College Football

Rutgers football had chances. So many chances. The Scarlet Knights just couldn’t take capitalize on any of them. Instead of celebrating what would’ve been a signature Big Ten victory, Greg Schiano’s team instead boarded an airplane bound for New Jersey lamenting those missed opportunities in a 14-7 loss to Nebraska on Saturday at Memorial Stadium in Lincoln. “We just didn’t …

Welcome to the sixth MyCentralJersey.com’s Big Central Conference Readers’ Choice Football Player of the Week poll of the 2024 season. Voting closes Thursday at noon. Please note that the votes don’t always show up immediately. There are lags for the votes to register and a winner isn’t declared until hours after the poll closes. More: Football live scoreboard, Big Central Conference coverage …

Tahj Brooks overcame two fumbles by rushing for 128 yards and three touchdowns and Gino Garcia made a go-ahead field goal with 2:21 left as the Texas Tech football team beat Arizona 28-22 Saturday night in Tucson, Arizona. Brooks scored on runs of 3 and 9 yards in the first half, helping Texas Tech (5-1, 3-0 in the Big 12) …

This embedded content is not available in your region. Caroline Fenton, Jason Fitz & Adam Breneman react to Vanderbilt’s shocking upset of no. 1 Alabama. While Alabama’s playoff hopes remain intact, how can Kalen DeBoer get the Crimson Tide their unbeatable identity back? Also in the SEC, Arkansas comes back from an 11-point deficit to beat Tennessee. Why couldn’t the …

Miami quarterback Cam Ward (1) led another thrilling comeback win on Saturday over Cal in Berkeley, Calif. (AP Photo/Jed Jacobsohn) No one can put this Miami team away. For the second straight week, No. 8 Miami overcame a slow, mistake-riddled start and rallied for an unlikely win. This time, it was a seemingly impossible one as the Hurricanes came back …

If someone told you a running back would crack the 1,000-yard mark in a college football season, you would not believe it. Boise State’s Ashton Jeanty has been unbelievable in 2024. The RB rushed for 186 yards and three touchdowns in the first half of Boise State’s 63-20 walloping of Utah State on Saturday. Jeanty’s 90th carry of the season …

Ranked teams in college football are never safe. Unranked foes lurk around every corner. Upstarts and upsets abound. Madness lives here in college football. Crazy is the norm. Wacky is the way. So, in many ways, college football’s Week 6 delivered exactly what we’ve come to expect. And, perhaps, then some. Four top-11 ranked teams lost to unranked foes: (1) …

Utah State wide receiver Kyrese White (23) runs with the ball against the Boise State defense after a reception in the first half of an NCAA college football game, Saturday, Oct. 5, 2024, in Boise, Idaho. . | Steve Conner Utah State football is 1-4 to start the 2024 season. After a season opening win over Robert Morris, there was …

NASHVILLE — As soon as Vanderbilt fans began to pour onto the football field at FirstBank Stadium on Saturday night, the University of Alabama got a bit richer. With Vanderbilt’s celebration of a 40-35 win against Alabama football came a $100,000 fine that is to be paid to the school that gets stormed upon. The SEC put these rules in …

FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. – Tennessee football fans were in disbelief when quarterback Nico Iamaleava inexplicably ran out of bounds after time expired to seal a 19-14 shocking loss to Arkansas on Saturday. And they all had the same thought: I can’t believe it happened again. In 2021, UT quarterback Joe Milton ran out of bounds rather than attempt a pass into …

Matt Hayes analyzes four hot topics from Saturday’s games. First down: Chaos in the SEC All of those one-possession games, all of those one-possession losses. Had to even out at some point, right? Welcome back to the sunny side of the street, Sam Pittman. Arkansas’ snakebitten coach of the last two seasons – with double-digit losses in one-possession games (two …

Tyler Booker knew he was being looked at after Alabama football’s loss Saturday to Vanderbilt. How he reacted, he said, was how the team was going to react, losing 40-35 to a Commodores team the Crimson Tide hasn’t lost to since 1984. “If I put my head down, everybody else is going to put their head down,” Booker said. Booker …

Ranked teams were snakebitten on the road in Week 6 of the college football season — something No. 4 Tennessee found out the hard way. Josh Heupel and the Vols lost their first game of the season, dropping a 19-14 game to unranked Arkansas at Razorback Stadium. With that, the Vols fall to 4-1 and 1-1 in SEC play, whereas …

STEPHEN TSAI / STSAI @STARADVERTISER.COM The University of Hawaii football team gathered in the end zone before kickoff against San Diego State in the Mountain West Conference opener for both teams today at Snapdragon Stadium in San Diego, Calif. 1 /2 STEPHEN TSAI / STSAI @STARADVERTISER.COM The University of Hawaii football team gathered in the end zone before kickoff against …

SEATTLE — Everything was going wrong for Michigan football, which left head coach Sherrone Moore with little choice. His team fell into an early two-touchdown hole after three short, sputtering offensive drives to open the game, when he turned to seventh-year quarterback Jack Tuttle to replace Alex Orji in search of an offensive spark. To say it worked would be …