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Week 9 in college football saw an upset in the top 5 and a couple of close games, at least for 3 quarters. Number 2 Florida State had the week off so the will stay at #2 but the top 5 will change because of the upset of #3 Ole Miss.

In week 5 of college football it looked, for a while, there was going to be a new number one team. In the end the #1 Florida State Seminoles do what number teams do, come from behind to win. With their 56-41 win over North Carolina State, FSU has the nation’s longest winning streak at 20 games

Week 3 of college football had #1 Florida State with a bi-week and there were only two teams in the top twenty-five that played each other. There was a bit of an upset in that game and another upset in the top ten. Here we go:

Week one of college football had some big match ups, match ups that could determine a team’s season and their chance to play in the four team playoff at the end of the year.  Here’s a look at the first week and the top 25.

The college football season stated with a bang as Georgia State beat Abilene Christian 38-37. It came down to a last second field goal; 26 yards with 3 seconds remaining for Georgia State to win their first game in 16 loses dating back to last year.

Polls for the upcoming college football season vary as to which teams are in the top 5 this year. CBS Sports has a different opinion than the AP poll, USA Today is a little different than CBS, so let’s take a look.

Abilene Christian and Georgia State will kick off the college football season on Wednesday, August 17. The following day 14 games are on tap and Friday there will 7. Saturday, August 30 will start the major part of the schedule.

A campus shooting at the small Christian college of Seattle Pacific University could have been much worse if it wasn’t for 22 year old student Jon Meis. The gunman, wielding a shot gun, walked into Otto Miller Hall where Meis was working as a building monitor, and opened fire killing one student and injuring two others. It was quick thinking by Meis that kept things from getting worse.

Jessie White, a 99 year old women in Maine, finally graduated from college. She received her diploma from Beal College 75 years after graduating. She said it now completes her life.

Ok....so while Chad was taking a nap after a hard day at work yesterday, I went to the school and picked up the kids. I tried to keep the kids quiet. They did GREAT! They did their homework, they read books, played upstairs. It was I who had the problem.

The Harold Alfond Foundation (HAF) has decided that ALL babies born as Mainers will now automatically be awarded a $500 Alfond grant for college. Before this point, parents needed to fill out a little paperwork for the NextGen account for the baby to get the grant. Now, every Maine baby is in!

Here is a unique educational opportunity. There is a plan to open a circus-performance college in Portland. The Circus Conservatory of America would offer a Bachelor degree in circus arts. No, it’s not 'clown college', it’s a lot more.

I am a college student, what they call an “adult learner”.  I am more “adult” than some in my program, less “adult” than others.  By “adult” I mean…old.  I have been doing since fall of 2008.  This May I am due to graduate from Kennebec Valley Community College in Fairfield. This will be my first college degree. And this is how I am managing to keep the end in sight.

This sounds interesting. Maine business and education leaders have launched an effort to double the number of computer science and information technology college graduates over the next four years. It’s called Project Login.

It was big week in college basketball as the landscape changed again this season as #1 Michigan lost to #3 Indiana 81-73, propelling the Hoosiers top the #1 spot.

Despite the fact that some college tuitions have reached an excess of $50,000 per year, these days colleges can't guarantee that their graduates will have jobs waiting for them. In the wake of this uncertainty, some institutions have begun to guide their students in cleaning up their social media profiles, to lower the risk of a poorly-timed facebook post ruining their shot at employment.  Read Mo