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 »
Pats hold onto #2 pick for the week … With New England leaving little to chance in a blow out home loss to the LA Chargers in today’s early game, the Patriots have secured at least the #2 slot in this week’s opening round selection order for the 2025 draft. And they’ll end up sitting on the #1… Read More »
UGA QB Beck to enter draft … Despite not having a stellar season in 2024 and coming off shoulder surgery earlier this week, Georgia QB Carson Beck confirmed earlier today that he will be entering the 2025 draft despite having a year of eligibility left. Beck had been considered to be potential top 5 pick at the outset… Read More »
Top QB prospects hilite Saturday bowl bonanza … For those who care about these kinds of things there are 8 bowls on the schedule for Saturday starting with UConn versus North Carolina in the Fenway Bowl at 11 AM ET and running thru the Independence Bowl at 9:15 PM ET between Louisiana Tech and Army. And for a… Read More »
Giants Report: New Year’s Message … Needless to say we have literally been besieged of late with correspondence from our Giant fans friends bemoaning the fact that they feel that all they got for Christmas was this year was a lousy lump of coal! Needless to say we share the disappointment and frustration with what’s gone on with… Read More »
Bowl season continues; did somebody forget to tell the players? … Remember that last year one of the big stories regarding the non-playoff bowl games was how many leading draft prospects opted not to play. So far this year it hasn’t been quite the same story. Until today! There are, for example, 5 games on Friday’s bowl schedule,… Read More »
BGSU TE sets single season records … Bowling Green TE Harold Fannin set a couple of all-time single season records for the position during last night’s bowl loss to Arkansas State. Fannin, a junior who still hasn’t officially declared for the draft, hauled in 17 passes for 213 yards and a TD in last night’s game to give… Read More »
Holiday bowl rush continues today … There are just 5 more sleeps until CFP playoff semi-finals get underway on New Year’s Eve. However, to help wile away the hours until then, there are still dozens of ‘other’ bowls including three today. And while nobody should really care who wins or loses those games there are several prospects for… Read More »
Giants, Pats, Jags 1-2-3 in latest weekly selection order … With just a couple of weeks to go in the regular schedule the top three picks in the updated first-round selection order for the upcoming draft, at least for this week, will belong to the NY Giants, New England and Jacksonville. Note, that the SOS figures are based… Read More »
UGA QB Beck has surgery; done for year … Georgia announced earlier today that QB Carson Beck will not play again this season after undergoing surgery on his damaged shoulder. Beck injured his elbow just before half time of the Bulldogs SEC championship game win over Texas. Doctors say the surgery went well and that Beck will begin… Read More »
Irish DT out of playoffs with knee … Notre Dame confirmed this afternoon that DT Rylie Mills, a solid second day prospect for 2025 who leads the Irish in sacks with 7.5, will not be available for the remainder of the CFP playoffs because of a knee injury he suffered in the team’s win over Indiana in the… Read More »
Raiders win! Giants to #1! … Las Vegas held off Jacksonville 19-14 in a late afternoon game today for their 3rd win of the year. As a result, the Giants, as the league’s only remaining 2-win team after losing in Atlanta earlier today, will hold the #1 pick in this week’s selection order for the opening round of… Read More »
Giants lurch closer to a top pick … The Giants threw a bit of a scare into their fans when they took an early 7-0 lead on the Falcons in Atlanta in one of today’s early games, but QB Drew Lock came to the rescue throwing a couple of pick-6s that opened the floodgates to a dismal 34-7… Read More »
Potentially pivotal day for 2025 selection order … Of course, there will still be a couple of weeks to go on the NFL schedule after this weekend’s games, but it could be a defining day for who ends up with the very early picks in the 2025 draft, which for the record will be just 4 months away… Read More »
College quarters set … The first round of the first ever multiple round college football playoff wrapped up last night with Ohio State throttling Tennessee 42-17 to set up a rematch of the Buckeyes’ one-point loss to Oregon earlier this fall in one of 4 CFP quarter final games. They’ll play in the Rose Bowl on January 1st… Read More »
And Texas makes three … It looked for awhile like we were in store for yet another CFP first-round blow out when Texas opened up a 31-10 lead over Clemson early in the second half of their game this afternoon, but the Tigers rallied to at least make a game of it, although the Longhorns did hang on… Read More »
Lions roar into 2nd CFP round … A second CFP first-round playoff game is in the books as Penn State routed SMU 38-10 to advance to the quarter-finals where the Nittany Lions will face Boise State in the Fiesta Bowl on New Year’s Eve. It was also the 2nd college playoff game this weekend that was anything but… Read More »
LSU snares FSU transfer DE Payton … LSU snagged another big get in the transfer program as the Tigers have signed former FSU DE Patrick Payton. Payton had been considered to be a possible mid-first round pick this year, but dropped way down the draft radar when he posted only 4 sacks this season. He’s a rangy 6-5,… Read More »
Bring on the Dawgs; Irish to quarters … The first ever true multiple team college football playoff got under way last night at Notre Dame where the Irish knocked off cross-state rival Indiana 27-17 in a game that was never that close; indeed, the Hoosiers were able to save some dignity with a couple of TDs in the… Read More »
