The end of the college football season was only a couple of weeks ago, although we are already getting closer and closer to the opening of spring football practices around the country, and the hype for a game-shifting 2024 season in college football is already building. Fox analyst Joel Klatt is among the many ready to look forward to next …

Both the Tampa Bay Buccaneers and Detroit Lions are coming off inspiring wild-card victories, drawing one step closer to an NFC Championship appearance. It’s a true testament not only to Detroit’s gradual growth into a balanced contender, but also Tampa Bay’s scrappiness as an overlooked NFC South champion. Their upcoming divisional round matchup is must-see material. While both sides have …

Texans quarterbacks coach Jerrod Johnson is on the list of offensive coordinator candidates in New Orleans. Jonathan Jones of CBS Sports reports that the Saints have requested permission to interview Johnson for the post. The Saints fired Pete Carmichael after the end of the regular season. Johnson spent time with the 49ers, Colts, and Vikings before getting his current job …

The No. 11 Auburn Tigers cruised to its 11th straight win on Saturday by taking care of No. 21 Ole Miss, 82-59 in front of a rowdy crowd at Neville Arena. Auburn’s defense played a key role in the win, as they limited Ole Miss, who has four players with double-digit scoring averages, to shoot just 36.8% from the field. …

Playoff Pete is back. Yep, I had a nice start to the postseason. I went 5-1 against the spread, but 3-3 straight up. I’ll take it. The only ATS loss I had wasn’t close. I had the Cleveland Browns beating the Houston Texans, which never had a chance. The ATS week brings my season record to 139-128-11. My straight-up record …

When it comes to my picks for the wild-card round, I didn’t have a great week, but I also didn’t choke as hard as the Cowboys did, so I’m not going to get too down on myself.  I went 3-3 straight-up, which wasn’t ideal, but I slightly canceled that out by going 4-2 against the spread. I was clearly overthinking …

The Detroit Lions and their playoff failures are well known, having only two playoff victories since their last championship in 1957. One of those wins came in the wild-card round last week, as the Lions are one victory away from their first conference championship game since the 1991 season.  Detroit hosts its second playoff game in as many weeks, the …

New Michigan State football coach Jonathan Smith is known for being a quarterbacks coach, and the Spartans are looking for their next big quarterback addition after successfully adding big transfer pick-ups like Aidan Chiles and Tommy Schuster. On Saturday, the Spartans offered TJ Lateef, a 4-star quarterback in the 2025 recruiting class. Lateef had already been offered by Smith when …

For the second straight year, Brock Purdy has led the San Francisco 49ers to the NFC Championship game, but if Kyle Shanahan had gotten his way during the offseason, Purdy would NOT have been the team’s starting quarterback this season.  According to ESPN.com, Shanahan was actually hoping to have Tom Brady as his quarterback during the 2023 season, but it …

Could Chip Kelly be on his way back to the NFL? According to Jonathan Jones of CBS Sports, multiple head-coaching candidates have mentioned Kelly as a possible offensive coordinator. Multiple teams have started looking further into Kelly and doing their due diligence on him as a candidate. Kelly, 60, has been UCLA’s head coach since 2018, compiling a 35-34 record. …

The top-seeded San Francisco 49ers’ fifth consecutive playoff win over the seventh-seeded Green Bay Packers, a 24-21 rollercoaster of a contest in the NFC Divisional Round, continued a trend of clutch play for the 49ers come playoff time and another run of late-game playoff misery for the Packers. Both franchises have 37 playoff wins, tied with the New England Patriots …

Amon-Ra St. Brown was an elite Fantasy football receiver throughout the season. The Lions’ wideout averaged eight receptions for 113 receiving yards with a touchdown in his final four regular-season contests while recording at least 100 total yards in all four games. He carried that production into the NFL playoffs with seven receptions for 110 yards in Detroit’s 24-23 victory …

Paul Randolph, pictured last April when he was Indiana’s defensive line coach, recently accepted the same position with Oklahoma State. Randolph’s ties to Oklahoma run deep. STILLWATER — Not long after he arrived for his new job as a defensive graduate assistant with the Arizona State football program, Ray Brown suddenly found himself sharing his coaching dreams with a man …

Getty Images The Buffalo Bills overcame both extreme winter weather and the seventh-seeded Pittsburgh Steelers to earn the opportunity to play host to the defending Super Bowl champion Kansas City Chiefs and Patrick Mahomes in the AFC divisional round on Sunday. Mahomes will be experiencing his first true road playoff game in his career after playing his first 15 either …

USATSI San Francisco 49ers star wide receiver Deebo Samuel’s status for the NFC Championship is up in the air, as he deals with a shoulder injury. Samuel suffered the injury during the team’s 24-21 Divisional Round win over the Green Bay Packers on Saturday. He was originally ruled questionable to return and was eventually downgraded to out.  He will have …