NCAAF College Football News, Photos, Stats, Scores, Schedule & Videos… Jan. 30—*** As much as I like Top 100 lists during the college football off-season, winners/losers lists during the down time are even better. Manny Navarro of The Athletic delivered a doozy on Thursday, picking his winners and losers of the just-completed portal season. No surprise, national champion Indiana and coach Curt Cignetti made the good list. So did LSU (shucks), Miami, Oklahoma …
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NCAAF College Football News, Photos, Stats, Scores, Schedule & Videos… Jan. 29—SIOUX FALLS — Almost two weeks later it’s still hard to believe — the Indiana Hoosiers are college football’s national champions. It’s widely considered one of the most unlikely stories we’ve seen in sports. The Hoosiers were a longtime Big Ten doormat, nary a 10-win season in their history before Curt Cignetti arrived from James Madison. Now they’re at the top, and Cignetti is being …
NCAAF College Football News, Photos, Stats, Scores, Schedule & Videos… UCF football coach Scott Frost addressed the media Thursday, providing his thoughts on how the Knights did with their recent transfer portal acquisitions. Overall, the second-year coach, in his second term at UCF, said was happy with the talent UCF is bringing in. Frost likes to joke about his relationship with first-year UCF general manager Trent Mossbrucker, with whom Frost said he has a …
NCAAF College Football News, Photos, Stats, Scores, Schedule & Videos… Ben Harakel has worked for Curt Cignetti since 2019 and has learned to treat every game the same. Monday, Jan. 19 was different, though. Much different. This was the College Football Playoff championship game Twelve years after graduating from Conrad Weiser High School, Harakel was sitting in the coaches box as Indiana’s senior defensive analyst at Hard Rock Stadium in Miami Gardens, Fla., …
NCAAF College Football News, Photos, Stats, Scores, Schedule & Videos… Brady Allen, an incoming Indiana State quarterback from Fort Branch, has played for FBS programs at Purdue and Louisville. As a high schooler, he helped lead Gibson Southern to Indiana’s Class 3A state championship in 2021. Now he’s a Sycamore in Terre Haute, having transferred to ISU. His commitment to the Sycamore program was announced earlier this month. Will the 6-foot-6, 220-pound Allen …
NCAAF College Football News, Photos, Stats, Scores, Schedule & Videos… Jan. 28—FRISCO, Texas — Michael Wortham got his touches at Tuesday’s East-West Shrine Bowl, even if it wasn’t in the passing game. The Montana Grizzlies standout had three kickoff returns for 54 yards and two punt returns for 18 yards for the East All-Stars, who lost 21-17 to the West in a back-and-forth game at the Ford Center. Wortham, an All-American all-purpose player this past season for …
NCAAF College Football News, Photos, Stats, Scores, Schedule & Videos… Jan. 28—Washington State quarterback Zevi Eckhaus has been named the Pac-12 Football Scholar-Athlete of the Year, the conference announced Wednesday. The grad student was recognized by the two-team Pac-12 for his achievement on both the field and in the classroom, per the release. Eckhaus, a fifth-year collegian, is working toward a master’s degree in strategic communications and boasts a 3.75 …
NCAAF College Football News, Photos, Stats, Scores, Schedule & Videos… Jan. 28—CHAMPAIGN — Let the hotel reservations begin. And the flight bookings. And the direction checking. On Tuesday, the Big Ten finally told its schools when they will play football in 2026, setting off a long day on the computer for fans and media members. Everyone knew the conference opponents before Tuesday, but didn’t have the particulars. Now, they do. At first glance, the matchups are …
NCAAF College Football News, Photos, Stats, Scores, Schedule & Videos… They once won as Quarterback U. Now they win as Rent-a-Quarterback U. They once recruited and developed young arms. Now they poach and pay proven arms. Here’s the question the Miami Hurricanes have mastered in this new age of college football: Why recruit an 18-year-old possibility at the game’s most important position when you can pay a developed 21-year-old with a tangible portfolio? That’s …
NCAAF College Football News, Photos, Stats, Scores, Schedule & Videos… MOBILE, Ala. — Edge rushers are always in demand in the NFL, and the Miami Dolphins are among the neediest teams. Miami primarily returns Chop Robinson, its 2024 first-round pick who recorded just 6.0 sacks last season, and veteran Bradley Chubb, who is due to count $31 million against the salary cap, is questionable to return. The Dolphins could find help in numerous forms at the Senior Bowl …