Mount Clemens - Clinton - Harrison Journal.The Cyclones finished 3-9 in 2016 despite averaging nearly 30 points in Big 12 Conference games. Lazard has lived to his promise, with 170 career grabs for 2,419 yards. The 6-foot-5, 220-pound Lazard, who grew up in nearby Urbandale, Iowa, was one of the most highly sought recruits the Cyclones ever landed in 2014. Lazard also averaged seven catches for 114 yards in his final five games, coinciding with quarterback Jacob Park’s elevation to the starting job. Lazard caught 69 passes as a junior in 2015, including seven for touchdowns, and his 1,018 yards rank third in school history.

Standout Iowa State wide receiver Allen Lazard will return for his senior season. Kelly said Wednesday that he intends to remain the head coach of the San Francisco 49ers. He took the team to the first College Football Playoff championship game two seasons ago but the team faltered this past season, going 4-8 overall and 2-7 in the Pac-12.

Helfrich was fired by Oregon on Tuesday after four seasons with the Ducks. “When you start thinking of your assistants and all the support staff and all those people, if he were to come back here some of those people would be ‘saved’ quote-end quote,” Helfrich said. Helfrich tells ESPN Radio that he reached out to Kelly when it started “going south” for the Ducks and the rumors heated up, in the interest of trying to save his assistants’ jobs. In the first interview he’s granted since he was dismissed as head coach of Oregon, Mark Helfrich says he reached out to former coach Chip Kelly a couple of weeks ago when he thought he could be fired. If Navy remains behind WMU come Sunday, it will be up to the committee to determine if it needs to see the Army result. If Navy was to pass Western Michigan, it is all but certain the committee would wait to make sure the Midshipmen beat Army (6-5) before it set a Cotton Bowl matchup. 10 since the summer, just in case this issue came up. Selection committee chairman Kirby Hocutt said this week that the committee has had a conference call scheduled for Dec. This season that means the Cotton Bowl in Arlington, Texas, on Jan. The highest ranked team from the so-called Group of Five - American, MAC, Mountain West, Conference USA and Sun Belt - gets an automatic bid to a New Year’s Six bowl. Navy (9-2) is 19th in the latest playoff rankings, two spots behind unbeaten Western Michigan heading into the Midshipmen’s matchup with Temple in the American Athletic Conference championship game today.

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