College Football

The College Football Playoff will expand to feature 12 teams this season. While greater access for more schools brings with it the promise of a Cinderella story and unexpected title chase, reality will pour cold water on those hopes more often than not. Truth is, while more teams will reach the CFP, the eventual champions will come from a pool …

Radiance Technologies Independence Bowl officials received some welcome news Thursday afternoon when it was announced the annual bowl game is slated for primetime for a second consecutive year. The 48th running of the country’s 11th oldest bowl game will be played Saturday, Dec. 28 at 8:15 p.m. and will be televised on ESPN. “I think this game-date and time are …

Georgia football is adding more depth in its secondary. Kirby Smart and the Bulldogs on Thursday landed a commitment from Oregon transfer defensive back Collin Gill who announced his commitment on Instagram. The 6-foot, 215-pound Waldorf, Md., native did not play last season while redshirting for former Georgia defensive coordinator Dan Lanning with the Ducks. Gill was a three-star recruit …

The Georgia Bulldogs have made yet another addition to their secondary by way of the transfer portal. Former Oregon Ducks defensive back Collin Gill, who had previously committed to the Temple Owls in May of this offseason, committed to the Bulldogs Thursday afternoon. Gill is a former three-star recruit who redshirted his lone season with the Ducks. Listed at 6-foot, …

Getty Images The College Football Playoff is tripling in size to 12 teams for the 2024-25 season and will take up an even greater amount of the sport’s postseason discourse. But the traditional bowl games aren’t going anywhere, and college football fans will get plenty of non-CFP action to enjoy over December and early January. The 2024-25 college football bowl …

A view of the 2024 CFP logo on the field before the College Football Playoff national championship game between Michigan and Washington at NRG Stadium. Mandatory An NCAA committee on Thursday opened the door to colleges being able to put a corporate logo on their football fields for regular season home games. The move by the Playing Rules Oversight Panel …

The Tony the Tiger Sun Bowl has its preferred New Year’s Eve date and a noon kickoff time for 2024, the bowl and it’s long-time partner CBS announced Thursday, while also confirming a team from last season’s Pac-12 would fill the slot opposite the ACC. This is the normal Sun Bowl date and time slot and the one the bowl …

Much of former Duke quarterback Riley Leonard’s time at Notre Dame has been marked with injury since his arrival this winter. That’s left obvious concern with Notre Dame fans about where things stand for Leonard as the 2024 season approaches.  Despite the cleanups and such that kept Leonard off the field for much of spring (including the annual Blue Gold …

The expanded College Football Playoff is making the 2024-25 bowl schedule look very unfamiliar. Bowl Season announced the lineup for nearly every other bowl game on Thursday, a day after the CFP announced the schedule for the first 12-team playoff. The first bowl game is Saturday, Dec. 14 and the final non-playoff bowl game is on Jan. 4. The Camellia …

The TaxSlayer Gator Bowl will enter its ninth decade with a prime-time slot. College bowl schedules were finalized on Thursday after the College Football Playoff schedule was released earlier in the week, with the Gator Bowl landing on Thursday, Jan. 2, at 7:30 p.m. The game, which matches an SEC versus an ACC team, is on ESPN and will be …

North Carolina legislation that would’ve required UNC and NC State to regularly play the state’s Group of Five schools in football will not advance further, North Carolina House Speaker Tim Moore said Thursday. House Bill 965, entitled “UNC Intrastate Athletic Competition,” passed through the house’s Appropriations committee earlier in the week.  That’s as far as it will go.  “It’s had the hearing …

Michigan football has already held one official visit weekend in the warm weather months, now its set for the encore. The Wolverines hosted two five-stars and three four-stars last week with Derek Meadows, Douglas Utu, DJ Sanders, Kainoa Winston, and Marco Jones all making it to campus. And the slate of visits for June 7 promises to also be impactful …

Jun. 6—Ethan Stendel and Colin Hansen have never gone head-to-head in a high school football game. It would be quite a matchup if it could happen, but with Hansen’s Byron Bears playing in Class 4A and Stendel’s Caledonia Warriors in Class 2A, and the teams playing in different districts during the regular season, that meeting seems an impossibility. It looks …

A member of Florida football’s 2025 recruiting class parted ways with the program on Monday when three-star wide receiver Josiah Abdullah out of Atlanta (Georgia) Woodward Academy announced his decommitment. According to Swamp247’s sources, the move was described as “a mutual parting of ways.” The 5-foot-10-inch, 170-pound pass-catcher committed to the Gators back in January had an official visit set …

Longtime Wisconsin head coach Paul Chryst is no longer on the Texas coaching staff, according to a report from On3’s Inside Texas. Chryst was an offensive analyst and a special assistant to Longhorns head coach Steve Sarkisian during the 2023 season. Related: Where Paul Chryst, Jim Leonhard, Wisconsin football’s entire 2022 coaching staff is now It appears his agreement with Texas …