Category: Football (American)

Bedford's Helton wins Joe Yukica Player of the Year Award

NCAAF College Football News, Photos, Stats, Scores, Schedule & Videos… Bedford High School senior Brody Helton is the winner of the 2025 Joe Yukica Player of the Year Award, the Joe Yukica/New Hampshire Chapter of the National Football Foundation announced Friday. The Yukica Award represents the most outstanding NHIAA football player each year and is voted on by NHIAA head coaches and a panel of media members. Nashua South quarterback/defensive back Cody Jackson …

Memorial wins third straight Manchester Turkey Bowl with convincing victory over West

NCAAF College Football News, Photos, Stats, Scores, Schedule & Videos… MANCHESTER — After the victory, Januel Pena Ramirez told anyone who would listen that he owned Gill Stadium and finished his Manchester Memorial football undefeated against Manchester West. Memorial won the 43rd Manchester Turkey Bowl, defeating Division II West 46-8 on Thursday at Gill Stadium. It was a rematch of last year’s Turkey Bowl, which the Crusaders won, 20-14. Two weeks ago, Pena …

Coyote football hungry to get going in FCS playoffs

NCAAF College Football News, Photos, Stats, Scores, Schedule & Videos… Nov. 27—VERMILLION, S.D. — The waiting game is over for the University of South Dakota football team. After closing the regular season with a bye week, the No. 11-seeded Coyotes (8-4) charge into the FCS playoffs rested, re-energized and ready for a familiar foe, hosting Drake (8-3) in a first-round rematch at noon on Saturday, Nov. 29, at the DakotaDome. With the stage now fully set and the …

Mike Mastovich | 'We were that close': Penn Cambria's Vinglish eyes PIAA semifinal rematch after Panthers' near miss

NCAAF College Football News, Photos, Stats, Scores, Schedule & Videos… JOHNSTOWN, Pa. – A year ago, Corbin Vinglish glanced at the scoreboard at Norwin High School’s Knights Stadium on a snowy, frigid late-November Friday night. District 6 champion Penn Cambria’s historic season had just ended in a 16-6 loss to District 7 winner Avonworth in a PIAA Class 3A semifinal – one week shy of the state championship game. “I’m not a guy that likes to look in the past,” …

BIG 12 NOTEBOOK: Looking at Big 12 title game, CFP scenarios entering final week of regular season

NCAAF College Football News, Photos, Stats, Scores, Schedule & Videos… The list of scenarios for the Big 12 Championship game was lengthy heading into the past few weekends, but that picture is now very straightforward in the final week of the regular season. Only four teams remain in the hunt for a berth in the Dec. 5 title game – Arizona State, BYU, Texas Tech and Utah – with Texas Tech and BYU holding the clearest paths. If the No. 5 Red Raiders win at West …

Dom Amore: How Brady Olson led CCSU football back to the postseason, and a rematch at Rhode Island

NCAAF College Football News, Photos, Stats, Scores, Schedule & Videos… Central Connecticut was agonizingly close to staying alive in the FCS playoffs, four yards from tying the game at Rhode Island. Brady Olson was sacked, and the Blue Devils settled for three points. When Olson got his hands on the ball one last time, with only 43 seconds left, his final pass of the season was intercepted. He walked from Meade Stadium with a point proven, having transferred from …

No. 7 Texas Tech focused on Saturday's matchup at West Virginia and not what lies beyond

NCAAF College Football News, Photos, Stats, Scores, Schedule & Videos… MORGANTOWN, W.Va. — A berth in the Big 12 championship game and a chance to win its first league title. A spot in the College Football Playoff. National title aspirations. All of those possibilities are still ahead for Texas Tech. And those dreams could start going sideways if the Red Raiders aren’t focused on West Virginia. Texas Tech (10-1, 7-1 Big 12, No. 5 CFP) can grab a spot in the Dec. …

Texas A&M on the verge of historic season with undefeated record and SEC title hopes

NCAAF College Football News, Photos, Stats, Scores, Schedule & Videos… COLLEGE STATION, Texas — No. 3 Texas A&M is on the verge of reaching heights the Aggies often tease but usually squander. They are undefeated. They could reach the Southeastern Conference title game and the College Football Playoff for the first time. Quarterback Marcel Reed is a Heisman Trophy contender and the school has rewarded coach Mike Elko with a blockbuster contract extension. Aggies …

Jaxton Eck is the coach's kid he didn't want to be. His family couldn't be prouder

NCAAF College Football News, Photos, Stats, Scores, Schedule & Videos… Nov. 26—New Mexico linebacker Jaxton Eck will make a play — a safety, a sack, a timely tackle — and head coach Jason Eck will hear the question in a postgame press conference. Was that more of a proud coach moment, it usually goes, or a proud dad moment? The question has been a constant because, well, there’s a lot to be proud of. On the field, Jaxton Eck is a near-lock for All-Mountain West …

Texas Tech LB Jacob Rodriguez hopes to improve his Heisman Trophy case against WVU

NCAAF College Football News, Photos, Stats, Scores, Schedule & Videos… Nov. 26—MORGANTOWN — Texas Tech faced a second-and-goal just a few yards from the end zone. In the wildcat was linebacker Jacob Rodriguez. You can quickly tell that it was quarterback Behren Morton because the player was wearing the neck pad that most old-school linebackers used to wear. He rushed through the gap and scored his first offensive touchdown of the season. Rodriguez was surrounded …