College Football

The No. 6 seed Penn State Nittany Lions will try to keep their national championship hopes alive when they face the No. 3 seed Boise State Broncos in the Fiesta Bowl during the 2024 College Football Playoff quarterfinals on Tuesday night. Penn State lost to Oregon in the Big Ten Championship, but it responded with a 38-10 win over No. …

LAKE BUENA VISTA. Fla. — Practice number one is in the books at the Under Armour Next All-America Bowl. It was a lighter practice but there was still plenty to learn from the evening. Rivals is taking a look at a handful of rankings questions from day one. MORE FROM ORLANDO: Stock risers after Monday’s practice | Zahir Mathis remains …

A star-studded showdown is set to take place when Oregon battles Ohio State in the 2025 Rose Bowl on New Year’s Day. These teams played in one of the most thrilling games of the regular season, a game in which Oregon won 32-31 on Oct. 12. The Buckeyes are coming off a dominant 42-17 victory over Tennessee in the first …

Dec. 30—PULLMAN — Zevi Eckhaus may have played his final game at Washington State. The Cougars’ Holiday Bowl quarterback announced as much on social media Monday morning, sharing that he will be entering the transfer portal, citing WSU’s recent head coaching change and the uncertainty around his future. Eckhaus, the 34th Cougar to enter the transfer portal this offseason, has …

Clemson star quarterback Cade Klubnik will bypass the 2025 NFL Draft and will return to school next season, he announced Monday on social media. Klubnik guided Clemson to the ACC title and an appearance in the College Football Playoff in his second full season as the program’s starting quarterback. “The story isn’t over,” Klubnik wrote. “See y’all in 2025.” Klubnik figures to …

The College Football Playoff field is down to the final eight with this week’s quarterfinals set to cut that group in half. The field represents a well-varied mix of NIL spending and roster construction strategies. Some of college football’s biggest spenders are predictably in the final eight but there are multiple success stories here of schools really getting the most …

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Blake Craig kicked two field goals in the fourth quarter, his second a 56-yarder with 4:36 left as No. 23 Missouri rallied to beat Iowa 27-24 on Monday in the Music City Bowl. Missouri trailed 24-14 when the Tigers started the comeback, scoring the final 13 points for the win. Brady Cook threw for 287 yards …

NORMAN — OU’s 2025 defense got a boost Monday. Interior defensive lineman Damonic Williams announced on X (formerly Twitter) that he would return next season. Williams started every game at nose guard for the Sooners this season, playing 416 snaps — the most among OU interior defensive lineman — according to Pro Football Focus. He finished with 35 tackles, 4.5 …

The more things change, the more they stay the same. Conference realignment has forever changed the landscape of college football, and the Rose Bowl will no longer be played between the champions of the Big Ten and Pac-12 because the latter no longer exists (at least not in a recognizable form). Yet, here, in the first year of the 12-team …

SOUTH BEND, INDIANA – DECEMBER 20: Head coach Marcus Freeman of the Notre Dame Fighting Irish reacts during the fourth quarter against the Indiana Hoosiers in the Playoff First Round game at Notre Dame Stadium on December 20, 2024 in South Bend, Indiana. (Photo by Michael Reaves/Getty Images) Notre Dame Fighting Irish head coach Marcus Freeman got his first career …

The No. 11 Alabama Crimson Tide (9-3) will wrap up their first season under head coach Kalen DeBoer when they face the Michigan Wolverines (7-5) on Tuesday afternoon in the 2024 ReliaQuest Bowl. Alabama suffered three losses during the regular season and was ultimately the first team left out of the 12-team College Football Playoff. Michigan was not in contention …

Penn State may be the favorite in Tuesday night’s Fiesta Bowl against Boise State, but that wasn’t about to persuade a two-ton rhinoceros with its pick in this year’s College Football Playoff quarterfinal. Chutti the rhino resides in the Phoenix Zoo and has weighed in on the outcome of the Fiesta Bowl. Chutti was given a couple of boxes to …

LOS ANGELES — Will Howard sat, helmeted head in his hands, having slid to a stop at Oregon’s 26-yard line. What was supposed to be a heroic scramble by Ohio State’s quarterback to set up a possible game-winning field goal 2 ½ months ago on the road was, in fact, a disaster that has lingered. As an Autzen Stadium field …

Wisconsin basketball (10-3, 0-2 Big Ten) will enter 2025 and its full conference schedule unranked in the USA TODAY Sports Men’s Basketball Coaches Poll. The latest release of the poll saw the Badgers drop out of the ‘receiving votes’ section. The team sat idle during the week — its Dec. 22 win over Detroit Mercy is its only result since …

No. 11 Alabama faces off against Michigan in the 2024 ReliaQuest Bowl, which serves as a rematch of the 2024 Rose Bowl Game. When these teams last played, Michigan quarterback J.J. McCarthy diced Alabama to the tune of 221 yards and three touchdowns to win 27-20 in overtime en route to a national championship. Both teams are quite different than …