Saturday got off to a wild start with the game that had the greatest impact on this week’s College Football Playoff projections as No. 2 Ohio State coughed up a chance to play for the Big Ten title and earn a bye in the CFP in an ugly 13-10 loss to Michigan. Despite the fact that the Wolverines are only …

Florida State and Florida players scuffle at midfield after the Gators’ 31–11 victory in Tallahassee, Fla. (AP Photo/Colin Hackley) College football was a combat sport on rivalry Saturday. Rivalry week matchups are always heated with tensions and resentments building. But four annual clashes ended with fights between opponents when the winning road team attempted to plant a flag on the …

Rivalry week across college football really had it all. There was fighting, flag-planting, eight overtimes, rivalries renewed and rivalry narratives reinforced. We saw Heisman Trophy contenders demand the spotlight and College Football Playoff contenders shrink when the lights were the brightest. And after a handful of top 25 teams took losses, the voters in the AP Top 25 poll have …

Getty Images Coming into the 2024 NFL season, it wouldn’t have been out of the ordinary to find a Super Bowl prediction featuring the Buffalo Bills or San Francisco 49ers, or both. Josh Allen’s AFC squad entered looking for its sixth straight playoff appearance. And Kyle Shanahan’s NFC juggernaut has reached four of the last five conference championships. Yet the …

The matchups for all nine of the college football conference championships are set. Five of the nine winners will get automatic berths into the 12-team College Football Playoff. The top four playoff seeds and their accompanying first-round byes go to conference champions while the next highest-ranked conference champ will also be a part of the field. Those teams are likely …

Brett Davis No. 3 Texas will get a chance in the SEC Championship Game to avenge its lone regular-season loss after a key 17-7 road win over No. 20 Texas A&M on Saturday.  The Longhorns (11-1) will meet No. 7 Georgia (10-2) in Atlanta after losing at home to the Bulldogs 30-15 on Oct. 19. Georgia quarterback Carson Beck threw …

Wellington High School football coach Travis Peeples embraces Eli Lavelle after losing the CHSAA Class 2A state football championship to The Classical Academy at Dutch Clark Stadium in Pueblo Colo. on Saturday, Nov. 30, 2024. PUEBLO — “Our town. Our team. Our time,” read one fan’s poster. Two out of three in this case was well beyond half bad. It …

The historic Lone Star Showdown is renewed as No. 3 Texas plays host to No. 20 Texas A&M in a de facto play-in contest for the SEC Championship game. The Longhorns are cruising in their first year as an SEC member and sit in sole possession of first place in the conference, already achieving back-to-back 10-win seasons for the first time …

In Roob’s Eagles Observations: How Jalen Hurts is responding to a new role originally appeared on NBC Sports Philadelphia How the Eagles’ run-first offense is bringing out the best in Jalen Hurts, an underrated guy on the defense and an all-time Eagle that Jalen Carter reminds me of. It’s Thanksgiving Week but more importantly it’s Eagles-Ravens Week, and we’ve got …

STATE COLLEGE − Few, if any, Penn State players had an inkling of what a win over Maryland meant before they took the field. Those watching from a distance realized it as soon as the game kicked off. Penn State, for the first time since 2016, is headed to the Big Ten Championship Game. It’s 44-7 win over Maryland − …

Nov 30, 2024, 10:26 PM ET TAMPA, Fla. — Auston Matthews picked up an assist in his return to the lineup and Joseph Woll stopped 38 shots as the Toronto Maple Leafs beat the Tampa Bay Lightning 5-3 on Saturday night Chris Tanev had a goal and an assist and Mitch Marner added two assists. Nick Robertson, John Tavares and …

Eagles at Ravens predictions for Week 13 of the NFL season originally appeared on NBC Sports Philadelphia The Eagles (9-2) are on the road to face the Ravens (8-4) on Sunday afternoon. Let’s get to the predictions: Reuben Frank (6-5) This is one of the more intriguing matchups in recent Eagles history. The Ravens and Eagles both have multi-dimensional quarterbacks …

The one thing that couldn’t happen for Miami, happened for Miami. The No. 6 Hurricanes will miss the ACC Championship Game and could potentially miss out on the College Football Playoff, all following a 9-0 start, after a 42-38 loss to Syracuse. SMU will play Clemson in Charlotte instead.  The Hurricanes’ CFP fate is entirely out of its control. A …

Raiders head coach Antonio Pierce says at least one official blew the play dead before his team lost a fumble on its final offensive snap in Friday’s loss to the Chiefs. The bizarre play, on which the Raiders had a miscommunication that resulted in quarterback Aidan O’Connell not knowing that a shotgun snap was coming to him, ended the Raiders’ …

In what will certainly be a clash of the titans on Sunday, the Philadelphia Eagles and Baltimore Ravens will engage in a battle between the league’s top two rushing offenses. The Eagles lead the NFL with 193.4 rushing yards per game, while the Ravens enter the slugfest second at 180.2. Baltimore leads the league with 5.8 yards per carry, while …