Editor’s Note: This article first appeared on Rivals.com, the leader in college football and basketball recruiting coverage. Be the first to know and follow your teams by signing up here. The transfer portal opened more than two weeks ago with a flurry of activity. Here are the biggest transfer announcements from day 16 of the 2025 transfer portal cycle. RELATED: Ranking the …

All the Steelers want for Christmas is a defensive stop, but they haven’t gotten one yet. Patrick Mahomes threw his second touchdown pass in as many possessions and Harrison Butker made the extra point this time, so the Chiefs lead 13-0 in Pittsburgh with four minutes left to play in the first quarter. It looked like the Steelers might get …

Ohio State Buckeyes Offensive Coordinator Chip Kelly during at Woody Hayes Athletic Center on March 05, 2024 in Columbus, Ohio. (Jason Mowry/Getty Images) Ohio State’s offense has hit the gas ever since the team lost 32-31 to Oregon on Oct. 12, going 6-1 and outsourcing opponents 211-79. A late game penalty helped the Ducks run out the clock on a …

The Steelers got the ball first in Pittsburgh on Wednesday afternoon, but the Chiefs have the early lead. Patrick Mahomes hit wide receiver Xavier Worthy for a seven-yard touchdown to cap Kansas City’s first possession of the day. Worthy picked up an unsportsmanlike conduct penalty for lifting his shirt as if to show a gun after the score, which forced …

Army football goes bowling this week with a lineup that has seen little change over the first 13 games, save for one notable departure. The Black Knights face Louisiana Tech in the Independence Bowl on Saturday (9:15 p.m. ET, ESPN). Sophomore running back Kanye Udoh entered the NCAA transfer portal following the loss to Navy and quickly committed to Arizona …

The Giants have nothing but draft position at stake in the final two weeks of the regular season, but wide receiver Malik Nabers has a shot at setting the rookie receptions record. Nabers’s bid to pass Puka Nacua’s mark and outdo Raiders rookie tight end Brock Bowers’s own run could be hindered by a toe injury. The Giants listed Nabers …

BYU kicker Jason Chaffetz lines up game-winning field goal during the Freedom Bowl against Colorado, Dec. 29, 1988. The Cougars prevailed, 20-17. | Mark A. Philbrick, BYU Ty Detmer never liked ending a drive with a field goal. He was all about scoring touchdowns and his school-record 121 passing touchdowns may stand forever. But in Detmer’s first big game at …

The Steelers will have wide receiver George Pickens in the lineup on Christmas, but they won’t have quarterback Justin Fields. As expected, Pickens is making his return to action after missing the last three games with a hamstring injury. Pickens did not have an injury designation on the team’s final injury report ahead of their home game against the Steelers. …

USA Today Sports photos Editor’s Note: This article first appeared on Rivals.com, the leader in college football and basketball recruiting coverage. Be the first to know and follow your teams by signing up here. Sophomore running back Justice Haynes has put a premium on winning programs. Haynes attended prep powerhouse Buford (Ga.) HIgh, and then picked Alabama with the hopes of winning …

USATSI The Queen of Christmas hit our televisions on Dec. 25 to kick off the NFL holiday action. Singer Mariah Carey performed ahead of the matchup between the Kansas City Chiefs and Pittsburgh Steelers, which can be streamed on Netflix. The game kicked off at 1 p.m. ET and a taped performance of her 16-time platinum single showed right before the …

Ensworth defensive back Justin Hopkins included Tennessee football among his final 12 schools in a social media post Wednesday. The 5-foot-11, 170-pound four-star cornerback listed Josh Heupel’s Vols along with Vanderbilt, Minnesota, Duke, Missouri, Indiana, Georgia Tech, Maryland, Iowa, Ole Miss, Auburn and West Virginia on his X account, formerly Twitter. He’s the No. 9-ranked prospect in Tennessee and No. …

Last year, the Seahawks unceremoniously kicked head coach Pete Carroll to the curb. This year, he’s looking for a new NFL ride. Adam Schefter of ESPN.com reports that Carroll wants back in. Which means, frankly, that Carroll’s agent has specifically told this to Schefter in the hopes that Schefter would broadcast it to the world, in the hopes of generating …

Kansas State football limped to the finish line of the regular season with three losses in its last four games but has a chance to finish on a high note against Rutgers in the Rate Bowl, which kicks off at 4:30 p.m. central Thursday at Chase Field in Phoenix. If the Wildcats (8-4) prevail, it would give them a third …

USATSI The Queen of Christmas will be hitting our televisions on Dec. 25 to kick off the NFL holiday action. Singer Mariah Carey will perform ahead of the matchup between the Kansas City Chiefs and Pittsburgh Steelers, which can be streamed on Netflix. The game the game kicks off at 1 p.m. ET and a taped performance of her 16-time platinum …

Former Penn State quarterbackBeau Pribula now knows where his new home in college football will be starting next season. The redshirt sophomore quarterback spent the last week going on various visits after entering the transfer portal on Dec. 15. Pribula will transfer to Missouri his agency told Matt Zenitz of 247Sports. In addition to Missouri, Pribula visited Iowa, UCF and …