SOUTH BEND, INDIANA – DECEMBER 20: Head coach Curt Cignetti of the Indiana Hoosiers reacts during the second quarter against the Notre Dame Fighting Irish in the Playoff First Round game at Notre Dame Stadium on December 20, 2024 in South Bend, Indiana. (Photo by Michael Reaves/Getty Images) No. 10 seed Indiana absolutely deserved its spot in the College Football …
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Seventy years after his father last coached at the school, Bill Belichick will follow in his footsteps by roaming the sidelines at the University of North Carolina. Belichick, who owns eight Super Bowl rings, will coach in college for the first time after signing a five-year contract to be the new North Carolina football coach. Belichick has decades of experience …
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Florida and Tulane are set to clash in this year’s Gasparilla Bowl at Raymond James Stadium in Tampa, Florida. It’s the seventh time the game will be played under the name — it was canceled in 2020 — and the sixth time since moving from Tropicana Field in St. Petersburg, Florida. No offense to Tropicana Field, but any time you …
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Friday was for the big guys up front in Columbia. Missouri football landed its second commitment in a matter of hours Friday — both from offensive lineman — in Wake Forest transfer lineman Keagen Trost, who announced he was transferring to the Tigers via his personal X account. Trost follows Michigan transfer Dominick Guidice, whose transfer to Mizzou was announced approximately two …
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The first 12-team College Football Playoff kicks off on Friday with No. 7 Notre Dame hosting No. 10 Indiana (+6.5) at 8 p.m. ET, followed by three games on Saturday. The Big Ten has representation in three of the four 2024 College Football Playoff first-round matchups with No. 6 Penn State hosting No. 11 SMU (+8.5) at noon ET on …
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. There is perhaps no better way to sum up the current state of the Michigan-Ohio State rivalry than ESPN’s Desmond Howard going on live television to express both pity and sympathy for Buckeyes head coach Ryan Day. Howard, the 1991 Heisman winner at Michigan and Wolverines icon, went on an impassioned rant about Day’s critics during College GameDay before …
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Billy Napier wouldn’t have said so publicly before the season began, but if you could get him to let down his coach facade and be honest, you probably could’ve made him admit he’d be happy with an 8-5 record. After watching his team lose home games to Miami and Texas A&M to start the year 1-2, he may have even …
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SOUTH BEND, INDIANA – DECEMBER 20: Jeremiyah Love #4 of the Notre Dame Fighting Irish runs the ball 98-yards for a touchdown during the first quarter against the Indiana Hoosiers in the Playoff First Round game at Notre Dame Stadium on December 20, 2024 in South Bend, Indiana. (Photo by Justin Casterline/Getty Images) After a pair of interceptions from Notre …
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ESPN Notre Dame running back Jeremiyah Love etched his name into the history books by breaking off a 98-yard touchdown for the first points of the 12-team College Football Playoff. The rush tied for the longest in school history and helped the (7) Fighting Irish strike first against (10) Indiana. The Hoosiers and Fighting Irish traded interceptions in the first …
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No. 12 seed Clemson will travel to face No. 5 seed Texas on Saturday for a first-round matchup in the College Football Playoff. The Longhorns (11-2) are the highest-seeded non-conference champion, while the Tigers (10-3) snuck into the playoff as the lowest-ranked team thanks to their ACC championship win over SMU. Texas carries legitimate national championship hopes entering the playoff. …
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TAMPA, Fla. — Florida closed out a turnaround season with a solid but unspectacular showing. A 33-8 win against Tulane during the Gasparilla Bowl was still something to celebrate for coach Billy Napier. After all, the victory capped a four-game winning streak after two seasons that ended on skids of three and five games, respectively. Yet Friday’s performance at Raymond …
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No. 7 seed Notre Dame hosts No. 10 seed Indiana to kick off the 12-team College Football Playoff era in South Bend, Indiana in what will be a historic moment as the landscape across college football changes. Though both schools are located in the state of Indiana and are separated by around 200 miles, this will be the first meeting between in-state …
Read More »Dec. 20—Even before the season began the expectations were that Ohio State would beat Michigan, get a rematch with Oregon in the Big Ten championship game and, regardless of the outcome of that game, maybe still be one of the top four seeds in the expanded 12-team College Football Playoff. So, how did that work out? Don’t ask. The question …
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Getty Images The first edition of the expanded College Football Playoff bracket has been set with 12 teams now afforded an opportunity to make a run towards a national championship. The new-look CFP is more of an event than the four-team field ever was, or the BCS before it, with action expanding across a month between December and January — …
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Colorado head coach Deion Sanders issued a warning to NFL teams Friday − don’t draft Heisman Trophy winner Travis Hunter if you won’t let him play both ways. Sanders said this on “The Rich Eisen Show” Friday and also hinted that a contract extension is in the works that could keep him at Colorado for the long term. In Hunter’s …
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