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It may not be the most intriguing story of the college football season, but it certainly is a fascinating tale. In 2014, Alabama-Birmingham dropped its football program. This season, it was reborn and the Blazers responded by posting a school-record eight wins and earning a trip to the Bahamas Bowl, and if you're going on the road to a bowl game, does it get any better than the Bahamas?

Counted out by many when they sat 4-4 eight games into the NFL season, the defending NFC champion Atlanta Falcons have won four of their last five games to drive right back into contention for the NFC South title. In fact, if the Falcons sweep their remaining three games against division rivals the Buccaneers, Saints and Panthers, then Atlanta will retain the NFC South division crown earned a year ago.

The road to the 2018 Kentucky Derby takes a detour through Oklahoma on Sunday, as for the first time Remington Park's $400,000 Springboard Mile Stakes will award points toward a spot in the Derby. Twelve two-year-old colts are expected to go to the gate for the one-mile run on the Remington dirt.

Although the Kentucky Derby is run every year on the first Saturday of May, the road to the starting gate for 20 horses begins long before the actual race takes place. Potential contenders for the Run For the Roses begin the journey eight months before the big race by trying to accumulate points in a series of scheduled races.

With another full fixture list in the 2017-18 Premier League season scheduled for the weekend of Dec. 16, there are plenty of opportunities to place bets on goalscorers. Is this the weekend Mohamed Salah is overtaken at the top of the Golden Boot standings?

Week 18 of the 2017-18 Premier League season sees all 20 teams in action. Manchester City host Tottenham Hotspur looking for their 16th consecutive victory. Can Spurs upset the party, or will City continue marching on?

The Boise State Broncos have built a reputation as giant killers in bowl season, and will be looking to take out another power five squad when they face the Oregon Ducks in the Las Vegas Bowl. The Troy Trojans, who face North Texas in the New Orleans Bowl, have already toppled a giant this season, defeating the LSU Tigers right in Tiger Stadium en route to a 10-2 season.

When they say that Lucas Oil Stadium has proven to be a haunted place for the Denver Broncos, they aren't horsing around. The Indianapolis Colts have won six consecutive home games over the Broncos. You have to go all the way back to 2003 to locate a Denver victory in Indianapolis. The Broncos are winless on the road this season at 0-6, so there's that, too.

On paper, Sunday's match-up between the 10-3 New England Patriots and 11-2 Pittsburgh Steelers for top seed and the edge for home-field advantage in the AFC playoffs looks like the game of the week on the NFL slate. In reality, unless the Steelers find a way to compete with the Patriots, recent history would suggest that it doesn't figure to be much of a game.