College Football

AUSTIN, TEXAS – DECEMBER 21: Texas Longhorns mascot Bevo XV enters the stadium during the Playoff First Round Game against the Clemson Tigers at Darrell K Royal-Texas Memorial Stadium on December 21, 2024 in Austin, Texas. (Photo by Tim Warner/Getty Images) After being banned from the sidelines for the SEC Championship Game and the CFP Quarterfinal at the Peach Bowl, …

Wisconsin transfer quarterback Tyler Van Dyke is visiting SMU this weekend, according to a report from 247Sports’ Matt Zenitz. Van Dyke entered the portal last month after one season with the Badgers. He played just two full games before a Week 3 knee injury sidelined him for the remainder of the season. He’s in the portal with one year of …

Alabama Crimson Tide head coach Kalen DeBoer dismissed safeties coach Colin Hitschler on Friday, as first reported by ESPN’s Pete Thamel. The move is a significant one after Hitschler spent just one season with the program. The Crimson Tide finished at 9-4 after a bowl loss to Michigan, clinching its first season without double-digit wins since 2007 — Nick Saban’s …

Georgia coach Kirby Smart looks up into the crowd before the start of a NCAA college football game between Tennessee and Georgia in Athens, Ga., on Saturday, Nov. 5, 2022. News Joshua L Jones Lincoln Riley, who made the College Football Playoff three straight years from 2017 through 2019 and won four straight Big 12 championships, has fallen from the …

PASADENA, Calif. — It was so quiet in the Oregon locker room you could hear a season end. Amid the near silence Wednesday night, Ducks cornerback Jabbar Muhammad found himself offering a way-too-early state-of-the union assessment of his program.  “None of us should come out of here with our head held low. We should definitely have our head held high,” …

High school football season in Cincinnati has been officially over for about a month now, and the coaching carousel is just starting to get spinning. About a half-dozen Cincinnati schools have head football coaching openings, and more may be to come. A few schools have filled their openings, most notably Colerain by hiring former Mount Healthy coach Jordan Stevens, but …

Jan 2, 2025; New Orleans, LA, USA; Notre Dame Fighting Irish players celebrate with fans in the stands after defeating the Georgia Bulldogs at Caesars Superdome. Mandatory Credit: Amber Searls-Imagn Images Was SEC Commissioner Greg Sankey trying to help Notre Dame when he requested that next week’s Orange Bowl and Cotton Bowl games be flipped? Right now the Fighting Irish …

The quarterfinal round of the College Football Playoff delivered several memorable performances, including the 1-seed and 2-seed getting blasted out of the field with ease. In a rematch between Ohio State and undefeated Oregon, the Buckeyes obliterated the Ducks in the Rose Bowl, while SEC champion Georgia was sent packing by a physical Notre Dame team.  For Arizona State and …

. Michigan football’s 2024 season is officially over following the ReliaQuest Bowl win over Alabama on Tuesday. Now all attention turns to recruiting and the transfer portal as the Wolverines look to enhance the roster for the 2025 season. The maize and blue are getting going in a hurry with one transfer portal target set to be in Ann Arbor …

By any measure, the Oregon Ducks’ first season in the Big Ten was an enormous success. The Ducks won the Big Ten Championship Game and were a perfect 13-0 entering the College Football Playoff. However, Oregon was ousted by No. 8 Ohio State in the quarterfinals and now Dan Lanning will go back to the drawing board as he seeks …

Marcus Freeman and Notre Dame football pulled off an upset when they defeated No. 2 Georgia 23-10 in the Sugar Bowl on Thursday. There’s also a chance he takes on his alma mater in the national championship game. Freeman needs a win over No. 6 Penn State in the Orange Bowl and an Ohio State win over Texas in the …

USATSI Indiana quarterback Kurtis Rourke finished top 10 in the Heisman Trophy voting and led the Hoosiers to their first College Football Playoff appearance in program history in 2024. He played well enough to work his way enter the 2025 NFL Draft conversation, where many projections have him as a potential Day 3 pick.  And he did it all after …

Jan. 3—Back on Oct. 5, Jordan Hein found himself in an unfamiliar position. He stood on the sideline opposite the Bemidji State football team. Hein had spent his collegiate career with the Beavers, both as a player and a coach. He played quarterback for BSU from 2014-17, racking up a collection of accolades, including an All-NSIC First Team nod and …

Not a single team that won its conference championship game advanced to the semifinals of the College Football Playoff as teams seed Nos. 5-8 each kept their postseason runs alive after failing to earn first-round byes. Theories will abound about how Texas, Ohio State, Penn State and Notre Dame benefitted from hosting first-round games while their quarterfinal opponents sat at …

The College Football Playoff semifinals schedule begins with the Orange Bowl between No. 7 Notre Dame and No. 6 Penn State on Thursday, Jan. 9. It concludes with the Cotton Bowl between No. 8 Ohio State and No. 5 Texas on Friday, Jan. 10. Who is going to be calling each game in the CFP semifinals? Check out the College …