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LOGAN, Utah (AP) Kellen Moore didn't need to throw his usual three touchdown passes.

All the Boise State quarterback had to do was hand it off and watch Doug Martin and Jeremy Avery go.

Martin ran for four touchdowns, Avery ran for two more and both topped 100 yards rushing to help the sixth-ranked Broncos remained unbeaten and in BCS contention with a 52-21 win over Utah State on Friday night.

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TUSCALOOSA, Ala. (AP) No. 2 Alabama's Javier Arenas set a Southeastern Conference record with his seventh punt return for a touchdown.

Arenas sprinted down the right sideline for a 66-yard score early in the second quarter of Saturday's game against Chattanooga. Read More...

OXFORD, Miss. (AP) About a dozen hooded Ku Klux Klan members rallied briefly at the University of Mississippi before Saturday's football game with No. 10 LSU.

The members of the Mississippi White Knights of the Ku Klux Klan spent about 10 minutes waving flags, displaying Nazi-style salutes and occasionally gesturing at a group of about 250 hecklers that included young children. They were protesting the school's decision to drop a pep song that included "Dixie." Read More...

ATLANTA (AP) Georgia Tech coach Paul Johnson agreed Friday to a one-year extension of his contract, which now runs through 2016.

Johnson initially signed a seven-year contract worth about $11 million when he came from Navy before the 2008 season. The school gave him a new seven-year, $17.7 million deal after he led the Yellow Jackets to a surprising nine wins in his debut. Read More...

ROCKVILLE, Conn. (AP) A man who allegedly was with the man charged with killing University of Connecticut football Jasper Howard, has pleaded not guilty to a conspiracy charge.

Twenty-year-old Hakim Muhammad entered the plea Friday in Rockville Superior Court on a charge of conspiracy to commit assault. Read More...

STILLWATER, Okla. (AP) Drafted by the New York Yankees in the second round, Brandon Weeden was a starting pitcher all the way.

After giving up baseball, the strong-armed right-hander earned perhaps his biggest win as an ace reliever. Read More...

SOUTH BEND, Ind. (AP) Notre Dame athletic director Jack Swarbrick plans to make a decision on the future of coach Charlie Weis within days of the season's end.

Swarbrick said Thursday that how he made his decision last fall, when he met with Weis three days after the season ended and told him he would be back, would be "fairly representative of the timing" of what he does this year. Read More...

CHICAGO (AP) Alabama's Rolando McClain, Florida's Brandon Spikes and Missouri's Sean Weatherspoon are once again finalists for the Butkus Award, given annually to the nation's top linebacker.

South Carolina's Eric Norwood and Texas' Sergia Kindle also are finalists. Read More...

AUSTIN, Texas (AP) When Colt McCoy started his first game at Texas in 2006, the second pass of his career was a sign of things to come: a 60-yard touchdown in a rout of North Texas.

He still calls it one of his fondest memories at Royal-Memorial Stadium. Read More...

FORT WORTH, Texas (AP) The last time TCU played at Wyoming, the Horned Frogs lost. The last time they were 10-0, they lost.

Be assured that coach Gary Patterson has reminded his team of that 2007 trip to Laramie, Wyo., where the fourth-ranked Horned Frogs play on Saturday. And the 2003 season when they won their first 10 games before losing at Southern Miss and even 2005, when after winning at Oklahoma to start the season they lost at SMU. Read More...