College Football

BATON ROUGE, La. – Remember Saturday night. If LSU scratches and claws and muddies and escapes and fights its way into the College Football Playoff, remember the night the No. 10 Tigers won a game they never led until the final play. If this 29-26 overtime win over No. 8 Ole Miss galvanizes Brian Kelly’s tenure, and he proves himself …

Week 7 of the 2024 SEC football season shaped up to be an eventful one going into Saturday, and the weekend slate certainly lived up to the hype across the conference. A Saturday slate that included rivalry matchups, near upsets, and more, here are the updated SEC football standings as we look ahead to Week 8: 2024 SEC Football standings …

The debate for No. 1 in the new US LBM Coaches Poll will come down to Texas and Oregon. Will the Longhorns hold onto the top spot or will voters be swayed by the Ducks’ win against Ohio State? Look for the Ducks to take a big chunk out of the Longhorns’ lead and draw a dozen or more first-place …

DALLAS — Texas football blew the doors off Oklahoma two years ago, but Saturday’s 34-3 shellacking at the Cotton Bowl felt different. The Horns haven’t arrived just yet but the expectations are so much larger than at any time during the Steve Sarkisian era. Buoyed by the program’s stingiest defense in nearly 50 years, the top-ranked Longhorns feasted on a tasty …

Jaxson Moi led the way. The Tennessee football defensive lineman lined up in the offensive backfield and smashed into the Florida defensive front. Tight end Miles Kitselman followed Moi. Running back Dylan Sampson trailed both into the end zone. “It is definitely like they can’t even see me for real when they put everybody like that,” Sampson said. No. 9 …

ORLANDO — Gus Malzahn kept repeating the same word. “Spark.” That’s what the UCF Knights’ head coach wanted by making a quarterback change against the Cincinnati Bearcats Saturday. For the first time this season, someone other than KJ Jefferson started behind center. Freshman EJ Colson received the nod. He played three drives, including the first two of the game, before …

BATON ROUGE — Would you have believed the defense would’ve been what saved LSU football’s season in the team’s biggest game yet just weeks after it let USC off the hook in Las Vegas? With ramifications galore on the line, the masterful game plan LSU defensive coordinator Blake Baker constructed and the masterclass his players executed on the field in …

Following a tight 31-28 loss to the Kansas State Wildcats (5-1, 2-1 Big 12) late Saturday night, Colorado head coach Deion “Coach Prime” Sanders didn’t mince words when discussing the performance of his eldest son, Shilo Sanders. “I thought he played horrible,” coach Sanders said during the postgame press conference. “I thought he was rusty. I thought he didn’t have …

PISCATAWAY – Unacceptable. Unbelievable. Uninspiring. Pick whatever word you want to use and it would apply to the performance Rutgers football delivered on Saturday. The Scarlet Knights failed to show up and forced their home fans to endure an ugly 42-7 loss to Wisconsin at SHI Stadium, Rutgers’ second consecutive loss and a defeat that left far more questions about …

It’s now time to vote for the Week 8 South Bend Tribune High School Football Player of the Week, brought to you by the YMCA of Greater Michiana. Seven players — five from Indiana and two from Michigan — are nominated for their performances on Oct. 11, 2024. Voting will remain open until 11:59 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 17. You may …

When he sat down to his postgame press conference, Oregon Ducks head coach Dan Lanning still needed a minute to catch his breath. His face was red, and his hair soaked with sweat. When he tried to talk, there was a hollow raspiness that came out, earned only from the hours of consistent yelling throughout the course of the night. …

KNOXVILLE, Tenn. — Florida football squandered a chance to pick up a statement win, falling 23-17 in overtime to Tennessee before 101,915 at Neyland Stadium. The Sun’s Kevin Brockway and David Whitley wrapped up the disheartening loss for the Florida Gators (3-3, 1-2 SEC). UF came away with just 3 points in four red zone trips in the first half, …

This embedded content is not available in your region. Caroline Fenton, Jason Fitz & Adam Breneman recap the biggest games from Week 7 starting with Oregon’s 32-31 victory against Ohio State. Is Lanning getting enough credit for his gutsy play-calling in this Oregon win? Or were costly mistakes by Ohio State’s quarterback Will Howard more to blame? The trio share …

BOULDER, Colo. – Three steps forward, one giant step back? That’s what it looks like for coach Deion Sanders and the Colorado football team after stumbling in a wild Big 12 Conference game Saturday night against Kansas State, 31-28. The loss stops a three-game winning streak that had the Buffaloes gunning for the Big 12 title. But it wasn’t just …

Welcome to Survival Saturday. Each season, there is at least one of these, a day that makes the college football world’s collective heart beat uncontrollably from brunch to dinner. Four top-25 teams won in overtime. Another three ranked teams claimed wins by three points or fewer. It started with Alabama’s (shaky) rebound from the Vanderbilt loss — a two-point win …