Who to watch in college football on Thanksgiving Saturday … As we noted yesterday, Saturday’s college football fare is a little more appealing than Friday’s with a number of huge games on the docket including THE game between #1 Ohio State and Michigan, alog with Alabama at Auburn and LSU at Oklahoma in the SEC and Miami at… Read More »
#1 OHIO STATE (11-0) @ #15 MICHIGAN (9-2); NOON ET; FOX: Hard to imagine that the unbeaten defending national champions still haven’t clinched a spot in either the Big 10 conference title game or the 12-team CFP playoff field, although the latter does seem to be at least something of a foregone conclusion. Still, the Buckeyes will need… Read More »
#3 TEXAS A&M (11-0) @ #16 TEXAS (8-3); 7:30 PM ET; ABC … There is a lot on the table in the annual Texas-Texas A&M rivalry game with the Longhorns literally fighting for their CFP playoff lives, while the Aggies, who appear to be in the 12-team playoff no matter what the next couple of weeks, do need… Read More »
Weekly selection order posted … With another week in the books, the selection order for the first-round of the 2026 draft were it to be held this week has been updated here.
#22 Missouri at #8 Oklahoma; NOON ET; ABC: After upsetting Alabama last week, Oklahoma controls its own playoff destiny; win their last two games and they’re in. And while those last two games are at home, they’re against quality opposition in Missouri this week and LSU next so the Sooners will be challenged. Along the way, OU QB… Read More »
Injury Updates for OSU WR Tate and UM RB Haynes … There are a couple of injury situations we are following. Ohio State, for example, is being coy with the status of star WR Carnell Tate for this weekend’s game with Rutgers. Tate, one of the top 2-3 prospects at the position for the 2026 draft, has missed… Read More »
Browns looking at QB early in 2026 … One of the big questions heading to the 2026 draft, especially in Cleveland, was whether would stick with their young QBs Dillon Gabriel and Shedeur Sanders next year or use one, if not both, of the their 2026 first round picks to address the position this coming April. According to… Read More »
ASU QB Leavitt not looking at portal … yet … Arizona State QB Sam Leavitt, or least his brother and agent, is denying that the star Sun Devil is already actively shopping his services for the 2026 season, at least not yet. Leavitt, a redshirt sophomore with two years of college eligibility remaining, has been sidelined the better… Read More »
Weekly selection order posted … With another week in the books, the selection order for the first-round of the 2026 draft were it to be held this week has been updated here.
CLEMSON @ #20 LOUISVILLE; 7:30 PM ET (FRIDAY); ESPN: Clemson, of course, has almost dropped completely off the national college football radar in the wake of a sub-.500 season. However, the Tigers remain very much on the draft radar as they still have a number of top prospects for the 2026 draft. DT Peter Woods (#11, 6-3, 310),… Read More »
Titans, Saints, Giants 1-2-3 in weekly selection order … With another week in the books, the selection order for the first-round of the 2026 draft were it to be held this week has been updated here.
Wins by Saints, Jets, ‘Phins to shuffle draft order … There will be some shuffling at the top of this week’s selection order for the opening round of the 2026 draft as teams sitting on three of the top 4 picks going into the week each won their respective games earlier today. New Orleans, which had the #1… Read More »
LSU QB Nussmeier benched in Tide loss … There was a somewhat surprising development in LSU’s loss at Alabama last night when the Tigers pulled QB Garrett Nussmeier early in the 3rd quarter with the game still very much in the balance. Nussmeier had led LSU on a long march down to inside the Alabama 10-yard line after… Read More »
LSU at #4 Alabama; 7:30 PM ET; ABC: There was a time when this game was expected to be one of the key contests of the season, but after three losses, LSU is no longer ranked at all. For pro scouts, though, this remains a pretty big deal because of the head-to-match between QBs Garrett Nussmeier (#18, 6-1,… Read More »
Jets shake up draft adding three firsts in big deals … Normally most years there’s a lot of buzz around the NFL in the days leading up to the trade deadline, but then pretty much crickets on the day. This year was an exception, though, thanks in large part to the NY Jets who consummated two major deals,… Read More »
Saints, Titans 1-2 in weekly selection order … With another week in the books, the selection order for the first-round of the 2026 draft were it to be held this week has been updated here.
Saints back to #1 with Jets idle … With the NY Jets on their bye week, the New Orleans Saints will move back into the #1 spot on the weekly if the draft were held this week selection order for the first-round of the 2026. The Saints lost 34-10 loss to the LA Rams earlier today which drops… Read More »
By midseason, the NFL begins to separate the contenders from the pretenders and betting lines tell that story better than any highlight reel. These numbers aren’t just about odds or spreads; they’re a real-time reflection of belief. They capture how analysts, bettors, and oddsmakers collectively measure momentum, health, and potential every week. What’s fascinating is how the lines… Read More »
Dolphins GM out … Let’s face it, somebody in Miami had to go and that somebody, at least for now, is GM Chris Grier who has been relieved of his duties in the wake of the Dolphins’ dismal 2-7 start to the season that got real ugly in last night’s 28-6 home loss to Baltimore. Grier, who has… Read More »
Penn State (3-4) at #1 Ohio State (7-0); NOON ET; FOX: It wasn’t all that long ago that folks all around the country ahd this one red-circled as possibly THE game of the year not only in the B1G, but just maybe on the entire college football schedule. And top-ranked Ohio State has kept up its end of… Read More »
Coin flip to decide top pick in weekly selection order … Yesterday, we initially, and at the time erroneously, reported that despite their first win of the season, the NY Jets would still be sitting atop the updated, first-round selection order for the 2026 draft for the week. However, we’d somehow managed to overlook the Saints who actually… Read More »
What we see is what we may get … With the college football season heading into the home stretch we took a quick peek at the remaining schedule to red circle the big games coming up in the final month of the campaign. However, we were kind of shocked to find out that there are, in fact, very… Read More »
LSU fires coach Brian Kelly … Hands up everyone who had Penn State’s James Franklin and Brian Kelly of LSU in their coaches likely to be fired during the season pool! Anyone? Kelly joined Franklin, who was terminated earlier this season, on the UE rolls yesterday when he was abruptly fired by LSU in the wake of the… Read More »
#8 Mississippi at #13 Oklahoma; Noon ET; ABC: Saturday afternoon starts with an interesting match-up of top 15 SEC teams, both of which are trying to keep their CFP hopes alive. Its also a potentially very interesting match-up of the opposing QBs: the Rebs’ QB Trinidad Chambliss (#6, 6-0, 200) and OU’s John Mateer (#10, 6-1, 225). Chambliss… Read More »
Jets lose again and keep top pick for week; bench QB Fields … Another week in the NFL; another week of offensive ineptitude by the NY Jets. A week after the Jets piled up net minus passing yards in London in a loss to Denver, they scored just 6 points in a 13-6 home defeat at the hands… Read More »
