College Football

Gaffney announced the promotion of longtime offensive coordinator Donnie Littlejohn as its new football coach Tuesday. Littlejohn replaces Dan Jones, who led Gaffney for over a decade and won two state titles. Littlejohn has plenty of ties to Gaffney. He played football there as an offensive lineman and graduated in 1997. Littlejohn played at Furman and later spent eight seasons …

National Signing Day for 2025 is only a couple of weeks away and Jackson area high school football players will be deciding in the coming days on where their next home will be in the near future. Several of the area’s top players have already signed after the early signing day period in December. Here is a list of the Jackson area players who signed …

While many experts felt Indiana should have been left out of the College Football Playoff, Middle Tennessee State football coach Derek Mason had high regard for the Hoosiers, even higher than Tennessee. Mason, a former coach at Tennessee’s rival Vanderbilt, voted Indiana No. 8 in the final US LBM Coaches Poll, one spot ahead of the Vols. Indiana finished 10th …

Arizona State football had a remarkable season, going 11-3 overall, winning the Big 12 Championship and nearly upsetting Texas in the College Football Playoff quarterfinals. According to coach Kenny Dillingham, it was a Top-5 worthy season. The Arizona State coach voted his Sun Devils No. 5 in the final US LBM Coaches Poll, with Arizona State only behind No. 1 …

Ohio State’s 34-23 conquest of Notre Dame in Monday’s College Football Playoff championship game gave the Buckeyes their ninth national title and their second in the CFP era. Ohio State swept through the newly expanded 12-team bracket with victories over Tennessee, Oregon and Texas before dispensing with the Fighting Irish. On Tuesday, Ohio State and Notre Dame finished 1-2 in …

The Oregon football season ended three weeks ago when the Ducks lost to Ohio State in the Rose Bowl. The season for the Buckeyes ended Monday night when they beat Notre Dame, 34-23, in the College Football Playoff championship game – a win that also elevated Ohio State to No. 1 in the final US LBM Coaches Poll. The Big …

Kentucky football coach Mark Stoops had a less-than-ideal 2024 season with the Wildcats. The squad’s 4-8 overall record and 1-7 SEC mark were the worst under Stoops since going 2-10 overall (0-8 SEC) in his head coaching debut in 2013. UK also missed a bowl game for the first time in eight years. To make matters worse, the Wildcats had …

Kansas State football had high hopes heading into the 2024 season as one of the favorites to reach the Big 12 championship game and ultimately advancing to the expanded 12-team College Football Playoff. Instead, the Wildcats stumbled with three losses in their final four regular season games before rallying to beat Rutgers in the Rate Bowl, 44-41 and finishing with …

ATLANTA — As the clock hit zero and a national championship was secured, Ohio State’s Ryan Day ripped off his headset, grabbed the battery pack on his waist and chucked both through the air in a moment he could only describe as a strange mix of indescribable emotions. “I looked back,” Day said the morning after the 34-23 win against …

After an impressive season capped by a run to the College Football Playoff semifinals, Penn State is now seen as a perennial CFP contender thanks to the expanded, 12-team field. The Nittany Lions still have a lot to play for after a disappointing end to the season that saw the program lose to Notre Dame in the Orange Bowl and …

The Ohio State Buckeyes are the 2024-25 college football national champions, finishing off a dominant run through the 12-team College Football Playoff bracket with a 34-23 win over Notre Dame in the title game. The Ohio State football roster was built thanks in large part to strategic NIL work that helped lure big names like Will Howard, Caleb Downs and …

ATLANTA — Tony Petitti descended a small flight of stairs from a temporary stage to the turf field inside Mercedes-Benz Stadium late Monday night with a smile on his face and flecks of championship confetti dotting his vest adorned with the Big Ten Conference logo. Not quite two years had passed since Petitti took the job as the Big Ten …

When the 12-team College Football Playoff format was revealed nearly four years ago, there were plenty of detractors. Could the FBS really produce more than four true national title contenders? Would it devalue the regular season? Can the sport deliver a consistently compelling postseason product? After an exciting super-sized season of college football, the answer is a resounding yes. Ohio …

Where will Michigan football be ranked heading into 2025 after a disappointing 2024 season? Well, early predictions are high on the Wolverines. A day after Ohio State beat Notre Dame in the 2024 national championship to become the first winner of the 12-team era, the Wolverines popped up in a flurry of far-too-early college football rankings for next season. Michigan …

The Notre Dame Fighting Irish came up just short of winning their first college football national championship since 1988 when they lost to Ohio State, 34-23, in the College Football Playoff National Championship Game. Outside of a shocking loss to Northern Illinois early in the regular season, the Irish were dominant, notching blowout wins in their other 11 regular season …