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Five college football players who have made impact on a national level were recognized locally Wednesday night.

Temple football coach Al Golden has withdrawn as a candidate for the job at Cincinnati, ESPN and several Web sites reported last night.

Penn State senior defensive tackle Jared Odrick , junior linebacker Navorro Bowman and senior tackle Dennis Landolt have been named to the Associated Press All-America team.

Alabama will bring a lineup powered by a record number of AP All-Americans to the national championship game.

Penn State's Jared Odrick made The Associated Press' All-America second team. Alabama will bring a lineup powered by All-Americans into the BCS national championship game.

The 39th annual Awards Banquet of the Bill Gordon-George Masters Memorial Football Club of Burlington County, co-sponsored by the Burlington County Times will be Wednesday at 7 p.m., at the Crowne Plaza Hotel in Cherry Hill.

Dennis Landolt blocks Michigan State linebacker Greg Jones into the end zone as Rodney Kinlaw scores during the 2007 Penn State-Michigan State game.

Penn State defensive tackle was named the Big Ten Conference's Defensive Player of the Year by the league's coaches.

Penn State and Michigan State are headed to bowl games, but the winner of today's regular-season finale likely will receive a bigger prize.

Tricia Lafferty can be reached via e-mail or at 412-380-5666. Ways to get us The campaign five years ago -- when the Nittany Lions won the Big Ten championship and finished third in the country following a dramatic Orange Bowl victory over Florida State -- was the highlight of the fifth-year seniors' career.

Penn State tackle Ako Poti is one of the players on the spot against Indiana's quick defensive ends.

Penn State's recruiting class of 2005 is hailed in Happy Valley as a group of players who helped bring the storied program back from football purgatory to national relevance.

The standards for football success are quite different for Indiana and No. 19 Penn State.

Penn State assistant coach Bill Kenney, left, talks with tackle Dennis Landolt, during Penn State Football Media Day in State College.

Their coach believes their season hasn't been a disaster. At least not yet. He believes finishing the regular season 10-2 would be "a pretty darned good year." Maybe in most seasons, but not this one.

Almost everyone agrees that Saturday afternoon's nationally televised Big Ten showdown between No.

Posted by ESPN.com's Adam Rittenberg When scanning the BCS standings , it's pretty easy to formulate a one-sentence summary for each team to this point in the season.

Poor special teams play has been a problem for years at Penn State, and this season may go down as the best example yet of a need for drastic changes.

Penn State will host Ohio State today in what will headline today's action around the world of college football.

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