The 2025 Bahamas Bowl will be the final game outside the College Football Playoff of the season, as the Buffalo Bulls will take on the Liberty Flames. Buffalo went 8-4 during the regular season and was 6-2 in the MAC, while Liberty finished at 8-3 overall and went 5-3 in Conference USA. These two programs played each other in the …

Defensive tackle Otito Ogbonnia was a Charger the last time they made the playoffs and sees something different in the current team. (Kyusung Gong / Associated Press) The joy of clinching a playoff berth didn’t erase the pain of Otito Ogbonnia’s last postseason memory. Perhaps the Chargers’ 27-point collapse in Jacksonville two years ago only enhanced the thrill of returning …

Amos Alonzo Stagg Bowl game day is almost here. Mount Union and North Central will square off for the NCAA Division III football national championship Sunday at Houston’s Shell Energy Stadium. Kickoff time on ESPN is 8:03 p.m. Here are eight things to know about this year’s Stagg Bowl. Mount Union’s Brandon Yanssens reacts following the NCAA Division III semifinal …

Backup quarterback Jimmy Garoppolo joined the Rams knowing what his role would be. (Gary Klein / Los Angeles Times) This could play out differently. What Rams quarterback Jimmy Garoppolo does on Sunday against the Seattle Seahawks — and what might happen during the offseason — might make it so. In 2022, quarterback Baker Mayfield started the Rams’ regular-season finale, an …

Jan 2, 2025; New Orleans, LA, USA; Georgia Bulldogs defensive lineman Tyrion Ingram-Dawkins (93) reacts on the bench in the final minute against the Notre Dame Fighting Irish during the fourth quarter at Caesars Superdome. Mandatory Credit: Geoff Burke-Imagn Images The Georgia Bulldogs 2024 college football season is over after UGA lost, 23-10, to the Notre Dame Fighting Irish in …

While the long shadow of another quadrennial upheaval threatened to diminish the NFL’s stranglehold on American media consumption, the 2024 election cycle had relatively little impact on the league’s TV ratings. Unlike 2016, when NFL deliveries fell 8% in the face of the Trump-Clinton race, this season’s numbers are flat versus the heady year-ago turnout of 17.8 million viewers per …

The College Football Playoff quarterfinals are over, which means bowl season is nearly complete. There are a pair of non-CFP games on Friday, in matchups including Texas State, Minnesota, Virginia Tech and North Texas all in action on the second-to-last day of non-CFP games. REQUIRED READING: College football postseason rematches: Ohio State-Oregon to face again in CFP All four teams …

Eagles running back Saquon Barkley won’t be in the lineup against his former team on Sunday, but he remained on the Giants’ minds as they move toward the end of the season. It has been easy to see how Barkley’s on-field production has been lacking from the Giants offense this season and his former teammates said that he might have …

Peyton Manning played here. Lamar Jackson, Philip Rivers, Michael Vick, Donovan McNabb, Archie Manning and Pat Sullivan, too. But no one in 80 years of TaxSlayer Gator Bowl college football had ever matched the numbers of Jaxson Dart on Thursday night — even if that was news to Jaxson Dart himself. “Yeah, that’s pretty cool. I didn’t know that,” the …

At the conclusion of every fantasy football season, it’s a good exercise to look back at what circumstances led to your ultimate fate — whether you walked away with a first-place trophy or reigned supreme in your league’s Toilet Bowl. Perhaps the most important aspect of that self-reflection is to look back at our worst picks. Why did we make …

Jalen Milroe is no longer in Alabama football’s quarterback room. But he has a better idea than most of what the Crimson Tide will have at its disposal in 2025. “When you have guys who love it as well, it’s nothing but passion that’s poured into the football field,” Milroe said Nov. 19. “That’s what we have.” One will take …

The Bengals handed out injury designations for Saturday’s game against the Steelers and a couple of key skill position players earned questionable tags. Running back Chase Brown remained out of practice with the ankle injury he suffered in last Saturday’s win over the Broncos while wide receiver Tee Higgins was a limited participant due to the ankle and knee issues …

Illinois football orchestrated a turnaround season under fourth-year coach Bret Bielema, winning 10 games for the first time since 2001 — capped by a dramatic victory in the Citrus Bowl on New Year’s Eve. From preseason picks, through the regular season — all the way to the postgame Cheez-It dump — here is every story the Journal Star wrote about …

The Detroit Lions and Minnesota Vikings meet on Sunday night for the NFC North crown and home-field advantage until the Super Bowl.Photograph: Stephen Maturen/Getty Images Game of the week Minnesota Vikings (14-2) v Detroit Lions (14-2) The final game of the regular season and it all comes down to this. Two titans battle for the NFC North crown, home-field advantage …

Duke football coach Manny Diaz referenced Penn State as he discussed the Blue Devils’ blowout loss to Ole Miss in the Gator Bowl on Thursday in Florida. Following Duke’s 52-20 loss to the 14th-ranked Rebels in Jacksonville, Diaz highlighted how the Nittany Lions bounced back from a double-digit loss to Ole Miss last season to become a squad that has …