Getty Images The College Football Playoff is tripling in size to 12 teams for the 2024-25 season and will take up an even greater amount of the sport’s postseason discourse. But the traditional bowl games aren’t going anywhere, and college football fans will get plenty of non-CFP action to enjoy over December and early January. The 2024-25 college football bowl …
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NCAA panel sets up schools having sponsor logos on football fields for regular home games
A view of the 2024 CFP logo on the field before the College Football Playoff national championship game between Michigan and Washington at NRG Stadium. Mandatory An NCAA committee on Thursday opened the door to colleges being able to put a corporate logo on their football fields for regular season home games. The move by the Playing Rules Oversight Panel …
Read More »2024 Sun Bowl to kick on New Year’s Eve, feature team from former Pac-12
The Tony the Tiger Sun Bowl has its preferred New Year’s Eve date and a noon kickoff time for 2024, the bowl and it’s long-time partner CBS announced Thursday, while also confirming a team from last season’s Pac-12 would fill the slot opposite the ACC. This is the normal Sun Bowl date and time slot and the one the bowl …
Read More »Notre Dame Quarterback Riley Leonard Health Update
Much of former Duke quarterback Riley Leonard’s time at Notre Dame has been marked with injury since his arrival this winter. That’s left obvious concern with Notre Dame fans about where things stand for Leonard as the 2024 season approaches. Despite the cleanups and such that kept Leonard off the field for much of spring (including the annual Blue Gold …
Read More »2024-25 bowl schedule looks vastly different thanks to 12-team College Football Playoff
The expanded College Football Playoff is making the 2024-25 bowl schedule look very unfamiliar. Bowl Season announced the lineup for nearly every other bowl game on Thursday, a day after the CFP announced the schedule for the first 12-team playoff. The first bowl game is Saturday, Dec. 14 and the final non-playoff bowl game is on Jan. 4. The Camellia …
Read More »Prime time for TaxSlayer Gator Bowl: 80th edition of Jacksonville’s bowl game set for Jan. 2
The TaxSlayer Gator Bowl will enter its ninth decade with a prime-time slot. College bowl schedules were finalized on Thursday after the College Football Playoff schedule was released earlier in the week, with the Gator Bowl landing on Thursday, Jan. 2, at 7:30 p.m. The game, which matches an SEC versus an ACC team, is on ESPN and will be …
Read More »North Carolina bill that would require UNC, NC State to play in-state Group of Five schools won’t advance
North Carolina legislation that would’ve required UNC and NC State to regularly play the state’s Group of Five schools in football will not advance further, North Carolina House Speaker Tim Moore said Thursday. House Bill 965, entitled “UNC Intrastate Athletic Competition,” passed through the house’s Appropriations committee earlier in the week. That’s as far as it will go. “It’s had the hearing …
Read More »Michigan football set for more big-name official visitors on June 7
Michigan football has already held one official visit weekend in the warm weather months, now its set for the encore. The Wolverines hosted two five-stars and three four-stars last week with Derek Meadows, Douglas Utu, DJ Sanders, Kainoa Winston, and Marco Jones all making it to campus. And the slate of visits for June 7 promises to also be impactful …
Read More »Byron’s Colin Hansen, Caledonia’s Ethan Stendel announce commitments to Gophers football
Jun. 6—Ethan Stendel and Colin Hansen have never gone head-to-head in a high school football game. It would be quite a matchup if it could happen, but with Hansen’s Byron Bears playing in Class 4A and Stendel’s Caledonia Warriors in Class 2A, and the teams playing in different districts during the regular season, that meeting seems an impossibility. It looks …
Read More »Florida’s 2025 WR commit reopens recruitment, parts ways with UF
A member of Florida football’s 2025 recruiting class parted ways with the program on Monday when three-star wide receiver Josiah Abdullah out of Atlanta (Georgia) Woodward Academy announced his decommitment. According to Swamp247’s sources, the move was described as “a mutual parting of ways.” The 5-foot-10-inch, 170-pound pass-catcher committed to the Gators back in January had an official visit set …
Read More »Report: Former Wisconsin HC Paul Chryst no longer with Texas football
Longtime Wisconsin head coach Paul Chryst is no longer on the Texas coaching staff, according to a report from On3’s Inside Texas. Chryst was an offensive analyst and a special assistant to Longhorns head coach Steve Sarkisian during the 2023 season. Related: Where Paul Chryst, Jim Leonhard, Wisconsin football’s entire 2022 coaching staff is now It appears his agreement with Texas …
Read More »Where 247Sports ranks Michigan football in preseason Big Ten power rankings
College football offseason talk is heating up as media outlets have been putting together their lists of what teams will be atop the sport if not their conferences. And while Michigan football is among the top teams in the country, just about no one expects a fourth straight Big Ten Championship. Part of that is the influx of new teams …
Read More »J.D. PicKell: Don’t write off Michigan football in 2024
When it comes to the 2024 college football season, no one is looking at the defending national champions. No, Georgia didn’t win it all last year, that honor belongs to Michigan football, but you’d think the Bulldogs were looking to get their fourth-straight championship. Their competition? It comes from either Eugene, Columbus, or Austin. But in Ann Arbor, many seem …
Read More »Once a college football star, Rep. Colin Allred now stumping for athlete protection amid House v. NCAA fallout
Texas congressman Colin Allred might know the ins and outs of college athlete legislation better than anyone else on Capitol Hill. From 2001-05, Allred played linebacker at Baylor University and landed in the NFL for five seasons with the Tennessee Titans. He later went to law school and served in the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development before winning …
Read More »Auburn target Anquon Fegans down to four schools
Auburn football continues to make pushes on the recruiting trail, trying to land some of the nation’s top high school players for the future of the sport on the Plains. With many official visits having taken place last weekend, the Tigers are putting things into full motion more than ever. One major hope that head coach Hugh Freeze has is …
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