was to punish media members who report an injury while observing practice. Surgeries don't take place during practice, so Kiffin apologized. Now he needs to apologize for having his team unprepared to play Stanford.

Colleges Ex-Raven Testaverde chosen for football HOF The National Football Foundation announced that former Ravens quarterback Vinny Testaverde will be a member of the 2013 College Football Hall of Fame Class. Testaverde starred at Miami from 1982 to 1986. The entire class will be unveiled today during a news conference at the NASDAQ OMX MarketSite in New York's Times Square at 11:30 a.m. The Football Bowl Subdivision Class will be inducted at the NFF awards dinner Dec. 10 at the Waldorf-Astoria in New York.

USC's Lee amazing Teddy Greenstein Chicago Tribune My Heisman choice will remain a secret until Saturday's announcement. So removing the four players (Collin Klein, Jordan Lynch, Johnny Manziel and Manti Te'o) that made up my ballot I'm left with two defensive studs and a game-breaker at USC. The game-breaker is Marqise Lee, a sophomore stud at USC. He's so good, his five-catch, 75-yard effort against Notre Dame qualified as his second-worst performance of the season.

Michigan might hold up Chris Dufresne Los Angeles Times This may sound strange, given that it struggled at home with an FCS opponent, but the biggest surprise has to be Michigan. Almost everyone was predicting disaster for Rich Rodriguez in his third year, given the offseason problems and the fact his team lost seven of its last eight last year. Consider this: Central Michigan received points in the preseason coaches poll but not Michigan. So the fact the Wolverines are 22nd in this week's coaches poll has to be acknowledged.

Morgan State (3-7, 2-5 Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference) vs. Hampton (2-7, 2-5 MEAC) When: Saturday, 1 p.m. Site: Hughes Stadium Radio: 88.9 FM Series: Morgan State leads, 36-23-2 What's at stake: In the final game of the season, Morgan State just wants a win. The Bears' losing streak stretched to five last week with a 30-0 defeat at Norfolk State Hampton has struggled just as much this season, opening the season...

There's a large contingent of grown men (and women) who pay to use a message board so that they can hang on every word a 17-year-old kid utters. Out of context, this seems very strange. In context, really, it's not much better. What I'm talking about is college football fans and the obsession with recruiting in the modern world, especially with the development of the internet over the past two decades. These fans look at tweets, pictures and stories, trying to gather any inkling of knowledge that will tip a recruit's cap as to where they'll be playing college ball.

Penn State was picky in choosing game film to study Indiana. The Hoosier horror flick that was the 83-20 defeat last week to Wisconsin was tossed aside to focus on what Indiana did right its two previous games, losses to Iowa and Northwestern by a combined eight points. That's the team coach Joe Paterno thinks the Nittany Lions (6-4, 3-3 Big Ten) will face when the schools meet Saturday at FedEx Field in Landover, Md. "I watched it when it was … Wisconsin was ahead 30, 40 points and then I didn't waste time looking at it," Paterno said.

At first it looks like another outrageous story from the unsavory annals of big-time college football recruiting: Alabama has offered a scholarship to an eighth-grader . Where will it all end? If middle-school kids are being wooed by SEC powerhouses, will precocious fifth-graders with muscles be next? Then, what, third-graders who like to smack into other kids on the playground? Except it turns out Nick Saban and the Crimson Tide are probably making a smart move here.

The significance of his commitment to Maryland wasn't lost on Jared Cohen . The McDonogh offensive lineman is the first Terps pledge in the 2014 class - a group that will never play in the Atlantic Coast Conference.   “It feels really cool,” said Cohen, who committed to Maryland on Monday. “I haven't really been able to be a part of something like that in my lifetime. I really hope that it turns out to be a really good legacy of the first person to commit … [to] the first [Maryland]

Media Sun's Preston named top Md. sportswriter The Baltimore Sun's Mike Preston has been honored as the Maryland Sportswriter of the Year by the National Sportscasters and Sportswriters Association for the second straight year, it was announced Thursday. Preston, who has covered the Ravens since the franchise came to Baltimore in 1996, first as a beat reporter and then as a columnist, has worked for The Sun since 1983. He is a native of Essex and a graduate of Towson State, where he played football.

Former Orioles outfielder Jai Miller had committed to play college football at Stanford coming out of high school, but instead he chose to follow a dream to play professional baseball. Now, at age 27, Miller is going to give college football another chance with one of the nation's top programs. Miller, who spent last season in the Orioles' minor league system with Triple-A Norfolk and Double-A Bowie, has reportedly enrolled at Alabama for the spring semester and intends to join the football team there, according to a report from BamaOnline.

Chip Kelly attractive Dan Pompei Chicago Tribune The college coach who is the best bet to make the jump to the pros is Chip Kelly. He came close a year ago when he was being wooed by the Bucs, but he decided to stay at Oregon. It is likely he will have multiple suitors because he is an even more attractive NFL head coaching prospect than he was a year ago. And some team probably will make him an offer he finds irresistible. Brian Kelly might attract some interest from the pros, but the Notre Dame coach is happy where he is. It would be a stunner if he left just as he got the Fighting Irish back on top. Nick Saban is a wild card.

The whispers reached Carroll Washington III like a game of telephone. Some said the Edmondson grad had gone to trade school. Another rumor placed him at a Division II university in Pennsylvania. Speculation on the whereabouts of the quarterback who, as a sophomore, led the Red Storm to the 2006 Class 2A state football championship, almost always boiled down to this: Whatever happened to Carroll Washington? During the two years after Washington graduated from Edmondson in 2009, the short answer to that question was working out, taking classes at Baltimore City Community College and wondering where he went wrong in his quest to play Division I football.

USC's Lee amazing Teddy Greenstein Chicago Tribune My Heisman choice will remain a secret until Saturday's announcement. So removing the four players (Collin Klein, Jordan Lynch, Johnny Manziel and Manti Te'o) that made up my ballot I'm left with two defensive studs and a game-breaker at USC. The game-breaker is Marqise Lee, a sophomore stud at USC. He's so good, his five-catch, 75-yard effort against Notre Dame qualified as his second-worst performance of the season.

Irish bring some magic Jeff Otterbein Hartford Courant Notre Dame will win the BCS championship. On paper the Irish should not. They don't even play in the SEC. But there is something magical about what Brian Kelly is doing in South Bend. Yes, they've had the luck of the Irish this season, but they're good, too. They have the defense. The offense has gotten better as the season has progressed. They seem to have the right chemistry. Fans either love or hate Notre Dame, but something about college football seems better when the Irish are in the title hunt.