College Football

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 …

When asked about the reported talks between the Southeastern Conference and Big Ten Conference about a scheduling agreement, Oklahoma State football coach Mike Gundy talked for a few minutes Monday afternoon about a variety of concerns, but primarily pointed to the need for Power Four conferences to have a single commissioner who oversees all of major college football. And Gundy …

Lebanon County’s sixth week of football concluded with three teams in the area earning wins, and some athletes having stand out performances through the action. As the season shifts into October football, let’s look at the best stat lines around the gridiron from Week 6. Midseason awards: Lebanon County high school football honors at the halfway mark 📣 Make your …

ESPN’s “College GameDay” is heading to a city it has never visited before in Week 6 of the 2024 college football season as No. 8 Miami heads to the West Coast for a primetime ACC showdown with Cal. Saturday’s episode of college football’s premier pregame show with Rece Davis, Nick Saban, Lee Corso, Desmond Howard and Kirk Herbstreit marks the …

MADISON – A look at the unofficial two-deep for the Wisconsin football team heading into its game against Purdue, which is 1-3 and on a three-game losing streak. Kickoff is 11 a.m. at Camp Randall Stadium.. OFFENSE Quarterback 1 – Braedyn Locke, 6-1, 205, redshirt-soph. 2 – Mabrey Mettauer, 6-4, 230, fr. Running back 1 – Chez Mellusi, 5-11, 212, …

Sep. 30—If Idaho had to suffer a bad beat in a frustrating 28-26 loss at University of California Davis a week ago, conditions could not be much better for the Vandals (3-2, 0-1 in the Big Sky Conference) to get well this week. They are in Moscow for only the second game this season to face Northern Arizona (3-2, 1-0) …

The Iowa State football team plays host to Baylor on Saturday. The Big 12 Conference game is scheduled to kick off at 6:30 p.m. CT. Iowa State is 4-0 overall and 1-0 in the Big 12 after beating Houston 20-0 on Saturday in Houston. Baylor is 2-3 overall and 0-2 in the Big 12 after a 34-28 loss at home …

Ahead of last weekend’s game against Mississippi State, Texas football coach Steve Sarkisian was reminded by an analyst on his staff that his Longhorns had never gone into a bye with an undefeated record. Sure enough, Texas was 4-3 before it got some time off during Sarkisian’s first year in Austin in 2021. The Longhorns then went 5-3 before their …

The last time UCF faced Florida football at The Swamp, the Knights were just 10 years into playing at the FBS level. Much has changed since 2006 as UCF has posted an undefeated season, built an on-campus football stadium and became a power conference team in 2023 with a move into the Big 12. Does UCF belong with the state’s …

Clemson head coach Dabo Swinney speaks with media during the first day of Spring practice at the Poe Indoor Practice Facility at the Allen N. Reeves football complex in Clemson S.C. Wednesday, February 28, 2024. The topic of tampering in college football came up Sunday in Clemson coach Dabo Swinney’s weekly Zoom meeting with reporters. Acknowledging that tampering was active …