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) …
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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 …
NCAAF College Football News, Photos, Stats, Scores, Schedule & Videos… NEW HAVEN — Yale and Harvard have been football rivals since 1875, playing 140 times. And nearly always, except for a few scheduling quirks early on, “The Game” has always been The End. There was no championship except the Ivy League’s regular-season title to play for, and there was no postseason to consider. “The Game,” as the rivalry has always been called, has been an end and a championship …
NCAAF College Football News, Photos, Stats, Scores, Schedule & Videos… CHICAGO — Apologies to Gus Johnson’s many fans for his recent apology over the Indiana moment. I might have inadvertently convinced the Fox Sports announcer to apologize over something there was no need to apologize for, and for that, I am truly sorry! Sorry about that unnecessary exclamation mark, too, but when you’re talkin’ about Gus … For those who haven’t kept up with all the latest …
NCAAF College Football News, Photos, Stats, Scores, Schedule & Videos… STORRS – The UConn football team is starting to run out of “first-in-a-while” accomplishments. But on Saturday, the Huskies will have a chance to finish the regular season with nine wins for the first time since 2007 when they travel to Florida Atlantic for the regular-season finale. It would also be the first time ever that UConn has won nine games in back-to-back seasons (they won their …
NCAAF College Football News, Photos, Stats, Scores, Schedule & Videos… EAST HARTFORD — Jim Mora walked off the turf at Rentschler Field Saturday, leaving satisfied fans behind him and secure in the knowledge, whether he’d voice it or not, that he has done what he was hired to do. Roughly 70,000 fans acquired tickets, and most of them showed up for these last two home games, a thrilling win over Duke and the more matter-of-fact, 26-16 victory over Air Force. Does …
NCAAF College Football News, Photos, Stats, Scores, Schedule & Videos… One of the most difficult accomplishments in all of sports is the three-peat. Even legendary coach Pat Riley, who coined the phrase while coaching the Los Angeles Lakers, would be impressed with the Kutztown University Golden Bears program. On Saturday at Andre Reed Stadium, Kutztown defeated IUP 28-23 to capture the PSAC Championship, marking the Golden Bears’ third consecutive title and …
NCAAF College Football News, Photos, Stats, Scores, Schedule & Videos… CHICAGO — Big-game atmosphere arrived at Wrigley Field on Saturday afternoon when Northwestern played host to Michigan in a Big Ten affair, complete with a big-game announcer in Fox Sports’ Gus Johnson. Everything was in place for a great day of football, and perhaps an advertisement for a future bowl game at Wrigley Field, a long-held dream of Chicago Cubs owners. The weather resembled a …