Category: Amateur Sports

Indiana school with many local connections forced to withdraw from NAIA playoffs

NCAAF College Football News, Photos, Stats, Scores, Schedule & Videos… Dec. 4—The Marian University football program, which is located in Indianapolis, Ind., and has 12 local graduates on the roster, was forced to withdraw from the NAIA playoffs on Thursday because an ineligible player participated in three games. It won those three games, and the victories will be vacated. Marian (11-1) was scheduled to play Keiser University on Saturday in the quarterfinals in …

8 things to know about Tarleton State

NCAAF College Football News, Photos, Stats, Scores, Schedule & Videos… Dec. 4—GRAND FORKS — The UND football team faces Tarleton State at noon Saturday in the second round of the FCS Playoffs in Stephenville, Texas. Here are eight things to know about the Texans. Tarleton State’s offense runs a unique style, known as slow-mesh RPO, which was popularized most recently by Wake Forest. The Texans run a twist on the traditional RPO, which means run-pass option. UND’s …

Gophers football: Four players plan to enter transfer portal

NCAAF College Football News, Photos, Stats, Scores, Schedule & Videos… With the Gophers’ high school recruiting class solidified Wednesday, more attention will turn to the NCAA’s transfer portal. Minnesota already has seen a handful of players announce their intentions to leave the program. Over the last two years, the Gophers have had one of the highest retention levels in the country, losing only a few key players each season via the portal. The amount of this …

Will Notre Dame make the College Football Playoff for a 2nd straight season? Here are its biggest obstacles.

NCAAF College Football News, Photos, Stats, Scores, Schedule & Videos… CHICAGO — The College Football Playoff committee injected a little extra anxiety into Notre Dame’s week of waiting. The Irish (10-2) dropped one spot to No. 10 on Tuesday — with Alabama (10-2) jumping to No. 9 after its 27-20 win over Auburn — in the second-to-last CFP ranking before the 12-team bracket is set Sunday. Because two spots are guaranteed to go to lower-ranked champions from the …

Stillwater High celebrates four athletes on early signing day

NCAAF College Football News, Photos, Stats, Scores, Schedule & Videos… Stillwater High students packed the east stands of the Fieldhouse Gym to watch four of their classmates sign up for their college athletics futures. On Wednesday afternoon, Stillwater High held its College Commitment Celebration, where football player Nehemiah Kolone, swimmer Elias Mendez and wrestlers Eric Casula and Luke Hamiti signed their National Letters of Intent on early signing day. …

MSHSAA State Football Championship games kick off Thursday in St. Joseph

NCAAF College Football News, Photos, Stats, Scores, Schedule & Videos… ST. JOSEPH, Mo. (News-Press NOW) — The top fourteen high school football teams in Missouri are set to clash in St. Joseph over the next three days for the right to be called state champions. After multiple weeks of district and state playoff games, the 2025 MSHSAA State Football Championships will be decided at Missouri Western’s Spratt Stadium beginning Thursday. This year’s championships …

OL Kingston Kerkhoff, RB Kenny Golston highlight impressive Idaho football recruiting class

NCAAF College Football News, Photos, Stats, Scores, Schedule & Videos… Dec. 3—MOSCOW, Idaho — Reading the tea leaves in recruiting is always a fun but frequently frustrating endeavor. In looking for subtle tells about how the University of Idaho did, however, there is this: the Vandals had a class of 20 signed up by noon. These new Vandals want to be Vandals. UI coach Thomas Ford Jr. attributes it to having longstanding relationships with recruits and being …

State title football appearance at stake for host BCHS, facing La Habra in 2-AA SoCal final

NCAAF College Football News, Photos, Stats, Scores, Schedule & Videos… It’s easy to get caught up in everything that goes into a season like the one Bakersfield Christian football team is having. Darren Carr, head coach since 2016 and who has taken multiple Eagles teams to the level where his 2025 group currently resides, is cutting through the pressure. “We’re just happy to host and play in a state playoff home game. There have been a lot of firsts for our guys …

Brayden Parks, who has Notre Dame among offers, powers Brother Rice to state title. ‘We came, we saw, we won.’

NCAAF College Football News, Photos, Stats, Scores, Schedule & Videos… Junior defensive lineman Brayden Parks was always confident it would be a successful year for Brother Rice. He knew the defense had the potential to be one of the greatest in school history. The only question was whether the Crusaders could finally break through and complete the task of winning the program’s first state championship since 1981. Parks and Co. made sure they would not fall …

Class of 2026 Orlando area college football signings

NCAAF College Football News, Photos, Stats, Scores, Schedule & Videos… Bishop Moore Kenyon Alston, Illinois Jaxson Anderson, New Haven Trenton Gummer, Delaware Amar’e Johnson, Missouri State Jack Schellenberg, Rhodes College Boone Rhys Woodrow, Miami Dr. Phillips Robert Stamm, Colgate Maurice Jones, Missouri State Evans Jamichael Hill, South Dakota State Omyry Hickson, Arkansas Tech Carl Jean-Bart, Eastern Michigan Jiah Walls, Sacramento State Edgewater (Signing …