STILLWATER — Hopes are sky-high at Oklahoma State as football season nears. The 18th-ranked Cowboys won 10 games a year ago and brought back nearly every key playmaker off that team entering the season opener against FCS No. 1 South Dakota State at 1 p.m. Saturday at Boone Pickens Stadium. With a combination of talent and experience that is hard …

Cowboys owner Jerry Jones, left, talks with Rams coach Sean McVay following a joint practice in Oxnard. Jones (Jayne Kamin-Oncea / Associated Press) Most NFL owners are singularly focused on their franchise. Jerry Jones is different. The Dallas Cowboys are first and foremost to Jones, naturally, but the team’s longtime owner also keeps a keen eye on the machinations to …

The 2024 Oregon football season is just around the corner. The Register-Guard has assembled a guide to the Ducks first season in the Big Ten with coverage including position previews, player and coach interviews, injury updates, and more. We’ll keep you updated during the season with in-depth stories, photos, videos, top performers and analysis. Oregon Ducks football 2024 schedule Where are the Ducks …

The best part about being a member of the SEC is the money, followed a few miles later by the fame and notoriety that comes with playing in the most elite conference in the Bowl Subdivision. The worst part about being in the SEC is playing an SEC schedule, which has gone from nasty to outright diabolical with this summer’s …

MADISON – Finally, it’s game week. The Wisconsin football team opens the season Friday under the lights of Camp Randall Stadium against Western Michigan (8 p.m. kickoff). Here is what you need to know about the Broncos, who were picked to finish seventh out of 12 teams in the Mid-American Conference preseason coaches poll released last month. Seventeen full-time starters …

ATHENS, GA – NOVEMBER 9: Free safety Thomas Davis #10 the University of Georgia Bulldogs celebrates during the SEC game against the University of Mississippi Rebels at Sanford Stadium on November 9, 2002 in Athens, Georgia. Georgia won 31-17. (Photo by Jamie Squire/Getty Images) Class of 2026 four-star recruit Thomas Davis Jr. is gaining significant interest from the Notre Dame …

Free Press sports writer Tony Garcia looks ahead to Michigan football’s 2024 season opener against Fresno State on Saturday at Michigan Stadium in Ann Arbor. Next up for the Wolverines: Fresno State Bulldogs Acting head coach Sherrone Moore of the Michigan Wolverines celebrates after an offensive touchdown against the Penn State Nittany Lions during the second half at Beaver Stadium on November …

Jarrett Stidham accepts that he’s the Broncos’ backup quarterback, but he’s not happy about it. Stidham said after Sunday night’s preseason finale that he wants to help rookie Bo Nix get ready to start Week One, but he also firmly believes he should be starting. “First of all, obviously, I was very disappointed,” Stidham said. “I know I’m a starting …

Middle Tennessee State football and first-year coach Derek Mason will try to bounce back from last year’s 4-8 season when the Blue Raiders open the season at home Saturday against old rival Tennessee Tech. The Blue Raiders, who were picked to finish fourth in the preseason Conference USA poll, will have a lot of new faces on the field this …

BATON ROUGE – Brian Kelly enters his third year as LSU football’s head coach. At his three previous coaching stops, Year 3 was when his programs took a major step forward, winning a conference championship at Central Michigan, making New Year’s Six bowls at Cincinnati and appearing in a national title game in 2012 with Notre Dame. LSU, who is …

The Texas Tech football team begins the 2024 season Saturday when the Red Raiders host Abilene Christian at 6:30 p.m. inside Jones AT&T Stadium. The game will air on ESPN+. Joey McGuire enters his third year as head coach of the Red Raiders looking for a trip to another bowl game. Season tickets are sold out for Tech’s home games, …

Alabama football and coach Kalen DeBoer gets the 2024 season officially underway on Saturday, hosting Western Kentucky at Bryant-Denny Stadium. It will mark the first time in 17 years a new face will be leading the Crimson Tide after coach Nick Saban retired in January. Alabama wrapped up its preseason camp last week, which it began on July 31. Now, …

WEST LAFAYETTE − It’s been a decade since the Journal & Courier had the capability to simulate a Purdue football season on the EA Sports video game. Now that all the name, image and likeness issues have been resolved and College Football 25 is in stores, it was time to resume a tradition. The skinny: We simply simulated each game …

This time last year, Travis Clayton was working for a company which carries out pre-employment background checks. He had also been playing for his local team Basingstoke in the eighth-tier of English rugby. Yet the 23-year-old Briton now has one of the most-coveted jobs in world sport – American football player. After a whirlwind 2024, Clayton is set to begin …

Like its peers across major college football, the ACC underwent quite a few changes since the end of the 2023 season, with Stanford, Cal and SMU now making it a 17-team league. After a turbulent offseason in which Clemson and Florida State filed lawsuits against the conference, the fight among ACC schools will soon shift to somewhere much more exciting …