College Football

IU football quarterback Kurtis Rourke finished ninth in the Heisman Trophy voting… with a torn ACL. The Hoosiers QB threw for more than 3,000 yards and 29 touchdowns this season, leading IU to the College Football Playoff, all on a torn ACL, per his agent Casey Muir. Muir told NFL Network’s Tom Pelissero that Rourke re-tore his ACL in August …

. LSU football received a commitment from a blue-chip defensive lineman on Thursday. JaReylan McCoy (2026) chose the Tigers over Tennessee, USC, and Alabama, according to On3’s Hayes Fawcett. He announced the decision at the 2025 Under Armor All-American game in Orlando, FL. McCoy’s commitment brings LSU’s 2026 class to six recruits and puts it at No. 4 in the …

NEW ORLEANS — Georgia prided itself over the last decade as one of the big bullies in college football, but on Thursday at the College Football Playoff, the Bulldogs were pushed aside by a bunch of misfits from Notre Dame. The heartfelt label of “misfits” given by Marcus Freeman for this group of football-obsessed power players and head hunters staked their …

. Lane Kiffin might be King Troll on the internet, whether it’s out loud or on his always-entertaining X (formerly Twitter) account. We might have gotten another example on Thursday night as his Ole Miss team beat Duke in the Gator Bowl. MORE LANE KIFFIN: He won’t stop being weird about the College Football Playoff In an ESPN interview, he …

The Texas State Bobcats and North Texas Mean Green are set to take center stage on Friday when they meet in the 2025 First Responder Bowl in Dallas. Texas State finished the regular season with a 7-5 overall record, including a 5-3 record in Sun Belt Conference play. North Texas enters with a 6-6 overall record, including a 3-5 record …

Oregon Ducks defensive lineman Derrick Harmon forces a fumble from Idaho Vandals quarterback Jack Layne as the Oregon Ducks host the Idaho Vandals Saturday, Aug. 31, 2024 at Autzen Stadium in Eugene, Ore. Oregon will once again have a significant presence in the NFL draft come April with players like Tez Johnson, Dillon Gabriel, Jabbar Muhammad, Jordan Burch and Ajani …

One of the more entertaining non-CFP bowl games takes place on Friday between Minnesota and Virginia Tech. It’s the 2025 Duke’s Mayo Bowl, and per tradition — as well as sponsorship arrangement — the winning coach will get a giant jar of mayonnaise dumped on his head. It could be either Minnesota’s P.J. Fleck, who has led his team to …

Wisconsin head coach Luke Fickell’s former top assistant coach Marcus Freeman and the Notre Dame Fighting Irish advanced to the College Football Playoff semifinal on Thursday with a 23-10 Sugar Bowl win over Georgia. Freeman was Fickell’s defensive coordinator and linebackers coach at Cincinnati from 2017-20. He left for the same position at Notre Dame in 2021 before being promoted …

The 2025 Bahamas Bowl will be the final game outside the College Football Playoff of the season, as the Buffalo Bulls will take on the Liberty Flames. Buffalo went 8-4 during the regular season and was 6-2 in the MAC, while Liberty finished at 8-3 overall and went 5-3 in Conference USA. These two programs played each other in the …

Amos Alonzo Stagg Bowl game day is almost here. Mount Union and North Central will square off for the NCAA Division III football national championship Sunday at Houston’s Shell Energy Stadium. Kickoff time on ESPN is 8:03 p.m. Here are eight things to know about this year’s Stagg Bowl. Mount Union’s Brandon Yanssens reacts following the NCAA Division III semifinal …

Jan 2, 2025; New Orleans, LA, USA; Georgia Bulldogs defensive lineman Tyrion Ingram-Dawkins (93) reacts on the bench in the final minute against the Notre Dame Fighting Irish during the fourth quarter at Caesars Superdome. Mandatory Credit: Geoff Burke-Imagn Images The Georgia Bulldogs 2024 college football season is over after UGA lost, 23-10, to the Notre Dame Fighting Irish in …

The College Football Playoff quarterfinals are over, which means bowl season is nearly complete. There are a pair of non-CFP games on Friday, in matchups including Texas State, Minnesota, Virginia Tech and North Texas all in action on the second-to-last day of non-CFP games. REQUIRED READING: College football postseason rematches: Ohio State-Oregon to face again in CFP All four teams …

Peyton Manning played here. Lamar Jackson, Philip Rivers, Michael Vick, Donovan McNabb, Archie Manning and Pat Sullivan, too. But no one in 80 years of TaxSlayer Gator Bowl college football had ever matched the numbers of Jaxson Dart on Thursday night — even if that was news to Jaxson Dart himself. “Yeah, that’s pretty cool. I didn’t know that,” the …

Jalen Milroe is no longer in Alabama football’s quarterback room. But he has a better idea than most of what the Crimson Tide will have at its disposal in 2025. “When you have guys who love it as well, it’s nothing but passion that’s poured into the football field,” Milroe said Nov. 19. “That’s what we have.” One will take …

Illinois football orchestrated a turnaround season under fourth-year coach Bret Bielema, winning 10 games for the first time since 2001 — capped by a dramatic victory in the Citrus Bowl on New Year’s Eve. From preseason picks, through the regular season — all the way to the postgame Cheez-It dump — here is every story the Journal Star wrote about …