Tag: College Football

Remember last year, when everyone was eyeing the season-opening Alabama-Florida State game as one of the most anticipated matchups?

Just a week ago, Ohio State coach Urban Meyer insisted that he knew nothing of a 2015 accusation of domestic violence against a Buckeyes coach. However, according to a report, it looks like he may have known after all.

The state of California has banned travel to Oklahoma over its supposed “discriminatory” gay adoption law, but OU-UCLA football will likely be exempted, a report says.

An awkward tackle left Georgetown linebacker Ty Williams paralyzed in 2015. Williams vowed to walk again to receive his diploma, and he did just that Saturday with the help of a brace, walker and a spotter. The crowd applauded Williams

While college seniors prepare for graduation in the coming weeks, the following student-athletes chose to instead enter this week’s NFL draft before their senior year of college football. We took a look at the teams hurt the most by talented players leaving early.

MOBILE, AL – West Point graduate Brett Toth is a top offensive line prospect in the 2018 NFL draft.

PULLMAN, Wash. (AP) — Washington State quarterback Tyler Hilinski has died from an apparent self-inflicted gunshot wound.

SHERMAN OAKS, Calif. (AP) — Keith Jackson, the down-home voice of college football during more than five decades as a broadcaster, has died. He was 89.

Even as the NFL’s TV ratings for both the regular season as well as the playoffs have tanked this year, college football’s playoff games have soared.

President Donald Trump is in attendance for Monday’s National Championship game and Alabama Crimson Tide running back Bo Scarbrough is not happy about it. Before the game with Georgia started, Scarbrough was caught on camera walking in from pregame warmups yelling,

President Donald Trump took the field Monday night in Atlanta, GA, for the College Football National Championship game between the University of Georgia and the University of Alabama, mostly to cheers. Trump, escorted by members of the ROTC, waved to

Legendary University of Georgia running back Herschel Walker made an appearance Monday on “Fox & Friends” to talk about his school’s upcoming national championship game against the University of Alabama and his friend President Donald Trump, who will be at

Nearly the entire population of Madison, Wisconsin, stood in support of the Wisconsin Badgers before they left to take on the Miami Hurricanes in the Orange Bowl.

ESPN college football analyst Tim Tebow shrugged off the notion that the college football playoff committee got it wrong by putting in a non-conference champion like Alabama over teams with worse records that won their conference. Georgia won the SEC

The Georgia Bulldogs took down the Oklahoma Sooners in a thriller Monday in the College Football Playoff’s semifinals 54-48, the first-ever overtime game of the Rose Bowl. After the game as players were shaking hands, Georgia linebacker Davin Bellamy was repeatedly seen

NEW ORLEANS (AP) – The rubber match of the Alabama-Clemson trilogy was a total dud compared to the teams’ previous two meetings.

The overwhelming Heisman Trophy vote for Oklahoma’s Baker Mayfield, coupled with new Value Add Basketball Rankings showing Oklahoma’s Trae Young as the best basketball player of the century so far; gives the Sooners a chance to challenge Florida’s Tim Tebow and Al Horford as the greatest football-basketball duo of the century.

STATE COLLEGE, Pa. (AP) — Penn State running back Saquon Barkley is entering the NFL draft.

There are very few college or pro football coaches that anyone would want to hear talk at length. Especially since most of what these coaches say consists of a litany of cliches and catch phrases.

Quinton Flowers did it again at the Birmingham Bowl, launching another winning touchdown throw with a game against a Power 5 team on the line.

The Clemson Tigers have a chance to return to the college football national championship game for the third straight year, in hopeful anticipation of that event, the Clemson City Council has decided to relax its ban on open alcohol; in preparation for the celebratory mood the town will adopt if the Tigers continue to advance to the big game.

As the state of Alabama’s special U.S. Senate election approaches, a Democratic group released an ad showing voters how to write in University of Alabama football coach Nick Saban’s name. The ad, published by Democratic super PAC American Bridge 21st

The Masters is know throughout the sports world as “a tradition unlike any other.” However, if there’s another sporting event just as deserving of that description, it’s the Army-Navy game.

NEW YORK (AP) — Oklahoma quarterback Baker Mayfield has won the Heisman Trophy, completing a climb from walk-on to one of the most accomplished players in the history of college football.

There’s an old adage which says: “You take what your opponent gives you.” In that sense, Army has only themselves to blame for the superb troll job the Midshipmen served-up to the Cadets on Saturday afternoon.

PHILADELPHIA (AP) – Bennett Moehring narrowly missed a 48-yard field goal in the swirling snow on the final play and Army held off Navy 14-13 Saturday to win its first Commander-in-Chief’s Trophy since 1996.

FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. (AP) — Arkansas has hired Chad Morris of SMU as its new football coach, a person with direct knowledge of the decision told The Associated Press.

Alabama is in. The Crimson Tide got the nod over Ohio State and will play Clemson in the College Football Playoff on Jan. 1 in the Sugar Bowl. Oklahoma and Georgia will meet in the Rose Bowl semifinal a few hours earlier.

The Associated Press voters prefer Alabama over Ohio State. In the final Top 25 of the regular season, the Crimson Tide was No. 4 and the Buckeyes were No. 5.

ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — Central Florida for the second straight week prevailed in a shootout on its home field.

ARLINGTON, Texas (AP) — Baker Mayfield threw four touchdowns and No. 2 Oklahoma staked claim to a playoff spot with a 41-17 win over No. 10 TCU in the return of the Big 12 championship game Saturday.

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — Jimbo Fisher, who coached Florida State to its third national title in 2013 and opened this season with his team ranked in the top five, is leaving to take the same job at Texas A&M.

If it seems like the relationship between college coaches and their fan bases has gotten particularly tense lately, that’s because it has.

Mississippi State has hired Penn State offensive coordinator Joe Moorhead as its football coach, bringing in another up-and-comer who is largely in the mold of previous coach Dan Mullen.

Nov. 27 (UPI) — Former Tennessee football coach Lane Kiffin didn’t hold back Monday when he fired a dis at the Volunteers as they search for a new coach.