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In perhaps the upset of Week 16, the New England Patriots beat the Denver Broncos 26-23. It all but ends any playoff aspirations the Denver faithful thought this year’s Broncos had after winning five straight starting at the last week of October all the way through the end of November. The Broncos (7-8) seemingly had […]

Tuesday’s Guaranteed Rate Bowl game between Kansas and UNLV will be a matchup between overachievers. The Jayhawks (8-4) under third-year head coach Lance Leipold have had a massive turnaround in 2023, winning eight games for the first time since 2008 and more than three since 2010. The 2008 season was also the last time that […]

It’s not the College Football Playoffs. It’s not even a New Year’s Six bowl game. It’s the Holiday Bowl that USC football will be competing in this year. Needless to say, this is not where Trojans fans thought they would be by season’s end. A preseason No. 6 team, USC (7-5) was supposed to be […]

After opening your presents Christmas morning, start the rest of your day with the opener in a three-game set of NFL games when the Kansas City Chiefs (9-5) play host to the Las Vegas Raiders (6-8) in a Week 16 matchup. After losing four out of their last seven and two out of their last […]

Before they can settle into their festive pajamas, the Philadelphia Eagles (10-4) will have to host the New York Giants (5-9) in a Week 16 Monday Christmas mid-day game. NFC East division rival or not, facing the Giants may not have come at a better time for the Eagles, who are on a three-game losing […]

Jolly Old Saint Nick is gifting us all with what should be a superior Week 16 Monday Night Football game between the San Francisco 49ers (11-3) and Baltimore Ravens (11-3). With as much as the NFL schedule has been downgraded this season due to quarterback injuries, damaging the value of matchups, there’s not a better […]

The New Orleans Saints (7-7) will host the Los Angeles Rams (7-7) in Week 16 on Thursday Night Football, with NFL playoff implications on the line. The Saints are currently sitting in the 9th seed, two spots outside of the final 7th seed Wild Card position. The two ahead of them, the Seattle Seahawks and […]

The Los Angeles Rams (7-7) and New Orleans Saints (7-7) will face off in a Week 16 matchup on Thursday Night Football, meaning that they will be able to enjoy a nice Christmas break while others are at play. But this game will have some high stakes with the NFL playoff race heating up, and […]

The Denver Broncos (7-7) will look to nestle another win under their tree with a victory over the New England Patriots (3-11) on Sunday Night Football in Week 16 on Christmas Eve night. After going on a five-game winning streak, the Broncos have lost two out of their last three and were throttled by the […]

The Buffalo Bills (8-6) will look to stay hot as they face the Los Angeles Chargers (5-9) on Saturday night in a Week 16 showdown. There really couldn’t be two teams that are heading in more opposite directions right now than the Bills and Chargers. The Bills are currently on a two-game winning streak over […]

The Detroit Lions (10-4) will be hoping to open one of their Christmas presents a day early when they face NFC North rival the Minnesota Vikings (7-7) in Week 16 on Christmas Eve. That present will be one that has been awaited much longer than the year-long wait for the annual holiday. It’s three decades […]

With massive playoff implications in the AFC Wild Card on the line, the Cleveland Browns (9-5) will go on the road to face the Houston Texans (8-6) in Week 16. The Browns are coming off a thrilling comeback win last Sunday led by 38-year-old Joe Flacco, who has somehow turned back the clock. Flacco seems […]

Twill be the eve before Christmas when the Atlanta Falcons (6-8) are set to face the Indianapolis Colts (8-6) in Week 15, and oh, what a scene it would be! The Falcons, coming off one of their worst and most embarrassing stretches of the entire season in the last two weeks, blowing late leads and […]

It was always expected that Grayson McCall would enter the transfer portal and find a new team before he ended his collegiate career. It’s just that it was supposed to be last season when that happened. He re-entered this season and is now transferring to NC State. Early rumblings last year started when McCall similarly […]

Sometimes things just work out. That is what has happened with Baker Mayfield and the Tampa Bay Buccaneers in 2023, as everything has come together for both parties, who are currently eyeing a playoff berth. Baker Mayfield’s career has been at its best with Buccaneers this season Coming from the Cleveland Browns, the team he […]

NFL Week 15 has now come to a close, and with it came a loss for the Philadelphia Eagles on Monday Night Football to the Seattle Seahawks that caused a change in the NFC playoff picture. With 1:52 left in regulation, Drew Lock drove the Seahawks down the field in 10 plays to find Jaxon […]

The NFL has witnessed several starting quarterbacks seeing their seasons come to an end this year due to season-ending injuries, forcing teams to rely on their backups. The Cincinnati Bengals are among those teams, having lost Joe Burrow to a torn ligament in his throwing wrist back in Week 11. Since then, the Bengals have […]

Don’t lie, whether you’re a Cleveland Browns fan or not, it’s shocking to see that this year’s team is in playoff contention. Who am I kidding? It’s shocking to ever see the Browns in playoff contention any year. Though it was just back in 2020 when they last appeared in the postseason, going 11-5 and […]

When former Oregon State head coach Jonathan Smith left for the Michigan State football program after the Beavers’ final regular-season game, most were wondering just who he might bring with him. Quarterback Aidan Chiles wasn’t too far behind him after he entered the transfer portal. Chiles quickly became a highly sought-after quarterback in the portal, […]

Though the Pac-12 is all but laid to rest now, there will be remnants of the West Coast conference for years to come. In this case, in particular, we take a look at some of the active NFL QBs from the conference and where they rank. Note that not all these are starters but have […]

As the 2023 season has progressed for Arthur Smith and the Atlanta Falcons, the team has regressed. If you need a more prominent example of that, then look no further than their Week 15 loss to the Carolina Panthers. In a 9-7 loss, it was perhaps the ugliest game of the year for the Falcons, […]

After winning six out of their last seven games, the Denver Broncos have now lost two out of their last three after Saturday’s Week 15 blowout loss to the Detroit Lions. In fact, both teams had lost two out of their last three, meaning something had to give. Most believed that Sean Payton in Year […]

The Atlanta Falcons are just bad. There’s no other way to say it after their Week 15 loss to the Carolina Panthers. Going back to last week against the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, the Falcons were on a two-game winning streak entering the game, their first since the first two weeks of the season. They had […]

Stop if you’ve heard this one before: the San Francisco Giants missed out on a highly sought-after free agent in the MLB offseason. This time, it was Shohei Ohtani, and although missing out on the two-way superstar wasn’t ideal, it also wasn’t all that surprising given that the Dodgers were the long-rumored favorite to land […]

One of the more obvious players in the transfer portal during this cycle was Miami football’s Tyler Van Dyke. A former four-star recruit out of Connecticut, many thought that Van Dyke would be the next great Hurricanes quarterback that they had so desperately been missing for decades. There were times where that seemed the case, […]

The Denver Broncos will likely be facing a much-angered Detroit Lions team in Week 15 after their upset loss to the Chicago Bears last weekend. The Lions (9-4) had a chance to push themselves along as the top seed in the NFC with a win over their division rivals but failed to do so, losing […]

One word that aptly captures the essence of Shohei Ohtani is “unprecedented.” However, even this term may not fully encapsulate the uniqueness of the two-way player who may have changed baseball free agency as we know it. Ohtani occupies a distinct category, surpassing not only his skills on the baseball diamond but also redefining the […]

The face of the transfer portal so far has been the now-former Oklahoma quarterback Dillon Gabriel, who committed to Dan Lanning and the Oregon football program. Gabriel was ranked in the top 40 of all players in the portal and top 10 in quarterbacks, according to 247 Sports. The experience that he’s bringing with him, […]

As the 2023 college football season quickly comes to a close, with only the bowl season remaining, there were a few teams, as always, that surprised all of us. These were the severely under-the-radar teams that no one really expected to do much given their circumstances, whether that was due to new coaching staffs, lack […]

The Atlanta Falcons hope to find themselves back on the winning side of things in Week 15 when they take on the Carolina Panthers in an NFC South division matchup. It will be the second division game in as many weeks, with the Falcons (6-7) this time taking to the road. Unlike last week when […]

When Shedeur Sanders arrived in Boulder with his dad Deion, it was his last name that carried the weight of his fame. But soon, people were quick to find out that Shedeur could carry the Sanders name all on his own. Coming from Jackson State, Sanders lit up the ranks of the FCS schools that […]

Since opening for business on Dec. 4—and really, days before—the college football transfer portal has been running hot, with notable players like former UCF and Oklahoma quarterback Dillon Gabriel announcing his transfer to Oregon. The transfer portal has become one of the latest controversial trends in college sports. But no one can deny that it […]

With exactly four weeks left in the regular season, concluding NFL Week 14, the AFC playoff picture may have become even murkier with some teams suffering key losses. The Kansas City Chiefs, Jacksonville Jaguars, and Miami Dolphins all had opportunities to make statement wins, propelling themselves forward in the conference race, yet all suffered losses […]

Leading up to the 2023 NFL Draft, Will Levis was one of the quarterbacks projected to find himself with his future team on Day 1 in the first round. However, Levis sat through the entire event with cameras constantly panning to him whenever a team needing a quarterback came up to select. He watched 32 […]

After deciding to come back for one more season, Bo Nix has finally exhausted his college eligibility and will be entering the 2024 NFL Draft. But where will be the best fit for the soon-to-be former Oregon football quarterback? Oregon football revived Bo Nix’s career First of all, what Nix was able to accomplish since […]

As we approach the most celebratory time of the year, a multitude of games unfolds, featuring matchups between teams that might seldom cross paths in the regular season. All of these games will be part of the often amusingly named, advertisement-driven extravaganza that is college football bowl season. Then there are others, like the Capital […]

When Caleb Williams joined the Heisman club last season, there was already talk that he would be the No. 1 pick in the 2024 NFL Draft, with most in the league already wishing he could have come out in 2023. But that was last season, and the USC football quarterback didn’t become only the second […]

Out of all the problems that Miami football has faced over the last two decades—and there have been many—one of the most glaring has been the lack of quarterback production. Not since the days of Ken Dorsey, the last Hurricanes quarterback to find himself on a Heisman ballot, has there been reliable quarterback play in […]

With the 89th Heisman Trophy winner awarded this past Saturday, it’s never too early to start thinking about who will be candidates for the 2024 ceremony, like recent Oregon transfer Dillon Gabriel. This year’s winner, LSU’s Jayden Daniels, along with the two other quarterbacks that joined him in New York, were all products of the […]