NCAAF College Football News, Photos, Stats, Scores, Schedule & Videos… While Youngstown State quarterback Beau Brungard received the Stats Perform FCS National Offensive Player of the Week honor on Monday, Indiana State quarterback Elijah Owens was listed among others for honorable mention. Brungard, a fifth-year senior, accounted for a touchdown in all eight of the Penguins’ series possessions, with him at QB, in YSU’s 70-13 rout of Duquesne on Saturday. He …
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NCAAF College Football News, Photos, Stats, Scores, Schedule & Videos… Indiana State was among 17 grant recipients for NCAA member schools receiving Accelerating Academic Success Program grants totaling more than $1.6 million to support student-athlete academic achievement for the 2026-27 academic year, according to an announcement Thursday. The NCAA AASP grant program was created in 2012 to provide targeted resources to historically under-resourced Division I …
NCAAF College Football News, Photos, Stats, Scores, Schedule & Videos… The watch list for the Joe Yukica Player of the Year Award was announced on Thursday by the Joe Yukica/New Hampshire Chapter of the National Football Foundation. The award represents the top NHIAA football player each season and was presented for the first time in 2023. Souhegan High School’s J.J. Bright was the inaugural winner, Campbell High School’s Scott Hershberger won the award in 2024 …
NCAAF College Football News, Photos, Stats, Scores, Schedule & Videos… Aug. 21— There will be only one Heisman Trophy winner named in mid-December. Right now, the list of candidates is enormous. But one college football honor goes to more than one player. The Comeback Player of the Year Award goes to three players each season. As a member of The Associated Press Top 25 panel, I will be one of the voters. At the moment, there are two local names among the possible …
NCAAF College Football News, Photos, Stats, Scores, Schedule & Videos… The Walter Camp Football Foundation on Monday named University of Hawaii quarterback Micah Alejado to the preseason watch list for its 2026 Player of the Year award. The sophomore was one of 50 players named to the Walter Camp award watch list. Twenty-two of those named Monday are signal-callers, with 19 more coming from the offensive side of the ball and nine from defense. In all, 38 schools …
NCAAF College Football News, Photos, Stats, Scores, Schedule & Videos… Two Lobos landed on a pair of watch lists Tuesday. New Mexico linebacker Jaxton Eck and defensive lineman Brian Booker were named to preseason watch lists for the Bronko Nagurski Trophy and Outland Trophy, respectively, the Football Writers Association of America (FWAA) announced Tuesday. The Bronko Nagurski Trophy is awarded annually to the national collegiate defensive player of the year. …
NCAAF College Football News, Photos, Stats, Scores, Schedule & Videos… Jul. 8—College football is right around the corner, and it’s that time of the year when Big Sky media members and beat writers across the league are voting on the preseason all-conference team, including this Idaho beat writer. In this commentary, I will be taking a look at some of the best talent in the Big Sky Conference and include some of the top players that will be on my voting ballot …
NCAAF College Football News, Photos, Stats, Scores, Schedule & Videos… Jul. 4—Former Washington State football coach Jim Walden, who in 1981 led the Cougars to their first bowl appearance in 50 years, died Thursday in Coeur d’Alene, the school announced. He was 88. “We are saddened to learn of the passing of Coach Walden,” WSU athletic director Jon Haarlow said in a release. “He will forever be remembered as a great Coug who deeply loved Washington State. Our …
NCAAF College Football News, Photos, Stats, Scores, Schedule & Videos… Jul. 3—Former Washington State football coach Jim Walden, who in 1981 led the Cougars to their first bowl appearance in 50 years, died Thursday in Coeur d’Alene, the school announced. He was 88. “We are saddened to learn of the passing of Coach Walden,” WSU Vice President and Director of Athletics Jon Haarlow said in a release. “He will forever be remembered as a great Coug who deeply loved …
NCAAF College Football News, Photos, Stats, Scores, Schedule & Videos… Jun. 13—*** If all goes well with tickets and I am able to convince my wife to get on a plane in December, I hope to attend the 2026 Heisman Trophy ceremony … for the first time. I don’t really have a bucket list, but if I did being at the Heisman ceremony would be high on it. With all that in mind, I am fully invested in the award first handed out to Chicago’s Jay Berwanger in 1935. The …