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Before the start of any college football season, there is a lot of off-season debate. Which players are the best, which coaches are the best, which teams are the best, etc. There are usually many different opinions on all of those things, but there seems to be one thing almost everybody agrees on heading into […]

Count Iowa State football running back Jirehl Brock as another casualty of the ongoing controversial gambling investigation. Brock officially left the program on Monday. The Quincy, IL native allegedly placed 1,327 illegal bets on FanDuel for one year. Brock began placing the bets, which added up to $12,000, in February 2022, per APNews.com. Jirehl Brock […]

A massive season for Nebraska football is almost here as the Cornhuskers kick off the Matt Rhule era on August 31st on the road against Minnesota football. Times have been tough in Lincoln for the past several years, but hope is evident as the new season is almost here. Yes, the Cornhuskers have been struggling, […]

Texas football is favored to win all of its games except for Week 2 on the road at Alabama, according to ESPN’s football power index (FPI). Alabama is easily the toughest matchup on the Longhorns’ schedule, as the Big 12 has no clearly elite teams. ESPN describes FPI as follows: “The Football Power Index (FPI) […]

The college football season is just a few days away and with that, the chase for the College Football Playoff and the national championship will soon be on. There is obviously a lot of debate going into every season in regards to which teams are the best and who has a chance win it all […]

Sam Hartman will have a new home in college football this season after transferring from Wake Forest football to Notre Dame football this off-season. Hartman is expected to be one of the best quarterbacks in college football this season and because of that, the Fighting Irish have a solid preseason ranking next to their name […]

This off-season has been filled with mostly very positive news for the Michigan football program, but there has been one negative aspect: the NCAA investigation surrounding Jim Harbaugh. The NCAA accused Harbaugh of lying about some minor violations that were committed by him and his staff. It was originally thought that Harbaugh would be suspended […]

The 2023 season is about to begin for Michigan football, and the hype surrounding the program heading into the year is at a level that we haven’t seen in a long time. Michigan ranks fifth in returning production and bring back star running backs Blake Corum and Donovan Edwards, and perhaps most importantly, quarterback JJ […]

Josh Heupel continues to build up the Tennessee football program with top talent, landing 5-star edge rusher Jordan Ross. Ross announced his decision to play for Tennessee football on Monday, choosing the Volunteers over Alabama, Texas and others, per 247Sports. His commitment boosts Tennessee’s 2024 recruiting class by five spots up to No. 6 in […]

Florida State football is one of the most hyped — and most polarizing — teams in the nation ahead of the 2023 college football season. The AP preseason Top-25 has the Seminoles at No. 8, right behind Penn State and ahead of Clemson. The preseason coaches poll has them in the same spot. Florida State […]

Michigan announced its decision to self impose a three-game suspension for football coach Jim Harbaugh on Monday, and there is some concern that it might not be enough in the eyes of the NCAA. There is some fear with Michigan that Jim Harbaugh will become like Pete Carroll and go back to the NFL, and […]

The 2023 college football season is rapidly approaching; Week 0 kicks off Saturday at 2:30 p.m. ET with Notre Dame vs. Navy, in Dublin, Ireland. The AP released its preseason top-25 poll last week, and now the AP preseason All-American teams are here. USC, Michigan and Ohio State football all bring serious talent to the […]

The college football season begins this week, and one thing feels a little bit different before this season that fans aren’t very used to. There are question marks around Nick Saban and the Alabama football team. After missing the College Football Playoff last season and losing the top dog status to Georgia football, the Crimson […]

The Clemson Tigers football team hasn’t reached the College Football Playoff since 2020, when they were defeated by Ohio State 49-28. The Tigers haven’t won a bowl game since the following season when they defeated Iowa State 20-13. Last year, they were dominated by a resurgent Tennessee Volunteers team in the Orange Bowl, losing 31-14. […]

As Colorado gears up to play it’s first game in the Deion Sanders era, a college football analyst questions the hype around quarterback Shedeur Sanders. The CollegeFootballNerds account posted a Twitter thread analyzing Sander’s play during his two years at Jackson State. Explain the Shedeur Sanders hype to me… In FCS, Shedeur Sanders was 7.7 […]

South Carolina State head coach Buddy Pough paid a high compliment to T.C. Taylor and Jackson State before their matchup in the MEAC/SWAC Challenge. In an interview posted on Black Enterprise’s YouTube, Pough said that T.C. Taylor’s Jackson State team is better than the 2021 edition of the team led by then-head coach Deion Sanders. […]

Georgia Football comes in after winning the SEC Conference last year, but will they repeat? It is time to continue our College Football odds series with a special 2023 SEC Conference winner prediction and pick. Last year, Georgia returned to the SEC title game for the fifth time in the last six years, making their […]

Jim Harbaugh is reportedly receiving a three-game suspension from Michigan football following the recent NCAA investigations, sources confirmed to Josh Henschke of Maize & Blue Review. Rumors previously swirled that Harbaugh would receive a four-game suspension from the NCAA. Instead, the Wolverines decided to give the head coach a three-game punishment. The Harbaugh situation was […]

USC’s three-month search for a new athletic director has come to an end. The Trojans are hiring Washington athletic director Jennifer Cohen to be their AD, according to Ryan Kartje. Cohen is the first woman to become USC’s athletic director and the 10th person to oversee Trojan athletics in a full-time capacity. Cohen will be […]

Michigan football has dominated the Big Ten Conference the last two years, but can they make it a three-peat? It is time to continue our College Football odds series with a special 2023 Big Ten Conference winner prediction and pick. Last year, Michigan went through the regular season undefeated on their way to the Big […]

Ohio State football coach Ryan Day said there is no winner yet of the team’s quarterback battle between Kyle McCord and Devin Brown. Via 11W’s Dan Hope: “Our staff feels confident with both of them,” Day said. Day said he asked his coaching staff who they thought should start, and he said answers were “split […]

Former Northwestern football head coach Pat Fitzgerald was fired on July 10 in the wake of the Northwestern football hazing scandal. Now, dozens of former athletes are coming to the former coach’s defense, saying that the school did not give Fitzgerald his due process before it let him go. “By willfully ignoring due process, Northwestern […]

The terms of Amazon’s deal with Deion Sanders and the University of Colorado-Boulder have been revealed, per reporting by USA Today’s Brent Schrotenboer. Sanders will continue doing a docuseries on his tenure as coach of the Colorado Buffaloes as he did at Jackson State. The university entered a deal with his business manager Constance Schwartz-Morini […]

The final chapter in Netflix’s “UNTOLD” series is one fans have been waiting a long time for. One of the most interesting teams in sports history, the mid-to-late 2000s Florida Gators, were surrounded by scandals and controversies. However, those Gators also did a lot of winning. The Netflix docuseries, ‘Swamp Kings,’ will tell the story […]

The Boeing Red Tails Classic has been a hit for the SIAC and Disney, per the classic’s Assistant Executive Director Clay Norrell. The classic, which has featured Fort Valley State and Tuskegee Univeristy, averaged 100,000 television viewers in its first two broadcasts. The number is encouraging, as HBCU enthusiasts have had substantive discussions about the […]

Was there a more disappointing team in college football last season than the Texas A&M Aggies football team? The Aggies were early favorites to reach the College Football Playoff, coming off a subpar 8-4 season. But their real momentum came from having the No. 1 overall ranked recruiting class coming into last season, which was […]

Former Jackson State standout Tyler Brown’s transfer request has been denied, per Sports Illustrated’s Buffs Beat. The video is titled “Hear Tyler’s Story: Tyler Brown’s Denied NCAA Appeal Video”. In the video, he explains that he was denied immediate eligibility due to the two-transfer rule. “I don’t want to go into a dark place again […]

Offensive lineman Tyler Brown may be ineligible to play for Colorado football this year. Like many others, Brown transferred to Colorado from Jackson State when Deion Sanders took the Buffaloes head coach job. However, this was his second undergraduate transfer, so, by NCAA rule, he would have to sit out for a year. A waiver […]

When Mario Cristobal decided to return home to his alma mater with the Miami Hurricanes, that left an opening for Georgia’s Dan Lanning to take the reins in Eugene. The Oregon Ducks football team was loaded with talent thanks to Cristobal’s massive recruiting efforts during his tenure. The question was, no one knew what to […]

Nebraska head football coach Matt Rhule revealed running back Gabe Ervin Jr. will be the team’s starting running back, according to a Saturday article from AllHuskers. Ervin Jr., a former three-star recruit in Nebraska’s 2021 football recruiting class, rushed for 94 yards on 20 carries in 2022. He recorded as many as 60 rushing yards […]

Times are good for USC football. The team is ranked 6th in the AP Top 25 poll to start the season. They have a Heisman Trophy winner in quarterback Caleb Williams. But the biggest star at practice last week was none other than actor Will Ferrell. Head coach Lincoln Riley had Ferrell speak to the […]

An anonymous Big 12 defensive coordinator believes Texas football’s freshman quarterback Arch Manning could take the starting job from Quinn Ewers this season, per ESPN’s Adam Rittenberg. Head coach Steve Sarkisian has made it clear that Ewers is the starter, and that hasn’t seemed likely to change. “I would watch for the other kid (Arch […]

The South Carolina Gamecocks football team received a big boost when 5-star WR Nyckoles Harbor committed earlier this year, and it hasn’t taken long for the impressive freshman athlete to garner some monster comparisons from his coaching staff. Harbor is drawing lofty NFL comparisons from South Carolina coach Jody Wright, who has coached in the […]

The Alabama football program has a quarterback battle going on between Jalen Milroe, Tyler Buchner and Ty Simpson, and head coach Nick Saban commented on all three of their performances in the final scrimmage of fall camp in 2023. “They all got to play,” Nick Saban said, via Stacey Blackwood of Roll Tide Wire. “They […]

The Georgia Bulldogs football team is coming off its second consecutive national championship, following last year’s victory over TCU in the big game. What appeared to be a longstanding curse hovering over the state of Georgia and its sports teams, preventing them from achieving success, has now transformed into a blessing with the Bulldogs leading […]

Ohio State football tight end Cade Stover, linebacker Tommy Eichenberg and wide receiver Xavier Johnson were named the Buckeye’s team captains, according to a Saturday article from NBC4 Sports reporter Justin Holbrock. Stover, a former four-star recruit in Ohio State’s 2019 football recruiting class, finished the 2022 season with 406 receiving yards and five receiving touchdowns. He […]

While Missouri football has qualified for two straight bowl games, they’ve failed to win either of them and went just 6-7 both years. The Tigers haven’t had a win percentage over .500 since 2018 and haven’t won a bowl game since 2014. As head coach Eli Drinkwitz and company look to turn Missouri football around, […]

As UCLA football fans watch the Bruins’ long-time signal-caller Dorian Thompson-Robinson light things up as the surprise success story of the Cleveland Browns preseason, the next great Chip Kelly quarterback is quietly putting in work in Westwood, even if the program isn’t necessarily sure who will be taking snaps under center – read: from the […]

The college football season is almost here, with Washington football set to play their first game in two weeks time. The first games kick off in about a week from now on Aug. 26th. The Washington Huskies won’t be one of those teams to begin their season in Week 0. The Huskies have made a […]