College Football

The Big Central All-Conference football teams, honoring the league’s best offensive players for the 2024 season — plus honorable mention: FIRST TEAM OFFENSE DEREK ANDERSON Woodbridge Senior Quarterback Woodbridge quarterback Derek Anderson Not much frazzled the cool senior under center. Anderson picked up the option offense this season and led the Barrons to a 10-1 season by throwing for 1,470 …

Dec. 11—PULLMAN — Washington State will have to move on without a key member of its offense. Senior wide receiver Kris Hutson is entering the transfer portal, he announced on Wednesday, moving on from WSU after one season. A former Oregon transfer, Hutson totaled 683 receiving yards and two touchdowns on 54 catches this season, starting all 12 games . …

The ruthlessness of Florida’s football schedule isn’t lessening next fall. Only the order of the murderer’s row is changing. The SEC announced its conference slate Wednesday evening, revealing some mild shakeups to the Gators’ league slate. Example: Tennessee, for years a mid-September foe, travels to Gainesville on Nov. 22 in UF’s final conference game. It marks the latest the teams …

Oct 5, 2024; College Station, Texas, USA; Texas A&M Aggies quarterback Conner Weigman (15) reacts in the second quarter against the Missouri Tigers at Kyle Field. Mandatory Credit: Maria Lysaker-Imagn Images. What a wild ride it’s been for former Texas A&M quarterback Conner Weigman, who entered the transfer portal earlier this month in hopes of reviving his starting career after …

Curran: ‘Better than 50/50′ Belichick takes UNC head coaching jobTom Curran and Phil Perry react to the latest reports about Bill Belichick being considered for the North Carolina football head coaching position. Curran explains why if Belichick is being pragmatic about his coaching chances in the NFL next season, the odds are better than 50/50 he accepts the job if …

MADISON – Sometimes the biggest victories a team scores during the transfer portal period are the players it retains. Wisconsin scored one of those wins Wednesday. Trech Kekahuna, a redshirt freshman receiver, announced on social media that he will return next season. Last week the 5-foot-10, 187-pound receiver from Hawaii announced his intention to enter the transfer portal. Monday, the …

The 2024-25 college football bowl schedule begins on Saturday, so there is not much time to craft a winning college football bowl confidence strategy. South Alabama is a 7-point favorite against Western Michigan in the Veterans Bowl on Saturday and using the latest college football odds is one tool to use when you lock in your 2024-25 college football bowl …

Penn State tight end Tyler Warren and defensive end Abdul Carter were named Wednesday to the CBS Sports/247 Sports All-America first team. Warren leads the Nittany Lions with 88 receptions for 1,062 yards and six touchdowns. He also has rushed 23 times for 191 yards and four scores and has passed for 35 yards for one TD. Carter has 60 …

With the college football season in the books, our panel of experts was faced with plenty of difficult decisions when convening to select the 2024 CBS Sports / 247Sports All-America team. Experts from CBS Sports and 247Sports joined forces once again to honor the players who shined the brightest on the gridiron over the last three-plus months. Unanimous selections generally play a …

Nov 23, 2024; Austin, Texas, USA; Texas Longhorns left tackle Kelvin Banks Jr. (78) blocks Kentucky Wildcats player during the second quarter at Darrell K Royal-Texas Memorial Stadium. Mandatory Credit: Brett Patzke-Imagn Images Texas Longhorns offensive tackle Kelvin Banks has won the prestigious Lombardi Award, given to the most ‘outstanding college football lineman, whether on offense or defense, who displays …

The 2024-25 college football bowl season will kick off on Saturday when South Alabama takes on Western Michigan in the IS4S Salute to Veterans Bowl at 9 p.m. ET. Over the course of the next five weeks, there will be 46 bowl matchups (including all College Football Playoff games) and the college football bowl schedule includes some stylistically intriguing battles. …

Dec. 11—Former New Mexico quarterback Devon Dampier will transfer to Utah, he announced via a post on social media Wednesday. The 5-foot-11, 200-pound first team All-Mountain West quarterback is set to reunite with offensive coordinator Jason Beck and quarterbacks assistant Koy Detmer Jr., who both left UNM for Utah at season’s end. Dampier, the most prominent of UNM’s 30-plus portal …

Garrett Nussmeier will be back at LSU for his senior season. Nussmeier, who threw for 3,739 yards and 26 touchdowns in his first season as LSU’s starting quarterback, announced Wednesday night that he will return to Baton Rouge for his final season of eligibility. Nussmeier spent two seasons as the backup to Heisman Trophy winner Jayden Daniels before moving into …

Dec. 11—Fynn Ridgeway, the decorated Whitefish High School quarterback who spent the past two seasons at Division II Moorhead (Minn.) State, has committed to the Montana Grizzlies. It’s been an interesting three weeks for the 215-pounder. On Nov. 19 he announced via Twitter/X that he was entering the NCAA Transfer Portal. “This decision was not easy and I have valued …

The SEC released its 2025 conference football schedule on Wednesday, giving all 16 league members a glimpse of what the upcoming season will look like. Though league opponents were locked in for SEC teams in 2025, there were still a few things to settle when the conference announced the schedule. Every team will play the inverse of its 2024 schedule, …