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Notre Dame’s impressive win on the road against Oklahoma Saturday meant the Irish should be considered BCS championship contenders with just a month or so left in this 2012 college football regular season. Confirmation of that was unveiled Sunday night in the latest BCS standings when the Irish, previously ranked No. 5 in the BCS, jumped up two spots to take the No. 3 ranking.

The ACC announced Wednesday that Notre Dame will be joining the conference for all sports except football and hockey. Notre Dame, which had been a partial member of the Big East since 1995, will play five nonconference football games per season against ACC teams as part of its agreement to join the conference.

Trojans benefit from three Irish turnovers and make enough plays on offense to earn the key victory. Trojans benefit from three Irish turnovers and make enough plays on offense to earn the key victory.

Senior Danielle Adams scores 30 points to lead Texas A&M to its first women’s basketball championship.

Bernard James scored 14 points, Michael Snaer added 13 and Florida State showed there's more to its game than defense with a 71-57 upset of second-seeded Notre Dame on Sunday night that put the Seminoles in the regional semifinals for the first time since 1993.

The Arc: Notre Dame grabs the final No. 1 seed and is slotted out West. Ohio State is a lock for the top line.

Notre Dame has settled on Brian Kelly as the man who can restore its faded glory, just as he turned Cincinnati into a national title contender.

Charlie Weis arrived at Notre Dame flashing Super Bowls rings and talking about outscheming opponents. He leaves one of college football's most prestigious programs without even matching the record of the two men who were fired before him....

Toby Gerhart turned what could be Charlie Weis' final game as Notre Dame coach into his own Heisman Trophy infomercial. Gerhart ran for 205 yards and three scores, threw an 18-yard touchdown pass and scored the game-winning touchdown with 59 seconds left to help Stanford hand Weis and the Fighting Irish a fourth straight loss to end the regular season, 45-38 Saturday night....

Notre Dame regained a bit of its confidence, while Louisville (No. 7 ESPN/USA Today, No. 5 AP) appeared to lose some in one of the most thorough whippings coach Rick Pitino remembers a team of his experiencing.