No Monday night football; no problem … Feeling a little blue as there is no Monday night football tonight, while there are still three sleeps until the CFP semi-finals on Thursday and Friday, fear not as there is football this evening with perennial contender North Dakota State facing top-ranked Montana State in the FCS national championship game in… Read More »
Jags, Pats fire coaches; Giants stand pat … Both New England and Jacksonville didn’t wait long to replace their head coaches in the wake of disappointing seasons as the Patriots fired Jerod Mayo and the Jags released Doug Pederson just hours after the season ended. Mayo was let go after just one season and the expectation is that… Read More »
Titans, Browns, Giants to pick 1-2-3 as first 18 picks set … With the NFL’s regular season in the books, the first 18 picks for the 2025 draft have now been set with Tennessee, Cleveland and the Giants scheduled to make the first three picks. The remaining picks will be determined by results from the playoffs which begin… Read More »
Tide LB Lawson to return to school … In a bit of a surprise, Alabama LB Deontae Lawson has announced that he will be returning to school for the 2025 college season rather than enter the upcoming draft for which he was considered to be a second-day prospect. It will be a 5th year in college for Lawson… Read More »
Bahamas Bowl takes center stage … Not sure a post-season bowl in the the Bahamas found itself lodged between the national quarterfinals and semis, but that’s where the cleverly name Bahamas Bowl finds itself as traditional powers Buffalo and Liberty tangle in the Caribbean with kick-off Saturday morning at 11 AM ET on ESPN2. All joking aside there… Read More »
IU QB Rourke has knee surgery … Turns out that Indiana QB Kurtis Rourke played the entire season on a torn ACL and will have surgery to repair the issue later this week. Rourke originally tore an ACL playing for Ohio back in 2022 and then reportedly retore it during training camp in August. He still somehow managed… Read More »
Irish to national semis … The final 4 for the CFP national semi-finals are now set as Notre Dame upset Georgia 23-10 in this afternoon’s delayed Sugar Bowl. The Irish will play Penn State in the Orange Bowl next Thursday with the winner to advance to the national final on January 20th against the winner of the other… Read More »
Tide QB Milroe to enter draft … Just hours after star Alabama LB Jihaad Campbell announced he was entering the 2025 draft, Tide QB Jalen Milroe confirmed that he will also be turning pro this winter. There had been some speculation after a dismal outing in the Tide’s bowl loss to undermanned Michigan that Milroe might opt to… Read More »
Top Tide LB enters draft … While the football world waits for word on what Alabama QB Jalen Milroe decides about his immediate football future, another Tide star has made a decision as All-America LB Jihaad Campbell has confirmed that he will in fact be entering the 2025 draft where he projects to be one of the first… Read More »
It will be SEC versus Big 10 in Cotton Bowl … One of next week’s CFP semi-finals is now set as Ohio State will face Texas in the Cotton Bowl on Friday the 10th. However, they got their in very different ways. The Buckeyes were expected to be a dogfight with top-rated Oregon in this afternoon’s Rose Bowl… Read More »
Sugar Bowl rescheduled to 4 PM ET tomorrow … It has just been confirmed that Sugar Bowl between Georgia and Notre Dame for a spot in the CFP semi-finals has been rescheduled for 4 PM ET Thursday afternoon on ESPN.
Sugar Bowl postponed … The Sugar Bowl in fact will not be played this evening in the wake of that New Year’s Eve attack in New Orleans in which as many as 15 people were killed and dozens of others injured by a lunatic driving a truck thru a group of revellers less than a mile from where… Read More »
No new rushing record as Barkley to sit season-finale … In the end there will be no new single season rushing record in either the NFL or FBS. For those that missed it last night but Boise State’s Ashton Jeanty came up 31 yards shy of breaking Barry Sanders’ decades old college record as the Broncos lost their… Read More »
HAPPY NEW YEAR!!! A very Happy New Year to everyone and may the new year bring you and yours nothing but Ws!!
When bowls matter … It seems like forever that the major bowls matter, but they do this week as the final three CFP quarter-finals will be decided in New Year’s Day Bowls. It starts with Texas against Arizona State in the Peach Bowl at 1 PM ET, followed by Oregon and Ohio State in the Rose Bowl at… Read More »
Tide miss bowl wake up call … This afternoon’s ReliaQuest Bowl match-up between Alabama and Michigan was supposed to be a one-sided affair with the Tide coming in still smarting after being the last team out in the CFP playoffs and with all their big-name prospects including QB Jalen Milroe in uniform, while Michigan was fielding something of… Read More »
Clemson QB Klubnik to return … Clemson QB Cade Klubnik confirmed earlier today that he will be returning to school next fall for his final year of eligibility. Truth be told it is not a huge surprise as he had a decent but not great season.
Pats back to top of board in latest weekly selection order … With just a week to go in the regular schedule, New England has moved back into the #1 slot in the updated first-round selection order for the upcoming draft, at least for this week, followed by Tennessee and Cleveland. Note, that the SOS figures are based… Read More »
Tide shows for bowl; UM not so much … When the bowl schedule was announced earlier this month, the one non CFP playoff game that really jumped out was the New Year’s Eve day ReliaQuest Bowl in Tampa between Alabama and Michigan (Noon ET; ESPN). Indeed, it had all the feel of an ‘unofficial’ playoff game between the… Read More »
‘Border War’ on bowl schedule … With just one more sleep until the CFP quarterfinals get underway New Year’s Eve, there’s only one game on the college bowl schedule today as Iowa plays Missouri in the Music City Bowl in Nashville at 2:30 PM ET on ESPN. Its an interesting game in that its between teams representing states… Read More »
Browns up to #3 as top 10 set for week … With their loss to Miami in one of today’s late games Cleveland will slide up into the #3 spot in this week’s opening round selection, while the Giants drop down to the 4th pick, again at least for the week. In fact, the top ten is now… Read More »
Pats, Titans 1-2 as Giants win … The NY Giants, who have struggled to hit double figures on the scoreboard all season long put 45 on Indianapolis to end a team-record 10-game losing streak; they also avoided the ignomy of going winless at home this season. Unfortunately, though, it means the Giants will also drop out of the… Read More »
RB Ott returns to Cal … California RB Jaydn Ott announced this morning that he will return to school next fall after a disappointing, injury-plagued 2024 campaign. Ott, an explosive slasher, was considered to be one of the top prospects at the position for the upcoming draft after a breakout year in 2023 when he ran for over… Read More »
A Tale of Two QBs … There was some drama in the otherwise totally undramatic, meaningless non-playoff bowls yesterday when both the top two QBs available in the 2025 draft class – Colorado’s Shedeur Sanders and Cam Ward of Miami – opted to play in their respective teams post-season games, only to very different results. The Canes’ Ward,… Read More »
Top picks coming down to the wire … With just a couple of weeks to go in the NFL’s regular schedule, there will be some changes in the early selection order for the 2025 draft this week as Jacksonville, which would have had the 3rd pick overall were the draft held this week will be hosting Tennessee which… Read More »
