College Football

Ole Miss dashed LSU’s playoff hopes last year with a shootout win in Oxford. LSU entered the game 3-1 with no margin for error thanks to a season opening loss to Florida State. Ole Miss led 21-7 after the first quarter and from that point on, it was a track meet. LSU cut the deficit to three and Ole Miss …

The Third Saturday in October will be contested between Tennessee and Alabama on Oct. 19 at Neyland Stadium. The Southeastern Conference announced game times for Week 8. Kickoff between the Vols and Crimson Tide is slated for 3:30 p.m. EDT. ABC will televise the SEC matchup. Tennessee enters Week 7 having defeated Chattanooga, North Carolina State, Kent State and Oklahoma. …

Oct. 7—CHAMPAIGN — The much-anticipated Illinois football home game against Michigan on Oct. 19 now has a start time. The Illini and Wolverines will kick off at 2:30 p.m. in less than two weeks at Memorial Stadium in Champaign, with CBS broadcasting the game. The No. 23 Illini (4-1, 1-1 Big Ten) and No. 24 Wolverines (4-2, 2-1) will meet …

Vanderbilt football beat a top-five team for the first time ever on Saturday with its 40-35 win over AP No. 1 Alabama. In the postgame jubilation, Commodores fans stormed the field and tore down the south end zone goalpost, marching it all the way to the river. Quarterback Diego Pavia played a large part in the upset, throwing for 252 …

The “Third Saturday in October” has a kickoff time and a TV assignment. Alabama football will take on Tennessee at 2:30 p.m. Oct. 19 at Neyland Stadium in Knoxville, Tennessee. The game will be broadcast on ABC. Alabama will first take on South Carolina at 11 a.m. Saturday from Bryant-Denny Stadium on ABC. The Crimson Tide has two SEC wins …

Five-star EDGE Anthony Jones in the 2026 cycle visited Gainesville and watched Florida football defeat the UCF Knights, 24-13, in the Swamp last weekend. Jones, a prospect out of St. Paul’s Episcopal School in Mobile, Alabama, and the second-ranked recruit in the state according to 247Sports, was pleased to see the Gators’ defense perform well against the Knights. “It was …

Penn State football is preparing for its most critical challenge yet in 2024. A cross-country trip to Los Angeles. A meeting with traditional power and new Big Ten member, USC. A Nittany Lions’ highly-regarded defense vs. a budding superstar quarterback. The Lions and their new top-five ranking and building College Football Playoff aspirations will be on the line Saturday afternoon. …

Auburn football dropped its third-straight game on Saturday, falling to the No. 4 Georgia Bulldogs in Athens, 31-13. Auburn’s position in the USA TODAY Sports re-rank was already low, and it continued to drop after its most recent loss. Heading into the bye week, Auburn checks in at No. 82 in Paul Myerberg’s weekly rankings, down one spot from last …

Ole Miss cruised to a 27-3 victory over South Carolina on Saturday, but that was far from the biggest storyline to emerge from the Rebels’ Week 6 victory. Late in the game between the Rebels and Gamecocks, South Carolina freshman edge defender Dylan Stewart – one of the most highly sought-after players in the 2024 recruiting class – sacked Ole …

Vanderbilt football won the last game it played in Lexington, Ky., and won the biggest game in program history Saturday. The Commodores (3-2, 1-1 SEC) are fresh off their upset of Alabama and now head to Kroger Field to face Kentucky (3-2, 1-2). The Wildcats are coming off an idle week after pulling an upset of their own over Ole …

INDIANAPOLIS – A miserable 52-6 loss at Wisconsin on Saturday intensified scrutiny of the Purdue football program’s direction under coach Ryan Walters. The product on the field has arguably hit rock bottom, ranking among the worst FBS teams in numerous offensive and defensive measurements. Unlike an NFL team suffering through a lost season, Boilermakers fans cannot look forward to the …

Indiana football coach Curt Cignetti’s first season with the Hoosiers is off to a multi-million-dollar start. IU’s 41-24 victory Saturday at Northwestern improved its record to 6-0, continuing its best opening to a season since 1967 and making the Hoosiers the first college football team to become eligible for a bowl this season. INSIDER: This IU team is nothing like …

Texas football coach Steve Sarkisian let out a chuckle as he sat before reporters last week, recalling the boos raining down upon him inside what used to be called Cougar Stadium. Sarkisian, the starting quarterback at BYU in 1995, threw four interceptions in his first real taste of rivalry football against Utah, the Cougars’ bitter in-state foe. BYU lost that …

Purdue head coach Ryan Walters was clear in his assessment of the Boilermakers after their 52-6 loss to Wisconsin on Saturday: “The most disappointing thing is, if I’m being completely honest, that we’re a bad football team right now,” Walters said postgame. Related: Studs and duds from Wisconsin’s 52-6 win over Purdue: Trech Kekahuna emerges The comments come after the …

The nationally ranked Illinois Fighting Illini continue Big Ten Conference college football season at 2:30 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 12 against the Purdue Boilermakers at Memorial Stadium in Champaign, Illinois. Coach Bret Bielema and the No. 23 Illini are coming off a 21-7 road loss to Penn State and then a bye week. Illinois, picked to finish 15th in the Big …