The Los Angeles Rams currently hold the No. 6 seed in the NFC playoff race and look to continue their recent success as they face the New York Giants on Sunday afternoon. Los Angeles (8-7) enters off a 30-22 victory over New Orleans last Thursday, while New York (5-10) fell to Philadelphia on Monday, 33-25. The Rams won the teams’ …

The sixth-ranked Georgia Bulldogs (12-1) hope to avoid back-to-back losses for the first time in five seasons when they take on the No. 5 Florida State Seminoles (13-0) on Saturday in the 2023 Orange Bowl. Georgia, which was defeated 27-24 by Alabama in the SEC Championship Game earlier this month, hasn’t lost consecutive contests since falling to the Crimson Tide …

USC fans were caught off guard, as were college football fans, during the broadcast of the Alamo Bowl game on Thursday night between Arizona and Oklahoma. ESPN, which broadcast the game, posted an on-screen graphic which said that Will Howard, the Kansas State transfer, had committed to USC. That is, of course, empirically untrue. Howard, as of Friday night, had …

One of the more intriguing matchups of college football bowl season arrives on Saturday afternoon in Atlanta. The No. 10 Penn State Nittany Lions take on the No. 11 Ole Miss Rebels in the 2023 Peach Bowl at Mercedes-Benz Stadium. Both programs are 10-2 this season. Penn State’s losses came to Ohio State and Michigan, and the Nittany Lions are …

Tennessee sophomore wide receiver Squirrel White appeared in every game for the Vols during the 2023 regular-season. The 5-foot-10, 165-pound wide receiver recorded 64 receptions for 764 yards and two touchdowns in 12 contests. He also totaled 13 rushing yards on two attempts. Ahead of Tennessee’s matchup versus Iowa in the Cheez-It Citrus Bowl, offensive coordinator and quarterbacks coach Joey …

Rams wide receiver Puka Nacua is closing in on breaking one of the NFL’s oldest records. That record is the most receiving yards by a rookie in a season, which was set by Bill Groman of the Houston Oilers in 1960. Groman had 1,473 receiving yards that season, and for more than six decades since then, even as more games …

This is as close as it comes to a traditional Rose Bowl Game in this day and age. No. 1 Michigan didn’t have to think twice when making its venue choice for this College Football Playoff semifinal. The Wolverines played in the first “Granddaddy of Them All” in 1902. Pasadena, California, has served as postseason home for this program 18 …

MIAMI GARDENS – Welcome to Seminole Script. Democrat writers Ehsan Kassim and Jack Williams talk about all things Florida State football, including final thoughts on last week’s rivalry road victory over Florida, a glimpse into Tuesday and Wednesday practices and a look ahead to Saturday’s Capital One Orange Bowl game against Georgia. In a matchup of two teams feeling the …

The Orange Bowl is a New Year’s Six game, but the Seminoles landing in Miami are not the Florida State team we’ve seen this season. No. 6 Georgia (12-1, 8-0 SEC) will be playing against the vestiges of No. 5 Florida State (13-0, 8-0 ACC), in a game featuring two teams who had playoff hopes after their respective championship games. …

For the first time since 2015, Missouri football has won a bowl game. For the first time since the inception of the College Football Playoff, Missouri football has won a New Year’s Six Bowl game. It was a stellar game from the Tigers’ defense. The offense needed three quarters to find life, but it eventually did. That led to a …

Gainesville Buchholz linebacker Myles Graham, the son of legendary Florida Gators running back Earnest Graham, signed to follow in his father’s footsteps last Wednesday on National Signing Day. A day later, Florida linebackers coach Jay Bateman announced he was leaving UF to take the same position on Mike Elko’s new staff at Texas A&M. Father Graham was furious. The younger …

Colts tight end Drew Ogletree was arrested on Friday and charged with domestic battery. Hendricks County Jail records describe Ogletree’s felony charge as “Domestic battery committed in physical presence of a child less than 16, knowing child present and might be able to see/hear.” The Indianapolis Star reports that Ogletree was booked at 3:42 p.m. on Friday, hours after the …

KANSAS CITY, Mo. — The Missouri Tigers defeated the Ohio State Buckeyes in the Cotton Bowl Friday night 14-3. The victory brought the #9 Tigers to 11-2 on the season and should insure a top 10 ranking at the season’s end after beating the #7 Buckeyes. The win was also sweet for alumni here in Kansas City who had watched …

Dec. 29—ATLANTA — Penn State football coach James Franklin confirmed Friday that cornerback Johnny Dixon will not play against Ole Miss in the Peach Bowl Saturday at noon (TV-ESPN). Dixon, who’s in his final season of eligibility, has not been with the Nittany Lions all week in Atlanta. A transfer from South Carolina in 2021, Dixon was voted to the …

Dec. 29—ATLANTA — The hump for each Peach Bowl participant might as well be Mount McKinley. No. 11 Ole Miss has reached 10 wins in two of the last three seasons, but has gone 0-5 against Alabama and Georgia in the Southeastern Conference. No. 10 Penn State has reached double-digit victories five times in the last eight seasons, but has …