As if the sting of watching Penn State lose to Notre Dame in the Orange Bowl to miss out on a chance to play in the College Football Playoff national championship game didn’t hurt enough, Ohio State poured some salt on the wounds on Friday night. The Buckeyes came away with a Cotton Bowl victory over Texas to punch its …

The stage is set for one of the most highly anticipated national championship games in modern college football history. You know the names. Notre Dame, perhaps the sport’s defining program, fresh off College Football Playoff wins against Indiana, Georgia and Penn State. Ohio State, another heavyweight, which has responded brilliantly to another loss to Michigan to end the regular season. …

ARLINGTON, Texas – Steve Sarkisian got cute, but it sure didn’t look pretty. Sarkisian earns acclaim for being one of the nation’s premier play callers, but he fell into a familiar coaching trap Friday of trying to show just how very smart he is with a play sheet in his hands. Only, Ohio State’s defense made Sarkisian look foolish at …

The 2025 Navy All-American Bowl will introduce some prominent 2025 and 2026 prospects to the world on Saturday. The game ― previously known as the Army All-American Bowl ― will feature seven players from both classes announcing their future college commitments, adding to the intrigue of the exciting game, which features four current five-star prospects in the 2025 class, according to 247Sports Composite …

Georgia punter Noah Jones (98) punts during the first day fall football camp in Athens, Ga., on Thursday, Aug. 3, 2023. Georgia Bulldogs junior punter Noah Jones has entered the NCAA transfer portal. Jones announced his decision to enter the transfer portal via social media. Jones made his decision shortly after Georgia starting punter Brett Thorson said he’d be back …

Four five-star prospects will take the field in the 2025 Navy All-American Bowl on Saturday at the Alamodome in San Antonio, Texas. The game ― previously known as the Army All-American Bowl ― will feature top high school prospects from the 2025 and 2026 recruiting classes one day after the conclusion of the 2024 College Football Playoff semifinal. Previously, the bowl featured 594 …

. Nebraska Football has extended an offer to 2026 five-star athlete Tristen Keys. He made the announcement on X. He is the fourth overall player in the 2026 class, the top receiver in this class, and the top player in his class from the state of Mississippi per the 247Sports rankings. He has received one Crystal Ball prediction from the …

. The Nebraska Cornhuskers have been an aggressive team in the transfer portal. Matt Rhule and his staff have added 16 players to their roster for the class of 2025, and according to 247Sports, it is one of the top classes in the nation. Five of the incoming transfers play on the offensive side of the ball, nine players will …

ARLINGTON, Texas — Ohio State wide receiver Jeremiah Smith came into the Cotton Bowl as the breakout star of the College Football Playoff. In wins over Tennessee and Oregon, Smith exploded for 290 yards and four touchdowns as the Buckeyes won the matchups by a combined 45 points.  Texas came into the matchup boasting perhaps the top defense in college …

In one aspect, Hugh Freeze’s reputation has always preceded him. From Jonesboro, Arkansas, to Lynchburg, Virginia, those who have watched him work have witnessed it firsthand. Freeze’s quarterbacks have thrived, and they do so in a high-tempo, run-pass-option scheme that took college football by storm when it began to click for his Ole Miss teams in the 2010s, to the …

Texas has reached consecutive College Football Playoff semifinals and posted 25 wins over two years. You have to go all the way back to when Colt McCoy was playing quarterback during coach Mack Brown’s heyday more than 15 years ago to find a better stretch. There is no question that Texas is back. But in the wake of their 28-14 …

BOULDER,CO – 1990: Bill McCartney of the Colorado Buffaloes looks on during a 1990 season game. Bill McCartney was head coach from 1982 to 1994. (Photo by:Stephen Dunn/Getty Images) Bill McCartney, the head coach and architect of Colorado football’s 1990 national championship team, passed away on Friday evening following a lengthy battle with dementia, his family announced. “Coach Mac” was …

The 2025 College Football Playoff National Championship is set as 7-seed Notre Dame will face 8-seed Ohio State in Atlanta’s Mercedes-Benz Stadium on Monday, Jan. 20 with the sport’s most illustrious prize on the line. The Fighting Irish are gunning for their first national title since 1988, while the Buckeyes haven’t won a national title since 2014 — the debut …

ARLINGTON, Texas — Jack Sawyer had already done the hard part. He’d gotten the ball out of Quinn Ewers’ hands, ending the threat of a Texas’ game-tying score in the game’s final moments. But then Sawyer picked up the loose football and started to run. Eighty-three yards separated the Ohio State defensive end from the end zone, and he could …

Getty Images The inaugural 12-team College Football Playoff is nearing its conclusion. After all the anticipation throughout the season, the semifinals have come and gone and now there are only two teams remaining as we get set to crown a national champion for the 2024 campaign.  Now that the dust has settled, it’ll be No. 7 seed Notre Dame squaring …