QB Daniels, WR Harrison headline GBN All-America team … Its award season in college football and we thought we’d get in on the fun posting our annual All America team headed by LSU QB Jayden Daniels and Ohio State WR Marvin Harrison. Of course, both are among the four finalists for this year’s Heisman Trophy – along with… Read More »
Draft race goes prime time Thursday nite … Its probably not what the NFL schedule makers were hoping for when they drew New England to play Pittsburgh in this week’s mid-week prime time game, but game has as much relevance for the early selection order at the 2024 draft than it does for any late-season push for playoff… Read More »
FSU WR Wilson confirms draft entry … Florida State WR Johnny Wilson, a 4th year junior, has confirmed that he will pass on his final season of college eligibility and enter the 2024 draft where he figures to be an early 2nd day selection. Wilson will also be skipping the Seminoles’ bowl game, but has accepted an invitation… Read More »
Post (college) -season mock posted … With the regular college football season now nicely in the books it seemed like a good time to post an updated projection for the first round of the upcoming draft. And again we remind readers that the value of a projection at this time is not that we, or anyone for that… Read More »
Penn State DE Robinson to enter draft … Penn State DE Chop Robinson has confirmed that he will be passing on his remaining eligibility and entering the 2024 draft where he figures to be a mid-to-late first round candidate; Robinson will also miss the Lions bowl game. The 6-3, 255-pound Robinson was actually being mentioned as a possible… Read More »
Selection order updated … With another week in the books, the first-round selection order for next April’s draft has been updated.
Top prospect Williams to skip bowl … Southern California has just confirmed that star QB Caleb Williams, the consensus top prospect for the 2024 draft, will not play in the Trojans’ bowl game later this month. USC is scheduled to play Louisville in the Holiday Bowl on December 27th. Normally when a player skips their bowl its to… Read More »
Two more QBs enter portal … A couple more prominent college QBs have entered the transfer portal as both Dillon Gabriel of Oklahoma and Ohio State’s Kyle McCord will be moving on. Gabriel, in fact, had a terrific year with the Sooners as he was among the nation’s leading passers this past fall throwing for almost 3,700 yards… Read More »
Pats to 2nd; Cards to 3rd in early selection order shuffle … The early selection order for the 2024 draft will look a little different this week as New England and Arizona will flip the 2nd and 3rd picks after the Cardinals shocked the Steelers right in Pittsburgh, while the Patriots were shut out enroute to a home… Read More »
No 3-peat for UGA as CFP playoff teams announced … Pretty much as we thought, it will be #1 ranked Michigan against Alabama in the Rose Bowl on January 1st and Washington versus Texas in the Sugar Bowl later that day in the CFP semi-finals. The winners will play on January 8th in Houston for the national championship.… Read More »
Eagles, Niners hilite Sunday NFL sked … If its Sunday in America, it must be time for another big test for the Philadelphia Eagles, the NFL’s top team. This week, for example, the 11-1 Eagles will be hosting San Francisco after facing Dallas, Kansas City and Buffalo the past three weeks. Of course, there are also a number… Read More »
CFP playoff decision coming up at Noon … This year’s 4-team college football playoff participants will be announced at Noon ET later today on ESPN (and TSN in Canada). And as noted yesterday the committee has a bit of a conundrum on its hands after Alabama stunned top-ranked Georgia in the SEC final. To wit: too many worthy… Read More »
Houston, we have a problem! … Or at least wherever the CFP playoff committee is based after Alabama upset 2-time defending national champion Georgia 27-24 in this afternoon’s SEC championship game in Atlanta. One just has to assume Alabama, the SEC champ gets in; and with Washington and almost asuredly Michigan already pretty much guaranteed spots in the… Read More »
Report: UT QB Ewers ‘likely’ to return … ESPN is reporting this morning that the chances that Texas QB Quinn Ewers returns to the Longhorns for the 2024 season have increased ‘exponentially’ in recent weeks. Ewers has been all over the map this season in terms of how NFL teams appear to view him, and while it also… Read More »
More college conference championship previews … Of course, the SEC title game between #1 Georgia and #8 Alabama is THE big game of the day Saturday, but there are in fact three other Power 5 conference championship tilts on the schedule for the day some which have implications for the CFP playoff lineup and some which don’t including… Read More »
#7 TEXAS (11-1) vs #18 OKLAHOMA STATE (9-3); Noon ET; ABC … Championship Saturday kicks off with Texas facing Oklahoma State in the Big XII title game. Its a particularly big game for the Longhorns who still have an outside chance of making it to the CFP playoffs, although they’ll also need a lot of other stuff to… Read More »
#2 MICHIGAN (12-0) vs #16 IOWA (10-2); 8 PM ET; FOX … Conference championship Saturday wraps up with the Big Ten title game which means absolutely nothing. Nada! Zilch! Zippo! Michigan is already in the CFP playoffs win, lose or draft while if the Hawkeyes pull the upset they don’t even get to go to the Rose Bowl… Read More »
Add one more QB to transfer portal … Washington State QB Cam Ward announced today that he will be putting his name into the transfer portal, although he also indicated that he has not totally ruled out entering the 2024 draft. Ward spent two seasons at WSU after transferring originally from FCS Incarnate Word. This season, the 6-3,… Read More »
SEC championship preview … Conference championship weekend kicks off with the Pac-12 title game later this evening with #3 Washington set to battle #5 Oregon in what could arguably called the most anticipated game with week. If that’s the case then the SEC title game between #1 Georgia and #8 Alabama, who for the record have won 5… Read More »
#1 GEORGIA (12-0) vs #8 ALABAMA (11-1); 4 PM ET; CBS … I think we have seen this before in the SEC championship game with 2-time defending national champion Georgia playing Alabama. Indeed, its the 4th time in the past 6 seasons that the Bulldogs and Tide have met for conference honors. And there is no secret why… Read More »
#4 FLORIDA STATE vs #14 LOUISVILLE (10-2); 8 PM ET; ABC … The ACC final is one of the last couple of games on the Saturday schedule, but in many ways it may have the biggest impact on the CFP Final 4. In reality, Michigan, Georgia and the winner of the Pac-12 championship game have all but locked… Read More »
Another QB prospect to transfer … College football fans may have to buy a program next year to see which QB is playing for which team as yet another has opted to enter the transfer portal. The latest to announce he’s moving on is Oregon State’s D.J. Uiagalelei who transferred to the west coast this year from Clemson.
QBs: Shedeur Sanders, Colorado Carson Beck, Georgia Riley Leonard, TR-Duke Cam Rising, Utah KJ Jeffereson, TR-Arkansas DJ Uiagalelei, TR-Oregon State Will Howard, TR-Kansas State Will Rogers, TR-Mississippi State Grayson McCall, TR-Coastal Carolina
Ducks-Huskies kick-off conference championship weekend … There is a potentially terrific weekend of college football coming with the conference championship games starting Friday night when #3 Washington faces #5 Oregon in the Pac-12 title game. And college football fans can only hope this game is anywhere near as good as their regular season game back on October 14th… Read More »
#5 OREGON (11-1) vs #3 WASHINGTON (12-0); 8 PM ET; Friday; ABC … College football fans can only hope that the Pac-12 title game is anywhere near as good as their regular season game back on October 14th when the teams combined for almost 950 yards of total offence and was only decided when the Ducks missed a… Read More »
