College Football

The first year of the expanded College Football Playoff has arrived, with four first-round games set for this weekend. No. 7 seed Notre Dame host No. 10 seed Indiana in the lone game on Friday night, with the Fighting Irish favored by 7 points in the latest college football odds from SportsLine consensus. Notre Dame closed the regular season on …

OXFORD — Ole Miss football has added yet another SEC transfer from the portal. Former Alabama wide receiver Caleb Odom committed to Ole Miss on the night of Dec. 18. On3 first reported the news. He is the seventh SEC player in Ole Miss’ ten-player transfer portal class. Odom, a true freshman for the Crimson Tide this year, was heavily …

CBS Sports Graphic College football is different from the NFL in a lot of ways, but one of the bigger differences has always been that it’s nearly impossible to win a Super Bowl without a franchise quarterback, but college teams have been able to win national titles without superstars at the position plenty of times. Will that change in the …

. Netflix Logo Netflix is tapping into the world of College Football. The media company announced on Wednesday that they will have a new series that will feature the 2024 season of the Southeastern Conference. The eight-episode series will offer viewers a 360-degree perspective on SEC football, taking them from the field to locker rooms, team buses, barbershops, and beyond. …

Washington State transfer quarterback and 247Sports’ No. 1 available transfer portal prospect John Mateer has committed to Oklahoma, he announced on social media Wednesday. Mateer gives the Sooners an immediate starter for the 2025 season to replace former blue-chip quarterback Jackson Arnold, who transferred to Auburn last week. Mateer excelled in his only year as starter at Washington State, completing 64.6% of …

Dec. 18—GRAND FORKS — Six area football players were selected to the Minnesota 9-man all-state football team as selected by the Minnesota 9-man football coaches. State champion Fertile-Beltrami led the way with three selections: Isaiah Wright, Jonah Harstad and Caleb Stoltman. Other area selections were Stephen-Argyle’s Blaine Smith, Kittson County Central Ty Vig and Goodridge-Grygla’s Gavin Aune. Warren-Alvarado-Oslo’s Kaden Pierce …

North Carolina made the biggest splash of the 2024-25 coaching carousel when it hired NFL legend Bill Belichick, who brings eight Super Bowl wins to Chapel Hill. Though Belichick has earned his stripes as a guaranteed Pro Football Hall of Famer, this is his first stint as a collegiate coach, entering at a time when the sport is in a …

Wisconsin freshman outside linebacker Anelu Lafaele is entering the transfer portal, according to 247Sports’ Brandon Huffman. Lafaele joined the Badgers as a four-star recruit in the class of 2024. He is the program’s 20th scholarship player to enter the portal since the 2024 season concluded. Related: Wisconsin football 2024 transfer portal departure tracker Notably, Lafaele is the second member of the …

We spend so much time during the run-up to the release of the final College Football Playoff Rankings arguing about strength of schedule and quality wins. The imbalance across the modern mega-conferences and the small sample size of college football schedules leave much up for interpretation. A team can look great one week and then expose a myriad of red …

Texas football is the fifth seed in the inaugural 12-team College Football Playoff, and their reward is a first-round home game against the 12th-seeded Clemson. The winner will play fourth-seeded Arizona State in the quarterfinals held at the Peach Bowl in Atlanta. Texas is well-rested after a disappointing 22-19 loss to Georgia in the SEC championship game two weeks ago. …

Getty Images Vanderbilt quarterback Diego Pavia has been granted a temporary injuction that will allow him to play another season of college football in 20205. The court sided with Pavia’s claim that the NCAA’s rules on junior college participation counting against eligibility violates antitrust law.  Pavia played two seasons at New Mexico Military Institute before transferring to New Mexico State …

Nov 12, 2022; Columbus, Ohio, USA; OSU fans sit under the falling snow during the NCAA Division I football game between the Ohio State Buckeyes and the Indiana Hoosiers at Ohio Stadium. Mandatory Credit: Brooke LaValley/The Columbus Dispatch-USA TODAY NETWORK No. 8 seed Ohio State (10-2, 7-2 Big Ten) will host No. 9 seed Tennessee (10-2, 6-2 SEC) on Saturday …

No. 7 seed Notre Dame will host No. 10 seed Indiana in the inaugural first-round game of the 12-team College Football Playoff era on Friday. Though both schools are located in the state of Indiana and are separated by around 200 miles, this will be the first meeting between in-state foes since 1991 and just the 30th all-time.  This is …

Nov 23, 2024; Austin, Texas, USA; Texas Longhorns linebacker Anthony Hill Jr. (0) celebrates after a stop against the Kentucky Wildcats on fourth down in the third quarter at Darrell K Royal Texas Memorial Stadium. Mandatory Credit: Ricardo B. Brazziell/USA TODAY Network via Imagn Images ESPN has unveiled its ranking of the top 50 players in this year’s College Football …

As chaos unfolds around the sport with skyrocketing money flowing in and a dizzying amount of player movement, the man unintentionally responsible for much of it prepares for a first-round playoff game. Tennessee quarterback Nico Iamaleava didn’t set out to be the face of this new world of college football. Big in stature but soft-spoken in nature, the 6-foot-6, 215-pound …