Updated: Giants hold serve; lose to Ravens and wait on Vegas re top pick … Leaving nothing to chance, the Giants lost 35-14 to Baltimore in an early afternoon to keep their hopes of ending up with #1 pick overall in the 2025 draft alive. The loss drops the Giants to 2-12 on the year and at least… Read More »
Buffs’ two-way star Hunter wins Heisman … Which team will be sitting on the #1 pick in this week’s updated selection order for the opening round of the 2025 draft won’t be decided until the very last game of the weekend as Las Vegas, which currently holds that top pick, hosts Atlanta in the 2nd of two Monday… Read More »
Buffs’ two-way star Hunter wins Heisman … To no one’s great surprise star Colorado WR/CB Travis Hunter was named this year’s Heisman Trophy winner earlier this evening in New York. Hunter, who made All-America teams at both positions this fall edged out dynamic Boise State RB Ashton Jeanty in a surprisingly close vote for the award. Indeed, it… Read More »
Rising Herd ER enters draft … We haven’t been noting every underclassmen opting to enter this year’s draft since most have long been expected to jump to the pros this year. However, we will note that Marshall redshirt sophomore DE Mike Green, arguably the best prospect in the country almost nobody has seen, has confirmed that he will… Read More »
College football notes: Focus on Bama … Even though Alabama missed out on this year’s CFP playoffs, a lot of the focus around college football remains on the Tide. That’s in part because the debate whether Alabama, with its rugged SEC schedule should have gotten into the playoffs ahead of SMU, continues to rage, but as arguably the… Read More »
LSU QB Nussmeier back to school … LSU junior QB Garrett Nussmeier announced earlier today that he will be returning to the Tigers for his final year of eligibility next fall. Nussmeier did start to generate some 2025 draft buzz early this season, but struggled at times down the stretch in conference play. He is certainly a guy… Read More »
First-round projection updated … With the college football regular season in the books it seemed like it might be a good time to update our first-round projection for the 2025 draft. As we have noted in the past, the goal here isn’t so much to try and predict which team will select which player, but to give some… Read More »
UM star CB Johnson to enter draft … To no one’s great surprise, Michigan 3rd year junior CB Will Johnson has confirmed that he will bypass his final season of eligibility and enter the 2025 draft where he is projected to be a top 5-10 prospect. In fact, Johnson is the 2nd Michigan 3rd year junior to announce… Read More »
Big Board, positional rankings updated … With the regular college football season now in the books, we have updated the GBN Big Board for the 2025 draft which, for the record, is now just 136 days away. The Big Board has also been extended to include the top 150 prospects for the upcoming draft. Also for the record,… Read More »
Raiders, Giants 1-2-3 in updated weekly selection order … At least for this week, the top two picks in the updated first-round selection order for the upcoming draft will belong to Las Vegas and the NY Giants. Note, that the SOS figures are based on each team’s full 17-game schedule rather than just the games played today.
Jeanty, Hunter lead 4 Heisman finalists … Coming off two of the better seasons ever in college football, Colorado WR/CB Travis Hunter and Boise State RB Ashton Jeanty will be among four players Heisman Trophy finalists who will be in New York when the award is presented on Saturday. The other two are QBs Dillon Gabriel of #1… Read More »
A 2nd Aggie DE defects to NFL; QB Van Dyke to transfer … Texas A&M’s Nic Scourton has become the second 3rd-year junior Aggie DE to announce today that they will be entering the draft with a year of eligibility remaining after Shemar Stewart did so this morning. Scourton, a 6-4, 280-pounder with LB speed and agility, has… Read More »
Canes’ Ward, LSU’s Nussmeier to play in bowls; Aggie DL to pros … There are several notes from college football this day including the fact that Miami QB Cam Ward confirmed on social media last evening that he will in fact play in the Hurricanes Pop-tarts Bowl matchup with Iowa State on December 28th. That means that both… Read More »
Yes Virginia! There are still bowl games … Imagine our surprise to learn that even though there is now a full 12-team college football playoff there there are still 600 or so bowl games! We kid of course! For whatever reason they were never actually going anywhere. And of course the second and third rounds of the CFP… Read More »
Could Deion get his Raiders’ draft … The NFL was abuzz over the past few days when video of Deion Sanders telling Las Vegas coach Antonio Pierce that he ‘needed him to draft those Sanders boys’ at a Super Bowl party in Vegas last February. The Sanders’ boys, of course, are QB Shedeur and S Shilo, both of… Read More »
CFP playoff field set; SMU in, Bama out … For those that missed it earlier in the day, but the initial 12-team CFP college football playoff field was announced earlier this afternoon. There were no surprises among the 4-seeded teams with conference champions Oregon, Georgia, Boise State and Arizona getting opening round byes. Indeed, the only surprise of… Read More »
Raiders, Giants go to 1-2 with Jags win … There will be a new #1 in town this week as Las Vegas will move up into the #1 position in this week’s selection order for the opening round of the 2025 draft after the Raiders lost in Tampa Bay to drop to 2-11, while Jacksonville, which had been… Read More »
No Carson Beck; no prob for UGA which goes to CFP with OT win in SEC final … It didn’t look all that promising for Georgia at the half in their SEC final matchup with Texas earlier this afternoon. The Bulldags were down three at the breal, and worse star QB Carson beck was out of the game… Read More »
Ashton who? RB Skattebo stars as Sun Devils’ win way to CFP … Arizona State is off to this year’s 12-team CFL playoff after a resounding 45-19 win over Iowa State in the Big XII championship game earlier this afternoon in Dallas. The 11-2 Sun Devils were led by RB Cam Skattebo who was literally untackleable as he… Read More »
KU QB Daniels to return … Kansas QB Jalon Daniels has announced that he will be returning to the Jayhawks next fall for what will be a 6th year with the program. At barely, 6-0. Daniels isn’t considered to be more than a fringe pro prosepct, but he has had some very productive years with the Jayhawks. Unfortunately,… Read More »
Star RB Jeanty; top TE Taylor confirm draft entry … A couple more top 3rd junior prospects have confirmed that they will be entering the 2025 draft including star Boise State RB Ashton Jeanty and LSU TE Mason Taylor. Jeanty, of course, is one of the top 2-3 Heisman candidates for this year who has already run for… Read More »
Who to watch in Saturday’s conference championships … It is conference championship weekend coming up in college football with some very intriguing games on the docket, particularly on Saturday. Indeed, both the SEC and Big Ten title games would be pretty much national semi-finals in the old 4-team CFP format with #1 Oregon facing #3 Penn State in… Read More »
SEC Championship (Atlanta): #3 Texas (11-1) vs #5 Georgia (10-2); 4 PM ET; ABC … The ‘Horns and Dawgs will hook up for a second time this year with a first-round bye on the line for the winner as both teams are already pretty much guaranteed a spot in the 12-team CFP field. And for the record, Georgia… Read More »
Who to watch in Friday night college title games … There are a trio of conference championship games on Friday evening including a key CFP play-in contest with #10 Boise State hosting #20 UNLV for the Mountain West title (8 PM ET; FOX). In fact, not only will Boise State make the playoffs with a win over UNLV,… Read More »
QB issues to impact Jags, Giants runs to top pick … It now appears that the season of Jacksonville QB Trevor Lawrence is indeed over. Earlier in the day, the Jags announced that Lawrence was going on IR as a result of that late hit he took against Houston on Sunday. That meant that he would miss at… Read More »
