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Purdue football has created the newest power conference head coaching opening. Following the Boilermakers’ disastrous 66-0 loss against rival Indiana, Ryan Walters is out as head coach. The Walters era started on Dec. 14, 2022 with Purdue naming him the new leader of football. The hire originally brought one of the nation’s top defensive coordinators […]

Temple football has found its next head coach. The Owls are set to hire Sam Houston coach K.C. Keeler, per On3. Sam Houston just completed a 9-3 regular season in Conference USA, and finished tied for second in the league. The Owls are searching for answers after a disappointing 2024 season. Temple football finished the […]

Before the Michigan football team picked up a big win of the football field against Ohio State, the Wolverines did lose a commitment from four-star quarterback Brady Hart. Hart flipped his commitment from the Wolverines over to Texas A&M, and he also reclassified. Hart was a member of the 2026 class when he committed to […]

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 […]

2024 has been a disappointing season on all levels for North Carolina football. The Tar Heels announced that they were firing head coach Mack Brown before last week’s rivalry game against NC State, even after Brown got them to bowl eligibility. Brown’s final game in Chapel Hill didn’t end well. After a long Omarion Hampton […]

It was a disappointing loss for the USC football team as they fell to the Notre Dame Fighting Irish Saturday evening, 49-35, in what was the regular season finale. As the topic of conversation will now be on the USC football team’s future, former Trojans quarterback and analyst Matt Leinart gave his opinion on the […]

Days after surviving an eight-overtime epic at home against rival Georgia Tech, Georgia football now sets its sights on the SEC Championship Game, which will now officially take place against Texas following the Longhorns’ win over Texas A&M on Saturday. It’s been a roller coaster of a season for the Bulldogs, as the team has […]

The Chicago Bears decided to move on from head coach Matt Eberflus after the loss to the Detroit Lions on Thanksgiving, and although many will connect some of the top coordinator names to the job opening, Notre Dame football head coach Marcus Freeman was mentioned as a candidate by Peter Schrager of FOX Sports on […]

Florida State football coach Mike Norvell is on a journey to rebuild his program. Norvell just went 2-10 and the school’s reportedly hiring Gus Malzahn as its new offensive coordinator. Malzahn just left UCF after a disappointing 4-8 campaign. The Florida State coach is addressing his newest hire. “I know we’ve identified our offensive coordinator […]

The Michigan football team picked up a massive win against Ohio State on Saturday, and now the Wolverines are celebrating a big recruiting win as four-star safety Jordan Young has flipped from Clemson. Michigan has been scorching hot on the recruiting trail, and there has been a lot of chatter about more commitments coming. Young’s […]

With Week 14 being labeled rivalry week, something crazy was bound to happen—and sure enough, it did. Ohio State fell to Michigan in perhaps one of the biggest upsets of the season, while Miami was eliminated from the ACC Championship race after a loss to Syracuse. That sets the stage for another shakeup in Tuesday’s […]

The Week 14 AP Top 25 rankings were released, and all eyes were on Ohio State football’s placement after their embarrassing 13-10 loss to the Michigan Wolverines. The Buckeyes went from No. 2 down to No. 7 in the AP Top 25, per Action Network’s Brett McMurphy. The upset marked OSU head coach Ryan Day’s […]

It’s great to be a Michigan Wolverine! Michigan Football continues to bask in the glory of their fourth consecutive victory over the bitter rival Ohio State Buckeyes, a 13-10 triumph on Saturday afternoon at Ohio Stadium in Columbus. For first-year Wolverines coach Sherrone Moore, who replaced Jim Harbaugh following the National Championship, it was his […]

Matthew McConaughey is one proud Texas football fan. The actor and University of Texas alum reacted to the football team securing a spot in the SEC Championship. “Rivalry rekindled in the Aggies den. @TexasLonghorns show out in the showdown and get the win @SEC championship here we come year one #hookem,” McConaughey wrote on X […]

Ohio State football coach Ryan Day is not happy with how his team performed against Michigan Saturday. The Buckeyes blew their chance at defeating their most bitter rival, and lost 13-10 to the struggling Wolverines. The Ohio State loss also puts their College Football Playoff hopes in serious jeopardy. Ohio State football seemed destined for […]

The Heisman Trophy proves who the best player in college football is, and it is one of the most prestigious awards in sports, with some of the greatest football players winning the award. With around 20,000 scholarships for Division 1 football players, every Heisman-winning season is incredibly impressive. Some Heisman winners certainly had better seasons […]

Auburn football were unable to make true on its winning promise in the Iron Bowl. In the 28-14 loss to Alabama, the Tigers couldn’t take advantage of their scoring opportunities, and head coach Hugh Freeze noted that it was one of the main reasons that they were unable to keep the pace with the Crimson […]

With all but a handful of college football games from the 2024 season completed, most conference championship games are locked in. A sprinkle of Week 14 surprising results played a big part in them, including Syracuse upsetting No. 6 Miami. After Syracuse’s big win, head coach Fran Brown and quarterback Kyle McCord were well aware […]

As the Notre Dame football team made a statement, it was at the hands of the USC football team as they fell 49-35 on Saturday in their regular-season finale. While the future of the USC football team will be heavily talked about, head coach Lincoln Riley spoke about what went wrong, including on the defensive […]

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 […]

Twenty-year NFL veteran Drew Brees may have gone to Purdue, but he always wanted to go to Texas A&M. At least that is what he told Johnny Manziel ahead of the 2024 Texas vs. Texas A&M rivalry game. Before the annual rivalry game kicked off, the two former quarterbacks were seen on camera embracing on […]

The No. 6 Miami football team lost in a stunner to the unranked Syracuse Orange Saturday evening, 42-38, which knocked them out of contention for the ACC Championship. As Miami football quarterback Cam Ward hopes for a college football playoff bid, head coach Mario Cristobal spoke about the disappointing defeat and reflected on what went […]

On Sept. 16, during the 2023 NCAA football season, the entire nation stayed up late to watch the Rocky Mountain Showdown, and the game between Colorado and Colorado State did not disappoint. Normally, a rivalry that matters most in just the state of Colorado, the presence of head coach Deion Sanders and the emergence of […]

After an embarrassing 66-0 loss to rival Indiana on Saturday, Purdue football has decided to make a coaching change. Head coach Ryan Walters has been fired after two seasons with the team, according to Pete Thamel of ESPN. Walters went 4-8 in his first season in West Lafayette in 2023 and was looking to build […]

Alabama football coach Kalen DeBoer is revealing his thoughts on a scuffle that ensued during the Iron Bowl on Saturday. The Alabama-Auburn game got heated when Crimson Tide defensive backs got chippy with an Auburn wide receiver. The defensive backs got called for unsportsmanlike conduct, after Auburn football wideout KeAndre Lambert-Smith blocked one of the […]

Things didn’t start off as planned for Tennessee football on Saturday. The Volunteers’ arch rival Vanderbilt came out of the gates on fire with a chance to ruin Tennessee’s season and took a 14-0 lead in the opening five minutes of the game with a kickoff return for a touchdown, a fumble recovery and another […]

Texas football tight end Gunnar Helm is taking a shot at the Texas A&M program, following the Longhorns victory over the Aggies Saturday. Helm is questioning the passion and intensity of the Texas A&M fanbase. “That was y’all’s LOUD?,” Helm posted to X, formerly Twitter. Texas football is headed to the SEC championship game, following […]

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, […]

This was supposed to be the day that Ohio State football got back on track. After three consecutive losses in The Game against arch rival Michigan, everything was set up for the Buckeyes to restore order in the rivalry and get a convincing win over the Wolverines. After all, the game was in Columbus and […]

LSU football got a much-needed win over Oklahoma on Saturday. Tigers coach Brian Kelly is revealing the two players who were instrumental in the win. Kelly is giving the game ball following the victory to Aaron Anderson and Chris Hilton, per his X account. Aaron Anderson and Chris Hilton both gave us the spark we […]

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 […]

The Purdue football team has finally reached the conclusion of a nightmare season that will stand in rare company as one of the worst in the program’s history. After winning its season opener against Indiana State, Purdue lost 11 consecutive games to end the season. Most of those losses weren’t even competitive. Notre Dame came […]

The Ohio State football game against Michigan will be remembered for its violent altercation after the game, when football players from both schools started a brawl on the field. The altercation was stopped by law enforcement, who had to use pepper spray to restrain players in the fight. Ohio State university police say an officer […]

In a week of personnel changes, Florida State football has concluded its disappointing 2-10 season with a coaching switch, and the Seminoles are keeping it in-state. Central Florida’s Gus Malzahn resigned from his role to accept the offensive coordinator job at Florida State, per ESPN’s Pete Thamel, via College Sports Wire on X, formerly Twitter. […]

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. […]

After the No. 3 Texas Longhorns secured a hard-fought 17-7 victory over No. 20 Texas A&M on Saturday night, head coach Steve Sarkisian took immediate action to ensure the celebration did not spiral into disrespect. With emotions running high at Kyle Field, Sarkisian stopped his players from celebrating on the Aggies’ midfield logo, emphasizing the […]

The North Carolina Tar Heels’ and NC State Wolfpack’s rivalry reached a boiling point in Saturday’s rivalry football game. Emotions spilled over into a chaotic postgame altercation following the Wolfpack’s narrow 35-30 victory at Kenan Stadium. What started as a hard-fought game to secure NC State’s bowl eligibility ended with players from both sides clashing […]

Virginia Union is the lone HBCU in the NCAA Division II playoffs after a dominant win over Lenoir-Rhyne 44-12 on Saturday. The win continues the Panthers’ historic season as they make it to the quarterfinals round for the first time in school history. The Panthers set the tone early, taking control from the opening kickoff […]

Mack Brown, the winningest coach in North Carolina football program history, will not be returning next season, and following the Tar Heels’ 35-30 loss to rival NC State, Brown spoke about his departure. After 16 seasons across two different stints, Brown, 73, coached his final game at North Carolina and likely in college football altogether […]