College Football

Dec. 3—Penn State will make its fifth appearance in a New Year’s Six bowl in eight years when the 10th-ranked Nittany Lions take on No. 11 Ole Miss in the 56th Peach Bowl, it was announced Sunday. The game is scheduled for noon on Dec. 30 at Mercedes-Benz Stadium in Atlanta and will be televised by ESPN. Penn State (10-2) …

Rutges football head coach Greg Schiano and Miami head coach Mario Cristobal each have deep, intimate ties with the opponent programs they will be facing in three weeks in the Pinstripe Bowl. It is a relationship that might for one day in late December at Yankee Stadium be adversarial, but it is a relationship that has been built on mutual …

Getty Images / USATSI The final edition of the College Football Playoff Rankings was released Sunday afternoon with a controversial top four that no doubt left one team (and its conference) immensely frustrated with the selection process. Michigan, Washington, Texas and Alabama emerged as the four teams vying for the CFP National Championship with Florida State missing the cut despite ending …

Wisconsin football officially has their bowl game, and based on how this season went a New Year’s Day game against an SEC opponent sounds impossible. That, however, is exactly what the Badgers have in front of them as they take on No. 13 LSU in the ReliaQuest Bowl. Kickoff is set for 11:00 a.m. CT. LSU finished the season 9-3 …

USATSI The 2024 College Football Playoff field is set after a wild finish to the season that left several teams staking a claim for inclusion in the final year before the four-team field expands to 12. Alabama beat out No. 5 Florida State for the final spot, despite the fact that the Seminoles are 13-0 and won the ACC championship.  …

Former Old Dominion coach Bobby Wilder was hired Sunday at Tennessee Tech’s new football coach. Former Old Dominion coach Bobby Wilder was named Tennessee Tech football’s new coach Sunday night. Wilder, 59, resigned at Old Dominion in 2019. A formal press conference introducing Wilder as Tech’s new coach will be Wednesday at 11:30 a.m. at Hooper Eblen Center. “I am …

USATSI Rarely does Selection Sunday actually generate worthwhile uproar, but Alabama’s ascension to No. 4 fit the bill. Using a SEC Championship Game win over previously No. 1 Georgia as the last data point, the College Football Playoff selection committee brazenly bumped the Crimson Tide over undefeated (and ACC champion) Florida State from the field. The justification for such an …

Dec. 3—MORGANTOWN — The West Virginia Mountaineers will play North Carolina in the Duke’s Mayo Bowl in Charlotte, NC on Dec. 12. The game will be a rematch of the 2008 Meineke Car Care Bowl in which WVU defeated the Tar Heels 31-30. Former WVU quarterback Pat White was named MVP of the game after throwing for 332 yards and …

Sunday afternoon it was announced that Notre Dame will play in the Sun Bowl against Oregon State. It’s the second trip to El Paso all-time for the Fighting Irish and it’ll be the third time they’ve ever taken on the Beavers. The way Notre Dame wound up in the Sun Bowl is certainly interesting and worth sharing more. However, there …

Sunday is College Football Selection Day for the 2023 bowl season, and Channel 9 is giving you what you need to know about local bowls and what bowl games local teams will play in. Here are the matchups for fans across the Sunshine State: The UCF Knights are playing in the Gasparilla Bowl in Tampa against the Georgia Tech Yellowjackets. …

The 2023 college football regular season is in the books and as is tradition, the Sunday after conference championships is selection Sunday. The College Football Playoff committee has made its final decisions, and many of the bowls have also been written in stone. Now, whether you agree or disagree with the committee’s decisions, it doesn’t really matter for us Ohio …

It was a sham. A charade. A travesty. It was pathetic. Pitiful. Heartbreaking. And un-American. Yes, you heard me. Un-American. Undefeated ACC champion Florida State being left out of the College Football Playoff on Sunday goes against everything sports is supposed to be about; it goes against everything our nation is supposed to be about. Whatever happened to honoring those …

Hearts were broken in Tallahassee Sunday with the news that Florida State University wouldn’t be a semifinalist for the 2023 National Championship. A little over 400 miles southeast, a similar ache struck Palm Beach Gardens, the stomping grounds of injured Seminoles quarterback Jordan Travis. Before his transfer to FSU and the start of his collegiate career at Louisville, the ACC …

Bowlmania Scott Wachter-USA TODAY Sports The bowl schedule saw its card finally filled on Saturday. The college postseason starts Dec. 16 and ends Jan. 8 with the CFP championship. Myrtle Beach Bowl , Dec. 16 (Sat) 11:00 AM (ET) David Yeazell-USA TODAY Sports Matchup: Georgia Southern vs. Ohio. Venue, Brooks Stadium. Location: Conway, SC. Cricket Celebration Bowl, Dec. 16, Noon. …

PISCATAWAY – When Rutgers football headed out for its practice on Sunday, the Scarlet Knights hadn’t yet learned their bowl destination or opponent. Shortly after Greg Schiano’s team left the field, it had an answer. Rutgers will be playing ACC opponent Miami in the Pinstripe Bowl at Yankee Stadium on Dec. 28, its 12th bowl appearance in program history and …