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While the 2023 Indianapolis Colts season can be deemed disappointing, it should also already be regarded as an overwhelming success. Anthony Richardson is out for the season after undergoing shoulder surgery, but proved he belonged before going down, looking like a franchise quarterback as a rookie. Richardson ranks 14th in EPA per play among quarterbacks. […]

Could Michigan head football coach Jim Harbaugh go back to the NFL now that he is in the crosshairs of the NCAA once again, this time due to a sign-stealing scandal? Harbaugh began the season suspended for Michigan’s first three games against the East Carolina Pirates, Bowling Green Falcons, and the UNLV Runnin’ Rebels due […]

The Pac-12 hosted the game of the college football weekend last week and arguably the best game of the college football season so far between the Oregon Ducks and the Washington Huskies. It was a dramatic shootout, the best type of big game. A similar big game will take place this weekend between the Utah […]

Duke and Florida State play one of the biggest games on the Week 8 college football schedule Saturday. Ahead of that huge ACC matchup, let’s make some bold Duke predictions. There are four games this weekend featuring two ranked teams. Of course, the headliner is the seventh-ranked Penn State Nittany Lions traveling to Columbus to […]

Last year’s matchup between Tennessee football and Alabama delivered arguably the best game of that particular college football season. The upstart, sixth-ranked Vols, led by Hendon Hooker and Jalin Hyatt, hosted Bryce Young and the third-ranked Crimson Tide, ready to make a resounding statement for all of college football to hear. Hooker completed 21-of-30 passes […]

The Cincinnati Bengals’ 2023 season got off to a rocky start as early as training camp. Franchise quarterback Joe Burrow injured his calf and has only recently begun to move and look like his usual self. look and move like his usual self. That’s a great sign for Burrow and the Bengals to get their […]

The Philadelphia Eagles are in it to win a Super Bowl this season and could use an upgrade at a few spots ahead of the 2023 NFL trade deadline. With that in mind, there are a few Eagles trade candidates who should be available in the coming weeks, including Jeremy Chinn and Justin Simmons. They […]

The New Orleans Saints are firmly in the mix for the NFC South title. At 3-3, they currently have as many wins as the division-leaders Tampa Bay Buccaneers and the Atlanta Falcons. The Saints could have been ahead of those teams at this point of the season if they were able to hang on to […]

The Las Vegas Raiders beginning the season with a 3-3 record has been a pleasant surprise. It is possible that they could be fools gold, however. The Raiders rank 23rd in offensive EPA per play and 25th in defensive EPA per play allowed. They have a -31 point differential; only the Washington Commanders have a […]

The Atlanta Falcons began this season with a bang. They won their first two games and looked like they could be the team to capitalize on a weak NFC South division. But they’ve gone 1-3 in their last four games since that 2-0 start, and a reason why is quarterback Desmond Ridder. Ridder’s play has […]

The Carolina Panthers have not begun the 2023 season the way they wanted. Frank Reich’s squad is the last winless team left in the NFL through six, and making matters worse, doesn’t own its first-round draft pick next April after the blockbuster trade with the Chicago Bears that landed Bryce Young in Carolina. Maybe more […]

The Jacksonville Jaguars look like perennial playoff contenders. They were ahead of schedule last season when they not only won the AFC South, but won a game and pushed the Kansas City Chiefs in the divisional round. They have just about everything a contender would want on offense. Trevor Lawrence fits the bill of a […]

Oregon vs Washington was the biggest game of the college football weekend, to date, and arguably the best game of the college football season in Seattle, Washington on Saturday. The Pacific Northwest neighbors Ducks and Huskies took part in an epic back-and-forth shootout that emerged as an instant classic. The Huskies were down late but […]

The 2023-24 college basketball season is rapidly approaching with only three weeks until tip off. To further signal how close college basketball season is, the AP Poll released their preseason top 25 rankings for the upcoming season. The usual suspects are near the top: Kansas is number one, Duke is number two. Kentucky is in […]

The road was daunting for Deion Sanders when he took the job to become the head coach at the University of Colorado. They were 1-11 a year ago. They totally revamped their team in the transfer portal. This was year one of what looked like a big-time rebuild. But after they beat TCU in Week […]

The game of the college football weekend and arguably the college football season took place in Seattle over the weekend. The duel between the Oregon Ducks and the Washington Huskies was expected to be a thrilling shootout and did it deliver on that expectation or what. Both teams scored at least 30 points. The over/under […]

Though the USC Trojans were undefeated entering their annual showdown with Notre Dame, their wins weren’t always the cleanest. They let an Arizona State team that is not on their level hang around for the entirety of that matchup back in Week 4. The next week on the road against Colorado, the Trojans allowed the […]

The Kansas City Chiefs did enough to take down the Denver Broncos on Thursday Night Football by a final score of 19-8, but it wasn’t super convincing. Patrick Mahomes completed 30 of 40 passes and totaled 306 passing yards, but only threw for one touchdown against the worst pass defense in the NFL. Nine of […]

The Mecole Hardman era in New York has not gone off to the best of starts for the New York Jets. The Jets signed Hardman to a one-year deal worth about $6 million for the 2023 season, but Hardman has more or less looked like a ghost in the Jets’ offense. He is playing time […]

The teardown with the Denver Broncos has already begun. After a disastrous season a year ago, the Broncos decided to drastically shake things up by trading a first-round pick to the New Orleans Saints so they could hire Sean Payton as their head coach. The pick they used to acquire Payton was the same pick […]

Alabama football was tested last week. Going on the road to College Station to take on the Texas A&M Aggies is a daunting task for anybody- even Alabama lost the last time they made that trip. But they avoided a similar fate last week. They hung on to escape with a 26-20 victory after trailing […]

The game of the college football weekend is taking place in the Pacific Northwest. College GameDay is traveling up to Seattle, Washington this week and for good reason. The eighth-ranked Oregon Ducks are traveling to Seattle to take on their soon-to-be Big Ten rival Washington football. The Huskies are ranked seventh in the country. Both […]

The AL Central was up for grabs. At the time of the trade deadline, no one had really distanced themselves from each other in that division. The Kansas City Royals and Chicago White Sox had already thrown in the white flag by then- and they had begun trading contributors for prospects. The Detroit Tigers were […]

The Milwaukee Brewers did not end their season the way they wanted to. They were the only team with home-field advantage to lose in the Wild Card round. They got swept in a best-of-three series by the Arizona Diamondbacks and were outscored by a score of 11-5 in those two games. What made the losses […]

The Miami Marlins have not been the most prestigious MLB franchise over their 31-year lifespan. Though they do have two World Series trophies, winning has not been able to be sustained in South Florida. The Marlins have made the postseason only four times in their existence. Two of those were the World Series they won […]

The Baltimore Orioles were one of MLB’s best stories this season. They made their first playoff appearance since the 2016 season when they lost in the wild card round. But they were also one of the best teams in MLB this year too. They won 101 games in 2023; only the Atlanta Braves won more. […]

The Baltimore Orioles were one of the best stories in all of baseball this season. They made their first playoff appearance since the 2016 season when they lost in the wild-card round. Baltimore showed signs of their potential when they won 83 games last season. That was a major step up from the previous four […]

Perhaps no team in the entire NBA had a louder, more active and more disruptive offseason than the Phoenix Suns. The Milwaukee Bucks have an argument, but they did most of their damage at the end of the offseason by trading for Damian Lillard. But the Suns have been throwing fireballs all year long. It […]

The New York Jets had high ambitions for Mecole Hardman when they signed him in free agency. They even traded Elijah Moore to the Cleveland Browns to help make room for Hardman in the slot. Granted, both the Jets and Elijah Moore seemed more than ready for a divorce, but because of the fracture in […]

The defending NBA Champion Denver Nuggets did not have a very loud offseason. Of course, a team doesn’t need to right after they just won the whole thing. They lost their sixth man Bruce Brown to the Indiana Pacers in free agency. Heady veteran Jeff Green left town to head back to Houston to guide […]

The last time Texas A&M football hosted the Alabama Crimson Tide in College Station, the Aggies pulled off an extraordinary upset, taking down Alabama by a final score of 41-38. That was the first and only time Jimbo Fisher got the best of his former coaching mentor Nick Saban. A&M came close to pulling off […]

The Los Angeles Lakers enjoyed one of the better offseasons in the entire NBA this summer. Anthony Davis, Austin Reaves, Rui Hachimura, D’Angelo Russell, and Jarred Vanderbilt all were either re-signed or signed long-term extensions with the team. They also signed Gabe Vincent with their midlevel exception, Taurean Prince with their room exception, and added […]

Part of what makes college football so unique is that it can cater to just about any type of audience. Of course, fans and alumni of a certain program are going to tune in to watch their team every Saturday. But those aren’t the only types of people who watch college football. There are those […]

James Harden’s stalemate with the Philadelphia 76ers has not yet reached a conclusion. Despite opting into his contract in search of a trade to the Los Angeles Clippers in July and Harden vowing three times that Sixers general manager Daryl Morey is a liar, Harden is still a Sixer. He didn’t report to the first […]

The Tampa Bay Buccaneers weren’t given much of a chance for the 2023 season. Tampa Bay entered the season with +10,000 odds to win the Super Bowl, per Pro Football Reference. There were only three teams with worse odds than the Buccaneers: the Arizona Cardinals, Houston Texans, and Indianapolis Colts. Well, roughly a quarter of […]

The Seattle Seahawks are riding high into their Week 5 bye week. After a disappointing Week 1 home loss to their division foe, the Los Angeles Rams, the Seahawks have since won three straight, including an impressive come-from-behind victory on the road against the Detroit Lions in Week 2. After that game, the Seahawks handled […]

NFL trades don’t happen every day. Apparently, Week 5 of the 2023 season did not get that memo. Earlier this week, the Los Angeles Chargers traded cornerback JC Jackson to the New England Patriots, swapping a seventh-round pick for a sixth-round pick in the process. The same trade was made between the Chicago Bears and […]

The No. 21 ranked Missouri football team will put their perfect 5-0 record on the line in Week 6 against the No. 23 LSU football team. A matchup of such large proportions deserves some bold Missouri football Week 6 predictions. The Tigers have already taken down a ranked team at home when they beat Kansas […]

There are four matchups between ranked teams during Week 6 of the college football slate. The annual Red River Rivalry between the third-ranked Texas Longhorns and the 12th-ranked Oklahoma Sooners will garner the majority of the attention. Notre Dame, fresh off their last-minute win over Duke a week after their last-second loss to Ohio State, […]