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Cats rolled by Commodores but remain alive

NCAAF College Football News, Photos, Stats, Scores, Schedule & Videos… NASHVILLE Following a dismal performance against No. 14 Vanderbilt, Kentucky’s bowl-game aspirations now hinge on the Wildcats’ last game of the season. UK, riding a three-game winning streak, fell behind 45-3 and never put up a fight in an eventual 45-17 loss at FirstBank Stadium. The loss dropped the Cats to 5-6 overall, meaning they’ll need to win their final contest — next week’s …

Gophers football: Texas Longhorns nab another U pledge

NCAAF College Football News, Photos, Stats, Scores, Schedule & Videos… The Gophers football program lost a second high school recruit to the Texas Longhorns on Sunday. Three-star running back Jett Walker from Georgetown, Texas, flipped his commitment from the U to an in-state SEC school. He followed Portage, Mich., tight end Charlie Jilek, who changed his mind from Minnesota to Texas last week. “Staying Home!!” Walker wrote on X after a visit to the Austin campus …

USD football set to face Drake in the opening round of FCS playoffs

NCAAF College Football News, Photos, Stats, Scores, Schedule & Videos… Nov. 23—VERMILLION, S.D. — After a full week of waiting to learn their postseason fate, the University of South Dakota football team has its FCS playoff path and a familiar opponent standing in the way. The No. 11-seeded Coyotes (8-4) will host Drake (8-3) for the second time this season in the first round, kicking off at noon on Saturday, Nov. 29, at the DakotaDome. The Coyotes are hosting a …

Huot leads No. 14 Saints to first round victory

NCAAF College Football News, Photos, Stats, Scores, Schedule & Videos… Nov. 23—HELENA — Kaden Huot threw for 166 yards and four touchdowns in 14th-seeded Carroll College’s 42-35 victory over No. 17 St. Thomas (Fla.) in the NAIA Football Championship Series on Saturday afternoon at Nelson Stadium. Saints (9-2) running back Peter Minnaert led all rushers with 115 rushes and one score. Four different receivers caught touchdown passes for the Saints. Bobcats’ (7-4) …

Penn State Notebook: Players, fans show their support for Terry Smith

NCAAF College Football News, Photos, Stats, Scores, Schedule & Videos… STATE COLLEGE – Many in the announced crowd of 105,038 Saturday night at Beaver Stadium chanted their support for interim head coach Terry Smith in the fourth quarter Saturday night. Then, once Penn State’s 37-10 rout of Nebraska ended, players carried printed signs that read, “Hire Terry Smith.” “I saw them in the stands and then on the field after the game,” quarterback Ethan Grunkemeyer said. …

Gianni Casurella and Andrew Shaw combine forces to dominate at defensive tackle for Oswego. ‘A tag team combo.’

NCAAF College Football News, Photos, Stats, Scores, Schedule & Videos… Do you know us? When the season started several months ago, few admittedly did, but senior defensive tackles Gianni Casurella and Andrew Shaw are getting properly noticed for Oswego. They clog up the middle for Panthers’ line on defense, and much like the unit overall, they’ve emerged as a force to be reckoned with in what has to be termed a breakout season. Shaw moved in from Plainfield …

Florida pummeled by Tennessee as Vols end 22-year drought in the Swamp

NCAAF College Football News, Photos, Stats, Scores, Schedule & Videos… GAINESVILLE — A pregame talk from championship coach Urban Meyer, long-awaited return to the Swamp and visit from rival Tennessee did little to slow Florida’s season-ending free fall. The Gators actually hit new lows Saturday night, while the Vols pummeled them 31-11 to end a 10-game, 22-season losing streak in Gainesville. On a night to celebrate Meyer’s Dec. 9 induction into the College …

Recap and highlights: Washington State suffers close loss at No. 21 James Madison 24-20

NCAAF College Football News, Photos, Stats, Scores, Schedule & Videos… Nov. 22—HARRISONBURG, Va. — The purple and yellow streamers descended onto the field and scattered near Jimmy Rogers, whose Washington State team prides itself on limiting big plays on defense. The Cougars had done it so well all season, blossoming into one of the nation’s best units, a brick wall at all the right times. So when No. 21 James Madison surged through it, using a long touchdown …

Cal Poly takes over late to end EWU's season with 43-34 loss

NCAAF College Football News, Photos, Stats, Scores, Schedule & Videos… Nov. 22—Three drives into Saturday’s game in San Luis Obispo, California, the first start of Kaden Rolfsness’ college football career wasn’t off to a great beginning. His first pass attempt was intercepted, and Eastern Washington’s next two drives ended in three-and-outs. But the true freshman rallied, and when he crossed the end zone late in the third quarter for his third rushing touchdown …

Washington State gives respectable defensive effort, but offense lacks consistency in loss at James Madison

NCAAF College Football News, Photos, Stats, Scores, Schedule & Videos… Nov. 22—For the third time this season, Washington State traveled across the country and gave itself a chance to knock off a ranked team. And once again, the Cougars couldn’t find enough plays in the later stages of the game and suffered a heartbreaking defeat, losing narrowly to a heavily favored opponent. WSU gave up the lead in the fourth quarter and got stopped on its final drive, falling …