Rising Herd ER enters draft … We haven’t been noting every underclassmen opting to enter this year’s draft since most have long been expected to jump to the pros this year. However, we will note that Marshall redshirt sophomore DE Mike Green, arguably the best prospect in the country almost nobody has seen, has confirmed that he will… Read More »
First-round projection updated … With the college football regular season in the books it seemed like it might be a good time to update our first-round projection for the 2025 draft. As we have noted in the past, the goal here isn’t so much to try and predict which team will select which player, but to give some… Read More »
Big Board, positional rankings updated … With the regular college football season now in the books, we have updated the GBN Big Board for the 2025 draft which, for the record, is now just 136 days away. The Big Board has also been extended to include the top 150 prospects for the upcoming draft. Also for the record,… Read More »
Raiders, Giants 1-2-3 in updated weekly selection order … At least for this week, the top two picks in the updated first-round selection order for the upcoming draft will belong to Las Vegas and the NY Giants. Note, that the SOS figures are based on each team’s full 17-game schedule rather than just the games played today.
CFP playoff field set; SMU in, Bama out … For those that missed it earlier in the day, but the initial 12-team CFP college football playoff field was announced earlier this afternoon. There were no surprises among the 4-seeded teams with conference champions Oregon, Georgia, Boise State and Arizona getting opening round byes. Indeed, the only surprise of… Read More »
No Carson Beck; no prob for UGA which goes to CFP with OT win in SEC final … It didn’t look all that promising for Georgia at the half in their SEC final matchup with Texas earlier this afternoon. The Bulldags were down three at the breal, and worse star QB Carson beck was out of the game… Read More »
Ashton who? RB Skattebo stars as Sun Devils’ win way to CFP … Arizona State is off to this year’s 12-team CFL playoff after a resounding 45-19 win over Iowa State in the Big XII championship game earlier this afternoon in Dallas. The 11-2 Sun Devils were led by RB Cam Skattebo who was literally untackleable as he… Read More »
SEC Championship (Atlanta): #3 Texas (11-1) vs #5 Georgia (10-2); 4 PM ET; ABC … The ‘Horns and Dawgs will hook up for a second time this year with a first-round bye on the line for the winner as both teams are already pretty much guaranteed a spot in the 12-team CFP field. And for the record, Georgia… Read More »
Who to watch in Friday night college title games … There are a trio of conference championship games on Friday evening including a key CFP play-in contest with #10 Boise State hosting #20 UNLV for the Mountain West title (8 PM ET; FOX). In fact, not only will Boise State make the playoffs with a win over UNLV,… Read More »
A&M QB Weigman to portal … Texas A&M redshirt sophomore QB Connor Weigman, another QB who was being talked about as a potential riser for the 2025 draft, has announced that he will be entering the transfer portal and be back at school somewhere next fall. In fact, Weigman will have two years of eligibility remaining.
Jags, Raiders, Giants 1-2-3 in updated weekly selection order … At least for this week, the top three picks in the updated first-round selection order for the upcoming draft will belong to Jacksonville, Las Vegas and the NY Giants. Note, that the SOS figures are based on each team’s full 17-game schedule rather than just the games played… Read More »
Mizzou WR to enter draft; USC QB to transfer … No big surprise here as Missouri junior WR Luther Burden has announced that he will be entering the 2025 draft despite having a year of remaining eligibility. Burden, who has been comped to the 49ers Deebo Samuel, is considered to be a top 5-10 prospect for the upcoming… Read More »
Iowa RB Johnson to enter draft … Iowa junior RB Kaleb Johnson, who emerged from obscurity to become one of the top backs in the country this fall, has announced that he will be entering the 2025 draft despite the fact that he has a year of eligibility remaining. Johnson was not even the Hawkeyes’ starter at the… Read More »
Jags keep #1 pick; top 7 set for week … Although there are still a couple of games to go to wrap up this weekend’s action, but Jacksonville will hang onto the #1 pick overall in the opening round of the 2025 draft for at least another week. The Jags will be followed, again at least for this… Read More »
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Bucks lose THE game again! Likely out of conference title game … It does not appear as if there will be a replay of the #1 and #2 teams in the country after 2nd ranked Ohio State was upset by Michigan 13-10 in THE game earlier this afternoon in a game that ended with an ugly on-field brawl… Read More »
Top QB prospects to star games??? … While we wait for the KOs of today’s college football games, there are a couple of updates from the post-season all-star games. In a bit of a surprise, Colorado QB Shedeur Sanders, arguably the top prospect at the position for the upcoming draft, and very possibly a strong candidate to be… Read More »
Who to watch in Saturday’s key college football games … As noted earlier, the really key college football games with conference and national playoff implications this weekend are on Saturday including traditional rivalries Ohio State-Michigan and Texas-Texas A&M. Here’s who we’ll be watching in those games with an eye toward the 2025 draft.
Michigan (6-5) at #2 Ohio State (10-1); Noon ET; FOX … It was pretty much a given in recent years that THE game between old rivals Ohio State and Michigan had huge national implications. Not so much this year, though, as the Buckeyes would appear to be in the CFP playoffs win or lose on Saturday, while Michigan… Read More »
Friday Heisman watch party … The really big college football games with national playoff implications this weekend, including traditional rivalries like Ohio State-Michigan and Texas-Texas A&M, don’t come up until Saturday. However, folks will get a chance to compare and contrast arguably the two top Heisman candidates in early games on Friday afternoon. One of those features Boise… Read More »
More random thoughts on the latest CFP playoff rankings … Again, for those that don’t follow college football all that closely and may have missed it, but the CFP playoff committee released their weekly rankings. And no surprise, the top 4 teams – Oregon, Ohio State, Texas and Penn State – were unchanged, while Notre Dame, Miami, Georgia,… Read More »
Jags, Giants, Raiders 1-2-3 in updated weekly selection order … At least for this week, the top three picks in the updated first-round selection order for the upcoming draft will belong to Jacksonville, the NY Giants and Las Vegas. Note, that the SOS figures are based on each team’s full 17-game schedule rather than just the games played… Read More »
College football Sunday morning update … It was supposed to be a quiet weekend in college football as teams warmed up for next week’s rivalry games and regular season finales, but instead it turned into upset Saturday as a number of prominent teams suffered upsets that have severely jeopardized their playoff aspirations. That list included Alabama which was… Read More »
ECU CB Revel declares for draft … East Carolina junior CB Shavon Revel announced earlier today that he will be entering the 2025 draft despite tearing an ACL earlier this season. The 6-2, 195-pound Revel, who had been considered to be a rising star in the upcoming draft class with first-round potential, tore an ACL in practice back… Read More »
Saturday college QB coverage … There are only 2 more weeks in the regular college football schedule which means there’ll only be 2 more chances to see the top QB prospects for the 2025 draft, at least in a regular season setting. Fortunately, though, almost all will be playing in nationally televised games tomorrow. In no particular order,… Read More »
