College Football

After cleaning up in non-conference play, Penn State is opening up its Big Ten schedule with a night game on national TV against Illinois on Saturday night. Beaver Stadium should be electric for the first night game of the year and fans are pushing for an unofficial whiteout atmosphere in Happy Valley. Penn State is a solid favorite this week …

The bold, unprecedented move this week by UNLV starting quarterback Matthew Sluka to leave an unbeaten team before using up his redshirt year — citing through his agent that an assistant coach verbally promised him at least $100,000 to sign with the Rebels and never got paid — is another sign of how college football is choking on its own …

Free Press sports writer Chris Solari breaks down Michigan State football’s matchup with Ohio State on Saturday night in a Big Ten matchup in East Lansing. Fast facts Matchup: Michigan State (3-1, 1-0 Big Ten) vs. No. 3 Ohio State (3-0, 0-0). Kickoff: 7:30 p.m. Saturday; Spartan Stadium, East Lansing TV/radio: Online only on Peacock; WJR-AM (760). Line: Buckeyes by …

NOKOMIS — Nolan Herpstreith venerates former NFL star running backs Marshawn Lynch and Barry Sanders. The Nokomis junior running back is a challenge to bring down in his own right and has averaged 139.3 rushing yards per game in a 4-0 start in the Lincoln Prairie Conference. Top breakout players: Springfield area football top breakout players at the 2024 midseason …

LAWRENCE — Kansas football saw its game earlier this month on the road against West Virginia delayed due to severe weather. The Jayhawks, while leading in the fourth quarter, had to pause due to lightning. At the time, they were winning 21-17 against the Mountaineers. When the matchup resumed, a contest ensued that resulted in West Virginia winning 32-28 against Kansas. …

WAYLAND – Max Dresens stands 6-foot-1 and tips the scales at 210 pounds. He looks like a football player, and a big-time one at that. Yet when the Wayland senior went about choosing a college, playing football and the level of that football weighed less than the school side. Dresens wants to study mechanical engineering and needed that program to …

The Mountain West Conference has notified the Mid-American Conference of its interest in the Northern Illinois Huskies and Toledo Rockets as football-only members in 2026, according to a report Thursday night from Action Network’s Brett McMurphy and Yahoo Sports’ Ross Dellenger. The MAC includes NIU, Toledo, Miami University, Buffalo, Central Michigan, Eastern Michigan, Ohio, Bowling Green, Western Michigan, Ball State, …

AUBURN — Auburn football will host No. 21 Oklahoma at Jordan-Hare Stadium on Saturday in its second SEC game of the 2024 season. Oklahoma leads the all-time series 2-0 against the Tigers with both victories coming in the Sugar Bowl (1972, 2017). This is the first meeting between the Tigers and Sooners as conference rivals. Here’s our scouting report on the …

Sep. 26—PULLMAN — About an hour after Tyler Hilinski played the game of his life, after he crowd-surfed on the Martin Stadium field to celebrate leading Washington State to a triple-overtime victory over Boise State, he did one thing. He found his mother. After the celebration died down, Tyler met up with Kym, who had taken a red-eye from LAX …

Florida State football will face another Atlantic Coast Conference newcomer for the second week in a row. This time, it’s on the road. FSU traveled to Dallas for its first ACC road against at SMU (3-1) Saturday. Like Cal last week, it is its first-ever meeting between the two and will be the Mustangs’ conference opener. SMU coach Rhett Lashlee is …

Week 5 of the college football season is already here, with NBC Sports and Peacock airing four games on a busy Big Ten Saturday. To start the action, Matt Rhule’s Nebraska Cornhuskers (3-1) hit the road for the first time this season to take on the Purdue Boilermakers (1-2) at Ross-Ade Stadium. The noon kickoff is battle of two second-year …

Army football has found the right mix to get off to a perfect start. Quarterback Bryson Daily rushed for three touchdowns for the second week in a row, guiding the Black Knights to 489 yards on offense – 417 on the ground – and a 42-14 victory over Temple at Lincoln Financial Field in Philadelphia. “I’m so glad we we’re …

Looking for a second straight win, Florida State football heads to Dallas for a showdown with SMU on Saturday. The Seminoles (1-3) are coming off a 14-9 win over Cal. It was the first victory of the season after a dreadful 0-3 start to the year. Facing an SMU (3-1) team coming off a 66-42 win over TCU, Saturday’s game …

Penn State linebacker Dominic DeLuca and running back Cam Wallace were not seen at practice Wednesday night after leaving last week’s win over Kent State with injuries. Nittany Lions coach James Franklin said on Monday that he would address their injuries later in the week, but he declined to do so. “I’m not prepared or ready to answer that question …

Forgive Drew Allar, Nick Dawkins and everyone else on the current Penn State roster. Of course, they don’t know much about the 1994 Nittany Lions team that won the school’s first Big Ten football championship and finished 12-0. They weren’t alive yet to see the greatest offense in the history of the school and perhaps college football. Those Lions averaged …