Iowa craves what LSU gained with last year&#39;s national title run
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Winning a share of the national championship last year earned LSU respect and recognition as one of college football&#39;s top programs.
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refrain from stealing a glance or two at the mammoth Michigan Stadium scoreboards during Saturday&#39;s game against Iowa. &quot;Don&#39;t tell the coaches,&quot; he said afterward, putting a finger to his lips and smiling.
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Iowa has welcomed the nation's top-ranked team into Kinnick Stadium before. But the hype surrounding those games was never this big.
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If you&#39;re a romantic who thinks about sports the way Grantland Rice wrote about the Four Horsemen of Notre Dame, this exhausting, wrenching battle between Oregon State and Louisiana State represented everything that makes college football a supreme
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Michigan Stadium was mostly filled with empty seats. The only cheers were coming from near one end zone â-he Iowa section. By Carlos Osorio, AP.
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For the first time, a team with two losses ended up No. 1. LSU climbed to the top of The Associated Press college football poll for the third time this season, winning its second title after beating Ohio State 38-24 in the BCS national championship game Monday night.
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In what was expected to be a rough season for Iowa women's basketball, the Hawkeyes have handled everything thrown their way &#151; perfectly. Only two Division I teams in the country are still unbeaten. Top-ranked LSU is one, No. 18 Iowa the other.
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NEW ORLEANS (Sports Network) - LSU is set to name a new  football coach on Monday and reports out of Louisiana say  Oklahoma State's Les Miles is the choice to replace Nick Saban.
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BATON ROUGE, La. - LSU can thank an Oregon State kicker who could not make extra points for its season-opening victory...
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You could talk about Auburn&#39;s gritty defense, which managed to turn back LSU when the Bayou Bengals were up 9-3 and driving for a crucial field goal that would have made it a two-possession game midway through the third quarter.
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The LSU coach, courted repeatedly by the NFL in recent years, mulled over the deal for three days before announcing his decision shortly after the Tigers arrived in Orlando for their New Year&#39;s Day bowl game with Iowa.
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NEW ORLEANS -- Poor Auburn. A 12-0 record and Southeastern Conference title would be enough to make the Tigers a front-runner for the national title most years -- or at least cause a spirited debate about who's No. 1.
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JaMarcus Russell and LSU cleared another contender from the national title picture and just might have added one more big game to their already brutal road schedule &#151; this time in the BCS. The Tigers will gladly accept a trip like that, and after taking out No. 5 Arkansas, they feel they have a pretty good resume.
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ATLANTA - Auburn probably will have to be content with a SEC championship because the Tigers aren&#39;t likely to get a shot at the title they want.
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&quot;There are three teams deserving of playing in the national championship game. Someone&#39;s going to be left out of it, and it&#39;s not right.
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Iowa State&#39;s Cyclones did their part Tuesday. They won their second bowl game in school history, using the strong legs of Stevie Hicks and quarterback Bret Meyer - each with more than 100 yards rushing â-o
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The proclamation, bold as it is, jumps out at you right there on the home page of NickSaban.net. The 53-year-old LSU head football coach is billed as the &quot;The Complete Package,&#39;&#39; which seems a timely description