College Football

ESPN “College GameDay” will be at the Georgia-Alabama game on Dec. 2. Georgia and Alabama are playing against each other in the SEC championship game. GameDay will run from 9 a.m. until noon ET. GameDay picked the Georgia-Alabama game over Oregon-Washington and Michigan-Iowa. “College GameDay” previously attended the Georgia versus Ole Miss game this season, which the Bulldogs won in …

The mood had darkened like the skies above. It was quiet as a sanctuary inside the cavernous Big House with the home crowd subdued and on edge. Ohio State had just cobbled together its most impressive drive of the game, tearing through Michigan football’s defensive front on a 75-yard march to the end zone that left the score tied at …

Jeff Brohm used the term “ridiculous” five times and “disappointing” four times Saturday after his ninth-ranked Cardinals lost the Governor’s Cup for the fifth consecutive time. The sentiments summarized the frustrated, first-year Cardinals coach’s feelings after Kentucky rallied to defeat Louisville, 38-31, at L&N Stadium. U of L led, 24-14, late in the third quarter and had the momentum with …

Michigan football won The Game. The Wolverines, led by interim coach Sherrone Moore, were ranked No. 3 entering Week 13, and a 30-24 win over No. 2 Ohio State clinched their second consecutive 12-0 regular season and a likely No. 2 spot in the polls. Michigan, with Jim Harbaugh set to return for the Big Ten Championship Game, will face …

The Iron Bowl is the gift that keeps on giving. The Alabama-Auburn game has provided some of the most unbelievable finishes in college football history. The 2023 edition of the Iron Bowl featured Alabama connecting on a miracle fourth-and-31 play in the final second of the game to keep their College Football Playoff hopes alive. Rivalry Week across the SEC …

Sabino celebrates after winning the 3A state championship game. In a game dominated by a matchup of two star quarterbacks, it was a running back that made the difference as senior Mason Cade’s five touchdowns led the way for No. 4-seed Tucson Sabino in its 68-46 win over No. 3-seed Surprise Paradise Honors in the 3A state championship game held …

Two years ago, Florida football coach Billy Napier energized the fanbase with his mantra, “scared money don’t make money.” Before a sellout crowd on Saturday night at The Swamp, Napier continued his more recent trend of coaching scared. Those decisions came back to bite the Florida Gators, as UF was unable to hold an early 12-0 lead in an eventual …

Mission Viejo High’s Jack Matranga, right, gets a hug from teammate Grant Nichols after his five-yard touchdown catch on a fake field-goal attempt in the Southern Section Division 2 championship win over Servite. (Steve Galluzzo / For The Times) Ahead by 13 points late in the first half of Saturday night’s Southern Section Division 2 championship football game, Mission Viejo …

The Gophers football regular season is mercifully over, and it can be stated unequivocally that the campaign was a pig. That’s the extent of it. They won a bronze pig for the first time in forever. After that, meh. A real dud. Given a chance to salvage at least a modicum of positive vibes Saturday, they drop-kicked that into the …

His eyes red from tears and his voice cracking, Cody Lindenberg sat behind a table and offered his thoughts, as difficult as it was to do. The Gophers an hour earlier had lost 28-14 to Wisconsin on Saturday at Huntington Bank Stadium, seeing the Badgers parade off with Paul Bunyan’s Axe for the first time since 2020 and watching Minnesota’s …

College football never seems to disappoint and that has been true so far in 2023 as well. The regular season is now over, and with Ohio State losing to Michigan, there’s going to be a bit of a shakeup at the top that the College Football Playoff committee will have to sort out. It’ll be very telling on whether the …

Rivalry Week always brings chaos, and the final regular-season Saturday of the 2023 season was no exception. Five of the six teams that played as heavy favorites on Saturday failed to cover while Louisville lost to rival Kentucky.  But with the chaos came magical moments. Alabama put together an all-time sequence to survive Auburn. Michigan blasted past Ohio State thanks …

Joel Klatt may have annoyed some Michigan football fans watching The Game on TV with his contrarian calls on some big plays against Ohio State, but Klatt is always fair and balanced. And he’s long been in favor of what the Wolverines are doing on the football field. Last week, Klatt had Georgia as his No. 1 team, surpassing the …

It was rivalry week for many teams across college football and it created a lot of instant classics. While some were of the big game variety (Michigan football’s win over Ohio State, Oregon vs. Oregon State), many others saw surprisingly close games (Georgia vs. Georgia Tech, Alabama vs. Auburn, Washington vs. Washington State). For the moment, Michigan football can boast …

COLUMBIA — When Clemson football coach Dabo Swinney brought former backup kicker Jonathan Weitz back to the roster after Week 3, he said it would either go great or terribly. For a while, it looked like it would be the latter. Weitz had spent four seasons as a walk-on backup to star kicker B.T. Potter and had never attempted a …