NCAA Football

Every week throughout the season we’ll give you a college football viewing guide by highlighting the five best games of the coming weekend. We will pick those five games against the spread and highlight some other matchups that caught our eye from a betting perspective. Welcome to rivalry week, everybody! We’ve reached the final weekend

6:28 PM ET For the first time in the eight-year history of the College Football Playoff, a team from a Group of 5 conference has cracked the top four in the selection committee’s rankings, which would assure it a spot in one of the two semifinals games on New Year’s Eve. Cincinnati, one of just

Hank Bachmeier can still hear the horrific noises. The guttural, incoherent growls. Four years ago, before Bachmeier was Boise State’s starting QB, they would rumble out of his sister’s mouth. And they’d terrify 17-year-old Hank, because he knew what they foretold. His sister, Ella, would groan — uuuuuhhhhhh — then seize and shake, uncontrollably, sometimes

Who’s Playing Buffalo @ Ball State Current Records: Buffalo 4-7; Ball State 5-6 What to Know The Ball State Cardinals and the Buffalo Bulls are set to square off in a Mid-American matchup at 7 p.m. ET Nov. 23 at Scheumann Stadium. Both teams took a loss in their last game, so they’ll have plenty

8:00 AM ET Dan Mullen has been fired at Florida, and another big job is now open. Where did things go wrong for the Gators? And how can they return to their national-championship-contending ways? Our experts break it all down What was the biggest reason for Dan Mullen’s downfall? Alex Scarborough: Florida athletic director Scott

Get ready for an off-field showdown the likes of which college football hasn’t seen in generations. Dan Mullen’s firing at Florida on Sunday means there are three consensus Top 10 college football head coaching jobs open at the same time: Florida, LSU and USC. And they are open amid a candidate pool that could be

USATSI Troy announced Sunday that it is parting with third-year head coach Chip Lindsey, who has compiled a 15-19 mark since arriving for the 2019 season from his previous post as Auburn’s offensive coordinator. Lindsey faced the tough task of replacing Neal Brown, who notched three consecutive seasons of 10 wins or more and got

1:22 AM ET That the 2021 season has been unique is well-documented by this point. The upsets have been routine, the preseason top-25 looks like Swiss cheese and expectations and assumptions rarely survive the next Saturday. It’s been fun. What 2021 hasn’t been, at least until Week 12’s games kicked off, was informative. A quick

Ohio State has taken its play to another level. The fourth-ranked Buckeyes hosted No. 7 Michigan State on Saturday in one of the biggest games of the season. To call the outcome lopsided would be putting it lightly. Ohio State absolutely demolished the Spartans, 56-7, to put itself another step closer to a Big Ten

Through 3 Quarters The San Diego State Aztecs are just one quarter away from delivering their fans the win they’ve been expecting all week. a victory is still up for grabs for either team, but they are up 21-20 over the UNLV RebelsSo far, this is quite different from their previous head-to-head, which was decided

7:00 AM ET Every Tuesday as the College Football Playoff rankings are released, one virtually unprecedented decision has stood out: where Oregon has been placed. The Ducks sit at No. 3 in the current rankings, an honor bestowed upon them seemingly for a win over Ohio State, and one that presumably puts them in strong

CINCINNATI – The Twitter graphic featuring the best cornerback prospects in the 2021 NFL draft came to Ahmad “Sauce” Gardner’s phone on March 24. It provided a tale of the tape of the measurables of South Carolina’s Jaycee Horn and Alabama’s Patrick Surtain II, including their weights, 40-yard dash times and bench press reps. Gardner

Getty Images One of the wildest seasons of upsets in recent memory chugs on. Despite a pre-Thanksgiving week filled with cupcakes for the SEC, there’s value to be had down the board.  Each week, potential upsets are picked based on favorable matchups, context (i.e. location, rivalries, look-ahead games) or just good ol’ fashion gut feel.

9:12 PM ET The Big 12 on Wednesday issued a public reprimand of the Texas Tech radio announcers for their call of Saturday’s 41-38 win over Iowa State. Play-by-play host Brian Jensen and analyst John Harris were critical of the officials during the game, going so far as to list off individual names. As a

Graphic by Mike Meredith The third edition of the College Football Playoff Rankings was released Tuesday night with Georgia, Alabama, Oregon and Ohio State remaining as the top four teams for the second straight week. Not only that, the first seven teams in the top 25 were unchanged as all won games in a week

7:56 AM ET Justin Fuente, who had a 43-31 record in six seasons at Virginia Tech, is out as the Hokies’ football coach, athletic director Whit Babcock announced Tuesday. J.C. Price will serve as interim head coach while school starts a national search to fill the position. “We sincerely appreciate the contributions that Coach Fuente

We’ve crossed a significant threshold here in the 2021 version of the college football coaching carousel. In the prior years and decades, the November chatter in the sport centered on what jobs could open. Well, Virginia Tech unceremoniously disposed of Justin Fuente as head coach Tuesday morning and agreed to pay him $8.75 million to

Who’s Playing Arkansas State @ Louisiana-Monroe Current Records: Arkansas State 1-8; Louisiana-Monroe 4-5 What to Know This Saturday, the Louisiana-Monroe Warhawks are hoping to patch up the holes in a defense that has allowed an average of 36.33 points per matchup. The Warhawks and the Arkansas State Red Wolves will face off in a Sun