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Were just one week away from the college football season starting in earnest on Thursday, Sept. 1. As our countdown turns to seven, we salute North Carolinas Ryan Switzer for his seven career punt returns for touchdowns. ?ESPN.com recently named Switzer as North Carolinas player who is worth the price of admission. He owns the UNC and ACC records for career punt return yards and touchdowns. Hes just one touchdown shy of tying the FBS record held by Texas Techs Wes Welker and Oklahomas Antonio Perkins.As a freshman in 2013, Switzer tied the single-season FBS record with five punt return touchdowns. In 2015, he returned 22 punts for 302 yards for a 13.7-yard average (second in ACC) and added two more touchdowns.Switzer was ranked No. 79 in ESPNs #CFBRank due to his talents as both a return man and a receiver. As a receiver, he led the Tar Heels with 55 catches for 697 yards and six touchdowns last season.?UNC opens the season against?Georgia on Sept. 3 at 5:30 p.m. ET on ESPN.In case you missed any part of our countdown:8 days: Alabamas record eight wins vs. AP Top 25 teams last season9 days: Nick Saban is 9-0 against his former assistant coaches10 days: Temples 10 sacks in win over Penn State last season11 days: Navy won a school-record 11 games last season12 days: Alabama has won 12 straight games, the longest active FBS streak.13 days: Lucky number 13 for a trio of teams last season.14 days: Boise State has played in 14 straight bowl games.15 days: Kansas has lost 15 straight games, the longest active FBS streak.16 days: Peyton Manning wore No. 16 for Tennessee.17 days: TCU QBs completed 17 of 17 passes in a game in 2012, an FBS record.18 days: Ohio State has won an FBS-best 18 consecutive road games.19 days: There are 19 head coaches at their alma mater this season.20 days: It has been 20 years since Florida won its first national championship.21 days:?Oklahoma led the nation in average scoring margin (21.5) last season.22 days: Ohio State has been in the top 10 of the AP poll for 22 straight weeks.23 days:?Virginia Tech has played in an FBS-best 23 straight bowl games.24 days:?In the first game of the historic rivalry, Navy beat Army 24-0.25 days:?Michigans Desmond Howard won the Heisman 25 years ago.26 days:?Arkansas State led the nation with 26 interceptions in 2015.27 days: Clemsons Greg Huegel led the nation with 27 field goals in 2015.28 days: Adrian Peterson wore No. 28 for Oklahoma.29 days: Alabamas Bryant-Denny Stadium opened in 1929.30 days: Miamis Vinny Testaverde won the Heisman 30 years ago.Cheap Air Jordan 17 Retro Black Friday . 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Durant finished with 24 points and 13 rebounds, Jackson matched his career high with 23 points on 10-of-14 shooting and Lamb scored 12 points on 5-of-7 shooting, lifting the Thunder to a 94-88 win over San Antonio and snapping the Spurs 11-game winning streak. DETROIT -- Mike Conway went from watching to winning IndyCar events in a week, less than a year after backing out of an oval race and wondering when hed get another shot. "Amazing," he said. Indeed. The British driver dominated the first of two races at the Detroit Grand Prix, finishing nearly 13 seconds ahead of defending series champion Ryan Hunter-Reay on Saturday. "What a weekend for Conway to show up" Hunter-Reay said. Conways margin of victory set a race record, beating the 12.2-second cushion 1999 winner Dario Franchitti had over Paul Tracy, and making team owner Dale Coyne seem as if hes the smartest guy in the Motor City. Conways only other IndyCar win was at Long Beach in 2011. Coyne picked Conway to drive one of its two cars this weekend -- after Conway helped tend his fathers garden in England during the Indianapolis 500 on Sunday -- and wasted no time offering him another opportunity. "You want to go to Toronto now?" Coyne asked Conway after the race. Yes, he does because the Streets of Toronto race in July suits his road-racing preference. Conway chose not to race in last Septembers season finale at Fontana because hes uncomfortable racing on ovals. He had serious leg and back injuries after a 2010 crash at Indianapolis and wrecked there again in 2012. In his only other IndyCar race since then, he qualified fifth and finished 25th this year at Long Beach for Bobby Rahal. "I knew it would be hard to make something possible for this year," Conway said. The open-wheel series is running a second, full-length race in the same weekend for the first time Sunday when Conway will start up front for the first time in his career. If Conway can finish first again, hell get a $50,000 for the sweep. "You can get a new suit," Coyne cracked. "I can get my name stitched on it," he responded with a grin. Justin Wilson finished third and was thrilled for Conway, his Dale Coyne Racing teammate, for winning just four days after finalizing a deal to race in Detroit. "I think its just a really cool story," Wilson said. Scott Dixon finished fourth and Helio Castroneves was fifth, putting him No. 1 in IndyCar points justt ahead of Hunter-Reay.dddddddddddd Indy 500 champion Tony Kanaan was 13th after starting 19th in the 25-car field. Marco Andretti, who put his famous family atop the standings for the first time in more than a decade earlier in the week, finished 20th and made at least one other driver very angry. Sebastian Saavedra hit a tire barrier on lap 33 after Andretti ran him into a wall. "Its just frustrating to see that Marco keeps doing these dirty moves and as usual nothing is done to him," said Saavedra, who extended his middle fingers toward Andretti when he passed by on his next lap. "Its just a very frustrating day." It was for AJ Allmendinger, too. After it was announced that hes going to run two NASCAR Nationwide road race for Penske Racing, he failed to finish a lap after getting squeezed between Scott Dixon and Wilson. "Its just my fault," he said. "I feel bad." Allmendinger, and the rest of the drivers who didnt win, will have a chance to bounce back in Sundays race on the 2.36-mile Belle Isle street course that held up much better than it did last year. Dixon won last years Detroit Grand Prix marred by pot holes and grooves that stopped the race for a little more than 2 hours and shortened the 90-lap race to 70. To avoid embarrassment and create more opportunities to pass, Roger Penskes Michigan-based company and Chevrolet invested nearly $2 million to improve and reconfigure the track. It looked like money well spent. Drivers had opportunities to make more moves and Conway took advantage right away and pavement stayed in place. "It was much better passing for sure," Hunter-Reay said. "It was a big difference." Conway went around E.J. Viso, who started first, heading into Turn 1 on the opening lap to take his first lead since a race in Edmonton on July 24, 2011. Hunter-Reay took a turn with the lead as well from lap 23 to 43, but couldnt prevent Conway from getting inside of him on lap 44. "I thought I was turning some decent times at the time and he was still under my gearbox at every corner," Hunter-Reay recalled. "It was a good, clean pass. And once he got by me, he was gone." ' ' '