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The Power Four—SIAC, CIAA, MEAC and SWAC—are finding there is strength in working together because of their shared history, goals and issues.

LOS ANGELES — The few glimpses were brief, but breathtaking. A put-back dunk. A pick-and-roll layin. A fierce challenge at the rim. All blips of a bright future stretched over 14 minutes of a blowout win in Tempe.

Cormani McClain didn’t cover receivers so much as smother them. The way a wool blanket smothers a campfire.

LOS ANGELES — The 2023 football schedule presented an unfortunate predicament for USC. When Brigham Young backed out of its scheduled November meeting with the Trojans amid the Cougars' impending move to the Big 12, USC was faced with the prospect of playing a dozen straight games without a break.

Former commissioner Kevin Warren led the conference through a momentous three years, but his exit adds another moving part to the volatile college sports landscape.

College athletics changed incrementally for a long time. And then, in the past couple of years, it has changed all at once. Name, image and likeness rights, better known as “NIL,” have entered the college sporting lexicon. So has the phrase “the transfer portal.” A couple of years ago, neither…

LOS ANGELES — After months of haggling over UCLA’s end-around move to join the Big Ten Conference, the University of California regents are stepping aside and allowing the departure to proceed as planned.

The conference’s natural evolution got us to Friday’s must-watch championship, but a Trojans win and College Football Playoff bid will bring growing pains.

In its latest proposal to the CFP, the Rose Bowl is requesting to host a semifinal each year as part of an expanded College Football Playoff.

Here's the elaborate breakdown from Husky Stadium Saturday: Colorado is awful.

The “Granddaddy of Them All” will decide soon whether or not to delay playoff expansion. Its adherence to tradition may further complicate a complex process.