College Football

Week 5 of the college football season is here, and ESPN’s “College GameDay” is headed to a clash between titans. No. 4 Alabama (3-0) is hosting No. 1 Georgia (3-0, 1-0 SEC) on Saturday in Tuscaloosa, marking the first time the two programs have met in a game outside of the SEC championship or national championship game since 2020, when …

SEC football: It means more. There was a time when people in these parts would hear that slogan and react with a roll of the eyes or a slight chuckle. Steve Sarkisian will coach in his first SEC game since serving as an assistant at Alabama in 2020. The Longhorns host Mississippi State on Saturday. But underneath it all, they …

Oklahoma coach Brent Venables celebrates with Oklahoma Sooners quarterback Dillon Gabriel (8) after the Red River Rivalry college football game between the University of Oklahoma Sooners (OU) and the University of Texas (UT) Longhorns at the Cotton Bowl in Dallas, Saturday, Oct. 7, 2023. Oklahoma won 34-30. In late November of 2021, the unexpected departure of then-head coach Lincoln Riley …

Wisconsin starting cornerback Max Lofy was seen at practice with his right hand in a club entering the Badgers’ big Week 5 matchup at USC. Lofy was mic’d up for Wisconsin’s ‘(WI)red’ video series. It sees select players or coaches wear a microphone at practice while the video team follows. Some highlights are cut together into a 3-minute video that …

News broke on Wednesday night that USC defensive lineman Bear Alexander will exercise a redshirt and sit out the remainder of the 2024 season. 247Sports’ Connor Morrissette had the story first. This news breaks as the Wisconsin Badgers prepare for their road trip to Los Angeles, California for Saturday’s matchup with the Trojans. Significant to the on-field matchup, it means …

Patience is not among Donovan Jackson’s virtues. “I’ve always been a stubborn kid,” Ohio State’s senior left guard said with a smile Wednesday. “You can ask my mom. Patience hasn’t always been my thing.” The two-time first-team All-Big Ten lineman said he’d never missed a game, including youth league ball. When Jackson injured a hamstring in training camp, he had …

If you gaze far enough into the fall horizon, you’ll spot a chaotic College Football Playoff selection scenario taking shape. Anyone who’s worked up a playoff projection sees it coming. Every coach or fan of a Power Four team wants to believe finishing with at least 10 wins will be enough to earn one of the seven at-large bids to …

Ohio State football commit Lamar “Bo” Jackson leads Villa Angela-St. Joseph (5-0) against McDowell, Pa. (3-2) into Week 6 of the Ohio high school football campaign. Jackson, a running back, comes in as the 85th best recruit out of the 2025 class, according to 247Sports.com. The VA-SJ senior ranks as the No. 5 recruit in Ohio regardless of position. He’s …

BATON ROUGE – When the 2024 schedule was finalized, the South Alabama matchup for LSU football wasn’t anywhere near the most intriguing game on the slate. But how things have played out for both Major Applewhite and the Jaguars (2-2), as well as the No. 13 Tigers (3-1), this contest has gotten much more interesting as the teams are set …

The Tigers are exactly where they were expected to be. It has lacked some flash. It has probably sent some heart rates racing. But Missouri football is 4-0 as it works through its first idle week of the season after a double-overtime win over Vanderbilt, a ranked victory over Boston College and shutouts of Buffalo and Murray State. But what …

WEST LAFAYETTE — Simplistically, Kydran Jenkins says there’s a solution to fixing Purdue football’s defense. “Being aggressive, stopping the run, staying in our gap, doing your job aggressively,” the senior linebacker said. It’s a bit more complex than that. But, Jenkins is correct, that it starts with staying assignment sound and aggressive. Through three games, the Boilermakers are allowing 392.3 …

For years, perhaps no Alabama football coach outside of Nick Saban was more closely associated with the Crimson Tide’s dynasty than Scott Cochran, the strength and conditioning coach whose methods helped mold players who guided the program to five national championships in his 13 seasons there. As Cochran became an exalted figure around Tuscaloosa and the broader college football world, …

One of the most beloved Oregon Duck uniforms in school history will finally be making it’s debut this week, with the team announcing on Wednesday night that they will be unveiling the white ‘Mighty Oregon’ throwback uniforms for Saturday’s game against the UCLA Bruins.  These jerseys, part of the ‘Generation O‘ line of uniforms that were announced this offseason, will …

Alabama football outside linebacker Qua Russaw is probable for Saturday’s prime-time game against Georgia, according to the SEC student-athlete availability report Wednesday. On Monday, Alabama coach Kalen DeBoer said Russaw (lower leg) is “still taking the steps, still working through the situation,” but that he is “optimistic” for the outside linebacker’s return. Alabama safety Malachi Moore is not listed on …

Sep. 25—PULLMAN — Brett Borchart felt a little uneasy when he heard his Wisconsin-Stevens Point coaches call out his name. The Pointers were in the middle of practice, early in the 2004 season, and they needed a backup holder for place-kicks. They figured Borchart would make a good candidate. He was the team’s starting quarterback, after all, and he would …