College Football

. The Colorado Buffaloes have hit another bye week and with four games remaining on their regular season schedule, it’s time to look into our crystal ball and give some predictions. Colorado enters its second bye at 6-2 (4-1 Big 12) and is a Big 12 title contender, sitting in a tie for third place in the conference standings. The …

Dec 2, 2023; Atlanta, GA, USA; Alabama Crimson Tide head coach Nick Saban celebrates on the podium after defeating the Georgia Bulldogs in the SEC championship game at Mercedes-Benz Stadium. Mandatory Credit: Brett Davis-USA TODAY Sports Throughout his entire 17-year tenure as head coach of the Alabama Crimson Tide football program, Nick Saban only coached on his birthday of October …

Texas A&M football catapulted itself to 11th in the US LBM Coaches Poll and 10th in the AP Poll with a statement win over LSU last Saturday. Soon enough, though, they’ll get a real idea of where they sit in the College Football Playoff race. The CFP selection committee will release its first round of rankings Nov. 5. That list …

EDITOR’S NOTE: Months of research led to a series, “Year of the Quarterback,” being presented in three waves. The first wave — 10 articles covering the volatile new world of the transfer portal — was published recently. This is the 10th part in the second wave, which tracks then-and-now journeys of 10 Stark County quarterbacks. Wonderland glistened on Todd Blackledge’s face. He …

As a kid, Glenn Seabrooks dreamed of playing in MLB. During the regional baseball playoffs as a high school junior, Seabrooks scored the go-ahead run on a Pete Rose-style, head-first dive into home. He played on a travel team with Roman Petricca, a current freshman on the Vanderbilt baseball team. Now, Seabrooks’ baseball days are over. The 6-foot-3, 340-pound defensive …

COLUMBIA — It’s almost rare to hear the name Alex Huntley around South Carolina football’s facilities. Unless it’s a formality, it’s almost always Boogie. Huntley told The Greenville News that as a child, he crawled so fast his brother said “Look at him boogie,” and by the time he played football at age 4, his mom yelled out her first …

BOWLING GREEN — The Western Kentucky football team is, in a word, rolling — and Hilltopper fans will enjoy a happy Halloween because of it. Caden Veltkamp tossed two touchdown passes and George Hart ran for another score in a 21-point first quarter, and the Hilltoppers went on to defeat visiting Kennesaw State 31-14 in a Conference USA football game …

MANHATTAN — The first College Football Playoff rankings are a week away, and Kansas State football’s dream of advancing to the expanded 12-team field is still very much alive. That said, the Wildcats still have work to do, and the only sure path to get in is to keep on winning. At 7-1 overall and 4-1 in the Big 12, …

There was a press conference in Jacksonville this week to discuss the Georgia-Florida football game. Or is it Florida-Georgia? Anyway, the interesting thing was how the mayor and other city officials never used the game’s most popular and enduring name. Can you say, “The World’s Largest Outdoor Cocktail Party?” Not without getting the side-eye from the people who run the …

CIRCLEVILLE – Ask any coach or player and they will tell you the locker room is sacred ground. What goes on in there stays in there. Before the game, at halftime, and after the game is a time when they are together as one, and people on the outside rarely get a chance to see or hear what happens on …

LAWRENCE — Kansas football earned its first public commitment of the 2026 recruiting class on Oct. 29, 2024. Jaylen Mason, an in-state quarterback, announced his commitment to the Jayhawks on X — the social media platform formerly known as Twitter. Mason is listed as a 6-foot-2.5 prospect who weighs 196 pounds, according to 247Sports. It’s an important first step for head coach …

Georgia football’s official availability report for Saturday’s 3:30 p.m. game against Florida has been released by the SEC. This is the sixth game week for Georgia under the conference’s new reporting policies. The SEC releases daily reports Wednesday, Thursday and Friday and another 90 minutes before kickoff on game day. Georgia has eight players listed on this week’s report. That …

OXFORD − The full picture for Ole Miss football’s upcoming game against Arkansas is getting clearer. No. 18 Ole Miss (6-2, 2-2 SEC) plays at Arkansas (5-3, 3-2) on Saturday (11 a.m., ESPN). The Rebels are coming off a win against Oklahoma. Key Ole Miss players are on the SEC-mandated injury report that released Wednesday night. Star receiver Tre Harris …

Texas Tech athletics director Kirby Hocutt, on a conference call this week with other Big 12 ADs, raised questions about the security of the new coach-to-player helmet communication technology being used this season by Texas Tech football and all the other power-conference teams. Hocutt told ESPN.com on Wednesday that he raised the issue after “learning the Red Raiders’ helmet communications …

Kentucky offensive tackle Gerald Mincey, a former Tennessee player, will not play against his former team on Saturday due to injury. Mincey was listed as out on the SEC student-athlete availability report, released Wednesday night. He started the first seven games of the season. But last week, he left the game during Kentucky’s 24-10 loss to Auburn. No. 7 Tennessee …