Category: National Collegiate Athletic Association Sports

MSHSAA State Football Championship games kick off Thursday in St. Joseph

NCAAF College Football News, Photos, Stats, Scores, Schedule & Videos… ST. JOSEPH, Mo. (News-Press NOW) — The top fourteen high school football teams in Missouri are set to clash in St. Joseph over the next three days for the right to be called state champions. After multiple weeks of district and state playoff games, the 2025 MSHSAA State Football Championships will be decided at Missouri Western’s Spratt Stadium beginning Thursday. This year’s championships …

BIG TEN NOTEBOOK Nation’s last two undefeated teams battle in historic conference championship matchup

NCAAF College Football News, Photos, Stats, Scores, Schedule & Videos… With little College Football Playoff drama surrounding the Big Ten Conference heading into conference championship week, all attention is pointed toward the historic meeting between No. 1 Ohio State and No. 2 Indiana at Lucas Oil Stadium in Indianapolis on Saturday. For the most part, playoff seeding is known. Coming off its win over rival Michigan, Ohio State has solidified its spot in the …

Stein ushers in new era for Cats

NCAAF College Football News, Photos, Stats, Scores, Schedule & Videos… After 13 seasons, the Mark Stoops era is over. For more than a decade, the Youngstown, Ohio, native roamed the sidelines at Kroger Field, amassing an 82-80 record and leading the Wildcats to a school-record eight consecutive bowl games along the way. However, with back-to-back losing seasons in the past two years — both capped off by blowout losses to arch-rival Louisville in the Governor’s Cup …

NAMES TO KNOW: Who will impact WVU football on Signing Day

NCAAF College Football News, Photos, Stats, Scores, Schedule & Videos… Dec. 2—MORGANTOWN — Rich Rodriguez was physically frustrated during the Texas Tech postgame press conference. Rightfully so. West Virginia was just stomped 49-0 by the Red Raiders, in a game where WVU didn’t look like it belonged. Towards the end of his short nine-minute press conference, Rodriguez was aggressively folding his stats paper because he couldn’t look at it. Before he left the …

For some, it’s National NOT Signing Day | Football Insider

NCAAF College Football News, Photos, Stats, Scores, Schedule & Videos… The NCAA’s Early Signing Period for football opens Wednesday and goes through Friday, a window for school seniors to sign college scholarship papers before National Signing Day in February. But for star players like Marceles Carey of DeLand, Li’Darious Pryor of Evans and Keydrick Powell of South Lake, there will be no pens or papers or celebrations. And for several others, there will be feted …

5 college football takeaways: Illinois’ snowy win, Jeremiyah Love’s showing — and a marquee Big Ten title game

NCAAF College Football News, Photos, Stats, Scores, Schedule & Videos… CHICAGO — The college football regular season is complete. Now it’s on to conference championship weekend and then the playoffs and bowl games. Before we turn our attention to the postseason, here’s a quick look at how Big Ten teams and Notre Dame finished Week 14 — including a few wild weather games. Illinois’ defense comes up big in the snow to win The Hat Illinois was clinging to a …

Michigan State plans to hire Pat Fitzgerald, the former Northwestern coach, according to reports

NCAAF College Football News, Photos, Stats, Scores, Schedule & Videos… Pat Fitzgerald may be on the verge of returning to coaching college football. The Detroit Free Press and Lansing State Journal reported Sunday that Michigan State plans to hire Fitzgerald as its new coach after firing Jonathan Smith. Fitzgerald, who went 110-101 with 10 bowl appearances in 17 seasons as Northwestern’s coach, hadn’t signed a contract as of midday Sunday, the outlets reported. …

5 college football takeaways: Illinois’ snowy win, Jeremiyah Love’s showing — and a marquee Big Ten title game

NCAAF College Football News, Photos, Stats, Scores, Schedule & Videos… The college football regular season is complete. Now it’s on to conference championship weekend and then the playoffs and bowl games. Before we turn our attention to the postseason, here’s a quick look at how Big Ten teams and Notre Dame finished Week 14 — including a few wild weather games. 1. Illinois’ defense came up big in the snow to win The Hat. Illinois was clinging to a four-point lead …

Cougars extend their season with Pac-12 victory over Oregon State

NCAAF College Football News, Photos, Stats, Scores, Schedule & Videos… Nov. 30—PULLMAN — In a season in which so much had gone wrong for the Washington State football team, almost everything went right in the Cougars’ season finale Saturday at Gesa Field. The stout Cougar defense contained its lone Pac-12 rival to one touchdown, the offense left its second-half sorrows in the past with 13 post-intermission points and WSU beat the Beavers 32-8 to secure its sixth …

Penn State Notebook: Terry Smith says last 6 games have been a “good run”

NCAAF College Football News, Photos, Stats, Scores, Schedule & Videos… PISCATAWAY, N.J. – Penn State interim head coach Terry Smith said Saturday night that director of athletics Pat Kraft hasn’t told him when he will name a permanent coach. After the Nittany Lions’ 40-36 comeback win over Rutgers, Smith was evasive when he was asked if he had received any clarity from Kraft or anyone else at Penn State about his future. “Last week I came in (to a postgame press …