College Football

SMU football has shown no rookie fatigue in its first season in the Atlantic Coast Conference. At 11-1 overall on the season, the No. 7 Mustangs played for their first ACC title on Saturday against one of the conference’s powerhouse programs, No. 17 Clemson, at Bank of America Stadium in Charlotte, North Carolina. While Clemson ultimately won to claim the …

There are numerous changes to the new 12-team College Football Playoff this season, and among them are some of the broadcast channels for the first-round games. TNT will make its college football broadcast return for the first time since 2006 when it airs two of the four first-round games of the CFP, starting with No. 11 SMU-No. 6 Penn State …

The No. 5 seed Texas Longhorns (11-2) will host a College Football Playoff game for the first time in school history when they face the No. 12 seed Clemson Tigers (10-3) on Saturday afternoon. Texas narrowly missed out on a first-round bye in the new expanded playoff when it lost to Georgia in the SEC Championship. Clemson clinched the final …

Ten years after the first College Football Playoff, we finally get the full experience of an expanded field of 12. Instead of just two semifinals and a championship game, we get three games spread across a 12-hour window that will serve as the first step in deciding a national champion. The Big Ten will serve as the host location of …

The 2024-25 college football bowl schedule began on Dec. 14 and continues through January, culminating with the College Football Playoff title game on Jan. 20. This year’s bowl schedule features the inaugural 12-team CFP bracket, with four first-round games taking place this Friday and Saturday. No. 7 seed Notre Dame is a 6.5-point favorite against No. 10 seed Indiana in …

Sep 28, 2024; West Lafayette, Indiana, USA; Purdue Boilermakers quarterback Marcos Davila (5) warms up before a game against the Nebraska Cornhuskers at Ross-Ade Stadium. Mandatory Credit: Marc Lebryk-Imagn Images Nebraska picked up a commitment from Purdue Boilermaker freshman quarterback Marcos Davila. The announcement was made on Friday. Davila was a former four-star recruit according to 247Sports and a three-star …

Georgia quarterback Gunner Stockton is set to make the first start of his career after primary starter Carson Beck suffered a likely season-ending elbow injury in the SEC Championship Game win over Texas. The Bulldogs open the College Football Playoff in the Sugar Bowl against the winner of the first-round matchup between 7-seed Notre Dame vs. 10-seed Indiana.  Stockton was …

SOUTH BEND, Ind. — Notre Dame students woke up in a snow globe Friday morning, a few inches of fresh powder on the ground as snowflakes swirled through the air to usher in the start of college football’s new era. It was late December in northern Indiana, so the wintry weather was hardly surprising. And that’s the point — whatever …

The 2024 Cure Bowl will be held on Friday in Orlando and will feature a couple of conference champions. The Ohio Bobcats (10-3) won the MAC title while Jacksonville State (9-4) were the champions of Conference USA. However, both programs lost their head coaches in between Championship Week and bowl season, with Bobcats head coach Tim Albin leaving for Charlotte …

Notre Dame wins the first-ever game of the 12-team College Football Playoff in dominant fashion against Indiana. Caroline Fenton, Jason Fitz & Adam Breneman break down the game and look ahead to the Fighting Irish’s next playoff matchup with the Ohio State Buckeyes. After Indiana’s struggles in this game the narrative that perhaps they were unworthy of the playoffs is …

At 25, James Blanchard thought he had it made. With a growing family living near the Texas Gulf Coast, he was making six figures. On the side, Blanchard had carved out enough time to pursue his passion, scouting high school players in the state.  One problem: The day job wasn’t enough to satisfy him. Blanchard wasn’t fulfilled. That job was building …

SOUTH BEND – Never shy of a line, Curt Cignetti dropped one more Friday as he sat down to his final postgame news conference of the season. “It’s hard to say goodbye to your kids,” Cignetti deadpanned, “because they just watched their dad get his ass kicked.” This was Indiana’s brash, Spurrier-like head coach acting as a lightning rod for …

The Tulane Green Wave (9-4) will aim for a big upset when they face the Florida Gators (7-5) in the 2024 Gasparilla Bowl on Friday afternoon. Tulane was on track for a potential spot in the College Football Playoff prior to its loss to Memphis at the end of the regular season, and it was followed by a loss to …

SOUTH BEND — IU football coach Curt Cignetti told reporters earlier this season he’s “definitely become more aggressive and attacking” on offense from when he started out more than 30 years ago as a grad assistant at Pittsburgh. That philosophy was nowhere to be found on Friday night in a 27-17 loss to Notre Dame in the first round of …

There was a hurdle to clear Friday in South Bend. On this stage, for too long, Notre Dame had been exposed.   The hurdle was figurative, but there was definitely a bar to get over in the minds of the Fighting Irish. If it didn’t, something was wrong. The spectacle was nice for the first ever College Football Playoff game …