Category: Education

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 …

Vandals sign highest-rated class in Big Sky during early signing period

NCAAF College Football News, Photos, Stats, Scores, Schedule & Videos… Dec. 4—Idaho Vandals coach Thomas Ford Jr. was in a position for the first time in his head coaching career to sign a completely new high school class during the early signing period and he made it count with the highest-rated class in program history, the school claims. Ford and the Vandals staff signed a group of 20 football players, including 19 high school athletes and one transfer from a …

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 …

Who did the Lobos sign on the first day of the early signing period? Here's the list

NCAAF College Football News, Photos, Stats, Scores, Schedule & Videos… Dec. 3—New Mexico ended Wednesday, the first day of the early signing period, with the fourth-ranked class of 2026 in the new-look Mountain West, trailing UNLV, Northern Illinois and UTEP. The first opportunity for prep prospects to sign letters of intent, the early signing period opened Wednesday and closes Friday. UNM is expected to announce more signees over the next couple days. Here’s the …

Londonderry's Boles among UNH football team's 9 signees; Wildcats QB Bentley enters portal

NCAAF College Football News, Photos, Stats, Scores, Schedule & Videos… Londonderry resident Devin Boles was among nine players who signed a commitment this week to join the University of New Hampshire football team next year. Boles, a 6-foot-3, 240-pound defensive end, played a post-graduate season at Phillips Exeter Academy this fall. He previously played at Londonderry High School. During his high school career, Boles recorded 25 tackles for loss and 14½ sacks. …

UH’s Matsuzawa, Harris, Johnson, Alejado earn Mountain West year-end honors

NCAAF College Football News, Photos, Stats, Scores, Schedule & Videos… University of Hawaii kicker Kansei Matsuzawa sticks faithfully to a daily routine. But Matsuzawa has authored a not-so-routine story of going from a self-taught football player from Japan to a record-tying specialist to a finalist for the Lou Groza Award as the nation’s best place-kicker. On Tuesday, Matsuzawa was named the Mountain West’s Special Teams Player of the Year. “It’s amazing, ” …

Stein ushers in new era for Cats

NCAAF College Football News, Photos, Stats, Scores, Schedule & Videos… After 13 seasons, the Mark Stoops era is over. For more than a decade, the Youngstown, Ohio, native roamed the sidelines at Kroger Field, amassing an 82-80 record and leading the Wildcats to a school-record eight consecutive bowl games along the way. However, with back-to-back losing seasons in the past two years — both capped off by blowout losses to arch-rival Louisville in the Governor’s Cup …

Preps: Cibola's Baum even more excited now to join Lobo football

NCAAF College Football News, Photos, Stats, Scores, Schedule & Videos… Dec. 2—Since Jason Eck took over as the head football coach at the University of New Mexico, one of the things he emphasized was his desire to forge solid relationships with the state’s high school coaches. Which has not gone unnoticed, and Eck has made clear his interest in recruiting the state’s athletes. With the arrival Wednesday of the three-day, early Division I signing window, two …

NAMES TO KNOW: Who will impact WVU football on Signing Day

NCAAF College Football News, Photos, Stats, Scores, Schedule & Videos… Dec. 2—MORGANTOWN — Rich Rodriguez was physically frustrated during the Texas Tech postgame press conference. Rightfully so. West Virginia was just stomped 49-0 by the Red Raiders, in a game where WVU didn’t look like it belonged. Towards the end of his short nine-minute press conference, Rodriguez was aggressively folding his stats paper because he couldn’t look at it. Before he left the …