College Football

The El Paso Times will honor high school athletes this year every week that you, the readers, help determine. We will be taking weekly nominations and will release a list of finalists for the El Paso Children’s Hospital High School Athlete of the Week at 7 a.m. each Tuesday. Students in all varsity sports are eligible to be nominated. The poll will close at …

Wisconsin head coach Luke Fickell met with the media on Monday to discuss the state of the team entering Saturday’s Week 6 matchup against Purdue. One topic of discussion was the running back room. Wisconsin has yet to see a clear top running back emerge, with Chez Mellusi and Tawee Walker mostly splitting snaps and carries. Fickell was clear in …

Wisconsin and Purdue enter Saturday’s matchup both badly in need of a victory. Wisconsin, first, has lost two straight games in blowout fashion. It fell 42-10 to now-No. 1 Alabama, then 38-21 to No. 11 USC. The team sits 2-2 (0-1 Big Ten) on the season. Given the challenging schedule that lies ahead, a win on Saturday is almost a …

INDIANAPOLIS – One of Purdue football’s projected offensive weapons in the 2025 class rescinded his commitment Monday night. Hammond Morton receiver Lebron Hill announced on social media he has decommitted. The three-star, top-1,000 prospect had flipped his commitment from Louisville to the Boilermakers on June 25. Morton declared his recruitment “100% open.” More: Purdue athlete ratings of Boilers facilities, support …

The Purdue Boilermakers enter Saturday’s matchup with the Wisconsin Badgers after a rocky start to the season. Ryan Walters’ team began the year with a 49-0 win over Indiana State, signaling the program could be moving in the right direction entering his second year in charge. Three straight losses then followed. The Boilermakers fell 66-7 to Notre Dame, 38-21 to …

Purdue head coach Ryan Walters named analyst Jason Simmons his team’s new play-caller entering Saturday’s matchup with the Wisconsin Badgers. The information came as Walters met with the media for his game-week press conference on Monday. It follows the program’s decision to fire former offensive coordinator Graham Harrell after Saturday’s 28-10 loss to Nebraska. Purdue enters Saturday’s game in Madison, …

Ohio State continues to look like the class of the Big Ten Conference, though the toughest portion of its schedule is still on the horizon. The same could be said for second-tier teams Oregon, Penn State and Michigan, who all remain in the top 10 of the US LBM Coaches Poll. Indiana also remains on its rapid rise up the …

There was always going to be significant changes needed to the College Football Playoff bracket this week with Georgia and Alabama facing off in the final Saturday of September. The win by the Crimson Tide moved them into the top seed of the field and dropped the Bulldogs into a first-round matchup. Both these teams could meet again with the …

AUBURN, Ala. — J.J. Hester had been quiet to start the season. With a wide receiver corps struggling with injuries and the buzz that Hester generated just before the start of the season, Hester’s lack of production through four games stood out. But in OU’s 27-21 win over Auburn on Saturday, Hester broke out. His 60-yard catch from freshman quarterback Michael …

EAST LANSING – Oregon might be new to the Big Ten, but not to Jonathan Smith. The four games he played against his biggest rival as Oregon State’s quarterback. The six games the last six seasons against the Ducks when he was the Beavers’ head coach, including his last at his alma mater before getting hired a day later to …

Alabama football’s offense has been built on a simple math equation: four plus two equals six, combining quarterback Jalen Milroe’s jersey number, freshman phenom Ryan Williams’ jersey number to get the number of points awarded for touchdowns. Ever since Williams joined Alabama’s roster over the summer, he’s been out-of-this-world, quickly jumping up the Crimson Tide depth chart and becoming Milroe’s …

Louisville football is back at L&N Stadium this week and will face its second ACC opponent of the season, SMU. The Cardinals look to rebound after falling at Notre Dame, 31-24. SMU beat Florida State, 42-16, last week for its first ACC win. See Louisville ticket prices for every game this season Here’s how much it will cost you to …

Rutgers football has never beaten Nebraska in six previous attempts. The Scarlet Knights will try to end that drought on Saturday. Greg Schiano’s team will play the Cornhuskers at Memorial Stadium in Lincoln, Nebraska (4 p.m. ET, FS1) hoping to notch the first win over Nebraska in program history while also extending its season-opening winning streak to five. It’ll be …

An action-packed Week 4 caused some major shuffling among public-school teams in the New Jersey Super 25 rankings. Winslow took out Millville, the top-ranked public-school team since the start of the season, and is now the No. 2-ranked public-school team in the state. Toms River North edged the Eagles for the top spot after a last-minute victory last week. This …

Penn State football must try to tighten its wobbly special teams’ before back-to-back games against the Big Ten’s new California teams. Firstly, the Nittany Lions are getting next-to-nothing from their punt return game. On Monday, coach James Franklin admitted that he may not have any quick-solve answers as his team prepares to face the struggling UCLA Bruins. Nittany Lion junior …