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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.

Geno Smith tied a record for any bowl game with six touchdown passes as No. 23 West Virginia set a bowl scoring record by beating No. 14 Clemson in the Orange Bowl.

The Bowl Championship Series stripped Southern California of its 2004 title on Monday, leaving that season without a BCS champion....

For a brief moment, Michael Dyer stopped running. Hold on. No whistle. No ref raising his hand. So he started running again - past the tackler who thought he had him down, deep into Oregon territory. A once-in-a-lifetime run, the kind that wins championships.

Boise State reached into its bag of tricks again and stunned Texas Christian in a Fiesta Bowl duel of unbeaten BCS busters.