For the final game of an already wild Week 13, the Jacksonville Jaguars play host to the Cincinnati Bengals on “Monday Night Football.” What should have been a showdown between two of the game’s brightest young quarterbacks is instead not that, thanks to Joe Burrow’s season-ending injury a couple weeks back. Trevor Lawrence will still be under center for Jacksonville and …

The Rams’ Aaron Donald celebrates his tackle of Browns back Jerome Ford for a loss. The defense held the Browns in check. (Wally Skalij / Los Angeles Times) The Rams defeated the Cleveland Browns 36-19 at SoFi Stadium on Sunday. What we learned from a victory that improved the Rams’ record to 6-6 and extended their winning streak to three …

The USC Trojans’ regular season has been over for a short amount of time, but Lincoln Riley and his staff are wasting no time trying to improve the roster. With Caleb Williams facing an easy choice to head for the 2024 NFL draft — given that he is the likely top pick — the Trojans are in the quarterback market …

Welcome to the Week 13 grades! We’ve had a wild day of games so far and we’re going to grade them all. In Detroit, we saw the Lions jump out to a 21-0 lead over the Saints, marking the first time since 1944 that they led a team by at least 21 points through one quarter.  In New England, the …

Week 13 of the NFL wasn’t one to write home about, even as some narratives were created. The San Francisco 49ers established themselves as the top dogs in the NFC with a convincing win over the Philadelphia Eagles, while the Miami Dolphins moved atop the AFC with their third straight win coming out of the bye. The AFC South looked impressive while …

College football conference championships are wrapped. The College Football Playoff field is set. The final US LBM Coaches Poll of the regular season is out. We know the complete bowl schedule. Now, the college football transfer portal opens, with eyes on some of the top players who might enter and where they may go. USA TODAY Sports will track the …

Could the Texas Longhorns win a national championship this season? That’s the question many are asking in regard to the team after making its first ever College Football Playoff. It’s a fair question to ask. Among the four playoff teams, many believe the Alabama Crimson Tide is playing the best football of the four. Texas beat that Alabama team by …

Jyaire Brown is entering the transfer portal. The Ohio State cornerback joined Cameron Martinez, Ryan Turner and Kye Stokes in the transfer portal Monday. After playing 195 snaps as a freshman in 2022, including a start against Wisconsin, he played in 48 snaps for the Buckeyes in 2023, playing in the Buckeyes’ wins against Youngstown State, Western Kentucky, Purdue and …

Week 13 Eagles grades by position after getting demolished by 49ers originally appeared on NBC Sports Philadelphia That didn’t go well. The Eagles got demolished by the 49ers by a final score of 42-19 at the Linc on Sunday afternoon. Despite a solid start in the first quarter, things really spiraled. After the Eagles’ offense failed to build an early …

Florida State coach Mike Norvell came out with a fiery statement in support of his team after the No. 5 Seminoles were snubbed from the College Football Playoff field on Sunday. The Noles finished the season 13-0 as one of three undefeated power conference champions; however, the committee opted to leave FSU out of the field after the team was …

The Eagles have found themselves down at halftime plenty of times this season, but it never proved to be a major problem until Sunday. They came into their game against the 49ers as the winners of five straight games and the last four saw them come back to win despite trailing at halftime. A 14-6 deficit to the 49ers at …

Florida State’s drop out of the top four of the College Football Playoff rankings on the final weekend of the regular season will go down as one of the biggest controversies in college football history, for obvious reasons. But while omitting the unbeaten Seminoles from the national semifinals has drawn widespread scorn, the committee can justify that decision by pointing …

Dom DiSandro was ejected after an altercation with San Francisco 49ers linebacker Dre Greenlaw (Getty Images) The head of the Philadelphia Eagles’ security team and San Francisco 49ers linebacker Dre Greenlaw were both ejected after clashing during the 49ers big win at Lincoln Financial Field. The 49ers secured a statement victory in an encounter of two of the NFL’s top …

Free Press sports writers share their predictions for the College Football Playoff semifinal between Michigan football and Alabama in the Rose Bowl in Pasadena, California, on Jan. 1: Tony Garcia Michigan implemented a “Beat Georgia” drill last offseason as an ode to the two-time defending national champion that Alabama toppled in the SEC title game. The Wolverines are the No. …

INDIANAPOLIS — There will be plenty of time to dissect the intricacies of the matchup, the ramifications of each potential result and where this head-to-head showdown of not only two of the sports greatest programs, but its most famous coaches, will rank all-time in the history of Michigan football games. But for now, just a handful of hours after Jim …