Some late thoughts on weekend college games … In the wake of Texas’ big upset win over Alabama right in Tuscaloosa on Saturday night, questions whether the Longhorns are indeed back have swirled about the college football landscape. Meanwhile, the other big question being asked this week is whether Alabama has any realistic chance to still make the… Read More »
MRI confirms torn Achilles for Jets’ QB Rodgers; pick likely to be downgraded … Updating the early report on the injury suffered by NY Jets QB Aaron Rodgers early in the team’s season-open OT winning over division rival Buffalo last night. The Jets have now confirmed that an MRI confirmed that Rodgers did indeed tore his Achilles which… Read More »
WR/TE Gadsden dinged in Orange win … Folks in Syracuse are holding their breaths today after star receiver Oronde Gadsden was forced to leave yesterday’s easy win over Western Michigan with an undisclosed lower leg injury that occurred on just the second play of the game. Gadsden spend the second half of the game on the sidelines on… Read More »
‘Canes AA safety carted off late in win over Aggies … All-American Miami FS Kamryn Kinchens, one of the top 2-3 prospects at the position for the 2024 draft, was carted off the field late in the 4th quarter of the Hurricanes huge win over Texas A&M. Kinchens came up to make what appeared to be a routine… Read More »
Who to watch in college football’s big games on Saturday … College football fans can only hope that Saturday’s return match-up between Alabama and Texas is as good a game as last year’s meeting in Austin when when the Tide pulled out a dramatic one-point win thanks to some late heroics by QB Bryce Young, who of course… Read More »
#11 Texas at #4 Alabama; 7 PM ET; ESPN … College football fans can only hope that Saturday’s return match-up between Alabama and Texas is as good a game as last year’s meeting in Austin when when the Tide pulled out a dramatic one-point win thanks to some late heroics by QB Bryce Young, who of course went… Read More »
More rumblings from USC QB Williams’ camp … People around Southern California QB Caleb Williams, the consensus favorite to be the first player selected at the 2024 draft, continue to create a little noise about the draft. A couple of weeks ago, Williams, the returning Heisman Trophy winner from 2022, left the door open to possibly returning to… Read More »
Saints rook QB suspended 6 weeks for PEDS … Rookie New Orleans QB Jake Haener, a 4th round pick at the 2023 draft has been suspended for the first 6 weeks of the season for violating the league’s performance-enhancing drug policy. Haener, from Fresno State, had been listed as the Saints’ #3 QB behind veterans Derek Carr and… Read More »
Bengals, Niners to Super Bowl in GBN fearless forecast … With the Lions and Chiefs set to kick-off the 2023 regular season Thursday evening it is time for our annual ‘Fearless Forecast’ of the upcoming NFL season in which we see Cincinnati playing San Francisco in the Super Bowl. Here’s the full forecast including our picks for the… Read More »
Cards nab QB Williams, WR Harrison in first mock of the campaign … It says here that you just can’t start the season off on the right foot without a projection for next year’s draft, which for the record, is now just 230 days away. So here we go, although needless to say much will change between now… Read More »
Wild cards: AFC: Buffalo, Baltimore, LA Chargers NFC: NY Giants, Dallas, Detroit Conference Champions: AFC – Cincinnati NFC- San Francisco Super Bowl: Cincinnati MVPs: AFC – QB Joe Burrow, Cincinnati NFC: QB Jalen Hurts, Philadelphia DPOYs: AFC – LB Matthew Judon, New England NFC: LB Micah Parsons, Dallas Rookies of the Year: AFC – DE Will McDonald, NY… Read More »
Prospect profiles posted … Continuing with our series previewing the college season in anticipation of the 2024 draft, here a quick profiles of most of the top 40 or so prospects for the upcoming draft. Note that the list of players profiled closely approximates the updated GBN Big Board which was posted yesterday, but not all players on… Read More »
Positional rankings; Big Board updated … The GBN positional rankings (see the list above) and Big Board ranking the top 50 prospects for the 2024 draft have been updated.
Bonus, bonus coverage … With no Monday night football in the NFL until next week, the colleges are going to fill the gap this week, with a conference game to boot as Clemson plays at Duke on ESPN with kickoff set for 8 PM ET. And the neat thing about some of the early season games on the… Read More »
Bonus Coverage: #5 LSU at #8 Florida State; Orlando; 7:30 PM ET; ABC … When the 2023 college football schedule came out earlier this year a half dozen or so games jumped off the page as must-see, key contests with huge national playoff implications. This was one of them. LSU comes ranked 5th in pre-season polls, while the… Read More »
ACC morphs into A&PCC … Not sure if they’ll now have to call itself the Atlanta&Pacific Coast Conference as the ACC confirmed earlier today that Pac-12 orphans Stanford and California and Southern Methodist will be joining the conference next fall. Stanford and Cal, of course, became free agents when the Pac-12 when the Pac-12 essentially disintegrated earlier this… Read More »
Who to watch in college football on Saturday … The best game of the first full weekend of college football games isn’t until Sunday when LSU hosts Florida State in a match-up of top 10 with legitimate national championship aspirations. And we’ll post a preview of who to watch in that classic on Sunday morning. At the same… Read More »
Boise State at #10 Washington; 3:30 PM ET; ABC … Interesting game on the west coast between a couple of teams with lofty post-season expectations. Washington, in particular, has visions of a possible CFP playoff berth with a loaded lineup, while Boise State is one of the favorites to earn the non-Power 5 New Year’s Day Bowl invitation.… Read More »
Draft innovator Brandt passes at 91 … Hall of Fame Dallas Cowboys’ Director of Player Personnel Gil Brandt, who did more than anyone to revolutionize the draft process, has passed away at the age of 91. Brandt joined the Cowboys in 1960 and through his long career with the team and later as a media analyst helped bring… Read More »
Kiper posts updated top 25 … For those that haven’t seen it, long-time draft guru Mel Kiper has posted an updated Top 25 just in time for the start of the 2023 season over at ESPN. And for the most part, Kiper has the usual suspects – QBs Caleb Williams of USC and North Carolina’s Drake Maye, Ohio… Read More »
College football set to kick-off first full weekend … The first full weekend on the 2023 college schedule kicks off in just a few hours in what has the potential to be a really wacky season. And not just because its the final season before the CFP playoffs expand from the current 4 teams to amore reasonable in… Read More »
Rams, Pack lead NFL rookie parade … It is almost guaranteed that there will be a lot of tweaking of NFL rosters between now and when the regular season opens next weekend. For now, though, the LA Rams and Green Bay have the largest number of rookies on their current rosters including both players selected at the 2023… Read More »
Undrafted rookie class continues bounce back from Covid slump … With training camps limited earlier this decade because of the pandemic, it really was particularly hard for undrafted rookies to break through and make an NFL roster. In 2021, for example, just 25 undrafted rookies survived the final round of cuts as teams around the league got down… Read More »
Updated draft numbers… We have had a chance to go over the results of yesterday’s transaction frenzy as teams around the NFL got down to their opening-day, 53-man rosters. In the end, by our unofficial numbers, a total of 18 players drafted in 2023 were released, while another 13 were placed on an exempt list such as the… Read More »
Troubled Husker TE in trouble … The long, winding football story of Nebraska TE Arik Gilbert took another strange turn last night when he was arrested and charged with burglary after a botched attempted robbery of a liquor store. Gilbert was originally a big-time recruit at LSU, but transferred originally to Florida and then shortly afterward to Georgia.… Read More »
