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Stetson Bennett did his best Patrick Mahomes impression on Saturday vs. Oregon. Georgia football was lined up inside Oregon’s 10 with just over :30 seconds remaining in the second quarter. The Bulldogs led 21-3, but they clearly had no intention of taking their foot off the gas pedal. The Ducks defense did a decent job […]

College football fans were greeted with an absolute doozy of a game in the first week of the season. Appalachian State football, already known for one of the greatest upsets in sports history, will now also be remembered for a brutal loss to North Carolina football by a wild score of 63-61. After entering the […]

The Florida State Seminoles will travel to take on the LSU Tigers in a primetime college football matchup on Sunday night. With that said, it’s a good time to check out our college football odds series, which includes a Florida State-LSU prediction and pick we have laid out below. Florida State struggled uncharacteristically in 2021, going […]

Michigan football head coach Jim Harbaugh was completely ready to become the Minnesota Vikings’ next HC this offseason, but they evidently weren’t. Instead, Harbaugh returned to Ann Arbor to hopefully lead the Wolverines to a national title in 2022. Prior to the team’s Week 1 opener against Colorado State, Harbaugh spoke about his decision to […]

Marcus Freeman shared a health update on Notre Dame football star left guard Jarrett Patterson. Freeman revealed that Patterson will be a gametime decision ahead of the Fighting Irish’s matchup with Ohio State on Saturday, per Pete Thamel. Patterson has All-American potential in 2022. He is known as one of the better offensive lineman in […]

UNC football begins its season on Saturday against Appalachian State, but they will have to get by without arguably their best offensive weapon. Tar Heels star wide receiver Josh Downs is considered week-to-week with a lower-body injury and won’t suit up for Week 1. Via Pete Thamel: This is official. Just confirmed from a source […]

The Iowa football team is looking to reassert its dominance in the Big Ten. Kirk Ferentz’s program won their division but got demolished in the conference title game by Michigan. As they look to get the 2022 season started against South Dakota State, the Hawkeyes will have to do so without running back Gavin Williams. Chad […]

Rutgers Football is prepared to kickoff their college football season against Boston College on Saturday. However, they will do it without three key offensive weapons. ESPN college football writer Pete Thamel reports that QB Noah Vedral, RB Aaron Young, and TE Matt Alaimo are all expected to miss the game. He also reports that all […]

The College Football Playoff is finally expanding after years of anticipation. On Friday, the CFP Board of Managers unanimously voted to expand the tournament from four teams to 12 by 2026. The new format will include the six highest-ranked conference champions, as well as six at-large teams. The CFP expansion is not only exciting for […]

Ohio State Buckeyes quarterback CJ Stroud is a Heisman frontrunner and a surefire first-round pick for the 2023 NFL Draft. But, he’s focused on neither right now. Stroud just wants to take OSU to the Promised Land, as Ryan Day pointed out on Saturday. Via College GameDay: “[C.J. Stroud’s] really spent the time this offseason […]

Ahead of their season opener against the Arkansas Razorbacks on Saturday, the Cincinnati Bearcats have made a rather surprising decision at quarterback. The team announced they’re planning to start redshirt senior Ben Bryant over sophomore Evan Prater, one of the most highly regarded prospects in program history. Via Pete Thamel: Sources: QB Ben Bryant to […]

For the Clemson Tigers football program, their 2022 season opener against the Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets represents a fresh start. It was a comparatively tough year in 2021 for the Tigers, finishing 10-3, their worst since 2014. Starting quarterback DJ Uiagalelei is back after a shaky campaign in 2021 and will be looking to rebound […]

2022 has been a year of change for College Football, perhaps more so than any other year. College athletes are able to be paid based on academic performances one year after getting the green light to profit off of their image, schools are swapping divisions like nobodies business, and as of Friday, the College Football […]

The Rice Owls take on the USC Trojans. Check out our college football odds series for our Rice USC prediction and pick. The moment has arrived. Lincoln Riley will coach his first game with the USC Trojans after leaving the Oklahoma Sooners. The move stunned the college football world late last November. The obvious question […]

For the seventh time ever, college football powerhouses Ohio State and Notre Dame will face off, as the two are set for a non-conference matchup on Saturday. The Buckeyes and the Fighting Irish each enter the contest with plenty of preseason hype of their own. While Ohio State lost five total talents on offense to […]

Ohio State wide receiver Jaxon Smith-Njigba had one of the more notable breakout seasons in all of college football in the 2021 campaign. Smith-Njigba blossomed as a reliable target for quarterback C.J. Stroud, as he led the team in both receptions (95) and receiving yards (1,606). The stout chemistry that Stroud and Smith-Njigba displayed last […]

The Louisville Cardinals take on the Syracuse Orange. Check out our college football odds series for our Louisville Syracuse prediction and pick. The Louisville Cardinals face a very important season in 2022. Head coach Scott Satterfield came to Louisville from Appalachian State, where he built the Mountaineers into one of the best Group of Five […]

The BYU Cougars take on the South Florida Bulls. Check out our college football odds series for our BYU South Florida prediction and pick. BYU entered the 2021 season wondering how well its offense would be able to perform. Remember, Zach Wilson was the No. 2 pick in the 2021 NFL draft. He was the […]

The College Football Playoff Board of Managers officially decided to expand the playoff format to 12 teams on Friday. The details are still being ironed out, but it is scheduled to be implemented sometime between 2024-2026. The Pac-12 issued a statement on the decision following the announcement, per Bruce Feldman. “The Pac-12 is strongly in […]

The Utah State Aggies take on the Alabama Crimson Tide. Check out our college football odds series for our Utah State Alabama prediction and pick. The Utah State Aggies were able to open their season in late August against the Connecticut Huskies. Was it a case of looking ahead to Alabama, or were the Aggies […]

The Miami OH Redhawks take on the Kentucky Wildcats. Check out our college football odds series for our Miami OH Kentucky prediction and pick. The Miami Redhawks had a very good 2021 season. They were not expected to finish near the top of the Mid-American Conference’s East Division, but they finished second, ahead of Ohio […]

The Oregon football program has endured many changes in this college football offseason. Those changes and their impact will be tested in the 2022 season opener against the Georgia football juggernaut. Notre Dame versus Ohio State might be the biggest game of Week 1, but Oregon versus Georgia is right behind it. Let’s make some […]

The Memphis Tigers take on the Mississippi State Bulldogs. Check out our college football odds series for our Memphis Mississippi State prediction and pick. The Memphis Tigers were an elite team in the American Athletic Conference a few years ago. They won a Group of Five championship and played in a New Year’s Six bowl […]

The University of Texas El Paso and Oklahoma meet up to start off the 2022 season on Saturday! It’s time to continue our college football odds series with a UTEP-Oklahoma prediction and pick. UTEP (0-1) finished the 2021 season with a respectable record of (7-6). That was their best season under head coach Dana Dimel, […]

The College Football Playoff Board of Managers decided on a 12-team format after a meeting on Friday. The news broke and College Football Twitter went absolutely nuts. Here are some of the best reactions. Let’s goooooo. Reason has prevailed! https://t.co/dUQC3tdxZh — Max Olson (@max_olson) September 2, 2022 Many, like Max Olson of The Athletic, were […]

The Colorado State Rams head to Ann Arbor to take on Michigan to kick off the season! It’s time to continue our college football odds series, with a Colorado State-Michigan prediction and pick. Colorado State heads into the 2022 season with not much excitement. After going (3-9) last season, the Rams hired head coach Jay […]

The CFP Board of Managers have reportedly decided to implement a 12-team college football playoff format, per college football writer Pete Thamel. Ross Dellenger later reported that the date of implementation is expected to be in either 2024, 2025, or 2026. The idea of an expanded playoff format has been floated around over the past […]

The Troy Trojans and Ole Miss Rebels will square off in Oxford on Saturday afternoon, the first game of either team’s 2022 season. With that said, it’s a good time to check out our college football odds series, which includes a Troy-Ole Miss prediction and pick we have laid out below. Troy went 5-7 in the […]

The Utah Utes will travel to the swamp to take on the Florida Gators in the first game of the 2022 season for both teams. With that said, it’s a good time to check out our college football odds series, which includes a Utah-Florida prediction and pick we have laid out below. Utah is the early […]

North Carolina State and East Carolina will open up their respective seasons on Saturday afternoon in Greenville. With that said, it’s a good time to check out our college football odds series, which includes a NC State-East Carolina prediction and pick we have laid out below. NC State is coming off a 9-3 season before an […]

Netflix teased a Johnny Manziel documentary on Friday. The Netflix Twitter account shared a video in response to a user who hinted at a Manziel documentary following the recent Manti Te’o story the company produced. 👀 @JManziel2 https://t.co/iZZpc48uux pic.twitter.com/y66eaIsM5H — Netflix (@netflix) September 2, 2022 Johnny Manziel is one of the most controversial athletes in […]

No. 19 Arkansas will take on No. 23 Cincinnati on Saturday. The Bearcats are fresh off of a 2021 season that saw them reach the college football playoffs. However, they lost some a few key components to the team following last year. For Arkansas football, they enjoyed a quality 2021 campaign. But they would love […]

The Purdue Boilermakers football program blew it. After a go-ahead, 72-yard interception return late in the game, Purdue University didn’t do enough offensively to hold onto the lead- and the defense tired, leaving the door open for a Penn State football comeback. So where did the Boilermakers go wrong? One Penn State Nittany Lions defender […]

Following a thrilling game over Penn State, the Purdue football squad is surely pumped up for the season ahead. Although the Boilermakers took the loss at home, they have plenty of reasons to smile thanks to Drew Brees. After shining for Purdue football in the 1990s and enjoying a long, successful career in the NFL, Brees […]

Purdue football defensive back Chris Jefferson was gassed. With less than nine minutes to go in the game and the Boilermakers trailing Penn State football by four points, Purdue University defensive back Chris Jefferson stepped up, intercepting a pass and taking it to the house for the go-ahead score. Then, Jefferson, who puked after running […]

Tensions boiled over after a competitive Backyard Brawl between the Pittsburgh Panthers football and West Virginia Mountaineers football programs on Thursday. Immediately after Pitt’s 38-31 victory, Panthers defensive back Marquis Williams took an age-old chant and turned it upside down, punctuating his team’s victory over their hated rivals in the process. Andrea Adelson of ESPN […]

With an Arkansas football opening week game scheduled against the Cincinnati Bearcats, a lot of eyes will be on the Razorbacks. Ahead of this clash between the Razorbacks and Bearcats, we’ll be making our Arkansas football predictions. No. 19 Arkansas faces No. 23 Cincinnati in their first-ever encounter. Arkansas and Cincinnati start the 2022 college […]

The Marcus Freeman era in South Bend is about to start this coming Saturday, as the Notre Dame Fighting Irish play their first game under their new head coach against the no. 2 Ohio State Buckeyes at Ohio Stadium in Columbus. This is a heavyweight battle between two ranked teams, with no. 5 Notre Dame […]

The Oklahoma State Cowboys are on fire in Stillwater, as they kick off their season with a home game against the Central Michigan Chippewas who have looked nothing more than a punching bag for Spencer Sanders and company. The first half of the game ended with Oklahoma State football firmly on top with a 29-point […]