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Look around the National Football League and you won’t struggle to find some of the most gifted wide receivers in league history. Multiple teams boast duos of players — Puka Nacua and Cooper Kupp in Los Angeles, Justin Jefferson and Jordan Addison in Minnesota, Ja’Marr Chase and Tee Higgins in Cincinnati, etc. — who are […]

Following a hard-fought defeat at the hands of the Duke Blue Devils over the weekend, the Louisville Cardinals were looking for an emphatic bounce-back at the expense of the UTEP Miners. However, first-year head coach Pat Kelsey’s squad was in for a much tougher fight than many would’ve expected, as they narrowly held off their […]

Just one day after becoming the first player to be named the Paul Hornung Award winner in back-to-back seasons, Heisman Trophy finalist Travis Hunter took the next step toward making his way to the National Football League. The Colorado two-way superstar has inked an endorsement deal with Adidas, becoming the first player in the 2025 […]

Hello friends, and welcome to a mid-December edition of Bracketology where we’ll kick things off with an ode to the SEC, where it just means more, and where the next NCAA Tournament champion may reside. It’s safe to say that the Southeastern Conference is the premier conference in college basketball this season. Consider: The SEC went […]

About midway through the month of October, the Detroit Lions provided an update on star edge rusher Aidan Hutchinson that could only be considered optimistic, stating that if the Lions managed to make their first Super Bowl appearance in franchise history, there was a chance that Hutchinson would be able to return to the field […]

It’s been five years since the Kentucky Wildcats reached the second weekend of the NCAA Tournament, and while for many programs that may not seem like too long of a drought, in Lexington, this is an eternity. In fact, since the Tournament expanded to 64 teams in 1985, this is the longest stretch Kentucky has […]

Despite having a lead for over 58 minutes of action on Saturday night, the Clemson Tigers’ hopes for an ACC Championship came down to the right leg of freshman kicker Nolan Hauser. Hauser drilled a 56-yarder as time expired, and Clemson, whose College Football Playoff hopes looked bleak at best just eight days ago, was […]

Perhaps it shouldn’t come as a huge surprise that this is where we’re at with the Pittsburgh Steelers. After all, since Mike Tomlin took over as head coach of the franchise in 2007, the Steelers have yet to have a losing season. Tomlin has recently made postseason runs with the likes of Duck Hodges, Mason Rudolph and […]

With the UConn Huskies looking surprisingly mortal and the Marquette Golden Eagles by no means unbeatable, it was shaping up to be a compelling three team race for the Big East Championship this year with the two aforementioned programs and Greg McDermott’s Creighton Bluejays. Not only did the Bluejays bring back the three-time Big East […]

The most costly mistake that Chicago Bears defensive back Tyrique Stevenson made all season long remains taunting the Washington Commanders crowd right before Jayden Daniels launched what would turn out to be the Hail Mary that effectively ended the Bears season, but to his bank account, a sideline interaction with Detroit Lions wide receiver Jameson Williams turned […]

The Michigan basketball program is locked in a tight one with Iowa this afternoon, taking a three-point lead into the halftime locker room in their second Big Ten game of the year. But even if the Wolverines end up dropping this game to the 7-1 Hawkeyes, fans in Ann Arbor can take comfort in knowing […]

After enduring their first season with three or fewer wins since 2000, for the last week, it’s looked as if the Oklahoma State Cowboys and long-time head coach Mike Gundy were heading toward a surprising split. Although Gundy has been a polarizing figure since he took over in Stillwater, his track record speaks for itself. […]

Look at the last two decades of college football and you’ll find that, for the most part, it’s a sport that has been dominated by the Southeastern Conference. Consider, since 2005, the SEC has produced more Heisman Trophy winners (8), more 1st overall picks in the NFL Draft (8) and more National Champions (13) than […]

Let’s just start here… even though Bill Belichick has interviewed for the head coaching job at the University of North Carolina and has, according to multiple sources, real interest in accepting the position as long as his son Stephen is set up to be his successor, it still feels incredibly unlikely that the most accomplished coach in […]

After the Boise State Broncos won their fifth Mountain West Championship on Friday night, defeating the UNLV Rebels by the final score of 21-7, head coach Spencer Danielson made a last minute plea to Heisman Trophy voters on behalf of his All-American running back Ashton Jeanty. “In regards to the Heisman, I ask all voters […]

As if Oklahoma’s opening season in the SEC hadn’t been rough enough, now at the conclusion of a disappointing 6-6 campaign, the Sooners are dealing with their share of transfer portal woes. On Wednesday, starting quarterback Jackson Arnold announced his intention to transfer out of Norman, with the Georgia Bulldogs emerging as the favorites to […]

Calls for the dismissal of Ohio State head coach Ryan Day are nothing new in the Buckeye State. It seems as if ever since Day took over for Urban Meyer before the 2019 season, the 45-year-old coach has been sitting on something resembling a hot seat, despite the fact that Day has coached the Buckeyes […]

Mack Brown has two stints and 193 games under his belt as the head coach of the North Carolina football program, but after a disappointing 6-6 campaign during the 2024 season, the Tar Heels decided to move on from the 73-year-old coach. While Carolina is still bowl eligible — and will be coached by assistant […]

Less than ten months after agreeing to a deal to become the offensive coordinator at UCLA, Eric Bieniemy is now on his way out, according to Ross Dellenger of Yahoo Sports. According to ESPN’s Pete Thamel, UCLA offensive line coach Juan Castillo, who arrived in Los Angeles with Bieniemy, is also not expected to return. […]

Only five weeks remain in the 2024 NFL season, and as the season unfolds, the Rookie of the Year race is only getting more muddled. At the outset, the perception was that the NFL Rookie of the Year race would ultimately boil down to Chicago Bears quarterback Caleb Williams and Washington Commanders quarterback Jayden Daniels. Williams […]

After a disastrous Maui Invitational in which they lost not one, not two, but three games to previously unranked opponents, the UConn Huskies returned to the mainland and course-corrected with a 54-point win over Maryland Eastern Shore. But UConn’s first true test after a stunning collection of performances in Maui would come on Wednesday night […]

The Duke Blue Devils had already dropped a pair of games to ranked opponents this year, one to Kentucky and one to Kansas, but on Wednesday night, they had the opportunity to secure what could be viewed as arguably the best win of the season thus far… a victory over the 2nd-ranked, Maui Invitational winning […]

Coming into the final weekend of the college football regular season, it looked like a foregone conclusion that the Ohio State Buckeyes would be heading to Indianapolis to play the Oregon Ducks for the Big Ten Championship on Saturday December 7th. All Ryan Day’s Buckeyes had to do was hold off a 6-5 Michigan Wolverines […]

It doesn’t take an expert to psychoanalyze what has plagued the Chicago Bears over the last six games. All you really need is to have spent a good chunk of your life having closely followed professional sports, and you can start to get the sense of when a team has completely lost belief in their […]

Welcome to another edition of Bracketology, and welcome to what I’m calling, The UConn Conundrum. As you’re surely aware by now, the two-time defending champion UConn Huskies had a disastrous stay in Hawaii over Feast Week, and that surprising 0-3 run in the Maui Invitational has raised a massive early season question… what do we do with […]

After a lights out opening month of the season, the Washington Commanders offense has regressed to the mean over the course of the last month and a half, struggling at times while Jayden Daniels, an early-season MVP consideration, is now in a showdown with Bo Nix just to hang onto Rookie of the Year. But […]

There may be a certain degree of kinship between Tampa Bay Buccaneers quarterback Baker Mayfield and second-year Carolina Panthers QB Bryce Young. After all, Mayfield was the 1st overall pick in the 2018 NFL Draft, but fell out of favor with the franchise that selected him, the Cleveland Browns, and didn’t last beyond his rookie […]

Over the last week and a half, Buffalo Bills quarterback Josh Allen made two crucial decisions that define a man’s life. First, he decided to get down on one knee and pop the question to his girlfriend, actress Hailee Steinfeld, and predictably, she said yes. Congrats to the happy couple. Second, and much more importantly […]

Baker Mayfield’s path to the Tampa Bay Buccaneers was an unconventional one, but against all odds, the former 1st overall pick in the NFL Draft has found himself a home along Florida’s gulf coast. Mayfield signed a one-year prove-it deal with the Bucs in March 2023, and was only expected to be the stopgap quarterback […]

The headline here is accurate. Following an embarrassing 37-point loss to Texas Tech in the 2024 regular season finale, the West Virginia Mountaineers have decided to fire head coach Neal Brown, according to Matt Zenitz of 247Sports. However, Brown’s dismissal was on the table long before the Mountaineers suffered what turned out to be the third-worst loss […]

It hasn’t even been two years since the Carolina Panthers made an aggressive move to trade up in the 2023 NFL Draft in order to select Alabama quarterback Bryce Young with the 1st overall pick, and the franchise has already been through the ringer with the young QB. Young had a disastrous rookie season, was […]

In reality, Notre Dame didn’t need to make a statement to the College Football Playoff selection committee on Saturday afternoon. Whether they defeated the USC Trojans by 1 point, 11 points or 111 points, it was overwhelmingly likely that as long as the Fighting Irish finished the season 11-1, they’d be locked into the 5-seed and […]

The final weekend of the college football regular season is known as rivalry week, and in 2024, it certainly lived up to that billing. Not only were there numerous instant classics played over the holiday weekend — like Georgia Tech and Georgia’s 8-overtime thriller, a nail-biter at Clemson between the Tigers and Gamecocks, and yes, […]

Whether it’s the Pac-12 or the Big Ten, it doesn’t seem to make a difference to the Oregon Ducks. The last three seasons under fiery head coach Dan Lanning have served as a notice to the rest of the college football world that while the perception may be that the best programs in the country […]

When the Texas Longhorns and Oklahoma Sooners announced their decision to depart the Big 12 for the SEC, there was no shortage of skepticism from folks in SEC country that the Longhorns and Sooners would be out of their depth as they stepped into what has traditionally been the most dominant conference in college football. […]

In a decision that came a full year later than it should’ve, the Chicago Bears finally decided to move on from head coach Matt Eberflus on Friday afternoon, putting an end to a miserable tenure marked by late game ineptitude and the growth of a beard that Jedi mind-tricked Bears fans into thinking Flus may actually be a […]

Unless you live in Big Ten country or are perennially interested in who possesses Paul Bunyan’s Axe, then Friday’s game between the Wisconsin Badgers and the Minnesota Golden Gophers likely didn’t pop up on your radar. But the result, a 24-7 Gophers victory, is noteworthy for all college football fans because it snaps one of […]

The Colorado Buffaloes are one of four teams still in the hunt for a berth into the Big 12 Championship Game, and while Coach Prime’s squad needs a win AND some help to punch their ticket to Arlington, Texas, the many NFL scouts and executives in attendance for Colorado’s regular season finale against Oklahoma State […]

For most folks who get the opportunity to visit Hawaii, the experience is often one that has them raving about paradise when they return to the mainland. But Dan Hurley and the UConn Huskies may have a different perception, because there was no shortage of trouble in paradise throughout the extent of their stay in […]