For the desperately optimistic San Francisco 49ers fans, there will be a path through this brutal remaining maze and into the playoffs. They’ll point to the exceedingly tight race for the NFC West crown, which could hang in the balance until the last week of the season. They’ll cross their fingers with injuries, hoping that three of their four best …

Getty Images A huge part of the 2024 college football season has been the full-schedule debut of the Big Ten on CBS as the conference moved into the iconic broadcast spot at 3:30 p.m. ET at a time when the league has, literally, never been bigger. In total, the CBS Sports college football schedule included five different doubleheaders and three …

How 49ers’ Week 12 loss to Packers impacts NFC playoff picture originally appeared on NBC Sports Bay Area The nightmare 49ers season continues. San Francisco again got outclassed by an NFC foe, losing 38-10 to the Green Bay Packers at Lambeau Field, and fell to 5-6. The 49ers now are 3-5 in the NFC during the 2024 NFL season and …

Northern Arizona’s football season will continue Saturday in the Football Championship Subdivision (FCS) playoffs when the Lumberjacks play at No. 15 Abilene Christian in Texas at 1 p.m. MST. First-year head coach Brian Wright’s NAU team earned an at-large berth, NAU’s first playoff appearance since 2017. The Lumberjacks finished this season 8-4 with a 6-2 record in Big Sky Conference …

Getty Images Saquon Barkley had one of the greatest nights for any player in the 91-year history of the Philadelphia Eagles. No player in Eagles history rushed for 250-plus yards or had 300-plus yards from scrimmage in a game until Barkley accomplished both feats in Sunday’s 37-20 victory over the Los Angeles Rams.  Barkley finished with 26 carries for 255 …

Brandon Graham may reconsider whether this is his final NFL season, as Year 15 won’t end the way he liked. Graham admitted to reporters in the locker room he tore his triceps in the second half of the Philadelphia Eagles’ 37-20 victory over the Los Angeles Rams, and will be out for the season.  “I trust God, so I’m just …

Getty Images No. 7 Alabama’s shocking 24-3 loss at Oklahoma shakes up the SEC Championship Game picture and puts the Crimson Tide’s College Football Playoff hopes on life support. The loss drops the Crimson Tide to 8-3 and clinched the first three-loss season in Tuscaloosa since 2010. Oklahoma clinched a bowl berth with the win in Norman.  Over an eight-minute period in the middle …

Subscribe to Inside Coverage Jason Fitz and Frank Schwab join forces to break down EVERY game from the Week 12 Sunday slate. Frank & Fitz start with highlighting the three biggest games of the day, as they give their thoughts and takeaways from Saquon Barkley’s utter dominance on Sunday night, the San Francisco 49ers’ complete collapse against the Green Bay …

Quarterbacks B: Drew Allar missed some throws he usually makes, but he made game-winning plays in the second half. Running backs B: Nick Singleton accounted for 100 all-purpose yards, 67 and a touchdown on the ground and 33 through the air. Receivers A: Tyler Warren caught eight passes for 102 yards, and Harrison Wallace III and Omari Evans combined for …

The twelfth week of the NFL is nearly in the books, with just one game left to play. Several players had incredible performances, along with surprising results from multiple teams. Arguably the best performance came from Saquon Barkley, who had the best game of his career in the Sunday night matchup against the Rams. The seventh-year player had a career-high …

Brandon Graham’s season, and perhaps his career in the league, is over. The Eagles veteran defensive end went down with an injury early in Philadelphia’s 37-20 win over the Los Angeles Rams on Sunday night. After the win, Graham confirmed that he tore his left tricep and will be out for the rest of the season. Graham was incredibly emotional …

Chaos has arrived not only for college football down the stretch but also the outlook for the new top 25 rankings as well as the College Football Playoff picture could not be more unclear heading into the final week of the regular season. Three top-10 teams lost on Saturday, and in total there were seven teams that were ranked in …

When the Arizona Cardinals fired Kliff Kingsbury in January 2023, the coach who jumped from the college game to NFL head coach had developed a reputation. He was a sharp play-caller with creative offenses that had helped jumpstart 2019 first overall draft pick Kyler Murray’s career. Opposing coordinators wondered how to stop the looks he threw at them early each …

Saquon Barkley ran for touchdowns of 70 and 72 yards in the second half and finished with an Eagles-record 255 yards rushing in the streaking Philadelphia Eagles’ seventh consecutive victory, 37-20 over the Los Angeles Rams on Sunday night. Barkley racked up the ninth-most yards rushing in a game in NFL history largely thanks to his huge TD runs bookending …

James Franklin has taken deserved criticism for some of Penn State’s late-game failures during his tenure. As recently as a 20-13 loss to Ohio State earlier this month, some of Franklin’s decisions have ranged from curious to puzzling to bonkers. But not all of Franklin’s late-game decisions have made Nittany Lions fans wince or scream. He has performed brilliantly in …