The Detroit Lions and their playoff failures are well known, having only two playoff victories since their last championship in 1957. One of those wins came in the wild-card round last week, as the Lions are one victory away from their first conference championship game since the 1991 season.  Detroit hosts its second playoff game in as many weeks, the …

New Michigan State football coach Jonathan Smith is known for being a quarterbacks coach, and the Spartans are looking for their next big quarterback addition after successfully adding big transfer pick-ups like Aidan Chiles and Tommy Schuster. On Saturday, the Spartans offered TJ Lateef, a 4-star quarterback in the 2025 recruiting class. Lateef had already been offered by Smith when …

For the second straight year, Brock Purdy has led the San Francisco 49ers to the NFC Championship game, but if Kyle Shanahan had gotten his way during the offseason, Purdy would NOT have been the team’s starting quarterback this season.  According to ESPN.com, Shanahan was actually hoping to have Tom Brady as his quarterback during the 2023 season, but it …

Could Chip Kelly be on his way back to the NFL? According to Jonathan Jones of CBS Sports, multiple head-coaching candidates have mentioned Kelly as a possible offensive coordinator. Multiple teams have started looking further into Kelly and doing their due diligence on him as a candidate. Kelly, 60, has been UCLA’s head coach since 2018, compiling a 35-34 record. …

The top-seeded San Francisco 49ers’ fifth consecutive playoff win over the seventh-seeded Green Bay Packers, a 24-21 rollercoaster of a contest in the NFC Divisional Round, continued a trend of clutch play for the 49ers come playoff time and another run of late-game playoff misery for the Packers. Both franchises have 37 playoff wins, tied with the New England Patriots …

Amon-Ra St. Brown was an elite Fantasy football receiver throughout the season. The Lions’ wideout averaged eight receptions for 113 receiving yards with a touchdown in his final four regular-season contests while recording at least 100 total yards in all four games. He carried that production into the NFL playoffs with seven receptions for 110 yards in Detroit’s 24-23 victory …

Paul Randolph, pictured last April when he was Indiana’s defensive line coach, recently accepted the same position with Oklahoma State. Randolph’s ties to Oklahoma run deep. STILLWATER — Not long after he arrived for his new job as a defensive graduate assistant with the Arizona State football program, Ray Brown suddenly found himself sharing his coaching dreams with a man …

Getty Images The Buffalo Bills overcame both extreme winter weather and the seventh-seeded Pittsburgh Steelers to earn the opportunity to play host to the defending Super Bowl champion Kansas City Chiefs and Patrick Mahomes in the AFC divisional round on Sunday. Mahomes will be experiencing his first true road playoff game in his career after playing his first 15 either …

USATSI San Francisco 49ers star wide receiver Deebo Samuel’s status for the NFC Championship is up in the air, as he deals with a shoulder injury. Samuel suffered the injury during the team’s 24-21 Divisional Round win over the Green Bay Packers on Saturday. He was originally ruled questionable to return and was eventually downgraded to out.  He will have …

A pair of AFC heavyweights will battle in an AFC Divisional Round matchup on Sunday when the Kansas City Chiefs take on the Buffalo Bills. The Chiefs (12-6), who are the third seed after winning the AFC West for the eighth year in a row, are looking to reach the Super Bowl for the second year in a row and …

A Nebraska high school football player has accepted a Preferred Walk-On spot with the Cornhuskers. Rowdy Bauer is a class of 2024 prospect out of Norfolk, Nebraska. He made the announcement on social media. First off, I would like to thank God for allowing me to achieve a lifelong dream. Next, I’d like to thank all my previous coaches, teammates, …

The NFL Divisional Round wraps up Sunday when the Detroit Lions host the Tampa Bay Buccaneers and the Kansas City Chiefs square off against the Buffalo Bills. Two games allow for twice as many opportunities to make NFL prop bets involving players like Patrick Mahomes, Josh Allen, David Montgomery and Mike Evans.  Bills wide receiver Stefon Diggs racked up more …

Division winners will meet at Ford Field on Sunday with a trip to the NFC Championship Game in the balance. The No. 4 seed Tampa Bay Buccaneers won the NFC South and are 6-1 in their last seven games, including a Wild Card round victory over the Philadelphia Eagles last week. The No. 3 seed Detroit Lions toppled the Los …

Well over a month ago, I released my prediction for what the top-25 rankings in the college football world would look like this offseason, giving a view of the power balance in the nation based on which teams saw the highest number of starters returning, and the biggest boosts via the transfer portal. That set of rankings came out on …

Carmen Vitali NFC North Reporter The Green Bay Packers were playing with house money and against the San Francisco 49ers at Levi’s Stadium in the divisional round of the NFC Playoffs. Ultimately, it ran out. Green Bay lost 24-21. It really was that close. In a game in which the Packers were the overwhelming underdogs, there were six lead changes. …