A run-of-the-mill extra-point attempt for Minnesota to take a four-touchdown lead over Rutgers was anything but ordinary on Saturday. As the Gophers trotted out their special teams unit, they were led onto the field by redshirt sophomore Casey O’Brien, the team’s holder, who was making his collegiate debut. O’Brien’s debut isn’t the story, though. It’s […]
James Franklin and Penn State are knocking on the door of the nation’s elite. A win over Michigan might get them there. (Matthew Holst/Getty Images) Matt Bonesteel October 19 at 10:03 AM Georgia’s very strange home loss to South Carolina last weekend gave us at least a little taste of top 6 chaos, with the […]
Oregon-Washington has been everything we’d hoped it would be. Feels like Jacob Eason is winning the quarterback battle, but this has been tight and the offenses have played better than expected.
1. QB Tua Tagovailoa, Alabama (2,011 yards, 27 TD, 1 INT passing; 35 yards, 2 TD rushing). The Crimson Tide’s newly minted career passing touchdown leader is human; he did, after all, throw his first interception of the season. But as the most high-profile player on the nation’s No. 1 team, here’s guessing he’d be […]
1. QB Tua Tagovailoa, Alabama (2,011 yards, 27 TD, 1 INT passing; 35 yards, 2 TD rushing). The Crimson Tide’s newly minted career passing touchdown leader is human; he did, after all, throw his first interception of the season. But as the most high-profile player on the nation’s No. 1 team, here’s guessing he’d be […]
CLOSE What to make of Michigan State football after meltdown at Wisconsin, Oct. 12, 2019 in Madison. Chris Solari, Graham Couch and Jeff Seidel, Detroit Free Press EAST LANSING — A bye week brings a moment to pause. Mark Dantonio and Michigan State’s football team said it came at the perfect time, after humbling losses […]
The attrition of undefeated teams began last week and may well continue in Week 8. While No. 1 Alabama and No. 3 Clemson are huge favorites, their opponents are familiar ones and both are surely upset minded as big home underdogs. No. 2 LSU is on the road at an under-performing Mississippi State team in […]
CLOSE What to make of Michigan State football after meltdown at Wisconsin, Oct. 12, 2019 in Madison. Chris Solari, Graham Couch and Jeff Seidel, Detroit Free Press EAST LANSING — A bye week brings a moment to pause. Mark Dantonio and Michigan State’s football team said it came at the perfect time, after humbling losses […]
No. 10 Georgia needs to get right in a hurry if it hopes to keep its College Football Playoff hopes alive, and the SEC schedule doesn’t give it a particularly easy break with Kentucky coming to town this Saturday. The Bulldogs are coming off a shocking overtime loss to South Carolina in Week 7 and […]
No. 5 Oklahoma gets right back at it in Big 12 play a week after scoring a big victory vs. Texas last week in the Red River Showdown, playing host to West Virginia on Saturday. The Sooners have plenty to play for even though they don’t have much to gain and are expected to beat the Mountaineers because a […]
