The Buffalo Bulls and Miami (OH) RedHawks square off in midweek MACtion on Wednesday night. Buffalo aims to repeat its success against Miami after a 24-20 win a year ago, while the RedHawks look to continue their strong recent play. Miami is 8-2 overall, including eight wins in the last nine games, and the RedHawks have only one conference loss …
Read More »College Football
Why one coach at Ryan Silverfield’s alma mater is rooting against him in Memphis-SMU game
There’s a strange dynamic related to Memphis football this week, and it’s between Marty Favret, the head football coach at Hampden-Sydney College, and his offensive coordinator, Lindell Stone. It’s not because of anything Stone did. Favret is finishing up a few things around the office before he retires after 24 years as the Hampden-Sydney coach, and he wants Stone to …
Read More »Biggest recruiting targets for next Mississippi State coach
Mississippi State has fired coach Zach Arnett before the end of his first season so a fresh start is coming to Starkville. Whomever is hired to coach the Bulldogs, these are the five prospects not committed to MSU that must be targeted early on. MORE MSU: Recruit reactions | MSU announces Arnett’s firing The pitch needs to be made that …
Read More »Top 2025 QB Bryce Underwood’s path to LSU becoming clearer
The race for the top quarterback and No. 1 overall player in the 2025 class, Bryce Underwood, could be coming down to LSU and Michigan. But with Michigan adding another top QB in 2025, Underwood’s path to LSU could be clearing up. Underwood is a Michigan native, but according to the On3 RPM, LSU is the leader in the clubhouse …
Read More »Zach Arnett fired, Mississippi State coach candidates: Coaching search, top names from SEC insiders
Zach Arnett stepped in for Mississippi State as the interim head coach after Mike Leach was hospitalized in 2022, and the Bulldogs took off the interim tag following Leach’s death in December of 2023. Less than a year later, however, Mississippi State has decided to go in a different direction. Arnett was fired on Monday, Nov. 13, following a 51-10 …
Read More »ESPN’s FPI ranking plus other data after Gators’ Week 11 loss to LSU
Florida football locked horns with the LSU Tigers last weekend in a matchup that turned into an offensive explosion. Unfortunately for the Gators, they were on the losing end of a historic outing by Heisman Trophy hopeful Jaydon Daniels. Following the game, ESPN updated its Football Power Index along with other related data for the college football landscape, including the …
Read More »Former Memphis football kicker Jake Elliott buys 2,500 tickets for Saturday game vs. SMU
Former Memphis football kicker Jake Elliott is still a die-hard Tigers fan. Elliott, now with the Philadelphia Eagles, made that abundantly clear on Wednesday when he announced he’d purchased 2,500 tickets for Saturday’s game against SMU. Fans can claim up to four tickets here. “I know how much of a difference you guys make when you’re in the stands,” Elliott …
Read More »USA TODAY Sports projects Auburn to meet Big 12 team for first time in bowl season
Auburn earned its sixth win of the season last Saturday by embarrassing Arkansas in front of their home crowd, 48-10. Now that Auburn has earned enough wins to become bowl-eligible, the media’s bowl predictions are becoming more realistic. The latest USA TODAY Sports bowl projections have Auburn ending the season in Memphis, Tennessee by competing in the AutoZone Liberty Bowl …
Read More »Welcome to our world, Irish! Notre Dame gets Pac-12 Network game before the Pac-12 dies
USC football fans will not be watching the Trojans on Thanksgiving weekend because USC won’t be playing. Notre Dame football fans won’t be watching the Fighting Irish on that same Thanksgiving weekend because the Irish will be on Pac-12 Network. It has been a miserable season for USC fans, but they will sit back and munch on some popcorn when …
Read More »Oregon State and Washington State win court ruling, setting up more Pac-12 chaos
The 2-Pac just won. The Pac-10 just lost. The Pac-12’s death — and how that will be resolved — continues to be one of the strangest dramas we have ever seen in college sports. Jon Wilner of the Wilner Hotline offered this basic summary of what happened and what it means: “After a two-and-a-half-hour hearing, Whitman County (Wash.) Superior Court …
Read More »Brent Venables on the possibility of Dillon Gabriel returning to Norman
Dillon Gabriel has had an incredible season for the Oklahoma Sooners. He’s completed 70.5% of his passes for 3,069 yards, 25 touchdowns and only five interceptions. He also leads the team with 11 rushing touchdowns. It has just been assumed that in Oklahoma’s first year in the SEC, they’ll have a new quarterback, former five-star Jackson Arnold. The coaches have …
Read More »Over 20 teams need just one more win to make a bowl game
How many five-win teams can get at least one win over the final two weeks of the regular season? Fifty-eight bowl-eligible teams already have six or more wins and are making their postseason plans. Twenty-four teams, meanwhile, have five wins entering Week 12. If all 24 of those teams got just one win over the final two weeks, then there …
Read More »‘I feel lucky to be coached by him;’ UO players love Lanning’s candid approach to Texas A&M rumors
For approximately 24 hours over the weekend, Oregon Duck fans were feeling a sense of anxiety that has certainly become familiar in the last decade. There was an air of impending dread that was hovering over Eugene as the coaching carousel started to churn in the world of college football, and the most popular guy in the Willamette Valley was …
Read More »6 players or recruits at Texas A&M with ties to the Oregon Ducks
We are now deep into the month of November, which means the coaching carousel in the world of college football has started to churn. One of the first big firings took place this past weekend with the news that Jimbo Fisher was being let go by the Texas A&M Aggies. While a lot of fans and media members quickly started …
Read More »SEC football Power Rankings heading into Week 12 of 2023 season
The SEC remains more competitive than it has ever been heading into Week 12 of the 2023 season. The winners of the SEC East and SEC West have been determined. The East will be represented by Georgia and the West will be represented by Alabama. While other programs are out of the conference race, they are still in a position …
Read More »