College Football

SOUTH BEND – Never shy of a line, Curt Cignetti dropped one more Friday as he sat down to his final postgame news conference of the season. “It’s hard to say goodbye to your kids,” Cignetti deadpanned, “because they just watched their dad get his ass kicked.” This was Indiana’s brash, Spurrier-like head coach acting as a lightning rod for …

The Tulane Green Wave (9-4) will aim for a big upset when they face the Florida Gators (7-5) in the 2024 Gasparilla Bowl on Friday afternoon. Tulane was on track for a potential spot in the College Football Playoff prior to its loss to Memphis at the end of the regular season, and it was followed by a loss to …

SOUTH BEND — IU football coach Curt Cignetti told reporters earlier this season he’s “definitely become more aggressive and attacking” on offense from when he started out more than 30 years ago as a grad assistant at Pittsburgh. That philosophy was nowhere to be found on Friday night in a 27-17 loss to Notre Dame in the first round of …

There was a hurdle to clear Friday in South Bend. On this stage, for too long, Notre Dame had been exposed.   The hurdle was figurative, but there was definitely a bar to get over in the minds of the Fighting Irish. If it didn’t, something was wrong. The spectacle was nice for the first ever College Football Playoff game …

Indiana’s Cinderella season under first-year coach Curt Cignetti came to an end Friday night, with the 10th-seeded Hoosiers falling at No. 7 seed Notre Dame in the first on-campus College Football Playoff game. While Indiana did commit some mistakes in the 27-17 loss — notably an interception at the 2-yard line that resulted in a Jeremiyah Love 98-yard touchdown — …

West Virginia football saw its 2024 season come to an end with a bowl loss and a 6-7 season, but all of Morgantown is already looking forward to the 2025 campaign and the return of a local hero. Rich Rodriguez is back as West Virginia coach after a 17-year absence, with varying levels of success at multiple stops in between. …

SOUTH BEND, Ind. ― The keepers of this magnificent sport say they’ll learn from the first show of shows, this new and unchartered college football postseason. Let’s start by figuring out how in blue blazes Indiana got in the College Football Playoff in the first place. There will be plenty of time to lavish championship hype on Notre Dame if …

The conclusion of the first-ever on-campus game in the College Football Playoff has set the stage for our first quarterfinal matchup in the new 12-team format. Notre Dame will advance to face Georgia in the Sugar Bowl on Jan. 1 after a decisive 27-17 win over Indiana in South Bend on Friday night. The Irish led 27-3 late into the …

SOUTH BEND, INDIANA – DECEMBER 20: Head coach Curt Cignetti of the Indiana Hoosiers reacts during the second quarter against the Notre Dame Fighting Irish in the Playoff First Round game at Notre Dame Stadium on December 20, 2024 in South Bend, Indiana. (Photo by Michael Reaves/Getty Images) No. 10 seed Indiana absolutely deserved its spot in the College Football …

Seventy years after his father last coached at the school, Bill Belichick will follow in his footsteps by roaming the sidelines at the University of North Carolina. Belichick, who owns eight Super Bowl rings, will coach in college for the first time after signing a five-year contract to be the new North Carolina football coach. Belichick has decades of experience …

Florida and Tulane are set to clash in this year’s Gasparilla Bowl at Raymond James Stadium in Tampa, Florida. It’s the seventh time the game will be played under the name — it was canceled in 2020 — and the sixth time since moving from Tropicana Field in St. Petersburg, Florida. No offense to Tropicana Field, but any time you …

Friday was for the big guys up front in Columbia. Missouri football landed its second commitment in a matter of hours Friday — both from offensive lineman — in Wake Forest transfer lineman Keagen Trost, who announced he was transferring to the Tigers via his personal X account. Trost follows Michigan transfer Dominick Guidice, whose transfer to Mizzou was announced approximately two …

The first 12-team College Football Playoff kicks off on Friday with No. 7 Notre Dame hosting No. 10 Indiana (+6.5) at 8 p.m. ET, followed by three games on Saturday. The Big Ten has representation in three of the four 2024 College Football Playoff first-round matchups with No. 6 Penn State hosting No. 11 SMU (+8.5) at noon ET on …

. There is perhaps no better way to sum up the current state of the Michigan-Ohio State rivalry than ESPN’s Desmond Howard going on live television to express both pity and sympathy for Buckeyes head coach Ryan Day. Howard, the 1991 Heisman winner at Michigan and Wolverines icon, went on an impassioned rant about Day’s critics during College GameDay before …

Billy Napier wouldn’t have said so publicly before the season began, but if you could get him to let down his coach facade and be honest, you probably could’ve made him admit he’d be happy with an 8-5 record. After watching his team lose home games to Miami and Texas A&M to start the year 1-2, he may have even …