College Football

A couple of years ago, colleague Andy Nesbitt, writing for For The Win, authored an article arguing that college football’s national championship game being on Monday night is one of the dumbest things in sports. Somehow, the folks running the CFP have topped that. They had playoff games go up against the NFL. The CFP ratings in the opening round …

College football’s champion will be crowned when the eighth-seeded Ohio State Buckeyes battle the seventh-seeded Notre Dame Fighting Irish in the 2025 College Football Playoff National Championship game on Monday. Ohio State advanced with a 28-14 win over Texas in the semifinals, while Notre Dame defeated Penn State 27-24. The Buckeyes (13-2, 7-2 Big Ten), who placed fourth in the …

LANSING — Jonathan Smith’s annual stop at the Michigan High School Football Coaches Association’s winter clinic gave the Michigan State football coach a chance to reflect on a busy offseason. New assistants were hired. New players — transfers and early enrollees — are on campus. The work to rebuild the Spartans is well underway a little over two weeks into …

The 12-team College Football Playoff works. I don’t mean it works like an old tube television that turns on if you bang on it in just the right spot. This format requires no pounding or modification. It works like a new 72-inch mounted flat screen TV that displays a crisp picture with the click of a button. Leave it be. …

With Penn State’s football season now officially in the books, now is a good time to start putting the whole season into perspective. Although the season ended with the Nittany Lions coming up just short of playing for a national championship, there were a lot of good moments to reflect on positively from the 2024 season that ended with a …

With Arch Manning under center and returning defensive stars like Anthony Hill Jr., Colin Simmons and Michael Taaffe, the sportsbooks made Texas football the early favorite to win the national championship next season. Coach Steve Sarkisian has elevated the Longhorns into regular contention, but their title charges have been stopped short in the semifinals of the College Football Playoff for …

Seven months before Will Howard and Riley Leonard were to meet on the biggest stage in college football, they crossed paths in southern Louisiana. The quarterbacks attended the Manning Passing Academy at Nicholls State and roomed together for several days in June, along with Clemson’s Cade Klubnik and Wisconsin’s Tyler Van Dyke. “We probably wouldn’t have imagined that months later …

The Colorado athletic department reported record revenue and football ticket sales in fiscal year 2024, leading to an $8.2 million “profit” after posting deficits in five of the previous six years, according to a financial report filed by Colorado recently with the NCAA. Colorado released the report this week for fiscal year 2024, which covers July 1, 2023, to June …

Missouri football has been busy. The Tigers have added 17 players via the transfer portal since it opened in December, and the Tigers are set to lose 16 players the other way. Of the 17 newcomers, nine have come on the defensive side of the ball. Mizzou entered the portal with multiple positions of need, mostly due to players exhausting …

O-H what fun it is to ride the sleigh dashing through the college football playoffs. Who knew the coldest loss ever to Michigan could be followed by Buckeyes crackling like mad in the hottest playoff system in sports? Cynicism creeps easily into the robotic, mercenary, artificial age of the wham-bam-see-ya-later transfer portal and the 20-year-olds-in-Bentleys, name-image-likeness circus. Ohio State’s Jack …

Nick Lucero/Rivals.com There is an urgency in the class of 2026. From top prospects on down, the awareness and impact of the NCAA transfer portal and how it squeezes the high school recruiting talent pool has been widely recognized. The trend of earlier decisions may not soon slow as a result, and another elite recruit has trimmed his list with …

Penn State’s James Franklin sat at the podium next to Marcus Freeman, the coach he’d face the next day in the national semifinals. And Franklin decided he wanted to make a point — at Freeman’s expense. “This is no knock at Coach Freeman or Notre Dame, but I think everybody should be in a conference,” Franklin said. “I think everybody …

Nov 20, 2021; El Paso, Texas, USA; The Rice Owls are led out of the locker rooms by head coach Mike Bloomgren before facing the UTEP Miners at Sun Bowl Stadium. Mandatory Credit: Ivan Pierre Aguirre-USA TODAY Sports The Cleveland Browns hired Mike Bloomgren as their new offensive line coach. Bloomgren replaces Andy Dickerson. Dickerson replaced longtime offensive line coach …

Longtime Sycamore head coach Scott Dattilo will join the Mason football coaching staff for the 2025 season. Mason High School has hired longtime Sycamore head football head coach Scott Dattilo as the new high school football offensive coordinator. Pending board approval, he will join head coach Brian Castner’s staff for the 2025 fall season.Dattilo, the winningest football coach in Aviator …

Wisconsin veteran quarterback Tyler Van Dyke spent a full month in the transfer portal before committing to SMU on Jan. 8. The former Badger has three-plus years of high-level starting experience under his belt, highlighted by a breakthrough 2021 season as a redshirt freshman at Miami. He also, however, is coming off a torn ACL suffered in Wisconsin’s Week 3 …