NCAAF College Football News, Photos, Stats, Scores, Schedule & Videos… COLLEGE STATION, Texas — Neither Miami nor Texas A&M could muster much offense in their College Football Playoff debuts. The combination of a strong wind and excellent defense kept both teams out of the end zone — until running back Mark Fletcher Jr. put the team on his back. The junior running back notched a massive, 56-yard run that set up an 11-yard pop pass from Carson Beck to Malachi …
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NCAAF College Football News, Photos, Stats, Scores, Schedule & Videos… 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 this year’s …
NCAAF College Football News, Photos, Stats, Scores, Schedule & Videos… Neither dark clouds nor flash-flood alerts could dampen the University of Hawaii football team’s collective enthusiasm on Friday. “We’re just getting dialed in, ” said coach Timmy Chang, whose Rainbow Warriors checked into a Waikiki hotel in advance of Wednesday’s Sheraton Hawaii Bowl at the Ching Complex. Cal—led by interim head coach Nick Rolovich, a former UH quarterback and head coach—was …
NCAAF College Football News, Photos, Stats, Scores, Schedule & Videos… STORRS – UConn’s star wide receiver Skyler Bell will suit up to play in his final collegiate game as the Huskies look to reach 10 wins for the first time as an FBS program at the Fenway Bowl against Army. Bell, the program’s first-ever consensus All-American after his historic 2025 regular season, shut down speculation that he may opt out of the game when speaking with local media after …
NCAAF College Football News, Photos, Stats, Scores, Schedule & Videos… COLLEGE STATION, Texas — The first loss of Mario Cristobal’s tenure with the Hurricanes came at Kyle Field. The Aggies won a sloppy, 17-9 game. It was the first of seven losses for UM that season. That first season under Cristobal included embarrassing home losses to Middle Tennessee State, Duke and Florida State. It concluded with an uninspiring, blowout loss to Pittsburgh. Miami missed a …
NCAAF College Football News, Photos, Stats, Scores, Schedule & Videos… Dec. 19—CHAMPAIGN — Last time Barry Lunney Jr. called plays in a game was Nov. 29. Next time will be Dec. 30. That’s a month and a day between gigs, Plenty of time for the four-year Illinois offensive coordinator to get his creative juices flowing. “You always try to not be too predictable, but not get outside of who you are,” Lunney said Thursday at the Smith Center. “I think that’s a fine …
NCAAF College Football News, Photos, Stats, Scores, Schedule & Videos… Roman Hemby, a Harford County native who spent four years with Maryland football, embodied the program that Terps coach Michael Locksley wanted to build: one focused on keeping local talent in state and developing from within. Locksley’s said throughout the past year that he’s been forced to change that approach as the sport shifts around him and as losses pile up. Hemby has also adapted. The …
NCAAF College Football News, Photos, Stats, Scores, Schedule & Videos… Roman Hemby, a Harford County native who spent four years with Maryland football, embodied the program that Terps coach Michael Locksley wanted to build: one focused on keeping local talent in state and developing from within. Locksley’s said throughout the past year that he’s been forced to change that approach as the sport shifts around him and as losses pile up. Hemby has also adapted. The …
NCAAF College Football News, Photos, Stats, Scores, Schedule & Videos… Dec. 18—CHAMPAIGN — Only 60 more minutes. Against an SEC school. Just the way Luke Altmyer wants it. Well, almost. Ideally, the Illinois quarterback and his teammates would be getting ready to host a first-round game this weekend in the College Football Playoff. But that didn’t happen. Losses against the top two teams in the country — Indiana and Ohio State — and the fighting Ws — Washington …
NCAAF College Football News, Photos, Stats, Scores, Schedule & Videos… Dec. 17—Three years later, Scott Ramsey finally got his team. Well, not actually HIS teams, but the ones that best suit the event in Nashville, Tenn., he runs, the Music City Bowl: Illinois and Tennessee. “We’re excited to have them,” Ramsey said. “First time ever (for Illinois, fourth for the Vols. “Obviously very impressed with Josh (Whitman) and the leadership team there and Coach (Bret) …