College Football

Photo: Isaiah Hole ANN ARBOR, Mich. — Not many are giving Michigan football much of a chance to compete against Texas in Week 2, despite having won the national championship last year. And much of that is due to the personnel losses mixed with how the offense looked in Week 1. But Fox Sports analyst Brady Quinn doesn’t think it’s …

Sep. 6—Minnesota coach P.J. Fleck coached at Western Michigan. So did Jack Harbaugh, father of Jim and John Harbaugh. So did Elliot Uzelac, whose job as Ohio State’s offensive coordinator went up in flames when star running back Robert Smith sat out the 1991 season because of a conflict with Uzelac. And so did Tim Lester, who took over for …

Sep. 6—As the time to hang up his high school cleats nears, senior linebacker and running back Drayton Pouncil looks to work hard and be a leader for his team in his last year wearing black and gold. Pouncil began playing football in third grade and remembers falling in love with the game. He explained that since he was young, …

Sep. 6—It was a typical first week of college football as there was only one upset and all the other ranked teams handled business against nonranked opponents. Some ranked teams may have had a scare, but ultimately they all came out on top, except Florida State. Which, shame on me for not picking Boston College to come out on top. …

No. 1 Michigan Wolverines will host No. 3 Texas Longhorns during week two of the NCAA football season. (Aaron J. Thornton/Getty Images) Defending national champs the Michigan Wolverines and the No. 3 Texas Longhorns both won their first games of the season last week, and the two will meet this weekend in Ann Arbor for Week 2 of NCAA football. …

The Wisconsin Badgers (1-0) football team is back in action on Saturday, hosting South Dakota (1-0) in the second game of the year. Kickoff is set for 2:30 p.m. CT, 3:30 p.m. ET at Camp Randall Stadium as the Badgers will look to improve to 2-0 on the season. The Badgers are coming off a 28-14 win over Western Michigan …

. DirecTV has come to an agreement with the University of Southern California. We discussed the likelihood of corporate sponsorship in the Los Angeles Coliseum on Trojans Wire back in May of this year. The DirecTV corporate name will be painted on the back line behind the two end zones. USC home games will provide more sponsorship labels on Coliseum …

The Big 12 showed out during Week 1 of the college football season. The conference’s 16 teams posted a combined 14-2 record. And, with Week 2 of the season set to kick off on Friday, they’ll look to continue their strong play. Here are Week 2 score predictions for every Big 12 team. More: Big 12 football tiebreaker rules: How …

Conference realignment has changed the landscape of college sports yet again. The 2024-25 season is the first without the Pac-12 as a Power Five conference. Most of its member institutions departed for the Big Ten and the Big 12. That leaves major college football with four “power conferences”: Big Ten, Big 12, SEC and ACC. The Big 12 added four …

Aug 31, 2024; Atlanta, Georgia, USA; Clemson Tigers head coach Dabo Swinney walks onto the field with players before the 2024 Aflac Kickoff Game with the University of Georgia Bulldogs at Mercedes-Benz Stadium. Mandatory Credit: – Ken Ruinard – USA TODAY Sports A lot of times, you’ll hear people say don’t overreact to one week of football. More often than …

Florida Head Football Coach Billy Napier directs his players between stages as the Florida Gators held their last open Spring football practice before the Orange and Blue Game at Sanders Practice Fields in Gainesville, FL on Tuesday, April 9, 2024. [Doug Engle/Gainesville Sun] The last time the Samford Bulldogs came to Gainesville, the Florida Gators allowed more than 50 points …

Baylor quarterback Dequan Finn scores against Tarleton State on an end around play in the first half of an college football game, Saturday, Aug. 31, 2024, in Waco, Texas. | Rod Aydelotte Nine years ago, Baylor and Utah announced a home-and-home football series. How times have changed since then. Back in the spring of 2015, when the series was agreed …

. After a disappointing trip to Las Vegas to begin the year that resulted in a 27-20 loss to USC, LSU enters Week 2 looking to bounce back as it returns to Baton Rouge to kick off its home slate. In-state foe Nicholls comes to Tiger Stadium, and the FCS foe is fresh off a hard-fought loss to Louisiana Tech …

. It’s finally here. The most anticipated non-conference game in college football between the Texas Longhorns and Michigan Wolverines kicks off in mere hours. The game will be the focus of the college football world on Saturday. Fox Big Noon Kickoff will be there. ESPN College GameDay will be there. MLB Hall of Famer Derek Jeter will be Michigan’s honorary captain and …

. The Auburn Tigers (1-0) take on ACC opponent California (1-0) on Saturday at Jordan-Hare Stadium. Auburn comes into the matchup fresh off a 73-3 beatdown of FCS in-state “rival” Alabama A&M, while the Golden Bears took care of business in their opener as well, taking down UC Davis 31-13. Hugh Freeze’s Tigers played about the most efficient game they …