The final US LBM Coaches Poll for the 2023 college football season was released on Tuesday. Texas concluded the season No. 4 in the Coaches Poll, one spot below the AP Poll which placed the Longhorns at No. 3. Steve Sarkisian’s squad surpassed expectations in his third year with the program, ending the season with a 12-2 record, Big 12 …
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Mike McElroy to succeed Steve Johnson as Bethel football coach
Bethel University announced Tuesday that Mike McElroy will become the Royal’s 15th football coach, succeeding longtime head coach Steve Johnson. McElroy has been Bethel’s defensive coordinator since 2017, and has coached at the high school DI, DII and DIII levels. In the Cities, he worked with the Gophers’ defense in 2014 and 2015, and spent a year as defensive coordinator …
Read More »Mike Bianchi: After winning tainted national title, Michigan’s new fight song: ‘Hail to The Cheaters’
ORLANDO, Fla. — They have spied. They have lied. They have denied. Now, sadly, the Michigan Wolverines have been rewarded with a national championship trophy. And if it’s not hard enough to swallow that a bunch of cheaters won the national title on Monday night when Michigan ran over Washington, 34-13, Wolverines coach Jim Harbaugh had the audacity to rub …
Read More »Austin Peay star tailback Jevon Jackson commits to UTEP football
The UTEP football team just got a commitment from a likely place, as Austin Peay star tailback Jevon Jackson is coming to El Paso. Jackson, who follows his former head coach Scotty Walden and much of last season’s Peay football staff, posted his commitment on X. The junior-to-be Jackson rushed for 1,373 yards on 252 carries, scored 10 touchdowns last …
Read More »UND offensive coordinator Danny Freund leaving to join national champion South Dakota State
Jan. 9—GRAND FORKS — UND head football coach Bubba Schweigert will need a new play-caller next season. Fighting Hawks offensive coordinator Danny Freund, who has been on the coaching staff for the past 13 seasons, is leaving Grand Forks to join the offensive staff at two-time defending national champion South Dakota State. “Today, coach Freund informed me that he’ll be …
Read More »‘I said if we go 15-0, I’m getting a tattoo:’ Jim Harbaugh is in line for some ink after Michigan’s title game win
Jim Harbaugh could be getting a permanent reminder of Michigan’s 15-0 national title season. Harbaugh said after Michigan’s 34-13 win over Washington on Monday night that he promised his team he’d get a tattoo if it went undefeated and won the national title. Michigan became the second straight national champion to go 15-0 with its victory over the Huskies and …
Read More »After winning tainted national title, Michigan’s new fight song: ‘Hail to The Cheaters’
They have spied. They have lied. They have denied. Now, sadly, the Michigan Wolverines have been rewarded with a national championship trophy. And if it’s not hard enough to swallow that a bunch of cheaters won the national title on Monday night when Michigan ran over Washington 34-13, Wolverines coach Jim Harbaugh had the audacity to rub our noses in …
Read More »ESPN Releases ‘Way Too Early Top 25’ for 2024 – Where is Notre Dame?
Welcome to the day after college football season comes to an end which may as well be better known as National Way Too Early Top 25 for Next Season Day. I don’t say that to knock any outlet that does it because where do all of our minds go the second the national championship game ends? Assuming we’re not fans …
Read More »USA TODAY’s way-too-early Top 25 sees Penn State further down the rankings
The college football season ended last night with the Michigan Wolverines dominating the Washington Huskies in Houston. So now everyone takes a break from college football and watches the NFL Playoffs? Wrong! Well, maybe some people do, but we at Nittany Lions Wire want to scour the internet to find all the way-too-early rankings looking for where experts see Penn …
Read More »Where Penn State ranks in final AP Top 25 of 2023 season
Penn State ended the 2023 season with a dud in the Peach Bowl, but the Nittany Lions will still be able to look back on the 2023 season and appreciate a top-15 finish. In fact, Penn State finished no. 13 in the final AP top 25 poll of the 2023 season, matching the final ranking received in the US LBM …
Read More »Penn State ranked no. 13 in final US LBM Coaches Poll of 2023 season
The final votes have been tallied for the 2023 season, and Penn State ended the season with a top-15 ranking. The final US LBM Coaches Poll was released on Monday, a day after the College Football Playoff national championship game. Penn State fell three spots out of the top 10 and down to no. 13 in the final coaches poll …
Read More »Penn State ranked no. 13 in final US LBM Coaches Poll of 2023 season
The final votes have been tallied for the 2023 season, and Penn State ended the season with a top-15 ranking. The final US LBM Coaches Poll was released on Monday, a day after the College Football Playoff national championship game. Penn State fell three spots out of the top 10 and down to no. 13 in the final coaches poll …
Read More »Where are Nittany Lions ranked in top 25?
Penn State football will look to revamp its lackluster offense while maintaining defensive excellence as it heads into the 2024 college football offseason. The Nittany Lions allowed just 13.46 points per game in the 2023 season, the third-lowest mark in college football. However, coach James Franklin’s squad gave up 20 points to Ohio State and 24 to Michigan in losses, …
Read More »Where Oregon football finished in every Associated Press poll since 2000
Oregon Ducks football finishing in the Top 10 of the final Associated Press in becoming a regular thing nowadays. Believe it or not, it wasn’t always like that. The Ducks were a pretty good team in the early part of this century, but it wasn’t until Chip Kelly took over the reins from Mike Bellotti that Oregon started to dominate …
Read More »Michigan’s victory over Washington draws biggest national championship TV audience since 2020
Michigan’s national title game win over Washington on Monday night was also a win for ESPN. ESPN said Tuesday that the Wolverines’ 34-13 win over the Huskies averaged just over 25 million viewers and was the most-watched national title game since LSU took down Clemson in January of 2020. Monday night’s game drew almost eight million more viewers than Georgia’s …
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