Florida Gators running back Dameon Pierce (27) warms up for the Union Home Mortgage Gasparilla Bowl where they played the Central Florida Knights Thursday, December 23, 2021, in Raymond James Stadium in Tampa, FL. [Doug Engle/Ocala Star-Banner]2021 Oca 122324 Ufvsucfgasbowl The Florida Gators will face the Tulane Green Wave in the 2024 Union Home Mortgage Gasparilla Bowl in Tampa, Fla., …

NFL Week 14 winners and losers: Vikings receivers shine, Browns’ drought continues originally appeared on NBC Sports Philadelphia Several playoff contenders were on bye in Week 14 — but that didn’t make Sunday any less exciting. Four of the seven games in the early window were decided by six points or less, including one that went to overtime and three …

Sunday was a day of celebration for many prominent teams as they saw their names unveiled on the 12-team College Football Playoff bracket. At-large programs like SMU, Indiana, Tennessee and even Ohio State can breathe a sigh of relief knowing, with certainty, that they will have a shot at playing for a national championship.  For all the joy that the …

The NFL has 13 weeks of action in the books, and we’re now heading down the final stretch of the regular season with the calendar flipped to December. Just five weeks remain in the 2024 regular season, and the playoff picture is starting to crystalize.  The Kansas City Chiefs have already secured a spot in the postseason, as did the …

Before he became an ESPN college football analyst and one of the faces of the sport, Kirk Herbstreit was an Ohio State quarterback, suiting up for the Buckeyes from 1989-92. Now, one of his sons is headed to his alma mater’s hated rival. Chase Herbstreit, a quarterback in the 2025 recruiting class, has committed to Michigan, he announced Sunday to …

Once more time, Kirk Cousins thrilled the home crowd in Minnesota. Unfortunately for Cousins, though, he was wearing the road team’s uniform. Cousins and the Atlanta Falcons, stumbling through a three-game losing streak and on the verge of losing their division lead, came into Minnesota hoping to level out what’s become a late-season spiral. Instead, the spiral grew only steeper …

Nearly all the debate in the final hours of College Football Playoff deliberation centered around whether SMU or Alabama should claim the final spot. It was an argument between how harshly the committee should punish championship game losers in comparison to teams sitting at home, but also how much a team should be rewarded for its strength of schedule, even …

USATSI Carolina Panthers rookie running back Jonathon Brooks has been ruled out for the remainder of Sunday’s Week 14 matchup with the Philadelphia Eagles due to a right knee injury.  Brooks suffered the non-contact injury in the first quarter after taking a first-and-10 handoff from the Philadelphia 23-yard line. As he ran left and tried to plant his foot down …

National Signing Day has come and gone and while the 2025 class is not finished since there is a late signing period in February as well, most of the action happened this week. Rivals is breaking down each Top 25 recruiting class and we continue here with No. 9 Texas A&M. MORE AGGIES: Texas A&M’s 2025 recruiting class MORE TEAM …

Las Vegas Raiders quarterback Aidan O’Connell left Sunday’s game with air cast on his left leg. (AP Photo/Chris O’Meara) Las Vegas Raiders quarterback Aidan O’Connell left Sunday’s game against the Bucs on a cart with an air cast on his left leg after being injured on a late hit. The injury took place late in the third quarter as the …

Getty Images The first edition of the expanded College Football Playoff bracket has been set with 12 teams now afforded an opportunity to make a run towards a national championship. The new-look CFP is more of an event than the four-team field ever was, or the BCS before it, with action expanding across a month between December and January — …

USATSI Kirk Cousins called U.S. Bank Stadium home from 2018 to 2023 as the starting quarterback for the Minnesota Vikings, and for the first time since his move to the Atlanta Falcons, he is facing his former team. Cousins had a winning record and three playoff appearances with the Vikings, but fans have officially moved on.  As Cousins took the …

The Illinois football team is headed to Orlando, Florida, to take on South Carolina in the Citrus Bowl Game that will be held in Camping World Stadium on Dec. 31, 2024. Coach Bret Bielema and the Fighting Illini (9-3) closed strong with three consecutive wins for their first nine-win regular season since 2007. Illinois is now headed to its second bowl game in …

Jonathon Brooks suffered a non-contact knee injury on Sunday. (Grant Halverson/Getty Images) Three weeks into his return from an ACL tear, Jonathon Brooks is injured again. The rookie Carolina Panthers running back slipped to the turf and limped toward the sideline with a non-contact knee injury on Sunday against the Philadelphia Eagles. He was eventually taken to the locker room …

Nick Saban, wearing a red tie and blazer, made a passionate argument on ESPN around the potential consequences to leaving Alabama, a school that still pays him a half-million annually, out of this year’s 12-team College Football Playoff field. Saban, who retired in January after 17 seasons and six national championships at Alabama, centered his argument around Alabama’s strength of …