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 …

If someone told you a running back would crack the 1,000-yard mark in a college football season, you would not believe it. Boise State’s Ashton Jeanty has been unbelievable in 2024. The RB rushed for 186 yards and three touchdowns in the first half of Boise State’s 63-20 walloping of Utah State on Saturday. Jeanty’s 90th carry of the season …

Ranked teams in college football are never safe. Unranked foes lurk around every corner. Upstarts and upsets abound. Madness lives here in college football. Crazy is the norm. Wacky is the way. So, in many ways, college football’s Week 6 delivered exactly what we’ve come to expect. And, perhaps, then some. Four top-11 ranked teams lost to unranked foes: (1) …

Utah State wide receiver Kyrese White (23) runs with the ball against the Boise State defense after a reception in the first half of an NCAA college football game, Saturday, Oct. 5, 2024, in Boise, Idaho. . | Steve Conner Utah State football is 1-4 to start the 2024 season. After a season opening win over Robert Morris, there was …

Tottenham Hotspur Stadium will host two more NFL games in October [Getty Images] It’s that time of year again as America’s game packs up and heads across the Atlantic to serve up another triple header of NFL action in the UK. Three more games are coming up in October, two at the Tottenham Hotspur Stadium and one at Wembley, and …

NASHVILLE — As soon as Vanderbilt fans began to pour onto the football field at FirstBank Stadium on Saturday night, the University of Alabama got a bit richer. With Vanderbilt’s celebration of a 40-35 win against Alabama football came a $100,000 fine that is to be paid to the school that gets stormed upon. The SEC put these rules in …