NCAAF College Football News, Photos, Stats, Scores, Schedule & Videos… UConn and Army have both been playing football since the 19th Century, but they are relatively new rivals on the football field, crossing paths nine times as the programs have had their periods of highs and lows. West Point was a major college football program, producing Heisman Trophy winners and national champions during its glory era, the 1920s through the ’50s. UConn was a regional program …
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NCAAF College Football News, Photos, Stats, Scores, Schedule & Videos… Dec. 23—BOISE — Tears were shed, hugs were given and potatoes rained from the sky in the moments following Washington State’s first postseason win since some of the current Cougars themselves were in middle school. For the first time since 2018, the Washington State Cougars won a bowl game, beating the Utah State Aggies — a Pac-12 team starting next year — 34-21 on Monday in the Famous Idaho …
NCAAF College Football News, Photos, Stats, Scores, Schedule & Videos… Dec. 23—BOISE — Tears were shed, hugs were given and potatoes rained from the sky in the moments following Washington State’s first postseason win since some of the current Cougars themselves were in middle school. For the first time since 2018, the Washington State Cougars won a bowl game, beating the Utah State Aggies — a Pac-12 team starting next year — 34-21 on Monday in the Famous Idaho …
NCAAF College Football News, Photos, Stats, Scores, Schedule & Videos… Dec. 22—If anybody questioned what would provide the motivation for Washington State’s players going into the Famous Idaho Potato Bowl, it was the same that got them playing the game in the first place. It was a chance to go out and play ball with their buddies. The simplest and purest reason there is. More importantly, the Cougars’ enthusiasm for the game, and the joy of competing, was so …
NCAAF College Football News, Photos, Stats, Scores, Schedule & Videos… PHOENIX — Gophers football coach P.J. Fleck uses bowl games as a bridge. “It’s a celebration of the (2025) season. … The seniors and everything they’ve given to this program and really start building toward 2026,” Fleck said last week. “Every bowl game we’ve ever been associated with, that is the approach we’ve taken: to be 1-0 (in the bowl) and to continue to prepare.” After the team arrived …
NCAAF College Football News, Photos, Stats, Scores, Schedule & Videos… Dec. 21—BOISE — Since he was a teenager, Tucker Large has been programmed to take things seriously in December, to crank the intensity meter up to 11. That’s because he spent the first four years of his career at FCS power South Dakota State. Around this time, the Jackrabbits usually found themselves deep in the FCS playoffs, chasing the mountaintop year after year. Starring at safety, Large …
NCAAF College Football News, Photos, Stats, Scores, Schedule & Videos… Dec. 21—*** Miami showed it belonged. So did Alabama. And all those people whining about two Group of Five entries in the College Football Playoff have a point. After two days of the CFP, the tournament is down to eight teams. Oh, how I wish the next round was going to campus sites. That’s an argument for another day. For now, the Big Ten is happy with three quarterfinalists (Indiana, Ohio …
NCAAF College Football News, Photos, Stats, Scores, Schedule & Videos… Dec. 21—Washington State defensive coordinator Jesse Bobbit kept his message brief in the Cougars’ team meeting shortly after head coach Jimmy Rogers’ abrupt departure for Iowa State in early December. Bobbit was following Rogers to Ames, Iowa, but he first decided to step up as the Cougars’ interim head coach through WSU’s participation in Monday’s Famous Idaho Potato Bowl in Boise. “Biggest …
NCAAF College Football News, Photos, Stats, Scores, Schedule & Videos… The question is being asked, with good reason, from coast to coast. With coaches moving around, the College Football Playoffs expanded to 12 teams, the ever-lurking transfer portal, player opt-outs, money and more money, why are they still playing these 40-odd bowl games? “I understand guys that opt out, things happen and people have got to make decisions for themselves,” UConn tight end Louis …
NCAAF College Football News, Photos, Stats, Scores, Schedule & Videos… ORLANDO, Fla. — Amid the spectacle of the College Football Playoff’s opening weekend — and the nagging sense that we’re watching a sport we no longer love — here’s the uncomfortable question no one in power seems eager to answer: Is college football slowly turning off the very fans who built it? The other day on our radio show, we asked a simple poll question: “What’s your excitement level for …