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At 4:30 PM on Saturday afternoon, when the Browns and Ravens kick off in their 2024 regular season finale in Baltimore, it will officially be Zappe Hour in 374 miles away in Cleveland, Ohio. According to Chris Easterling of the Akron Beacon Journal, third-year quarterback Bailey Zappe will become the fourth quarterback to notch a start […]

In just a matter of days after the 2024 NFL regular season comes to an official close, the league’s coaching carousel will be in full swing, and one of the biggest names who will likely be hopping on it will be Detroit Lions offensive coordinator Ben Johnson. Since taking over the position in 2022, the […]

In a society such as the one we live in, where sport — and particularly football — is engrained into fabric of our culture, it’s easy to forget about everything else until everything else puts an abrupt stop to sport. One of the most unforgettable moments of the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic is when the NCAA […]

The Cleveland Browns are 3-13 with one game remaining in the 2024 NFL season, and although this is a franchise that has stumbled to 1-win and 0-win seasons within the last decade, it’s not a stretch to say that there hasn’t been more turmoil and ill-will toward the team in that time than there is […]

In the days of auld lang syne, I would’ve began this week’s edition of Bracketology with some sort of cutesy, “Here are 25 Players who will impact the race for the 2025 National Championship” gimmick. However, in the spirit of the New Year, I’d rather save that idea — maybe for the opening weekend of […]

If there is a single day on the calendar that is synonymous with college football, it is the first day of the new year, where historically, many of the best teams in the country take the field with hopes of being able to hoist trophies filled with oranges or walk off the field with rose […]

On Sunday afternoon, Philadelphia Eagles running back Saquon Barkley rushed for 167 yards in a 41-7 victory over the Dallas Cowboys. On his final attempt of the day, a 23-yard scamper off left tackle early in the 4th quarter, Barkley became the 9th player in NFL history to reach the 2,000 mark. This run not only […]

In just three seasons, it appears as if head coach Jim Mora has successfully turned around a UConn football program that was an unmitigated disaster in the half-decade prior to his arrival. The Huskies won 10 games total in the five seasons leading up to the beginning of Mora’s tenure. Since taking over ahead of […]

The Cleveland Browns fell to 3-13 on Sunday afternoon following a 20-3 loss at the hands of the short-handed Miami Dolphins, but a loss such as this one is nothing new for fans in Northeast Ohio. Unfortunately, it’s also nothing new for reigning Defensive Player of the Year Myles Garrett. Since the Browns selected Garrett […]

Not that there was all that much doubt to begin with, but with every passing second of the New York Jets’ 40-14 beating at the hands of the Buffalo Bills, it became more and more clear that interim head coach Jeff Ulbrich wouldn’t be getting a long look as the team’s eventual full-time head coach. […]

When the Philadelphia Eagles signed Saquon Barkley to a three-year, $37 million deal this past March, there was no way that anyone within the organization could’ve expected the former All-Pro running back to have this big of an impact. Sure, you’d hope that Barkley would thrive in Philadelphia’s run heavy offense, but to expect that heading […]

The Philadelphia Eagles came into Sunday’s game against the Dallas Cowboys with an opportunity to clinch the NFC East, but they would need to do so without starting quarterback Jalen Hurts, who exited last week’s loss to the Washington Commanders with a concussion. This thrust Kenny Pickett into the starting role this week, giving the […]

Just days away from their College Football Playoff quarterfinal game in the Fiesta Bowl versus the Penn State Nittany Lions, the rallying cry for the Boise State Broncos is on full display. The coaches are voicing it and the players are wearing it across their chests. Four words, four syllables, one simple plea… Please Count […]

While there has been noise for years — stemming from repeated postseason failures under head coach Mike McCarthy’s watch — that the Dallas Cowboys were eyeing a new head coach, team owner Jerry Jones has given no indication that he’s planning on moving on from McCarthy at the end of the season, even going as far […]

It was about 35 years ago when the Detroit Pistons began employing The Jordan Rules, a strategy aimed at limiting Michael Jordan by punishing him every time he attacked the basket. To some extent, every great athlete forces opponents to alter game plans to limit their effectiveness. Walk Barry Bonds with runners on-base. Give up […]

To list the problems that the New York Jets organization is currently facing, you need a brand new notebook and a pen with plenty of ink, but perhaps there’s no bigger problem than the one that has been brewing for months between Garrett Wilson and Aaron Rodgers. In fact, things are so bad that NFL insider […]

The New York Giants are the league’s last-remaining two-win team, which means the G-Men are in the driver’s seat to end up with possession of the 1st overall pick in next April’s NFL Draft. Given their murky situation at quarterback, it’s likely — if not certain — that New York will use that pick on […]

Just days before the Washington State football program was set to take the field for the DirecTV Holiday Bowl against Kyle McCord and the high-octane Syracuse Orange, head coach Jake Dickert announced he’d be leaving the program in order to take over as head coach at Wake Forest. Fortunately for fans up in the Pacific […]

As if College Football fans needed any further reason to watch the second annual Pop-Tarts Bowl on Saturday afternoon, there was this little nugget: Miami Hurricanes quarterback Cam Ward entered the game in a dead-heat tie with former Houston Cougars quarterback Case Keenum on the NCAA’s list of career passing touchdowns. And it didn’t take long for […]

With a quarter remaining in their Week 17 game against the New England Patriots, Ladd McConkey has already recorded eight receptions for 94 yards and a pair of touchdowns. With a 37-7 about halfway through the 4th quarter, it’s likely that McConkey’s day is over, but even in an abbreviated effort on Saturday afternoon, McConkey […]

No matter what NFL fanbase you identify with, it’s safe to say that in a situation like the one Pro Football Hall of Famer Randy Moss is facing, we all belong to Team Moss. Earlier this month, the legendary receiver announced that he had been battling cancer and that he had undergone surgery to remove […]

The Las Vegas Raiders are 3-12 and find themselves in a position that they’ve been in far too often over the course of the previous two decades… in the midst of a disappointing losing season and contemplating whether a change at head coach is necessary. Since 2004, 12 different men have occupied the job as […]

When the Minnesota Vikings used the 10th pick i n the 2024 NFL Draft to select JJ McCarthy, the expectation was that the former Michigan Wolverine would be the starter in Minnesota soon enough. Even if it wasn’t immediately, McCarthy represented the future for the Vikings. However, a knee injury put McCarthy’s rookie season to […]

When Kyle McCord made the decision to transfer to Syracuse University last December, he was doing so as something of a cast-off in Columbus. Following a loss to the Michigan Wolverines in the regular season finale — sealed by a late game interception — it was clear that McCord had fallen out of favor at […]

The Indianapolis Colts have been without starting quarterback Anthony Richardson on numerous occasions already this year, and as the team prepares for their final two games of the 2024 season, they may once again be in that similar position. Richardson has missed the last three days of practice with back and foot injuries, leaving his status […]

The Ohio State Buckeyes came into Saturday’s College Football Playoff first round matchup with the Tennessee Volunteers with  more to prove than any other team playing over the weekend. After an upset loss at home to their bitter rival the Michigan Wolverines in their regular season finale, Ohio State missed out on an opportunity to play […]

College Football Bowl Season is a unique entity for many different reasons. There are some games that are steeped in pageantry and history, while others end with Mayonnaise baths and edible Pop-Tarts mascots stealing the spotlight. Then there are the players that aren’t as well covered throughout the season who finally get a chance to […]

Ever since Aaron Rodgers’ Achilles popped on his fourth snap as the New York Jets quarterback, it’s been clear that this rudderless franchise, which is undergoing the longest current postseason drought in all of professional sports, is already in need of a drastic rebuild… and potentially a seance to clear out all of the bad […]

The first-ever 12-team College Football Playoff kicked off this past Friday night in South Bend, with the Notre Dame Fighting Irish facing in-state foe, the Indiana Hoosiers. Though it certainly wasn’t the biggest game in the storied history of the Notre Dame football program, it was the biggest game in the young coaching career of 38-year-old Irish […]

After selecting JJ McCarthy with the 10th overall pick in the 2024 NFL Draft, had you told Minnesota Vikings fans that it would be Sam Darnold leading the team into the final weeks of the season, they would’ve likely assumed that something had gone terribly wrong. In reality, losing McCarthy to a torn meniscus over […]

Over the last five weeks, Chicago Bears wide receiver Keenan Allen has looked like peak Keenan Allen despite the fact that the Bears have been at far from peak form. In these five games — five losses, as part of an abysmal two-month-long losing streak — Allen is averaging 82.4 yards per game and has scored five […]

Heading into their Sunday Night Football matchup with the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, the Dallas Cowboys had already been mathematically eliminated from the postseason thanks to a thrilling comeback victory by the Washington Commanders earlier in the day. However, it became clear right out of the gate nobody in the Cowboys locker room had gotten the […]

Allow me to potentially be the first to wish you a very Merry Christmas and Happy New Year as I welcome you to the final edition of Bracketology at ClutchPoints in the year 2024! Before we get into the most updated Bracketology projections, I want to share some rapid-fire, bullet-point observations from a day in […]

As expected, the selection of the first ever 12-team College Football Playoff field was not without controversy. Even though the expansion from four to 12 teams was expected to minimize the number of programs and fans that had a gripe as the postseason began, it appears as if the opposite is true. This is thanks […]

The 2024 NFL season has been one that Cleveland Browns fans will be eager to forget about, as will Sunday’s game against the Cincinnati Bengals. Through two quarters, the Browns offense had been blanked in the first start of the season for quarterback Dorian Thompson-Robinson. However, there has been one noteworthy play in this game […]

Coming off of an SEC Championship Game appearance in which they only ran the ball for 31 yards in a 22-19 loss to the Georgia Bulldogs, the game plan for the Texas Longhorns in their opening game of the College Football Playoff against the Clemson Tigers was simple, and could be summed up in just […]

After just 14 subpar games, the Falcons made the decision to bench Kirk Cousins in favor of the 8th overall pick in the 2024 NFL Draft, Michael Penix Jr., a 2023 Heisman Trophy finalist and presumptive future face of the franchise in Atlanta. The move comes at an interesting point in the season, as the […]

San Antonio Spurs superstar center Victor Wembanyama isn’t a stranger to making NBA history. Sure, the 20-year-old French phenom is just 94 games into his NBA career, but he’s already cracked the NBA record book on numerous occasions. Take for example, on Saturday night, when in a 114-94 victory over the Portland Trail Blazers, Wembanyama […]

Back in April, the New England Patriots made Christian Barmore the highest-paid non-Tom Brady player in franchise history when they handed the then 24-year-old defensive tackle a four-year deal worth up to $92 million. Unfortunately, before Barmore could step on the field for the 2024 season, it looked like his season, and potentially his career, […]