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Mid-week MACtion continues on Tuesday night as Miami (OH) visits Ball State. It is time to continue our college football odds series with a Miami (OH) -Ball State prediction and pick. Miami (OH) comes in at 4-4 on the year. They started the year 0-3, falling to Northwestern, Cincinnati, and Notre Dame. Since then, they […]

Florida football head coach Billy Napier might be ok amid his hot seat rumors, but they’re circulating back once again. For the program, they have their eyes on an SEC rival head coach, according to ESPN analyst Paul Finebaum.  “They want Lane Kiffin you can agree or disagree America, but that’s who they are fixated […]

It is the return of Mid-Week MACtion as Bowling Green faces Central Michigan. It is time to continue our college football odds series with a Bowling Green-Central Michigan prediction and pick. Bowling Green comes into the game sitting at 4-4 on the year. After starting 1-3 with close losses to Penn State, Texas A&M, and […]

Travis Hunter took rest on Saturday as Cam Ward flamed Duke for 400 yards and five touchdowns. But as the Miami quarterback’s Heisman race intensifies, ESPN analyst Paul Finebaum believes Hunter stays as the Heisman Trophy front-runner. Finebaum favors the Colorado Buffaloes two-way star over the star quarterback. The verbose personality even told SportsCenter he […]

Texas A&M football was holding its breath after suffering a scare on Saturday. Top rusher Le’Veon Moss sustained a painful knee injury in the loss to South Carolina. The Aggies, though, learned good news about the running back’s health Sunday. Head coach Mike Elko shared a promising update about Moss. Long story short, his scary […]

Everyone thought that this year’s Clemson Tigers football team had changed its stripes, and it was hard to argue otherwise given the statistics. Since their Week 1 blowout loss to Georgia, 34-3, in Atlanta, the Tigers had gone on a roll, winning six straight, all by wide margins. However, in Week 10, in a pivotal […]

Tuesday, Nov. 5, 2024, will be a historic day. All votes will be counted, calculated, and the final decisions revealed. We’re talking, of course, about the release of the 2024-25 College Football Playoff (CFP) rankings. What else could be happening that day? The CFP rankings have been a part of the sport since 2014, the […]

Iowa State football lost its first game of the season on Saturday, in a tough 23-22 defeat to Texas Tech. The Cyclones actually had leads at different points of the game, but couldn’t do enough to get the victory. With the loss, Iowa State is now behind BYU in the Big 12 title race. Iowa […]

In a dominant performance, the South Carolina football team defeated the tenth ranked Texas A&M Aggies 44-20 on Saturday. It was the Aggies’ first conference loss under new head coach Mike Elko. His counterpart with the Gamecocks, Shane Beamer, basked in the victory with fans of their program after they rushed the field. During the […]

Georgia football coach Kirby Smart is not happy with one of his players right now. Smart is admonishing his freshman player Nate Frazier following the team’s win over Florida Saturday. Following a big play that resulted in a touchdown, Frazier celebrated by doing a throat slash. He also used his hands to do a Gator […]

For the first time in 56 years, the Michigan football team will be a betting underdog against Indiana coming off their lopsided loss to Oregon. The two teams will meet in Week 11 in Bloomington as the No. 8-ranked Hoosiers look to continue their miraculous 9-0 season. Indiana is not just a small betting favorite, […]

Ole Miss football coach Lane Kiffin thinks his team is just a hair away from perfection. Kiffin says just a few plays separate his Rebels from being a top-3 ranked team. “Hey, stop making the mistakes so you can show the country you’re one of the best teams in the country, because you really are […]

Typically, when opponents walk into Williams-Brice Stadium to face the South Carolina Gamecocks, what they need to be concerned with is a Sandstorm. But on Saturday night, it wasn’t a sandstorm that overwhelmed the Texas A&M football team. It was an avalanche that came in the form of two big-bodied Gamecocks who bullied the 10th-ranked […]

The Florida football program has undergone a tumultuous 2024 season thus far. This year marks the third of head coach Billy Napier’s tenure at the helm, so Saturday’s matchup against the Georgia Bulldogs was number three of his tenure. Even though their 34-20 loss to their archrivals was the same type of result as the […]

Although it was much harder to come by than anyone in Athens expected it to be, the Georgia Bulldogs topped the Florida Gators for the fourth consecutive time on Saturday afternoon, overcoming an early deficit to secure a 34-20 win and keep their SEC title hopes alive. The game swung in Georgia’s favor after Florida […]

USC football’s nightmare season continued to spiral out of control on Saturday night as they lost another brutally close game on the road, this time against Washington 26-21. USC had multiple chances to win the game in the fourth quarter, but they were stopped on fourth down in the red zone twice in the final […]

Mid-major schools like UL Monroe rarely make headlines in college football but Week 10 was an exception. The Warhawks went viral on social media when a clip of offensive line coach Cameron Blankenship verbally and physically attacking sophomore lineman Drew Hutchinson surfaced. After the game, UL Monroe released a statement condemning Blankenship for his actions […]

Former Ohio State football coach Urban Meyer is continuing to show respect to his old team. Meyer says the Ohio State win Saturday over Penn State is one of the best program victories in recent memory. “This is one of the most impressive wins in the Ryan Day era,” Meyer said during the Fox post-game […]

With a 27-20 loss to UCLA in Week 10, Nebraska fell to 5-4 on the year while picking up their third straight loss. Their biggest concern in the game was freshman quarterback Dylan Raiola, who left in the fourth quarter with a back injury. Raiola attempted to return to the game after exiting but left […]

The Clemson football team lost 33-21 Saturday vs. Louisville, and at two different points late in the game, Tigers head coach Dabo Swinney decided to kick an extra point instead of attempting a 2-point play, which bewildered ESPN play-by-play commentator Bob Wischusen. After a 3-yard Phil Mafah rushing touchdown cut Clemson’s deficit from 19 to […]

Clemson football’s hopes of making a run to the College Football Playoff took a huge hit on Saturday night. With a chance to pick up a good win over a solid Louisville team, Dabo Swinney and Clemson were dominated for nearly 60 minutes in a 33-21 blowout loss that was uglier than the final score […]

Ohio State football coach Ryan Day is not underestimating how important his team’s win over Penn State was on Saturday. Day said the program was in a tough place after a couple of disappointing showings heading into that battle. “We were at a crossroads,” Day said, per The Athletic. “This was a big game. We […]

It certainly wasn’t the sexiest win of the Ryan Day era at Ohio State, but on Saturday afternoon the 4th-ranked Buckeyes were able to grind out a win at Beaver Stadium over a previously unbeaten Penn State Nittany Lions squad. This win marked the eighth straight Ohio State over their Big Ten rival, and given […]

Lincoln Riley and the USC football team are now 4-5 after last night’s loss to Washington, yet another one-score-or-less defeat in a season filled with them. After getting back into the win column and snapping a three-game losing streak last week vs. Rutgers, the Trojans fell back into a nasty habit of losing close games. […]

One of Ohio State football’s most vocal supporters is happy to see the team defeat Penn State. Los Angeles Lakers star LeBron James celebrated the Buckeyes’ win over the Nittany Lions with a post on Instagram. “Not so happy at all!” James said on social media, referencing Happy Valley, the home of Penn State football. […]

Reggie Wayne sounds like he wants to rejoin the Miami football team. No one should blame him, as his Hurricanes are still unbeaten and has Wayne psyched. But watching Xavier Restrepo rewrite school history persuaded one epic message from the Miami legend. Wayne’s Hurricanes rolled past Duke 53-31 to improve to 9-0. Restrepo shattered the […]

The Oregon football team continues racking up the accolades with Dillon Gabriel at the controls. The No. 1 Ducks delivered one more epic takedown, but this time against new conference foe Michigan on Saturday. While Oregon evened its series record to 3-3 versus the Wolverines, the Ducks’ 38-17 thrashing still resonates with Gabriel and company. […]

Oregon football head coach Dan Lanning delivered a fiery message after dismantling Michigan, 38-17. The kind that’ll likely reach Heisman Trophy voters. Lanning’s Ducks once again saw Dillon Gabriel lift the team through his arm and legs. The quarterback racked up 294 aerial yards and added 23 through the ground game. This sounds like a […]

Do we dare call Georgia football an enigma? They own arguably the most impressive performance of the season, a 30-15 road victory versus then-No. 1 Texas in October, displayed tremendous tenacity in a narrow loss to Alabama in Tuscaloosa at the end of September and buried Clemson in the season opener. However, the Kirby Smart-coached […]

Virginia Union University capped off its HBCU homecoming week with a 91-0 beatdown of fellow CIAA competitor Bluefield State University. The Panthers, led by sensational running back Jada Byers, are a formidable opponent that is proficient in moving the ball on the ground. But, their win over Bluefield State as well more than what anyone […]

Texas A&M football is having a tough start to their Saturday night, and it may get much worse following an injury to one of their star players. Running back Le’Veon Moss suffered a knee injury after getting tackled near the end of the first quarter in the Aggies’ road game versus South Carolina. He was […]

The Michigan football team lost 38-17 against Oregon on Saturday, but it was a little bit closer than the score indicated. The Wolverines had a great chance to make it a seven point game in the fourth quarter with plenty of time left, but they couldn’t get it done, and the Ducks scored a garbage […]

The Michigan football team had a big opportunity at home on Saturday as they were hosting #1 Oregon, but the Wolverines couldn’t get it done as they fell 38-17. The final score makes it seem like the game was a blowout, but Michigan did a good job of hanging tight in the second half and […]

Vanderbilt football is for real. Fans knew the Commodores were feisty after watching them earn a mammoth upset win over Alabama in October, but they still wanted confirmation that this squad was legitimate. Prevailing in what could have been a trap game on the road versus Auburn adds credibility to what head coach Clark Lea […]

The Penn State Nittany Lions appeared to have a great chance at continuing with their unbeaten season after an early pick-6 gave head coach James Franklin’s team a 10-0 lead over Ohio State in the first quarter. But instead of building off that early momentum, Penn State was stopped in its tracks and could only […]

The Clemson football program secured a major victory on the eve of the Tigers’ home contest against Louisville. The 11th-ranked Tigers and head coach Dabo Swinney swooped up four-star safety Jordan Young, confirmed by On3.com’s Hayes Fawcett. Young emerges as a local recruiting win for Swinney and Clemson, who are currently 6-1. The 6-foot, 180-pound […]

There were big problems for Ohio State in the first quarter against previously undefeated Penn State. The Nittany Lions jumped out to a 10-0 lead when Zion Tracy intercepted a Will Howard pass at the Buckeyes 31-yard line and raced untouched into the end zone. The Buckeyes were coming off a poor effort in a […]

Florida football quarterback DJ Lagway was carted off in the second quarter of the Gators’ game against their rival Georgia Bulldogs, per On3’s Nick Schultz. After the play, a designed run he took for three yards, Lagway reached for his left hamstring. The entire Florida football team came out to the field in a show […]

Oregon football is cruising in its Saturday matchup versus the Michigan Wolverines, but they might be leaving The Big House with some bad news. Standout wide receiver Tez Johnson suffered a shoulder injury following a catch-and-run early in the game. He headed to the locker room and returned in street clothes, with his arm in […]