College Football

Seven Tennessee defensive backs entered the NCAA transfer portal following the conclusion of the 2023 regular-season and ahead of the Cheez-It Citrus Bowl against Iowa. Warren Burrell (transferred to Georgia Tech), Jack Luttrell (transferred to Arizona), Brandon Turnage, Doneiko Slaughter (transferred to Arkansas), De’Shawn Rucker (transferred to South Florida), Tamarion McDonald (transferred to Ole Miss) and Wesley Walker entered the …

Dec. 30—CUMBERLAND — The Maryland Football Foundation released the All-State players in Class 1A on Thursday with several representatives from Allegany County. Fort Hill led the county with six representatives. Allegany had three players chosen and Mountain Ridge earned a pair of nods. Carter Hess of the Sentinels, who signed with Division 1 Fordham last week, was chosen as Player …

No. 21 Tennessee will open a new era when it faces No. 17 Iowa in the 2024 Citrus Bowl on Monday afternoon during the 2023-24 college football bowl schedule. Vols quarterback Joe Milton III opted out of this game, giving true freshman Nico Iamaleava an opportunity to make the first start of his career. Tennessee dropped from -8 to -6 …

JACKSONVILLE — It was wholly appropriate that Tony Khan, the president of AEW (and the Jaguars chief football strategy officer) presented Clemson coach Dabo Swinney with a championship belt after the Tigers outlasted Kentucky 38-35 on Friday in the 79th TaxSlayer Gator Bowl at EverBank Stadium. The game was a slugfest, 15 rounds of punches, counter-punches, body blows and headshots …

The 2023 Holiday Bowl, as one phone caller put it, was a seemingly meaningless game the Trojans turned into a supremely meaningful game. A night which, at its outset, felt like another blowout loss (after Louisville went up 7-0 and USC missed a field goal) turned into a hugely positive, hopeful, and transformative moment for this football program. Other USC …

The Auburn Tigers will look to snap a three-game losing streak in bowl games when they take on the Maryland Terrapins on Saturday in the 2023 Music City Bowl in Nashville, Tenn. The Tigers (6-6, 3-5 SEC), who last won a bowl game in 2018 with a 63-14 win over Purdue at the Music City Bowl, are 24-20-2 in previous …

It’s been about a month since Penn State took care of business on Black Friday against Michigan State in their last regular season game. We are now less than a day away from the Nittany Lions taking on No. 11 Ole Miss Rebels in the 56th annual Peach Bowl. Penn State is seeking its 11 win of the season, and …

LOS ANGELES – Drake Nugent, Michigan’s starting center, wore a look of amusement. He was talking about “constantly’’ seeing unfavorable media coverage of the Michigan football team as the Wolverines kept winning and winning en route to a 13-0 regular season. “It’s funny to look at that stuff and still be able to win games while it’s going on,’’ Nugent …

The sixth-ranked Georgia Bulldogs (12-1) hope to avoid back-to-back losses for the first time in five seasons when they take on the No. 5 Florida State Seminoles (13-0) on Saturday in the 2023 Orange Bowl. Georgia, which was defeated 27-24 by Alabama in the SEC Championship Game earlier this month, hasn’t lost consecutive contests since falling to the Crimson Tide …

USC fans were caught off guard, as were college football fans, during the broadcast of the Alamo Bowl game on Thursday night between Arizona and Oklahoma. ESPN, which broadcast the game, posted an on-screen graphic which said that Will Howard, the Kansas State transfer, had committed to USC. That is, of course, empirically untrue. Howard, as of Friday night, had …

One of the more intriguing matchups of college football bowl season arrives on Saturday afternoon in Atlanta. The No. 10 Penn State Nittany Lions take on the No. 11 Ole Miss Rebels in the 2023 Peach Bowl at Mercedes-Benz Stadium. Both programs are 10-2 this season. Penn State’s losses came to Ohio State and Michigan, and the Nittany Lions are …

Tennessee sophomore wide receiver Squirrel White appeared in every game for the Vols during the 2023 regular-season. The 5-foot-10, 165-pound wide receiver recorded 64 receptions for 764 yards and two touchdowns in 12 contests. He also totaled 13 rushing yards on two attempts. Ahead of Tennessee’s matchup versus Iowa in the Cheez-It Citrus Bowl, offensive coordinator and quarterbacks coach Joey …

This is as close as it comes to a traditional Rose Bowl Game in this day and age. No. 1 Michigan didn’t have to think twice when making its venue choice for this College Football Playoff semifinal. The Wolverines played in the first “Granddaddy of Them All” in 1902. Pasadena, California, has served as postseason home for this program 18 …

MIAMI GARDENS – Welcome to Seminole Script. Democrat writers Ehsan Kassim and Jack Williams talk about all things Florida State football, including final thoughts on last week’s rivalry road victory over Florida, a glimpse into Tuesday and Wednesday practices and a look ahead to Saturday’s Capital One Orange Bowl game against Georgia. In a matchup of two teams feeling the …

The Orange Bowl is a New Year’s Six game, but the Seminoles landing in Miami are not the Florida State team we’ve seen this season. No. 6 Georgia (12-1, 8-0 SEC) will be playing against the vestiges of No. 5 Florida State (13-0, 8-0 ACC), in a game featuring two teams who had playoff hopes after their respective championship games. …