As the Baltimore Ravens confronted their fifth loss of the season, a familiar voice answered questions in the locker room. NFL kickers do not always meet with reporters after games. They are not always requested. Their impact is often overlooked. But for the seventh time this season, including in all five of the Ravens’ losses, five-time All-Pro Justin Tucker’s kicking …

Jaylen Reed had plans to go to New York City Sunday, but he was glad to scrap them. Instead, Reed and his Penn State football teammates practiced in preparation for the Big Ten championship game against No. 1 Oregon. The thank you notes are on their way from Lasch Building to Schembechler Hall in Ann Arbor, Mich. Coupled with Michigan’s …

CMC sustains possible season-ending PCL injury in 49ers’ loss originally appeared on NBC Sports Bay Area Christian McCaffrey’s tumultuous 2024 NFL season might be over for good. The star 49ers running back sustained a potentially season-ending PCL injury in the 49ers’ 35-10 loss to the Buffalo Bills on Sunday at Highmark Stadium, coach Kyle Shanahan told reporters after the game. …

Photo: Isaiah Hole For the fourth straight year, Michigan football fans are going to want to eat up as many highlights from The Game, as the Wolverines shocked the college football world by going into Columbus as three-score underdogs and upset No. 2 Ohio State. While there was much more on the line for the maize and blue in each …

Getty Images The New Orleans Saints lost a shot to stay in the NFC South race on Sunday, falling to the Los Angeles Rams. They also lost one of their utility man Taysom Hill, one of their top playmakers, to a knee injury that’s likely to sideline the veteran for the remainder of the 2024 NFL season, according to NFL …

5 things I care about The Bills have so many ways to win It feels strange to write this on a night when the Bills won their fifth-straight AFC East title but Week 13 provided a reminder of why this particular group feels more dynamic and versatile than many previous iterations. The Bills’ Sunday Night Football win over the 49ers …

With “Rivalry Week” highlighting the final week of the college football regular season, numerous upsets on Friday and Saturday caused chaos within the updated US LBM Coaches Poll. Starting with Friday night’s Pioneer Heroes Classic between Iowa and Nebraska, the Hawkeyes’ hard-nosed and rugged physicality proved pivotal as Iowa won 13-10 on a game-winning 53-yard field goal from Drew Stevens …

Do-it-all Saints tight end Taysom Hill converted a key fourth down with another physical run on a direct snap — and that was his last play of the afternoon. Coming off a career-best performance against the Cleveland Browns in New Orleans’ previous game, Hill was carted off the field with a left knee injury at the 4:36 mark of the …

Getty Images Josh Allen isn’t one to quit on a play. That was rarely clearer than on Sunday night against the San Francisco 49ers, when the Buffalo Bills quarterback managed to throw and catch a touchdown on the same play. Firing a short third-quarter pass to Amari Cooper in the red zone, Allen proceeded to race up for a lateral …

The NFL has officially hit December as playoff races are heating up around the league. In what was one of the wildest weeks in recent memory, 12 games were decided by seven-or-fewer points — tied for the most in a single week in NFL history. Three teams recorded a game-winning score in the final minute of the fourth quarter or …

Photo: Isaiah Hole At the conclusion of the Michigan football upset victory over No. 2 Ohio State, the Wolverines did exactly as they did in 2022 by taking the Michigan flag and planting it at midfield at Ohio Stadium. But unlike in 2022, the Buckeyes weren’t having it, as they rushed the collected Wolverines, starting a series of postgame scuffles, …

Josh Allen dives for a receiving — and a passing touchdown. (AP Photo/Adrian Kraus) Well, you haven’t seen this one before. Josh Allen scored one of the more remarkable touchdowns of this — or any season — Sunday night against the San Francisco 49ers. The Buffalo Bills quarterback was credited with a touchdown pass and a touchdown reception on the …

CHICAGO — The Big Ten expanded from 14 to 18 teams this year, watched Curt Cignetti revive an Indiana program that’s been underground for more than half a century, and arguably established itself as the nation’s dominant college football conference with three of the top four-ranked College Football Playoff teams entering the final weekend of the regular season. Everything was …

Week 13 in the 2024 NFL season, perhaps like your Thanksgiving meal, was not without its mess. The ugly finishes and strange special teams results from the Thursday and Friday matchups bled into Sunday as weird kicking, turnovers and baffling play continued through the weekend. Nate Tice & Charles McDonald discuss their 5 most important games from Sunday’s action, starting …

Gus Malzahn just gave UCF’s administration and its fan base the best early Christmas present he could ever give them. On this just-completed Thanksgiving weekend, I believe Knight Nation owes Malzahn a huge debt of gratitude. He voluntarily resigned as the head football coach on Saturday, apparently forfeited most of the $12 million in contract buyout money he could have …