Ducks, ‘Horns book conference title game spots … For those that missed it last night, both Oregon and Texas, two teams sitting just on the outside of the 4 CFP playoff slots, booked their spots in their respective conference championship games next weekend with impressive wins. Oregon, for example, cruised to a 31-7 ‘Civil War’ win over cross-state… Read More »
Selection order updated … With Miami apparently on its way to a win over the NY Jets in the Black Friday game, we have updated the first-round selection order for next April’s draft.
Black Friday college football viewing guide … The big game of this weekend’s college football fare, if not the overall season period, doesn’t kick-off until Saturday afternoon when #3 Michigan hosts #2 Ohio State in their annual shoot-out. However, there are several games tomorrow of interest on Friday including the annual ‘Civil War’ between Oregon and Oregon State… Read More »
Who to watch when Ohio State plays Michigan … Hard to remember a time when Michigan-Ohio State didn’t really matter all that much; this year’s year’s edition (Saturday, Noon ET; FOX) though has all the makings of THE game of the year as the winner almost assuredly gets the Big Ten’s spot in this year’s CFP playoff literally… Read More »
Who’s #3; where’s #3 … For those that haven’t seen it yet, there is an interesting piece over at ESPN where three of their draft analysts do a kind of combined mock of the first ten picks of the upcoming draft. It is a little confusing in the sense that while the article was published this week, they… Read More »
Happy Thanksgiving; enjoy the games … Here’s to a happy and safe Thanksgiving to everyone. Of course, if its Thanksgiving it means lots of football with three NFL games tomorrow and now another on Black Friday. Its also rivalry weekend in college football with a whole slew of games including Saturday’s huge meeting between #2 Ohio State and… Read More »
Illini DTs to enter draft … It looks as if Illinois will have to rebuild the interior of its defensive front next fall as both current starters at the position – Jer’Zahn Newton and Keith Randolph – announced earlier today that they will forego their remaining college eligibility and enter the 2024 draft. Newton, in particular is a… Read More »
Weekly selection order updated … With another week on the NFL schedule in the books, the first-round selection order for the 2024 draft, were it to held this week has been updated.
Bears inch closer to top pick; top ten picks set for week … Carolina dropped to 1-9 Sunday afternoon with a loss to Dallas. And that moved Chicago, which owns the Panthers’ first round pick this year, closer to securing the #1 pick overall this coming April. In fact, the Panthers/Bears have what amounts to a two-game ‘lead’… Read More »
Ute QB Rising to return … Utah QB Cam Rising announced this weekend that he will be returning to the team for a 6th season next fall. Rising has not played at all this year as he has been rehabbing from a serious knee injury suffered in Utes’ bowl game last year.
Als stun Bombers with late TD to cop CFL’s Grey Cup … Montreal QB Cody Fajardo threw an 18-yard scoring strike to WR Tyson Philpot with just 13 seconds on the clock to give the Montreal Alouettes a 28-24 win over the favored Winnipeg Blue Bombers in the 110th edition of the Canadian league’s Grey Cup game. It… Read More »
FSU QB carted off field … The chase for a CFP plaoff berth took a turn this evening as Florida State QB Travis Daniels was just carted off the field with what appears to be a potentially serious leg injury in the Seminoles game with FCS North Alabama; indeed, Daniels was almost immediately transferred to an ambulance once… Read More »
Who to watch in college football this weekend … There is something of a light schedule in college football this weekend as teams gear up for their annual Thanksgiving rivalry games. Still, there are at least a couple of games coming up this weekend between ranked teams with playoff implications including #1 Georgia at Tennessee and #5 Washington… Read More »
Star Iowa DB, PR out for year … Star Iowa CB Cooper DeJean, a top 15-20 prospect for the 2024 draft, will miss the rest of the season with an undisclosed lower leg injury. Fortunately, though, it does not appear to be an ACL as the school has indicated that the recovery period is in the 6-8 week… Read More »
Weekly selection order updated … With another week on the NFL schedule in the books, the first-round selection order for the 2024 draft, were it to held this week has been updated.
‘Horns’ RB Brooks’ tears ACL; out for rest of year … Texas RB Jonathan Brooks, who had emerged this fall as one of the prospects at the position for the 2024 draft, tore an ACL in Saturday’s win over TCU and will miss the rest of the year. It’s also now pretty much a given that Brooks, who… Read More »
Cards win; Giants lose, move to #2 pick … With QB Kyler Murray back on the field for the first time this year, Arizona won its second game of the campaign on a last-play FG over Atlanta Sunday afternoon. Meanwhile, the NY Giants left nothing to chance as they were steamrolled 49-17 in Dallas in which the Cowboys… Read More »
Pats lose in Europe; clinch at least 4th pick for week … New England came up on the short end of a 10-6 defensive struggle with Indianapolis earlier today somewhere in Europe. The loss drops the Patriots to 2-8 and means they’ll have no worse than the 4th pick in the weekly selection order for the opening round… Read More »
Top CFP contenders hold serve on college Saturday; QBs Daniels, Nix shine … For those that don’t follow college football all that closely, the remaining Power-5 unbeaten teams – and favorites to make this year’s 4-team CFL playoff – facing testy opponents all won out yesterday as Michigan held off Penn State 24-15, Florida State edged Miami 27-20,… Read More »
Bombers, Als to meet in CFL title game … It will be the Winnipeg Blue Bombers against the Montreal Alouettes in the 109th Grey Cup game for the Canadian league championship next Sunday in Hamilton. Kickoff will be at 6 PM ET. Winnipeg punched its ticket to a 5th straight Grey Cup appearance with a workmanlike 24-13 win… Read More »
CFL semis set for Saturday … The Canadian Football League playoffs continue on Saturday with the Eastern and Western final. In the East, Montreal will play at Toronto with KO set for 3 PM, while Winnipeg will host the B.C. Lions in the Western conference championship game starting at 6:30 PM ET. The winners will play next week’s… Read More »
Bears win; back to top pick … Chicago managed to hang on an edge Carolina 16-13 last night when a long Panthers’ FG attempt fell short in the game’s final minute. That lifted the Bears record to 3-7 which drops them down to the #5 spot in this week’s 2024 draft selection order with the NY Giants and… Read More »
‘Horns QB Ewers to return … Texas got a little good news with word that QB Quinn Ewers will return to action this weekend when the Longhorns play TCU. Ewers, one of several QBs in the mix to be the 3rd player selected at the position at the upcoming draft after USC’s Caleb Williams and Drake Maye of… Read More »
Key tests for CFP contenders as college football hits the homestretch … With just three weeks and the conference championship games to in the regular college schedule, it is looking more and more, barring any major upsets, that there are really only 5 teams – Georgia, Florida State, Washington, Ohio State and Michigan – in the running for… Read More »
Race for top picks goes prime time … The race for this year’s top pick goes prime time this evening as Carolina will play Chicago in the Thursday night game in a match-up of teams sitting on the 2nd and 3rd picks respectively in the current selection order. In fact, at least in terms of the draft, it… Read More »
