College Football

If we’ve learned anything from watching college football over the years, it’s that the sport’s capacity to produce crazy results is constant. So while the Week 3 schedule might at first glance appear to lack meaningful contests, the unexpected should always be – well, expected. With that in mind, here are our picks for the best games of the weekend …

EAST LANSING — No logical reason exists to think Michigan State football will be tested by Prairie View A&M on Saturday. The Spartans are back at home coming off an offensive awakening in last week’s 27-24 win at Maryland, a Big Ten victory in the second game of the year. The connection of quarterback Aidan Chiles and wide receiver Nick …

STILLWATER — Coming off a double-overtime scare against Arkansas, Oklahoma State is hoping for a more comfortable outcome this week. The 14th-ranked Cowboys are nearly a three-touchdown favorite at Tulsa on Saturday in an 11 a.m. kickoff at H.A. Chapman Stadium. With Big 12 play a week away, this is OSU’s final tune-up in hopes of getting the offense — …

Sep. 13—RIDGE SPRING-MONETTA 21, AMERICAN LEADERSHIP ACADEMY 6 MONETTA — Patience was at a premium Thursday night for Ridge Spring-Monetta’s football team. It wasn’t just because the Trojans’ Week 4 game against American Leadership Academy took just a few ticks past three hours to finish. Or because there was as much yellow fabric on the field in the form of …

Mandarin will travel to Bradford on Friday night in a battle between two North Florida heavyweights. The reigning 2S-Region 2 champion Tornadoes are looking to stay unbeaten and will have to take down an undefeated power in the Mustangs, who went to the state title game just like Bradford after winning the 4M-Region 1 title last year. Mandarin (3-0) is …

There’s a 44-year first coming to Columbia. When No. 6 Missouri football faces No. 24 Boston College on Saturday morning on Faurot Field, it will be the first nonconference game played at Memorial Stadium between two teams that are ranked in the AP Top 25 since an Oct. 4, 1980, matchup between Mizzou and Penn State. The game has sold …

Nixa High School will host Joplin in the third week of the 2024 high school football season. Eagles five-star junior offensive lineman Jackson Cantwell will be the main event as the No. 2 overall player in the country. Cantwell, the son of Olympians Christian Cantwell and Teri (Steer) Cantwell, is considering 14 different college programs, including Mizzou, where his parents …

AUBURN — Auburn football will host New Mexico at Jordan-Hare Stadium on Saturday in its third straight home game of the 2024 season. This is the first matchup between the Tigers and Lobos. Auburn holds a 6-0 record all-time against Mountain West Conference opponents. Here’s our scouting report on the Lobos, and a score prediction for the matchup on Saturday …

BLOOMINGTON — Former Indiana football player Eric Stolberg has been itching to get back to the Rose Bowl Stadium for years. It’s why he was cheering on the Big Ten’s expansion plans every step of the way. Stolberg, who currently resides in Bloomington, thought the Hoosiers making a trip out west would provide the perfect excuse to get back to …

Oct 21, 2023; Houston, Texas, USA; Houston Cougars offensive lineman Tyler Johnson (50) walks off the field after a play during the fourth quarter against the Texas Longhorns at TDECU Stadium. Mandatory Credit: Troy Taormina-USA TODAY Sports So far this season, Colorado football interior offensive lineman Tyler Johnson hasn’t seen the field as much as many had expected. The Boulder …

Did Tulane get robbed of a potential go-ahead score against No. 17 Kansas State? As Kansas State led 34-27, Yulkeith Brown appeared to catch a TD pass with 17 seconds left. However, Dontae Fleming got flagged for offensive pass interference and the TD was wiped out. Take a look. Yes, Fleming got in the way of his defender. But the …

Chris Samuels, Deseret News If it is possible, feelings of optimism and pessimism are running concurrently within the hearts of most residents of Cache Valley right now. Late Wednesday night, news broke that the Pac-12 — currently consisting of only Oregon State and Washington State — is expanding by adding four current Mountain West schools: Boise State Colorado State Fresno …

Sept 7, 2024; Clemson, SC, USA; The Clemson Tigers played the Appalachian State Mountaineers in college football Saturday, Sept. 7, 2024. Clemson quarterback Cade Klubnik (2) warms up. Mandatory Credit: Alex Hicks Jr./USA TODAY Sports via Imagn Images The first two weeks of the 2024 season could not have gone more differently from one game to the next for the …

Forgive Northwestern State if they thought their opponent was the Alabama Crimson Tide rather than the South Alabama Jaguars. That’s because the Demons were pummeled by the Jaguars, 87-10, on Thursday. The game was 51 minutes of playing time with the fourth quarter reduced to a six-minute running clock. It was the first win at South Alabama for coach Major …

A 48-year-old man in a pickup trick rammed a gate at the University of Colorado’s Folsom Field Thursday night and drove onto the football field before surrendering to police, according to the police department in Boulder, Colorado. By doing so, he arguably was more successful at moving downfield at that stadium than the Colorado Buffaloes running game under football coach …