NCAAF College Football News, Photos, Stats, Scores, Schedule & Videos… ORLANDO, Fla. — Can we please stop pretending college football is anything other than a billion-dollar clown show held together by buyout checks, booster fantasies and athletic directors who negotiate contracts with all the fiscal discipline of a drunken lottery winner? And nowhere is the absurdity louder, dumber, or more perfectly distilled than in the latest coaching mania surrounding Lane …
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NCAAF College Football News, Photos, Stats, Scores, Schedule & Videos… Nov. 21—MOSCOW, Idaho — So, it comes down to this. Idaho and Idaho State will conclude the football season playing for an 18-pound slab of Douglas fir chain-sawed into the shape of a potato by UI assistant athletics director Jerek Wolcott — the Potato State Trophy. The Bengals (5-6, 4-3 Big Sky Conference) are playing to reach .500. They seem to be a team on the way up. Idaho (4-7, 2-5) is …
NCAAF College Football News, Photos, Stats, Scores, Schedule & Videos… Can we please stop pretending college football is anything other than a billion-dollar clown show held together by buyout checks, booster fantasies and athletic directors who negotiate contracts with all the fiscal discipline of a drunken lottery winner? And nowhere is the absurdity louder, dumber, or more perfectly distilled than in the latest coaching mania surrounding Lane Kiffin — the …
NCAAF College Football News, Photos, Stats, Scores, Schedule & Videos… Nov. 21—ARTHUR — Ryan Jefferson wasn’t the only one fighting emotions in the moments after the Arthur-Lovington-Atwood-Hammond football team beat Westville last Saturday in a Class 2A state semifinal game. It was a full-circle moment of sorts for the ALAH coach, now in his eighth season. Lucas Otto was a key piece of Jefferson’s first few teams. His younger brother, Marcus, is the ALAH …
NCAAF College Football News, Photos, Stats, Scores, Schedule & Videos… JOHNSTOWN, Pa. – Area football teams Penn Cambria and Richland each are among the final eight teams in their respective classifications in the PIAA quarterfinal round Friday. District 6 Class 3A champion Penn Cambria (11-2) will face District 10 winner Sharon (9-3) at Clarion University. The Panthers repeated as district champion and hope to reach the state semifinals for a second straight …
NCAAF College Football News, Photos, Stats, Scores, Schedule & Videos… Nov. 20—It would have been cool. The ESPN College GameDay program that airs each Saturday morning during football season seemed like it would be in Missoula this week. A source who had a source said ESPN had reserved a block of hotel rooms in the Garden City; the combined 20-2 record of the Bobcats and Grizzlies made the 124th Brawl of the Wild, set for Saturday at Washington-Grizzly Stadium, …
NCAAF College Football News, Photos, Stats, Scores, Schedule & Videos… Nov. 20—MOSCOW, Idaho — So, it comes down to this. Idaho and Idaho State will conclude the football season playing for an 18-pound slab of Douglas fir chain-sawed into the shape of a potato by UI assistant athletics director Jerek Walcott — the Potato State Trophy. The Bengals (5-6, 4-3 in the Big Sky Conference) are playing to reach .500. They seem to be a team on the way up. Idaho (4-7, 2-5) …
NCAAF College Football News, Photos, Stats, Scores, Schedule & Videos… College football fans — and Florida-local foodies — have some seeking to do around town as the Cheez-It Citrus Bowl approaches. Florida Citrus Sports (FCS) has partnered with a bunch of local favorites to create limited-edition food and beverage items saluting the 80th running of this legendary gridiron championship, available now through game day, Dec. 31. The cross-pollination is valuable, …
NCAAF College Football News, Photos, Stats, Scores, Schedule & Videos… Nov. 20—It would have been cool. The ESPN College GameDay program that airs each Saturday morning during football season seemed like it would be in Missoula this week. A source who had a source said ESPN had reserved a block of hotel rooms in the Garden City; the combined 20-2 record of the Bobcats and Grizzlies made the 124th Brawl of the Wild, set for Saturday at Washington-Grizzly Stadium, …
NCAAF College Football News, Photos, Stats, Scores, Schedule & Videos… Paul Rubelt stood staring at the blank whiteboard, pen in hand, and immediately knew he was in trouble. As a freshman offensive lineman, Rubelt was asked by his UCF coaches to diagram the differences between an even and odd front. For someone born and raised in Germany, who didn’t grow up playing American football until his teens, it was all new to him. “I was standing there thinking: I’m not …