After a decade, the College Football Playoff era is receiving its first big update. The field will be expanded from four teams to a whopping 12. How will this work and is this a good idea? Don’t worry, it’s all quite simple. Beginning in 2024, the six highest-ranked conference champions will be given an automatic bid to the playoffs. From …
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Arkansas defensive tackle Tank Booker to portal after just one year with Hogs
Tank Booker is leaving Fayetteville. The Arkansas defensive tackle announced his entry into the transfer portal on Tuesday afternoon with a message on Twitter/X. “Sometimes, your plan and God’s plan for you do not coincide,” Booker wrote. “With that, I am entering my name into the transfer portal for my graduate year.” Booker played one season with Arkansas after four …
Read More »Mountain Pointe RB Christian Clark gets big sendoff to Texas for national title run
Phoenix Mountain Pointe running back Christian Clark will take his last high school final Friday, then get on a plane to Texas, and, by early next week he’ll be following the Longhorns’ football team as it prepares for what it hopes are two bowl games concluding with a national championship. On Tuesday, Mountain Pointe held a big sendoff, a sort …
Read More »Bleacher Report predicts two high-profile transfers to Michigan football
Last year around this time, Michigan football was highly active in the transfer portal for perhaps the first time. Before even getting to the College Football Playoff semifinal, the Wolverines had commitments from former Nebraska linebacker Ernest Hausmann and Arizona State offensive lineman LaDarius Henderson. Both played big roles for the maize and blue in 2023, and certainly, Michigan is …
Read More »South Dakota football delivered memorable, standard-raising 2023 season
Dec. 12—VERMILLION — Don’t get it twisted: South Dakota’s 45-17 loss to North Dakota State in the FCS quarterfinals was indeed a massive letdown. And because of the fashion in which it happened — the Coyotes were ran over by a herd of angry Bison in their home stadium on national TV for 60 minutes — the final memory of …
Read More »Godby head football coach Demario Jones steps down, takes head coaching role in Georgia
After two years as head football coach of the Godby Cougars, Demario Jones is stepping down and heading to Georgia, named as head coach at Charlton County in Folkston. Jones confirmed to the Tallahassee Democrat that he was stepping down as head coach at Godby, and in a social media post late Tuesday night, he was announced as the new …
Read More »National runner-up RCTC has five players named All-America
Dec. 12—ROCHESTER — Five football players from the Rochester Community and Technical College football team that was the NJCAA Division III national runner-up have earned All-America honors for the 2023 season. On offense, wide receiver Terrence Isaac Jr. and lineman Gavin Layton were both named First Team All-America. Layton, a 6-foot-6, 290-pound sophomore from Andover, was the anchor of the …
Read More »Forestview High football tabs familiar face as its next head coach
Forestview football has selected one of its own as its next head coach. Chris Rayfield was tabbed as the Jaguars’ football coach on Tuesday. A 2003 Forestview alum, he succeeds former head man Chris Medlin, who stepped down in November after going 100-100 in 17 seasons. “(Among the reasons for Rayfield’s hire was his) passion for our school and community,” …
Read More »Half a dozen Ohio State juniors say they will play in Cotton Bowl
Dec. 12—COLUMBUS — Ohio State is keeping the band together, at least for now. Juniors Jack Sawyer, Tyleik Williams, Emeka Egbuka, Donovan Jackson, Denzel Burke and Jordan Hancock all told reporters Tuesday they will play in the Cotton Bowl for the Buckeyes against Missouri on Dec. 29. All of them also said they are undecided on whether or not they …
Read More »Lane Kiffin sees ‘great opportunity’ in Peach Bowl matchup with Penn State
Dec. 12—OXFORD — While it was more ceremonial than anything, Tuesday signified what everybody at Ole Miss already knew. It’s officially bowl season in Oxford. No. 11 Ole Miss (10-2, 6-2 SEC) officially accepted its Peach Bowl invite from CEO and president Gary Stokan, a little over a week following the announcement of the Dec. 30 matchup with No. 10 …
Read More »Former UND OL Easton Kilty picks Kansas State
Dec. 12—GRAND FORKS — Former UND offensive lineman Easton Kilty has selected his new home, and his new head coach is a familiar name in the Missouri Valley Football Conference. Kilty has committed to Kansas State, which is coached by former North Dakota State head coach Chris Klieman. Kilty has played in 35 career games at UND and was the …
Read More »Kansas State football tight end Ben Sinnott opts out of bowl game to enter NFL Draft
MANHATTAN — Kansas State football’s offense has taken another hit ahead of its bowl game. All-Big 12 tight end Ben Sinnott, a third-team All-American, announced Tuesday via social media that he has declared for the NFL Draft and will opt out of the Wildcats’ Pop-Tarts Bowl game against North Carolina State on Dec. 28 in Orlando, Florida. Sinnott, a former …
Read More »DWU alum Zakk Ryherd relishing chance to build the identity of Charlotte 49ers football
Dec. 12—CHARLOTTE, N.C. — As the director of football creative media at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte, Dakota Wesleyan alum Zakk Ryherd operates as a do-it-all man in the busy world of collegiate athletics. Ryherd, a former Tiger football player and 2019 DWU graduate, handles the 49ers’ social media, including a X.com account with 46,000 followers and an …
Read More »CBS Sports calls Ohio State’s Ryan Day a ‘loser’ in 2023 college football season
You hate to see it. Wait, no you don’t. For all of the chatter in Columbus the past few years that Michigan football has been talking a big talk while rectification was coming to the premier college football rivalry, it hasn’t come to fruition. And yet, the talk in the state of Ohio has been rampant, previously with good cause. …
Read More »Tyler Van Dyke commits to Wisconsin: Ex-Miami star QB set for fresh start with Badgers
USATSI One of the top available quarterbacks in the transfer portal is off the board. Former Miami quarterback Tyler Van Dyke committed to Wisconsin Tuesday, giving coach Luke Fickell experience at the position heading into a new-look Big Ten next fall. Van Dyke was the No. 12 quarterback available in the transfer portal according to 247Sports. Van Dyke had a …
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