THE FLATS – Georgia Tech football will open the home portion of its 2024 schedule in primetime versus Georgia State and close the regular season in primetime at archrival Georgia, highlighting five kickoff times for the Yellow Jackets that were announced by the Atlantic Coast Conference and its television partners on Thursday. The five kickoff times and television designations include: …
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2024 CBS Sports Network broadcast schedule: Utah vs. Utah State, SMU vs. Nevada lead college football slate
The 2024 CBS Sports Network college football schedule is officially set with notable games on deck across the Group of Five and the Power Four. It’s a loaded slate with multiple big weekday games in addition to packed Saturdays all year long. With less than 100 days to go until the start of the season, let’s take a look at …
Read More »Times, TV schedule announced for Oregon football’s nonconference schedule
Oregon head coach Dan Lanning, center, waits to take the field with his team for their game against Oregon State at Autzen Stadium Friday, Nov. 24, 2023. The Big Ten Conference on Thursday announced kickoff times and TV designations for Oregon football’s first three games of the 2024 season this fall. The Ducks will open their season against Idaho at …
Read More »Michigan State football opener moves to Friday; Michigan football gets new time, too
The college football season is about three months away, and Thursday became the day we learned more on when and what channel a few more games will kick off this season. The Michigan State football tradition will indeed live on as the Spartans’ opener at home against Florida Atlantic has officially been moved to Friday, Aug. 30 and will be …
Read More »LOOK: Colorado’s Deion Sanders meets new USWNT manager Emma Hayes ahead of 2024 Paris Olympics
Getty Images One iconic coach met another when Deion Sanders met new U.S. women’s national team manager Emma Hayes on Wednesday. The USWNT was in Boulder, Colo., so Sanders came out to greet the team ahead of its appearance in the 2024 Paris Olympics. Hayes was just named the new USWNT manager on May 21, and she’s been busy getting …
Read More »Anonymous coaches believes Ohio State must beat Michigan this year
With the college football season fast approaching, thoughts, opinions, and predictions abound. While everyone has visions of how the season will play out, Athlon Sports caught up with some Big Ten coaches to ask their thoughts on the upcoming season. Speaking anonymously, conference coaches gave some insight on what they anticipate for Ohio State this season, and spoiler alert… it …
Read More »Shilo Sanders files for bankruptcy: Colorado DB’s debt stems from allegedly assaulting security guard in 2015
Colorado defensive back Shilo Sanders, son of head coach Deion Sanders, is $11 million in debt and filed for bankruptcy in October 2023, according to USA Today. The petition for relief — which was filed under Chapter 7 in Colorado’s Bankruptcy Code — states Sanders is on the hook for $11.3 million stemming from a March 2022 civil trial in Texas. …
Read More »Texas, Oklahoma to play first Red River matchup in SEC at 2:30 p.m. CT
Say goodbye to that early morning Cotton Bowl breeze. The Texas Longhorns will face the Oklahoma Sooners at 2:30 p.m. CT this season. In recent history the Red River Rivalry been synonymous with an 11 a.m. CT kickoff, but it appears that tradition might not carry over to the Southeastern Conference. Action Network’s Brett McMurphy said the following of the …
Read More »More SEC expansion coming? Why what Greg Sankey (doesn’t) say should be getting attention
MIRAMAR BEACH, Fla. – The SEC prominently projected its pinwheel logo featuring 16 school pennants onto a hotel wall this week throughout the conference’s spring meetings. It’s a visual reminder of Oklahoma and Texas joining the nation’s most powerful conference. Whose pennants will join that pinwheel next? I asked commissioner Greg Sankey on Tuesday about the SEC’s appetite for further …
Read More »Colin Cowherd Suggests USC Drop Notre Dame from Football Schedule
Few program histories in college football compare to that of USC. The Trojans have been a west coast power for a century a despite having Southern California in their name, register as a national brand. A huge reason for that is because historically USC has been willing to play the elite of college football. The Trojans have of course had …
Read More »2011 USC football win over Oregon will always be a unique Pac-12 moment
The USC and Oregon football teams could have developed something special in the Pac-12 had the NCAA not come down on the Trojans in 2009 and 2010. If the NCAA had minded its own business, maybe Pete Carroll never leaves. Maybe Pete and Oregon’s Chip Kelly create another magical series of Pac-12 clashes. Maybe the 2011 game would have involved …
Read More »Chip Kelly, Pete Carroll never got to develop a rivalry at Oregon, USC
One of the great regrets of Pac-12 football is that Chip Kelly and Pete Carroll were never able to settle into a five- or six-year period in which they were matching wits with each other at Oregon and USC. Just imagine what it would have been like to have Kelly as the ultimate offensive guru versus Carroll’s defensive mind in …
Read More »Abington lets head football coach Terence Tolbert go after just one season
After just one season, Abington has let go head football coach Terence Tolbert, a 1989 graduate. The Ghosts went 1-9 last season, losing their final eight games after a Week Two win over Council Rock North. An opening for the head football coach position was posted on the school district’s website Thursday. The post also listed June 12 as the …
Read More »Rutgers football set to host elite four-star playmaker Michael Thomas III
One of the top wide receivers in the nation, Michael Thomas III, is set for a Rutgers football official visit this weekend. Thomas is a 5-foot-11 wide receiver from Donovan Catholic (Barnegat, New Jersey). ESPN ranks him as a four-star and the No. 108 recruit in the ESPN 300 in addition to being a top-10 wide receiver in the nation. …
Read More »Sherrone Moore says ‘rivalries are still alive’ despite player swap with MSU
DETROIT — You’d think that Sherrone Moore and Jonathan Smith are buddies the way they appeared to be palling around with each other at the outset of the SoundMind SoundBody football camp at Wayne State. After each gave a brief speech, the Michigan football and Michigan State coaches walked off the floor together, with Moore patting Smith on the back. But, …
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