College Football

After nearly two weeks in the dark, Mizzou’s starting quarterback has an official availability designation. Ahead of Missouri football’s game against Oklahoma on Saturday on Faurot Field, starting QB Brady Cook was listed as “questionable” on the Tigers’ first SEC availability report of the week, which was released Wednesday evening. Mizzou will publish three more reports before the end of …

Tennessee running back DeSean Bishop will not play in the Mississippi State game on Saturday. Bishop is listed as “out” on the SEC student-athlete availability report, which was released on Wednesday night. He suffered a lower-body injury in a 28-18 win over Kentucky last week. Also, defensive lineman Tyre West is listed as questionable for the Mississippi State game. Bishop, …

Nov. 6—West Valley football coach Craig Whitney has had some good teams in his 20 seasons at the helm of the Eagles. He thinks the 2024 edition stacks up with the best of them. “We talk about the ’09 team that played for the state championship. The 2017 team that played in the semifinals. Each team was a little bit …

BATON ROUGE — Offensive line is what plenty of eyes will be on for No. 15 LSU football against rival No. 11 Alabama for a number of reasons this Saturday night (6:30 p.m., ABC). LSU football coach Brian Kelly told reporters during his weekly news conference Monday that senior left guard Garrett Dellinger would out for the Alabama game after …

NORMAN — OU wide receivers Deion Burks and Jalil Farooq were once again listed as questionable on Wednesday night’s availability report. Burks, who suffered a soft tissue injury against Tennessee on Sept. 21, has been listed as questionable in the last five weeks the Sooners have had availability reports. Farooq broke his foot in the season opener. OU coach Brent …

Four Saturdays remain in college football’s regular season, including 22 SEC head-to-head matchups. Five of those matchups will largely determine the hunt for berths in both the SEC Championship Game and the College Football Playoff, including Alabama football’s trip to LSU on Saturday (6:30 p.m. CT, ABC). A look at the league’s five most consequential remaining contests: Alabama at LSU, …

Nov. 6—The final week of the regular season has one team possibly fighting for a district title, while the Anderson County matchup arrives between the Frankston Indians and Cayuga Wildcats. Here are the week 11 football previews: Elkhart at New Diana Time and Date: 7:30 p.m., Friday, Nov. 8. Location: Eagle Stadium, 11826 Hwy 154 E, New Diana, TX 75640 …

Kansas State Wildcats tight end Will Anciaux (80) is tackled by the BYU defense in Provo on Saturday, Sept. 21, 2024. BYU won 38-9. | Jeffrey D. Allred, Deseret News When the first College Football Playoff rankings of the 2024 season were unveiled on Tuesday night, BYU came in at the same spot — No. 9 — where it landed …

KENT — Changing the day of the game didn’t change the result for the Kent State football team. In their first Midweek MACtion game, the winless Golden Flashes lost 41-0 to Ohio on Wednesday in a Mid-American Conference game at Dix Stadium. The Bobcats led 10-0, 20-0 and 34-0 at the quarter stops. Ohio (6-3, 4-1) scored on a 96-yard …

Quarterback Drew Allar vigorously defended the play of Penn State’s wide receivers, even though they didn’t have a touchdown catch in the first five Big Ten games. “I’ll defend them to the day I die,” Allar said Wednesday. “I love being around those guys. They’re really fun. They don’t get enough credit for how many plays they do make. I’m …

Memphis athletic director Ed Scott is big on perspective. Which is why he made it clear Wednesday that he has football coach Ryan Silverfield’s back despite the disappointing turn the 2024 season took last week after Memphis lost at UTSA — putting a major dent in the program’s AAC title chances and College Football Playoff dreams. “Sometimes you have to …

From left to right: Logan Fano, Spencer Fano and Karene Reid. | Deseret News composite photo As Logan Fano took the field during Utah’s season-opening victory over Florida last year, his father, Bingham, was overcome with emotion. A four-star prospect and one of the most heralded players from the state of Utah in the class of 2021, Logan Fano signed …

No. 25 Vanderbilt football is somewhat banged-up heading into Saturday’s matchup against South Carolina at FirstBank Stadium. Starting receiver Quincy Skinner Jr. is among the players listed as questionable in the initial availability report Wednesday. Running back Sedrick Alexander and quarterback Diego Pavia were both listed as probable, an acknowledgement that the two have been playing through various ailments. Pavia …

NCAA Football: Maryland at Minnesota MINNEAPOLIS — When Max Brosmer went looking for a new challenge to complete his college career, a first glance at Minnesota hardly suggested a fit. The Gophers have unapologetically been a grind-it-out team for years, and here was the leading passer in the FCS who threw the ball more than 40 times per game for …

Nov. 6—SOUTH BEND — It’s been nine weeks since Notre Dame’s season was upended at home. The 16-14 loss to Northern Illinois (a team that has gone 2-4 since) is still being used as motivation inside the Irish locker room. The correlations to Saturday’s nightcap in South Bend are easy to spot as a historically struggling Florida State (1-8) walks …