College football will do its best college basketball impression beginning this weekend as the College Football Playoff begins in earnest Friday. The first-ever 12-team field will be featured NCAA Tournament-style with its own fancy little bracket in a single-elimination format.  It’s not quite a 68-team bracket, but it’s got potential to produce plenty of chaos similar to March Madness — …

USATSI The Los Angeles Chargers will host the Denver Broncos for a critical AFC West matchup on Thursday Night Football to begin Week 16. The Chiefs have already clinched the division, but both teams are in the NFL playoff picture with three weeks remaining and the winner will be in the driver’s seat for a spot in the postseason. These …

The upcoming ReliaQuest Bowl has the Michigan football team in some unchartered waters. In recent years at this time, the Wolverines were either preparing for College Football Playoff semifinals against Georgia in the Orange Bowl (34-11 Bulldogs), TCU in the Fiesta Bowl (51-45 Horned Frogs) or last year Alabama in the Rose Bowl (27-20 Michigan in OT) and eventually Washington …

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247Sports Five-star wide receiver Dallas Wilson has asked for a release from his financial aid agreement that he signed with Oregon during the early signing period, Wilson’s representation, EL1TE Sports Management Group, told 247Sports. The current plan is for Wilson to enroll at Florida, which made a strong push for him leading into signing day. Apparently, the Gators never wavered …

The New York Jets were eliminated from the playoffs a few weeks ago for the 14th straight season. They’re 4-10 and never really had a chance this year. It’s clear to many people that there are issues in the organization. It looks bad from the outside, but how bad could it really be? Answer: incredibly, unimaginably bad. And it all …

Oct 21, 2023; Los Angeles, California, USA; Southern California Trojans offensive linemen Mason Murphy (76) and Justin Dedich (57) during the game against the Utah Utes in the first half at United Airlines Field at Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum. Mandatory Credit: Kirby Lee-USA TODAY Sports On Tuesday, USC offensive line coach Josh Henson left to become the offensive coordinator at …

It has been a miserable season for the Giants as a team, but wide receiver Malik Nabers has a chance to earn some individual glory in the final weeks of the year. Nabers enters Week 16 needing two catches to set a Giants record for receptions by a rookie and he’s 15 catches behind the NFL record Rams wideout Puka …

AUBURN, ALABAMA – SEPTEMBER 21: Head coach Hugh Freeze of the Auburn Tigers greets fans during their Tiger Walk prior to their game against the Arkansas Razorbacks at Jordan-Hare Stadium on September 21, 2024 in Auburn, Alabama. (Photo by Michael Chang/Getty Images) Auburn boosted its roster Wednesday by adding a linebacker with SEC experience. Xavier Atkins, a linebacker from Humble, …

Only three weeks of the 2024 NFL season remain, which means we’ve had plenty of time to assess this year’s top players, and identify the best candidates to claim MVP honors. As we enter Week 16, we’ve attempted to do just that, polling more than a dozen of our NFL experts for this season’s top individual accolade. Below, you’ll find …

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The Chargers offense is set to get a little reinforcement for Thursday night’s game against the Broncos. Ian Rapoport of NFL Media reports that the team plans to activate tight end Hayden Hurst from injured reserve ahead of the game. Hurst was designated to return earlier this week and was listed as questionable to be in the lineup. Hurst has …

Dec. 19—The University of Idaho has hired Thomas Ford Jr., a former assistant coach for the Vandals, as the program’s 37th head football coach, it was announced Wednesday. Ford was Idaho’s running backs coach and special teams coordinator under former coach Jason Eck for two seasons. Most recently, he was the running backs coach at Oregon State for one season. …

For most of Travis Kelce’s career, the Chiefs have known that if they got him the ball, he was good for about 12 or 13 yards: From Kelce’s first season as the Chiefs’ starting tight end in 2014 through 2022, Kelce averaged somewhere between 12.2 and 13.5 yards per catch every year. That is no longer the case. In 2023, …

Dec 14, 2024; Chapel Hill, North Carolina, USA; North Carolina Tar Heels head football coach Bill Belichick during half time at Dean E. Smith Center. Mandatory Credit: Bob Donnan-Imagn Images The Oklahoma Sooners waded deep into the transfer portal to earn a commitment from the top quarterback in the class, John Mateer. Mateer led the nation in total touchdowns with …