Dak Prescott and the Dallas Cowboys visit the Pittsburgh Steelers this Sunday on Sunday Night Football.(Kevin Sabitus/Getty Images) It’s Week 5 of the 2024 NFL season. Tonight on Sunday Night Football the Dallas Cowboys host the Pittsburgh Steelers. The Cowboys are facing Game 5 of the season tied up with a 2-2 record. The Steelers on the other hand are …

NORMAN — When OU and Texas square off Saturday in the Red River Rivalry, the Longhorns figure to be ranked in the top two while the Sooners, after the loss to Tennessee and a close call against Auburn, will be well behind. But despite Texas being favored in the contest, there’s still plenty of hope for the Sooners. The rivalry has …

Raiders defensive end Maxx Crosby missed a game for the first time in his career last week. He doesn’t plan to miss another. Crosby expects to play today against the Broncos, according to Adam Schefter of ESPN. Officially, Crosby is questionable with an ankle injury. The presence of Crosby should make life difficult for Broncos rookie quarterback Bo Nix, who …

Wisconsin senior running back Tawee Walker continued his dominance on the ground for UW on Saturday against the Purdue Boilermakers. Walker, who recorded a pair of touchdowns in the Badgers’ Week 5 loss to the No. 13 USC Trojans, finished with 94 rushing yards and three rushing touchdowns before a packed crowd at Camp Randall Stadium on Saturday. The former …

Wisconsin redshirt freshman wide receiver Trech Kekahuna posted his career-best output vs. the Purdue Boilermakers on Saturday. Kekahuna, who had recorded four receptions for 42 yards through his first four appearances of the 2024 campaign, shined with six receptions for 134 receiving yards and two touchdowns in the 52-6 victory at Camp Randall Stadium. His most impressive sequence arrived with …

EUGENE, Ore. – Free Press sports writer Chris Solari looks back at Michigan State football’s 31-10 loss to No. 6 Oregon and looking at the issues the Spartans need to address before they play again. Next up for the Spartans: Iowa Hawkeyes Matchup: Michigan State (3-3, 1-2 Big Ten) vs. Iowa (3-2, 1-1). Kickoff: Time TBD, Saturday, Oct. 19; Spartan …

Next week’s slate of college football games could shake up the top 10 of the US LBM Coaches and AP Top 25 polls. Several monumental games will feature ranked teams including Penn State at USC, Ohio State at Oregon and the Red River Rivalry of Texas-Oklahoma. Even Ole Miss-LSU could catapult the winner into the top echelon. So there’s the …

When you lose a game like Tennessee lost Saturday night, there’s nothing mysterious about what your response should be: “All our goals are still in front of us.” That’s true – unless one of your goals was to win every game. But more reasonable goals are still in play. The Vols can make the College Football Playoff. They can win …

Tennessee football squandered a 5-0 start and a two-game winning streak to start SEC play with its loss at Arkansas on Saturday. More importantly, the No. 4 Vols (4-1, 1-1 SEC) wasted their margin for error in its pursuit of the program’s first College Football Playoff appearance by losing 19-14 at Arkansas (4-2, 2-1) in Fayetteville, Arkansas. They still have …

Before Saturday, the last time a Texas Tech football team started 3-0 in the Big 12 was 11 years ago. Those 2013 Red Raiders actually got to 7-0 for the season, 4-0 in the conference and No. 10 in the national rankings before losing five in a row. The current Red Raiders will happily take their chances with the remaining …

Rutgers football had chances. So many chances. The Scarlet Knights just couldn’t take capitalize on any of them. Instead of celebrating what would’ve been a signature Big Ten victory, Greg Schiano’s team instead boarded an airplane bound for New Jersey lamenting those missed opportunities in a 14-7 loss to Nebraska on Saturday at Memorial Stadium in Lincoln. “We just didn’t …

Welcome to the sixth MyCentralJersey.com’s Big Central Conference Readers’ Choice Football Player of the Week poll of the 2024 season. Voting closes Thursday at noon. Please note that the votes don’t always show up immediately. There are lags for the votes to register and a winner isn’t declared until hours after the poll closes. More: Football live scoreboard, Big Central Conference coverage …

Tahj Brooks overcame two fumbles by rushing for 128 yards and three touchdowns and Gino Garcia made a go-ahead field goal with 2:21 left as the Texas Tech football team beat Arizona 28-22 Saturday night in Tucson, Arizona. Brooks scored on runs of 3 and 9 yards in the first half, helping Texas Tech (5-1, 3-0 in the Big 12) …

This embedded content is not available in your region. Caroline Fenton, Jason Fitz & Adam Breneman react to Vanderbilt’s shocking upset of no. 1 Alabama. While Alabama’s playoff hopes remain intact, how can Kalen DeBoer get the Crimson Tide their unbeatable identity back? Also in the SEC, Arkansas comes back from an 11-point deficit to beat Tennessee. Why couldn’t the …

Miami quarterback Cam Ward (1) led another thrilling comeback win on Saturday over Cal in Berkeley, Calif. (AP Photo/Jed Jacobsohn) No one can put this Miami team away. For the second straight week, No. 8 Miami overcame a slow, mistake-riddled start and rallied for an unlikely win. This time, it was a seemingly impossible one as the Hurricanes came back …