Tide avoids Iron Bowl shocker … Alabama survived a major upset in today’s Iron Bowl when the 3rd ranked Tide drove 98 yards for a tying TD in the game’s final two minutes and then outscored Auburn in overtime to come away with a 24-22 win. THE big question for Alabama, though, was it enough to get them… Read More »
Jets-Texans hilite Sunday draft sched … With Detroit, which would have the #1 pick overall were the draft held this week, having inched closer to clinching this year’ s top pick after losing on Thursday, the rest of the top selection order for 2022 could be looking at something of a shakeup as a result of Sunday’s action.… Read More »
UCF QB Gabriel to transfer … Central Florida Dillon Gabriel made it official earlier today by announcing that he is taking advantage of the NCAA’s relaxed transfer rules and will enter the transfer portal, presumably with the intention of playing for a Power 5 conference contender next year. Gabriel, a junior who threw for over 3,000 yards in… Read More »
It is over!!! … You think anybody in the state cares at this hour that the Detroit Lions are the NFL’s only winless team after Michigan ended its long drought against rival Ohio State with a convincing 42-27 win in snowy Ann Arbor this afternoon. Ohio State had won 8 straight against the Wolverines and came into the… Read More »
CFL playoffs start tomorrow … The Canadian league starts its playoffs Sunday afternoon with a couple of semi-final games. Montreal will be at Hamilton in the Eastern semi-final tomorrow afternoon for the right to play Toronto in the conference final next week. KO is set for 1 PM ET with coverage on TSN in Canada and ESPN2 in… Read More »
Prospects to watch in rivalry games … There are college games today, but the key contests are tomorrow starting with a potentially titanic matchup between 2nd ranked Ohio State and #6 Michigan for the Big Ten East spot in next week’s conference championship game; of course, both teams are also trying to keep their CFP playoff hopes alive.… Read More »
#2 OHIO STATE (10-1) at #6 MICHIGAN (10-1); Noon ET; FOX … Just like old times in the Big Ten with the season coming down to Ohio State and Michigan in their annual rivalry game. Of course, the winner still has to beat somebody in the Big Ten championship game next week, but win those two games and… Read More »
Bonus coverage … For those that didn’t get their fill of football on Thanksgiving Day and can’t wait for the really big college rivalry games Saturday including Ohio State at Michigan for all the marbles in the Big Ten East, there are a number of decent college games on Friday worth a look. It all starts with a… Read More »
More heartbreak in Detroit as Lions inch even closer to top pick with loss to Bears … The Detroit Lions were close again in today’s early Thanksgiving day triple header, but in the end, once again, close wasn’t enough as the Lions fell 16-14 to Chicago on a last-play FG. The win drops the Lions to 0-10-1 and… Read More »
How about a little egg with that turkey … While the NFL takes center stage on Thanksgiving, there is one major rivalry game on the college schedule with Mississippi State hosting #9 Mississippi in the annual Egg Bowl. Starts at 7:30 PM ET Thursday evening on ESPN and features two of the very best QBs in college football.… Read More »
Happy Thanksgiving football day … Everyone here at the GBN wants to wish everyone and theirs out there a very happy and safe Thanksgiving weekend. Of course, if its Thanksgiving it means turkey and football. Indeed, there’s the usual triple header of NFL games on tomorrow including one with major draft implications. That’s tomorrow afternoon when Chicago plays… Read More »
College notes: pair of top RBs staying put; rising CB not … This is the time of year when college underclassmen start making noises about entering the upcoming draft. But they all don’t. And one who is not is Minnesota RB Mohamed Ibrahim who announced earlier today that he would be staying in school in 2022. The 5-10,… Read More »
PSU WR headlines latest star game acceptances … The Senior Bowl continues to release the names of players who have accepted invitations to participate in this year’s game. And the latest group of accepted invites includes Penn State WR Jahan Dotson, #23 on the current GBN Big Board, who will be one of the top prospects in Mobile… Read More »
Pigskin’s weekly prospects review … As he does every year, GBN Associate Editor Pigskin Paul Guillemette will be posting a weekly review of prospects who caught his eye in the previous weekend’s college football action. Here’s Paul’s column covering last weekend’s slate of games.
More star game acceptances … The Senior Bowl continues to release the names of players who have accepted invitations to participate in this year’s event in Mobile. The latest group of accepted invites includes OGs Zion Johnson of Boston College and LSU’s Ed Ingram, Washington State OT Abraham Lucas, LSU ILB Damone Clark and Texas CB Josh Thompson.… Read More »
Giants report: First (and last) impressions of Monday loss in Tampa … Just in case anyone was wondering what it looks like when a really good team, say the defending Super Bowl champions, which started the season 6-1, but are all fired up after losing a couple of games in a row, plays a not-so-talented team which is… Read More »
Senior Bowl adds top TE; 4 others … The Senior Bowl continues to release the names of players who have accepted invitations to participate in this year’s event in Mobile. The latest group of accepted invites includes rising Coastal Carolina TE Isaiah Likely, along with Michigan State TE/FB Connor Heyward, Pitt CB Damarri Mathis, North Dakota OT Matt… Read More »
Selection order updated … With the Bucs not surprisingly blowing out the Giants in tonight’s Monday night game to wrap up another week’s action in the NFL, the current opening round selection order for the 2022 draft has been updated were it to be held this week.
Lions inch closer to top pick; Jets back to #2 … Detroit, with somebody named Tim Boyle starting at QB, gave Cleveland all it could handle in one of today’s early games, but ultimately came up short at 13-10 to drop to 0-9-1. Given that every other team in the league now has at least two wins, that… Read More »
Ducks dunked; Bearcats, Irish lurking … The path to the CFP playoff got a shakeup this evening when Utah knocked 3rd ranked Oregon out of contention with a crushing 38-7 loss. That should re-open the door to a possible bid for Cincinnati, which is looking to become the first non-Power 5 conference to make the NCAA playoffs. Oregon’s… Read More »
Giants Report: Two guys talking Giants football … One of the great things about the internet – and there’s a lot that’s not good – at least for me is that it has allowed me to meet – sometimes even in person – a whole range of Giants’ fans from all over the country that never would have… Read More »
‘Big’ AFC East game hilites Sunday draft sked … Okay, so its not really a ‘big’ game, but the key matchup Sunday, at least from a draft perspective, though, has the 2-7 NY Jets, which would have the 3rd pick overall were the draft held this week, hosting 3-7 Miami, which is currently sitting on the 5th pick,… Read More »
Senior Bowl adds top CB … Auburn CB Roger McCreary, one of the top prospects at the position, was one of four players that the Senior Bowl announced as accepted invites in the past 24 hours. McCreary is currently the 56th rated played on the GBN Big Board. He’ll be joined in Mobile by Iowa State TE Charlie… Read More »
Bucks take care of business; set up epic UM clash next week … Any drama in this afternoon’s virtual elimination game between #4 Ohio State and #7 Michigan State dissipated pretty quickly as the Buckeyes scored the first four times they had the ball and led 28-0 before the second quarter was a minute old. And it didn’t… Read More »
Ole Miss QB Corral to enter draft … Mississippi QB Matt Corral pretty much confirmed this evening what everybody pretty much knew anyway and that is that he’ll be entering the 2022 draft. Corral put out a twitter earlier this evening which indicated that tomorrow’s game with Vanderbilt would be his last home game. The Rebels close out… Read More »
