The Fresno State Bulldogs (6-6) and Northern Illinois Huskies (7-5) will try to end the season on a high note when they square off in the 2024 Idaho Potato Bowl on Monday afternoon. Fresno State lost three of its final four games, including a 20-13 setback at UCLA in its finale. The Bulldogs are playing in their last game under …

The NFC playoff chase took a dynamic turn when the Washington Commanders claimed a statement victory over the Philadelphia Eagles, 36-33 in Week 16. The win kept Washington in the hunt for an NFC East title and the loss all-but dashed any hopes Philadelphia had of the NFC’s No. 1 seed. But they may have lost more than that with …

Guiding the Oregon football team to a No. 1 seed and the College Football Playoffs in just his third year as a head coach comes with good benefits for Dan Lanning. Along with several milestones through the season, Lanning and his staff earned hefty bonuses after winning a Big Ten championship earlier this month, and qualifying for the College Football …

Lions offensive coordinator Ben Johnson came into the 2024 season as a top head coaching candidate and his case has only gotten stronger. The Lions have set a franchise record for points scored with two games still to play this season and Johnson dialed up one of his most inventive play calls during Sunday’s win over the Bears. Quarterback Jared …

Ryan Day will not be fired. It never should have even been an honest talking point among the media and parts of the Ohio State fanbase that ABC’s Kirk Herbstreit labeled as the “lunatic fringe,” Saturday night in a sardonic spiel at the end of Ohio State’s 42-17 curb-stomping of Tennessee in the first round of the College Football Playoff.  …

RedZone Channel has, for years, been a refuge from commercials for NFL fans: A channel to turn on as soon as the Sunday games kick off and leave on until the last Sunday afternoon game ends, without hearing anything but football. Until last week. Last week, the league-owned RedZone Channel showed commercials for the first time. Fans were not happy …

Dec 16, 2023; Conway, SC, USA; General view of the Champions Trophy prior to the Georgia Southern Eagles and Ohio Bobcats game at Brooks Stadium. Mandatory Credit: David Yeazell-USA TODAY Sports The Coastal Carolina Chanticleers will host the UTSA Roadrunners on Tuesday inside Brook Stadium for the 2024 Myrtle Beach Bowl. If you are looking to watch the mid-week college …

DeVonta Smith takes accountability for crucial drop vs. Commanders originally appeared on NBC Sports Philadelphia LANDOVER, Md. — There wasn’t much for DeVonta Smith to say. What else could he say? “I just dropped the ball,” Smith said after the Eagles’ 36-33 loss to the Commanders on Sunday afternoon. “I ain’t gonna beat myself up over it. It’s life. It’s …

While Iowa football was one of the finalists in his transfer portal recruitment, former Penn State quarterback Beau Pribula committed to the Missouri Tigers on Sunday. Pribula visited Iowa last week and the 6-foot-2, 207 pound signal-caller was considered a top priority for first-year Hawkeye offensive coordinator Tim Lester and Iowa in their transfer portal pursuits. Though Pribula also visited …

For the opening drive of Sunday’s eventual loss to the Vikings, Seahawks cornerback Riq Woolen wasn’t on the field. After the game, coach Mike Macdonald explained that Woolen was benched for violating an unspecified rule. “That was just a team rule thing,” Macdonald said, via Brady Henderson of ESPN.com. “We made it right and that’s what we decided to do, …

The 2024 Myrtle Beach Bowl features the Coastal Carolina Chanticleers (6-6) and the UTSA Roadrunners (6-6) squaring off on Monday morning. The Chanticleers got back in the win column in the last week of the regular season. On Nov. 30, Coastal Carolina dominated Georgia State en route to a 48-27 victory. Meanwhile, UTSA had its three-game win streak put to …

Coach Sean McVay, whose Rams have won four in a row, talks with Jets quarterback Aaron Rodgers (8) after the game in New Jersey. (Seth Wenig / Associated Press) The Rams defeated the New York Jets, 19-9, on Sunday at MetLife Stadium in East Rutherford, N.J. What we learned from a victory that extended the Rams’ win streak to four …

We now know the eight quarterfinalists still alive in the College Football Playoff. Alas, we still have to wait for a little over a week before whittling the field down to four. But fret not, college football fans. There are plenty of bowl games in the meantime to keep us interested. Monday’s bowl slate features another pair of matinee contests …

The Cowboys were eliminated earlier in the day. They aren’t playing like an eliminated team. Dallas controlled the first half, outgaining Tampa Bay 243 to 194 to take a 23-14 lead into the locker room at halftime. Cooper Rush threw for 226 yards, with CeeDee Lamb catching six passes for 100 yards. Lamb now has 100 receptions for the season …

The first thing we learned from the opening round of the inaugural 12-team College Football Playoff is there really aren’t 12 teams good enough to compete for a national title. Indiana, SMU, Clemson and Tennessee were all sizable underdogs in their first-round road games, and all proved they weren’t up to the task of competing on the big stage. That …