College Football

It’s report card season at Razorbacks Wire. All you need to pass the course is a C. Anything worse than that can result in revocation of your scholarship. The question, Arkansas, is did you make it? Silly introductions aside, grading the Razorbacks in the 2023 football season was actually a bit harder than normal. Injuries shook things up, weighing one …

The Notre Dame Fighting Irish, the most famous football program in the United States, ended their 2023 season not on NBC or ABC or Fox, but on Pac-12 Network. We knew this game was going to be on Pac-12 Network, but a lot of casual fans did not. On this Thanksgiving weekend, they were probably visiting family and wanted to …

James Madison and Jacksonville State are bowl-bound after all. The two transitioning FBS programs are officially ineligible for the postseason but will be going to bowl games because there aren’t enough six-win teams to fill all the bowl spots. With 82 bowl spots available, there are 79 bowl-eligible teams with six wins or more. NCAA rules prohibit teams in their …

It will take a little getting used to still, but Jonathan Smith is your new head coach of Michigan State football. First order of business? Getting his staff together, and it seems like he is prioritizing his top coaches from Oregon State, which makes a lot of sense. Oregon State had a few assistant coaches who were very well respected …

3rd Quarter Report Fortunes may be turning around for San Diego State after losing four in a row. They have a bit of a cushion as they currently lead Fresno State 23-10. San Diego State’s offense has been firing on all cylinders thus far, outscoring their total from last Saturday with time still left to play. San Diego State came …

The Iron Bowl is the best rivalry in college football for a reason. Whenever Auburn and Alabama faceoff in Jordan-Hare Stadium something wild seems to happen and that was once again the case on Saturday. A week after losing to New Mexico State, the Tigers went blow for blow with the Crimson Tide and were one play away from pulling …

There are no excueses. Ohio State dug itself a hole and could not recover, losing a hard-fought game to Michigan 30-24. In the end, costly turnovers and a non-aggressive game plan did the Buckeyes in. Ohio State did play well enough to keep them in the conversation for the College Football Playoff, but it will need a lot of help …

PISCATAWAY, N.J. — Max Melton and Kyle Monangai both participated in the Senior Day celebrations for Rutgers football on Saturday afternoon, but neither player has made a decision about their future. At least, not a public decision. With the rise of players opting out of bowl games to jumpstart their NFL draft preparation, Melton and Monangai certainly have some big …

Brian Kelly is working hard on recruiting cornerbacks for the 2025 recruiting class. That search has led him to Cedartown, Georgia, where he found a four-star cornerback who is currently committed to Georgia. Tae Harris is a four-star, 6-foot, 180-pound cornerback from Cedartown, Georgia, where he plays for Cedartown High School. The Cedartown Bulldogs finished the 2023 season 8-4 with …

One player bet, the other one raised, the first player called, and the chips were pushed to the middle of the table. Flip the cards, let’s see what everyone has. Oregon Ducks QB Bo Nix and LSU QB Jayden Daniels have been deadlocked in a battle for the Heisman Trophy over the past few weeks, and with the regular season …

Nov. 26—SEATTLE — Behind the leg of a walk-on kicker, No. 4 Washington kept its undefeated season and national title hopes alive in its last regular-season game as a Pac-12 team after spending more than a century in the league. For Washington State, that 42-yard field goal by UW kicker Grady Gross as time expired ended its season and its …

Notre Dame v Stanford The numbers are the highlights. That was in some part because Stanford was so overmatched against Notre Dame, the Cardinal program in a deeper hole than at any previous point this century and its path back to mediocrity looking like a narrow one that will test all the ingenuity of first-year head coach Troy Taylor. But …

With the college football regular season coming to a close, the Texas A&M coaching search is coming into focus. And as we all expected, it’s a rollercoaster finding the next Aggies football coach. Though it appeared on Saturday that Texas A&M was ready to move forward with its top target, Kentucky coach Mark Stoops, with an announcement imminent, Stoops instead …

College football has evolved quite a bit since the Misery Index came into existence a decade ago, but one thing about this sport hasn’t changed: The bigger the stakes, the bigger the misery. Is that still going to be the case next year and beyond? We ask that question as the 2023 regular season concludes because, 12 months from now, …

UCLA quarterback Dante Moore (3) is sacked by Cal linebacker David Reese (7) late in the fourth quarter at the Rose Bowl Saturday. (Gina Ferazzi / Los Angeles Times) It felt like so much of what had come before it under Chip Kelly. A week after posting a riveting victory, UCLA sustained the sort of loss that made one question …