College Football

It’s time to go bowling in college football. It’s been known that Notre Dame, Illinois and Northern Illinois will have their post-season moments. Now we know when and where. Here are where the Irish, Huskies and Iliini will play their postseason bowl games and who their opponents will be. Notre Dame Fighting Irish What Bowl: College Football Playoff – First …

DALLAS – SMU will play in the College Football Playoff for the first time ever. The 11th-seeded Mustangs will take on No. 6 Penn State later this month. The playoff berth didn’t come without a bit of concern. SMU’s loss to Clemson in the ACC Championship Game on Saturday night opened the door to the Mustangs being left out for …

It’s Christmastime. It’s that time of year when we have warmth in our hearts, a spirit of togetherness and the urge to reconnect with loved ones. A time to express gratitude for the people who made us what we are. A time to rediscover the magic of coming together once again. The perfect time for Frosty the Showman — aka …

Fifteen days ago, Alabama football coach Kalen DeBoer preached commitment. The Crimson Tide was stunned, having just finished a 24-3 road loss to Oklahoma, a game intended to be a tune-up before an Iron Bowl that decided Alabama’s SEC championship fate, a game that had the Crimson Tide as a multiple-touchdown favorite. DeBoer was disappointed. He was frustrated. But he …

Dec. 8—PULLMAN — Washington State will be making a second trip to southern California this season. WSU will play Syracuse in the Holiday Bowl, which is set for 5 p.m. on Dec. 27 at Snapdragon Stadium in San Diego, the site of the Cougars’ win over San Diego State on Oct. 26, the bowl announced Sunday afternoon. For the Cougs, …

BYU coach LaVell Edwards holding conference championship trophy with punter Lee Johnson (No. 10) on Nov. 24, 1984. | Mark Philbrick, BYU Photo In 1953, the population of the United States was 158 million and on Nov. 26, that year, Thanksgiving Day, the BYU-Utah football game televised nationally on NBC, drawing 60 million viewers. That’s more than last year’s No. …

Scott Frost paused for a moment and looked down. Then, he delivered the line of the night with a little nod of his head. “Yeah, it was hard for me to leave. It was emotional,” he said of departure from UCF after the 2017 season. “When you’re climbing the ladder of success in life, sometimes they forget to tell you …

When the Texas Tech football team tangles with Arkansas in the Liberty Bowl later this month, Tech coach Joey McGuire will be on the opposite side of the rivalry than he might’ve imagined himself as a kid. McGuire was born in Texarkana on the Texas-Arkansas border. He told the Avalanche-Journal shortly after Texas Tech hired him in 2021 how he …

The Huskies are going bowling. In his first season at the helm, head coach Jedd Fisch leads “U-Dub” to a bowl berth. A 6-6 record, enough to earn the Huskies an invitation to the “Tony the Tiger Sun Bowl”. Washington will face the Louisville Cardinals in the 91st edition of the bowl. That game will be played in El Paso, …

INDIANAPOLIS – Penn State was seeded sixth and will face 11th-seeded SMU at Beaver Stadium in the first round of the inaugural 12-team College Football Playoff, it was announced Sunday. The Nittany Lions (11-2) and the Mustangs (11-2) will play at noon on Saturday, Dec. 21, on TNT. It will be their first meeting since Penn State’s 26-21 win in …

Dec. 8—Is intercollegiate football at the highest level worth continuing at the University of New Mexico? Probably not, but good sense has little to do with the politics of running an institution of higher learning. No university president wants to be remembered for disbanding the football team. No member of the board of regents can abide an angry earful about …

Dec. 8—SOUTH BEND — For the first time since 1991, Notre Dame and Indiana will meet on the gridiron. In the final batch of College Football Playoff rankings, the Fighting Irish (11-1), seeded seventh, and Hoosiers (11-1), seeded 10th, were matched together and will meet on Friday, Dec. 20 at 8 p.m. The winner will get No. 2 Georgia (11-2) …

Dec. 8—The Isleta New Mexico Bowl is celebrating its 19th season with a handful of firsts. TCU and Louisiana-Lafayette will meet for the first time in the New Mexico Bowl on Dec. 28 at University Stadium, just the second time in the event’s history that a Mountain West team won’t be featured. TCU’s inclusion also represents the first time a …

Alabama football has already lost its share of depth in its wide receiver room. Before the NCAA transfer portal window officially opens Monday, three wide receivers — Kendrick Law, Kobe Prentice and Caleb Odom — have each reportedly shared their interest in entering the portal and finding a new home for the 2025 season. When asked about those transfers Sunday …

Move over, brand recognition. Welcome, most-deserving team. The selection committee’s decision to sidestep Alabama (9-3) in favor of SMU (11-2) in the final College Football Playoff Rankings was a brave call — and the right decision — on Selection Sunday. The report card’s final grade is satisfactory after the committee avoided a disruptive precedent that would’ve been set had the three-loss …