As an NFL season progresses, a straightforward but important question is often posed — which teams can actually win the Super Bowl?  Often it’s answered with a small collection of, like, six to eight teams without much justification. That will not be the case here. I have pinpointed the super-specific, possibly obscure — well beyond “they have a good offense” …

The four-team College Football Playoff era comes to a close this season — one season after it should have ended. It was far from perfect and left us with plenty of controversy over the years, but it’s safe to say it was a better postseason format than the BCS that preceded it. While there’s an expanded 12-team field to look …

1 In a year where no single QB has stood head and shoulders above the rest, Allen leads them all in total TDs (40). He’s all gas, no break, for better and worse, but he is most certainly the catalyst of the Bills’ hot push toward the playoffs. (+1)2 He’s not lighting up the stat sheet through the air, but …

Two key factors driving Bailey Zappe’s recent success with Patriots originally appeared on NBC Sports Boston Four months ago, Bailey Zappe was briefly out of a job. Earlier this season, he was relegated to third-string quarterback behind Mac Jones and Malik Cunningham. Now, Zappe is the New England Patriots’ starting quarterback, with a 2-1 record and a 106.1 passer rating …

Everyone knew that Miller Moss was a loyal USC Trojan, and that the quarterback sacrificed a lot to stay with the program when many others would have left town. Moss stayed when Caleb Williams won the Heisman Trophy and came back for the 2023 season. Moss wanted to be a USC Trojan. This was what he wanted. Coaches noticed. Teammates …

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The Cleveland Browns aim for their first four-game winning streak in three years when they kick off Week 17 of the 2023 NFL season against the visiting New York Jets on Thursday Night Football. Cleveland (10-5) last won four consecutive contests in 2020, doing so on two occasions en route to ending its 17-year postseason drought. The Browns rolled to …

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No. 23 Tennessee (8-4, 4-4 SEC) will play No. 17 Iowa (10-3, 7-2 Big 10) in the Cheez-It Citrus Bowl on Jan. 1, 2024 at Camping World Stadium in Orlando, Florida. Kickoff is scheduled for 1 p.m. EST and ABC will televise the postseason matchup. Tennessee will make its sixth appearance in the Citrus Bowl. Tennessee is 4-1 in Citrus …

NFL: Cleveland Browns at Houston Texans Arizona Cardinals Kyler Murray has peaked at 251 passing yards in a game this year. Murray is coming off a torn ACL and his weapons are far from ideal. He is also learning a new system. All these perfectly reasonable excuses aside, things haven’t been great for the young quarterback in 2023. He ranks …

The 24th-ranked SMU Mustangs will look to close out the season on a 10-game winning streak when they face the Boston College Eagles on Thursday in the Fenway Bowl. The Mustangs (11-2, 8-0 AAC), who last lost on Sept. 23 at TCU 34-17, cruised to the American Athletic Conference championship, even after losing starting quarterback Preston Stone to a broken …

With just two weeks remaining in the regular season, we have our final “Thursday Night Football” game of the year, which sees Joe Flacco and the Cleveland Browns host Flacco’s former team, the New York Jets. Cleveland is amazingly still alive for the No. 1 seed in the AFC, and is closing in on an AFC North title. New York …

Aaron Witt might be back, finally. Evan Flood of 247Sports shared on ‘X’ that the veteran is back at practice for the first time since the Duke’s Mayo Bowl in 2020 as the Badgers get ready for a ReliaQuest Bowl matchup against LSU. Witt joined the Badgers as a three-star recruit in the class of 2020. He played five games …

Russell Wilson didn’t speak to the media on Wednesday getting benched by the Broncos, but the veteran quarterback did offer a short reaction to the move on social media.  After taking the day to digest the news, Wilson jumped on social media just after 11 p.m. ET on Wednesday to send out a simple, eight-word tweet.  That sounds like a …

Throughout the 2023 college football season, it became clear that the Oregon Ducks were among the best teams in the nation, and they ultimately had some of the best betting odds to win the national championship before falling short of the Pac-12 Championship Game against the Washington Huskies. Along the way, though, Dan Lanning and his team proved that they’ve …