College Football

With the 2024 Recruiting Class pretty much in the books. Barring any last pushes, the focus now shifts to the 2025 class. The Sooners currently have nine commits and rank No. 4 in the country according to 247Sports. Over the weekend, the All-American Bowl was held with a number of top-rated 2025 and 2026 recruits in attendance. One 2025 Sooner …

Editor’s note: For the latest updates and highlights from Michigan vs. Washington in the national championship game, follow USA TODAY Sports’ live coverage. Michigan coach Jim Harbaugh hasn’t been shy in his praise of quarterback J.J. McCarthy, a second-year starter who has the Wolverines one win away from the program’s first unshared national championship in 75 years. McCarthy is “the …

Washington quarterback Michael Penix Jr. (9) celebrates throwing a touchdown to wide receiver Rome Odunze (1) against Washington State during the first half of an NCAA college football game, Saturday, Nov. 25, 2023, in Seattle. (AP Photo/Lindsey Wasson) No. 1 Michigan (14-0, Big Ten) vs. No. 2 Washington (14-0, Pac-12) face off Monday at NRG Stadium in Houston for the …

The College Football Playoff national championship game Monday will feature a Washington cornerback who transferred from Oklahoma State against a Michigan team in which OSU’s quarterback transferred in from, and a Michigan team that also lost a receiver to OU. Welcome to college football in 2024, where you don’t have to look hard to find a web of connections. Those …

So far, the College Football Playoff bracket has unfolded how as it was designed to, with the Nos. 1 and 2 seeds in the four-team field winning their semifinal contests against lower-rated opponents. Given those results, Monday night’s national championship game between Michigan and Washington is a matchup of the top two teams in the final playoff rankings of the …

The college football season finale pits two undefeateds against each other on Monday night: Michigan and Washington. It is the first appearance in the College Football Playoff final for both teams and their first appearances in a national championship game period. USA TODAY Sports will have the latest updates, highlights, analysis and news all day long and throughout the game. …

After discussions over one-loss teams making the College Football Playoff dominated the conversation over recent weeks, there will be an undefeated national champion after No. 1 Michigan plays No. 2 Washington in the 2024 College Football Playoff National Championship game. Both teams enter at 14-0 after knocking off previous one-loss teams in the CFP semifinals in dramatic finishes. Michigan defeated …

Kalen DeBoer was a high school football player in Milbank, South Dakota when he received his first recruiting letter. It has accompanied him on each of his seven coaching stops, including to Seattle about two years ago when he took over as head coach at the University of Washington. “This letter … sits behind my desk in a drawer usually …

Michigan vs. Washington will have a strange aura to it during Monday’s College Football Playoff championship. It’s a Big Ten-vs.-Pac-12 game for a championship, but it won’t take place in Pasadena, home of the traditional Rose Bowl meeting between the two conferences. It’s a sign that the times, they are a-changing. And they’ll be even more drastically different after this …

The No. 24 Auburn Tigers are one of the hottest teams in college basketball. Auburn smacked around Arkansas last Saturday, 83-51, for its seventh-straight win to open the SEC slate. During the stretch, Auburn has won each game by a margin of 28 points. The stretch can be credited to Auburn’s road loss to Appalachian State on Dec. 3, which …

Monday night’s game between Michigan and Washington will do more than just determine a national champion for the 2023 college football season. It will mark the end of an era in the sport. The matchup between the Wolverines and Huskies will be the final game of the four-team College Football Playoff format, a system that has been in place since …

Ohio State landed Kansas State transfer quarterback Will Howard from the portal on Thursday, putting an end to weeks of speculation after incumbent Kyle McCord transferred from the program. After years of pinpoint drop-back passers running the show for the Buckeyes offense, coach Ryan Day opted to go in a different direction with Howard.  Howard’s experience ranks among the best …

On Monday night, Michigan football will aim to capture just its second national championship since the 1948 season, and first since 1997, when it takes on Washington in the College Football Playoff title game in Houston. It will mark the end of a 2023 season that has been as turbulent as it has been successful. The Wolverines have been the …

Michigan football quarterback J.J. McCarthy is zoned in on defeating Washington in the College Football Playoff championship, but his impending draft status is still a major question mark ahead of the 2024 season. McCarthy is a junior with another year of eligibility left in his college football career. He has amassed 6,086 passing yards, 49 touchdowns and 11 interceptions in …

The final chapter of the 2023 college football season will be written Monday night in Houston. A matchup of the nation’s last two undefeated FBS programs and the champions of the Big Ten and the PAC-12 will square off in Texas for the right to be called national champion. The Michigan Wolverines have been on a mission all season long …