College Football

One team’s undefeated dream season will come to a thudding halt, while the other will revel in storybook glory when the Washington Huskies meet the Michigan Wolverines on Monday in the 2024 College Football Playoff National Championship game. The top-seeded Wolverines (14-0) mostly steamrolled the competition, with their 30-24 victory over Ohio State providing the closest margin of victory. But …

HOUSTON — There are two ways you can look at the last special teams play of the Rose Bowl: either Michigan football punt returner Jake Thaw nearly cost the Wolverines the game or he saved the maize and blue from losing the game. Actually, both things are true at the same time. But Thaw isn’t looking at it that way, …

It’s a right of passes for some of the elite high school football players to compete one last time on a national stage in an all-star game, and Notre Dame has a few players competing in those. Two of them, linebacker Kyngstonn Viliamu-Asa and running back Kedren Young have impressed scouts enough for them to believe they will have immediate …

LSU finalized its defensive coordinator hire on Friday night, bringing in Blake Baker from Missouri on a deal that will pay him an average of $2.5 million per season over three years, making him the highest-paid assistant coach in the country. Baker returns to the state of Louisiana, where he served as LSU’s linebackers coach in 2021 and the defensive …

Every year, the Reese’s Senior Bowl showcases some of the premier talent in college football. NFL scouts and coaches make their way to Mobile, Alabama to evaluate and assess the talent level for the upcoming NFL draft. On Friday, Alabama edge rusher Chris Braswell accepted an invitation to the 2024 Reese’s Senior Bowl. Braswell recently declared for the 2024 NFL …

Texas coach Steve Sarkisian led the Longhorns to a long-awaited breakthrough in his third season at the helm. The most successful season in Austin, Texas in well over a decade included 12 wins, the program’s first Big 12 title since 2009 and a trip to the College Football Playoff. As Texas prepares for a move to the SEC this summer, …

It’s been tough for fans of the Oregon Ducks to come to terms with the fact that the Washington Huskies, their biggest rivals, have a good chance to win the national championship this year, going up against the Michigan Wolverines in the final game of the year on Monday night. It probably doesn’t help to see a beloved state of …

Auburn Football’s major staff shakeup has continued. Just a day after parting ways with offensive coordinator Phillip Montgomery, head coach Hugh Freeze will reportedly be taking over the play-calling for the Tigers in 2024. Freeze took a more hands-on approach to the offense after Auburn started the 2023 SEC season 0-4. Payton Thorne and the running game immediately took a …

Jan. 6—FRISCO, Texas — Isaiah Davis became one of the biggest names in FCS football at Toyota Stadium on May 16, 2021. Though his South Dakota State Jackrabbits lost that day’s FCS national championship game to Sam Houston State, Davis’ rushing heroics — 178 yards with three touchdowns and two legendarily spectacular runs — made the freshman running back the …

Auburn head coach Hugh Freeze is committed to overhauling the entire offensive unit ahead of the 2024 season. He has taken steps by recruiting blue-chip wide receivers, declaring a “wide-open” quarterback competition, and has decided not to retain offensive coordinator Philip Montgomery. Who will Freeze bring in to control the Tigers’ offense next season? One writer at 247Sports feels that …

Penn State has already added two commitments out of the transfer portal from other Big Ten programs. Could they be in the mix to add one more? With a need to beef up the offensive line, one possible Penn State target has entered the transfer portal from Wisconsin, and there are reasons to believe Penn State could be a possible …

The USC Trojans stunned the world by defeating Louisville in the Holiday Bowl despite being without a number of stars. The biggest surprise of them all was the six-touchdown performance by Miller Moss. After Malachi Nelson entered the transfer portal, there are indications that Moss could be the guy in 2024. In an ESPN piece that discussed some bowl tidbits, …

Washington backup quarterback Dylan Morris is transferring to James Madison, he told 247Sports. Morris will end a four-year career with the Huskies and JMU program, but not before he serves as the team’s primary backup one last time in the College Football Playoff National Championship against Michigan.  Morris entered the transfer portal last month, but elected to stay with the …

Time flies doesn’t it folks? It feels like just yesterday we were discussing Marcus Freeman getting the head job at Notre Dame and now we are already discussing what year three will look like. A lot has happened. A lot has changed. There have been a lot of ups and downs in play as Freeman has tried to find his …

The Oregon Ducks had a successful 2023 college football season, and while it stopped short of the ultimate goal of making the College Football Championship, a 12-win season with a victory in the Fiesta Bowl is never something that a fan base should turn down. Throughout the year, we’ve kept track of the Ducks’ place in the ESPN Football Power …