The Top 10 Early Season College Football Games

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College Football (compiled by Parkov, SportingNews.com)

With college football rapidly approaching, I was checking out the early season schedule to see what games I should be getting excited about. I have to say that there will be quite a few very good games in the early going. Here are ten that I'm particularly excited about.

10. Louisville @ Kentucky (WK 3)
-Now, Louisville should win this one. They have won 4 in a row in this series and last year, it was a 59-28 blowout. Having said that, Kentucky is a dangerous team. They play in the SEC, so they are no stranger to tough games. They're playing at home and they have a good number of returning starters. Louisville had better watch out.

9. South Florida @ Auburn (WK 2)
-South Florida is the new kid on the block. And Auburn is one of the best college football programs in the country. This will be a very tough game for the Bulls, but if you want to be the best, you have to beat the best.

8. TCU @ Texas (WK 2)
-TCU doesn't get the respect they deserve, in my opinion. Beat Texas in their house and respect is something you won't have to worry too much about. TCU returns 9 starters from one of the best defenses in the country- the only question is this: can they put points on the board against the Longhorns?

7. Notre Dame @ Penn State (WK 2)
-Notre Dame smacked Penn State last year in South Bend. This year, they are traveling to Happy Valley and will be taking on a rabid PSU crowd as well as a more experienced and talented Penn State team. It should be a good one.

6. USC @ Nebraska (WK 3)
-This is a classic game between one team that is at the top of the college football world and one team that is used to being at the top and is desperately trying to get back there.

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Small Schools Hoping to Win Big in 2007

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College Football (compiled by SunHerald.com)

Those tricksters from Boise State struck a blow for all the teams relegated to second-class status by the Bowl Championship Series.

When the Broncos turned the Fiesta Bowl into a fairy tale with a hook-n-lateral, a Statue of Liberty and a postgame proposal, they pulled off one of the most wildly entertaining upsets in college football history and helped clear the way for the next upstart to break through the BCS glass ceiling.

In Honolulu and Hattiesburg, from Fort Worth, Texas, to Salt Lake City, Boise State's victory was celebrated as a landmark event in the battle for equality in big-time college football.

"It changed the way people think," said Hawaii coach June Jones, whose Warriors are a contender to be this season's BCS buster, if they can get past Boise State in the Western Athletic Conference.

Or is this the year TCU gets in after twice making a run at the BCS, only to fall short? Then again, Mountain West Conference rival Utah, the original BCS buster, could get in the way of the Horned Frogs.

Or maybe Conference USA finally gets a piece of the lucrative BCS pie, with a talented and experienced Southern Mississippi team emerging.

"I think it's certainly much more optimistic than maybe it was before (Boise State's win)," Southern Miss coach Jeff Bower said.

Though Boise State's 43-42 victory over Oklahoma created a buzz that hasn't subsided, this uprising in college football truly started in 2004 when Utah became the first team from a league without an automatic berth in the BCS to play in one of the big-dollar bowl games. And the Utes got in when it was even tougher to do so.

TCU Professor Charged for Threats; Said He Would Bring Gun to Campus

The Frat Boy News daily campus police report for Friday:

Texas Christian University (compiled by Melody McDonald and Andrew Chavez of Star-Telegram.com)

The TCU psychology professor charged with making a terroristic threat sent harassing emails and made alarming statements -- including that he would bring a gun onto campus -- to various school officials, according to an arrest warrant affidavit.

"Is it possible a sexist could snap and bring an ouzi gun on the TCU campus?" professor Charles Frederick Bond Jr. wrote in an email to numerous TCU employees. "Might he target young women? Might others get in the way?"

Bond, 53, was jailed Friday after TCU police obtained a warrant for his arrest. He was subsequently charged with making a terroristic threat and remains in the Tarrant County Jail without bond pending a hearing on Tuesday.

According to the affidavit, on May 25, Provost Nowell Donovan advised Bond that he was not to make contact with anyone at TCU pending an investigation into his alarming behavior.

In the next two days, Bond sent electronic communications to a number of employees, calling Donovan a "sexist pig," the affidavit states. On May 27, Bond wrote in an email to Darron Turner, associate vice chancellor for student affairs, and Glory Robinson, associate dean of student affairs, that he "would bring a gun to the campus of Texas Christian University."

Bond went on to say that he would also "spit" in Dr. Mauricio Papini's face if he saw him and that it would be "worth spending a night in jail," according tot he affidavit. Papini is a psychology professor.

Several days later, TCU's assistant police chief, J.C. Williams, called Bond and requested that he meet with him and Provost Donovan to discuss his recent behavior and the threats he had made. After Bond refused, Williams told Bond he could not come back onto campus without permission and would face criminal charges if he did return to campus.

On June 1, the affidavit states, Bond sent emails to numerous TCU employees, including the one in which he referenced the Uzi, a submachine gun.

Later that day, Williams called Bond's residence and talked with his wife, who told him that she was not in fear but believed her husband needed professional help.

Williams then talked to Bond, who said the harassment would continue until something was done with Papini. Based on this information, TCU police obtained an arrest warrant and Bond was taken into custody without incident.

Turner, the associate vice chancellor, declined to comment, while messages to Papini and Robinson went unreturned. On Wednesday, Donovan declined to comment.

Bond -- a tenured psychology professor who is an expert in the field of lying and deception -- was scheduled to teach one upper-level class, "Contemporary Topics in Psychology: Psychology and Law," this summer. The status of that class is now in limbo, a university spokeswoman said Thursday.

"As of now the department is trying to determine if they will still offer the class," said Tracy Syler-Jones, a TCU spokeswoman. Bond is currently on administrative leave. He was evaluated by a psychologist Thursday.