Prospects preview for college football’s conference championship weekend … It’s conference championship weekend across the country with several games on the docket holding the keys to this year’s 4-team CFP playoff line-up. It all starts Friday night with a couple of games including Oregon against Utah in the PAC-12 title contest and Western Kentucky versus Texas-San Antonio in… Read More »
Four more added to Senior Bowl roster … The Senior Bowl announced the addition of four more players to this roster including two DEs from Minnesota – Boye Mafe and Esezi Otomewo – along with Clemson CB Mario Goodrich and Tennessee WR Velus Jones. With these additions the Senior Bowl roster is now up to 93 players.
Pigskin’s weekly prospects review … As he does every year, GBN Associate Editor Pigskin Paul Guillemette has been 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 final slate of slate of games in college football.
Star A&M DT Leal to enter draft … Texas A&M junior DT DeMarvin Leal announced via Instagram earlier today that he will be foregoing his fi nal year of eligibility and entering the 2022 draft where he projects to be a top 10-15 pick. The 6-4, 290-pound Leal, who is currently ranked 7th overall on the GBN Big… Read More »
Selection order updated … With another week in the book, the current opening round selection order for the 2022 draft has been updated were it to be held this week.
Irish’s Kelly reportedly headed to LSU … Still reeling from the rather shocking news that Oklahoma head coach Lincoln Riley had accepted the vacant job at Southern California, college football is bracing for an even more seismic shock with reports that Brian Kelly has agreed to leave Notre Dame and will replace Ed Orgeron at LSU. What makes… Read More »
Sooners’ trio headline latest Senior Bowl roster adds … The Senior Bowl announced the addition of four more players to this roster including three from Oklahoma. The three are DT Perrion Winfrey, FB Jeremiah Hall and OG Marquis Hayes, who will be joined by massive Minnesota OT Daniel Faalele. For the record, the 6-9, 380 pound Faalele is… Read More »
OU QB Rattler transferring … No big surprise here, but Oklahoma QB Spencer Rattler, who entered the season as the odds on favorite to be the #1 pick at the 2022 draft, has announced that he has entered the transfer portal. What that means, of course, is that Rattler won’t be entering the upcoming draft unless he has… Read More »
‘Cats, Riders take CFL semis … While the NFL was busy doing its thing this afternoon, the Canadian league got its 2021 playoffs underway. And there will be a renewal of a couple of the league’s fiercest rivalries next Sunday in the conference finals after Hamilton beat Montreal in the Eastern semi-final, while Saskatchewan edged Calgary in OT… Read More »
Two top QBs off to Mobile … The Senior Bowl announced today that two of the top QBs in the 2022 draft class have accepted invitations to participate in this year’s game including Malik Willis of Liberty and Desmond Ridder of Cincinnati. Willis, in particular, is an athletic freak who is a legit first-round candidate with some top… Read More »
Jets win; back out of 2nd pick … While Detroit appears to have pretty much locked up the #1 pick at the 2022 draft, the roller coaster among the NY Jets, Jacksonville and Houston for the 2-3-4 continued unabated today with the Jets defeating the Texans to drop from #2 to #4. That moves the Texans and Jags,… Read More »
More star game acceptances … The Senior Bowl released the names of three more players who have accepted invitations to participate in this year’s game including Ohio State TE Jeremy Ruckert, Washington State CB Jaylen Watson and North Carolina LB Jeremiah Gemmel. The latest additions also bring the number of players who have accepted Senior Bowl invitations to… Read More »
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 »
