College Football

Chaos throughout the conference and a wild Week 13 Saturday has proven one thing: the Texas Tech football team is still alive for a spot in the Big 12 championship game. How is that possible? Parity, and a touch of insanity. Entering the final week of the regular season, four teams are tied atop the Big 12 standings with identical …

CBS Sports Network’s continued coverage of the 2024 college football season features five games for the Week 13 slate, with just one weeknight game ahead of a Saturday quadruple-header. The week kicks off with some MACtion Tuesday night as Akron travels to Kent State. This will be the third midweek game in a row for both teams, who haven’t seen the …

CHILLICOTHE — Keep an eye on Cartae Ligon. He is going places. Ligon, 16, a freshman, at Chillicothe High School, is the All-Gazette Breakout Football Player of the Year. “I started playing flag football in second grade, then after that from third grade to now, I’ve been playing tackle football,” Ligon said. By fifth or sixth grade, he knew he …

Getty Texas quarterback Quinn Ewers suffered an ankle injury during the Longhorns’ 31-14 win against Kentucky on Saturday but finished the game, which was reportedly his final regular season home game as a Longhorn. Ewers appeared to suffer the injury early in the second quarter of the Longhorns’ victory.  The senior scrambled on second-and-4 and appeared to get pulled down …

The high school football season is over, so we thought we’d try something different before everyone loads up on turkey and stuffing this week. We are going to honor all the season’s Football Athlete of the Week winners by having them compete in one final poll to determine who is the top Football Athlete of the Week this fall. The …

Getty Images No. 17 Colorado dropped to 8-3 (6-2 Big 12) on Saturday with a 37-21 loss to Kansas. Colorado’s loss coupled with Arizona State’s dramatic victory over BYU earlier in the day creates a complicated scenario heading into the final full week of the regular season next week. Deion Sanders and the Buffaloes no longer control their own destiny to …

ATHENS, Ga. — Hours after locking down their ninth win of the year, the Bulldogs have now clinched their spot in the Southeastern Conference Championship Game in Mercedes-Benz Stadium in Atlanta on Dec. 7, according to a league announcement. Georgia officially clinched its spot in its 12th SEC Championship Game following losses from both Alabama and Texas A&M on Saturday. …

KANSAS CITY, Mo. — The best team in the Big 12, at least at the moment, may not go to a bowl game. Such is part of the glorious mess that is currently the Big 12 Conference. Kansas dropped a wrench into the tiebreaker machinery by beating No. 16 Colorado so badly on Saturday they’re feeling it back in the …

Antwann Hill Jr..jpg Quarterback Antwann Hill Jr. (Warner Robins, GA/ Houston County High School), the four-star prospect has officially accepted his invitation to the 2025 Navy All-American Bowl. Having been selected to play in the twenty fifth edition of the Navy All-American Bowl, Hill will play in the annual East vs. West matchup on Saturday, January 11, 2025, in the …

Getty Images A huge part of the 2024 college football season has been the full-schedule debut of the Big Ten on CBS as the conference moved into the iconic broadcast spot at 3:30 p.m. ET at a time when the league has, literally, never been bigger. In total, the CBS Sports college football schedule included five different doubleheaders and three …

Northern Arizona’s football season will continue Saturday in the Football Championship Subdivision (FCS) playoffs when the Lumberjacks play at No. 15 Abilene Christian in Texas at 1 p.m. MST. First-year head coach Brian Wright’s NAU team earned an at-large berth, NAU’s first playoff appearance since 2017. The Lumberjacks finished this season 8-4 with a 6-2 record in Big Sky Conference …

Getty Images No. 7 Alabama’s shocking 24-3 loss at Oklahoma shakes up the SEC Championship Game picture and puts the Crimson Tide’s College Football Playoff hopes on life support. The loss drops the Crimson Tide to 8-3 and clinched the first three-loss season in Tuscaloosa since 2010. Oklahoma clinched a bowl berth with the win in Norman.  Over an eight-minute period in the middle …

Quarterbacks B: Drew Allar missed some throws he usually makes, but he made game-winning plays in the second half. Running backs B: Nick Singleton accounted for 100 all-purpose yards, 67 and a touchdown on the ground and 33 through the air. Receivers A: Tyler Warren caught eight passes for 102 yards, and Harrison Wallace III and Omari Evans combined for …

Chaos has arrived not only for college football down the stretch but also the outlook for the new top 25 rankings as well as the College Football Playoff picture could not be more unclear heading into the final week of the regular season. Three top-10 teams lost on Saturday, and in total there were seven teams that were ranked in …

James Franklin has taken deserved criticism for some of Penn State’s late-game failures during his tenure. As recently as a 20-13 loss to Ohio State earlier this month, some of Franklin’s decisions have ranged from curious to puzzling to bonkers. But not all of Franklin’s late-game decisions have made Nittany Lions fans wince or scream. He has performed brilliantly in …