College Football

The winter transfer portal has officially opened, meaning the Texas Tech football team will have some players headed elsewhere and others coming to Lubbock from other locales. This round of the transfer portal officially opens Dec. 9 and closes on Dec. 28. Players have until then to request their names be put into the portal though they may not officially …

Howard – Joseph Maiorana-Imagn Images The US LBM Coaches Poll, presented by USA TODAY Sports, has been released, one week before the College Football Playoff field is revealed. With the conference championship games coming up this Friday and Saturday, college football is arriving at its climactic weekend. Big Ten teams could occupy four spots in the playoff, and one of …

The Boise State Broncos play the UNLV Rebels in the Mountain West championship game on Friday, Dec. 6 at Albertsons Stadium in Boise, Idaho. Which team will win the game? Check out these picks and predictions for the game, which is scheduled to begin at 6 p.m. MST and can be seen on FOX (stream with this free trial from …

Dec. 1—MISSOULA — Tennessee State football coach Eddie George has played and seen a lot of football, and he had the Montana Grizzlies pretty well scouted coming into their first-round FCS playoff game Saturday. Yet three things stood out in Montana’s 41-27 win, besides the Tigers’ ball-hawking: Eli Gillman, the loudness of a stadium that was less than 50 percent …

Aug 30, 2024; Columbus, OH, USA; Ohio State Buckeyes head coach Ryan Day and athletic director Ross Bjork attend the unveiling of a statue for former Buckeyes running back Archie Griffin outside Ohio Stadium. The Ohio State football program has now lost four-straight games to arch-rival Michigan, and if you thought the seat was hot for Ryan Day according to …

Following a record-setting season with the Iowa Hawkeyes, junior running back Kaleb Johnson announced that he is declaring for the 2025 NFL draft. Johnson authored a truly memorable 2024 season. The 6-foot, 225 pound running back set Iowa single-season records in points (138), total touchdowns (23) and rushing scores (21). Johnson ends his 2024 season with 240 carries for 1,537 …

Two juniors who have been slowed by injuries this season are returning to form as No. 3 Penn State prepares to face No. 1 Oregon in the Big Ten championship game in Indianapolis. Running back Nick Singleton accounted for 170 all-purpose yards and two touchdowns in the Nittany Lions’ 44-7 shellacking of Maryland Saturday at Beaver Stadium. Defensive end Dani …

Jaylen Reed had plans to go to New York City Sunday, but he was glad to scrap them. Instead, Reed and his Penn State football teammates practiced in preparation for the Big Ten championship game against No. 1 Oregon. The thank you notes are on their way from Lasch Building to Schembechler Hall in Ann Arbor, Mich. Coupled with Michigan’s …

Photo: Isaiah Hole For the fourth straight year, Michigan football fans are going to want to eat up as many highlights from The Game, as the Wolverines shocked the college football world by going into Columbus as three-score underdogs and upset No. 2 Ohio State. While there was much more on the line for the maize and blue in each …

With “Rivalry Week” highlighting the final week of the college football regular season, numerous upsets on Friday and Saturday caused chaos within the updated US LBM Coaches Poll. Starting with Friday night’s Pioneer Heroes Classic between Iowa and Nebraska, the Hawkeyes’ hard-nosed and rugged physicality proved pivotal as Iowa won 13-10 on a game-winning 53-yard field goal from Drew Stevens …

Photo: Isaiah Hole At the conclusion of the Michigan football upset victory over No. 2 Ohio State, the Wolverines did exactly as they did in 2022 by taking the Michigan flag and planting it at midfield at Ohio Stadium. But unlike in 2022, the Buckeyes weren’t having it, as they rushed the collected Wolverines, starting a series of postgame scuffles, …

CHICAGO — The Big Ten expanded from 14 to 18 teams this year, watched Curt Cignetti revive an Indiana program that’s been underground for more than half a century, and arguably established itself as the nation’s dominant college football conference with three of the top four-ranked College Football Playoff teams entering the final weekend of the regular season. Everything was …

Gus Malzahn just gave UCF’s administration and its fan base the best early Christmas present he could ever give them. On this just-completed Thanksgiving weekend, I believe Knight Nation owes Malzahn a huge debt of gratitude. He voluntarily resigned as the head football coach on Saturday, apparently forfeited most of the $12 million in contract buyout money he could have …

Ohio State coach Ryan Day has the Buckeyes on the precipice of a return to the College Football Playoff, but following a fourth straight loss to rival Michigan on Saturday — the latest coming with OSU falling 13-10 to UM despite entering as a 20-point favorite — plenty of questions have arisen about his future leading one of the sport’s …

Dec. 1—GRAND FORKS — The UND football program has a head football coaching opening for the first time since 2013. On Saturday, UND announced head coach Bubba Schweigert was stepping down for an athletic department role at the university. Here’s a look at candidates to consider. The list is in alphabetical order. Beau Baldwin, Calgary Stampede quarterbacks coach: UND athletic …