Florida A&M football will return from its first Southwestern Athletic Conference and HBCU Celebration Bowl championship appearances and victories next season. The Rattlers also finished with a 12-1 record, their most wins in a season since the program’s 1978 NCAA Division I-AA championship-winning team. The sole loss came against Football Bowl Subdivision opponent South Florida, faltering 38-25 in Tampa. So, 2024 is a chance for FAMU to …

The Tampa Bay Buccaneers and Philadelphia Eagles will square off in the final game of Super Wild Card Weekend. The Buccaneers enter the 2024 NFL playoffs averaging just 88.8 rushing yards per game, which ranks dead-last in the NFL. Buccaneers running back Rachaad White is averaging 3.6 yards per carry this season, but should you consider including him in your …

Belichick to Cowboys? Playoff exit sparks fascinating scenario originally appeared on NBC Sports Boston There are a handful of intriguing NFL head coach openings for Bill Belichick to pursue this offseason. But they would pale in comparison to a potential opportunity in Dallas. The No. 2 seed Cowboys suffered a shocking upset to the No. 7 seed Green Bay Packers …

Ken “SID” Kortemeyer still hasn’t forgotten that beautiful spring day. About 30 years ago, Kortemeyer was on the campus of the University of Sioux Falls in South Dakota. Then the athletics director, Kortemeyer walked into the gym, where the office of football coach Bob Young was located. That day, Young was meeting with a recruit who was on campus for …

The Chiefs entered the 2023 NFL playoffs with perhaps more questions than at any point in recent memory, going 4-5 in Patrick Mahomes’ final nine starts and struggling to match the explosive production of past title bids. One game in, however, fresh off a 26-7 rout of the Dolphins on Saturday night, is it premature to suggest Kansas City has …

This isn’t how the Philadelphia Eagles wanted to enter the playoffs. Philadelphia has lost five of its last six games heading into the postseason, which includes consecutive losses to the Arizona Cardinals and New York Giants. The Eagles are the first team to start 10-1 and lose six-or-more games heading into the playoffs since the 1986 New York Jets.  The …

Former Oklahoma football stars Baker Mayfield and Jalen Hurts will be rivals Monday when Tampa Bay visits Philadelphia in the NFC wild-card round of the NFL playoffs. The two did not play at Oklahoma at the same time, but both were part of the Sooners’ three-year run of Heisman Trophy finalists: Mayfield won in 2017; Arizona Cardinals quarterback Kyler Murray …

Sunday night was doubly painful for Rams tight end Tyler Higbee. His team’s season came to an end with a 24-23 loss to the Lions and he was absent for the final minutes after suffering a knee injury on a hit from Lions safety Kerby Joseph in the fourth quarter. It looks like that injury will be one Higbee is …

At the end of the 2022 season, Oregon Duck fans saw offensive coordinator Kenny Dillingham leave Eugene to take a head coaching job in the state of Arizona. A year later, it looks like history has a chance to repeat itself. While Dillingham left to take over the Arizona State Sundevils, the last 24 hours have seen current Oregon OC …

Packers cornerback Jaire Alexander wasn’t a sure bet to play against the Cowboys on Sunday because he hurt his ankle when someone stepped on it during practice last week, but he wound up getting the green light to play and he made a big impact in Green Bay’s win. Alexander picked off Cowboys quarterback Dak Prescott late in the first …

TJ Lateef is one of the top quarterback prospects in the 2025 recruiting cycle and on Saturday he announced his final seven schools and the Auburn Tigers made the cut. They are battling Colorado, Florida State, Ole Miss, Arizona, Georgia, and Texas A&M for the four-star prospect. From Orange, California, he has not visited Auburn yet but he is hoping …

Greg Auman NFC South Reporter TAMPA, Fla. — As the Buccaneers’ equipment director, Brad Berlin is responsible for everything the team wears and uses — about 25,000 pounds of helmets, pads, jerseys and everything else, enough to fill a 53-foot tractor trailer or the entire belly of a 767 wide-body jet. For the past two seasons, one of the smallest …

Rams quarterback Matthew Stafford (9) and Lions quarterback Jared Goff (16) hug after the Lions defeated the Rams 24-23 during the NFC wildcard game at Ford Field in Detroit on Sunday. (Luis Sinco / Los Angeles Times) When it comes to power, Jerome “The Bus” Bettis had plenty. Over the course of 13 seasons, the legendary Pittsburgh Steelers running back …

Sheldon football defensive coordinator and Irish alum Tyler Martell will be the program’s new head coach, the school announced. The move comes after former head coach Josh Line resigned in December. Line had been Sheldon’s head coach since 2016 and led the Irish to a 60-25 record (including the shortened 2021 spring season) and state championship game appearances in 2018 and …

Jim Harbaugh and the Michigan Wolverines celebrated their national title with a parade and ceremony in Ann Arbor on Saturday and Harbaugh will be moving on to other business on Monday. According to multiple reports, Harbaugh will meet with the Chargers about their head coaching vacancy on Monday. Reports last week indicated that such a meeting was coming as Harbaugh …