Category: Professional Football

Dom Amore: UConn football returning to Boston ‘a relevant, respected program’

NCAAF College Football News, Photos, Stats, Scores, Schedule & Videos… BOSTON — Last year, UConn celebrated the victory at the Fenway Bowl in the moment. During the jubilant postgame, senior Durante Jones repeated over and over, “Why not us?” “We’re just like everybody else,’” Jones said after the 27-14 victory over North Carolina. “We might not be in a conference, but we got the fans. We play the same type of football; good, smash-mouth football. We’re just like …

There's no 'perfect science' to building rosters, but Oklahoma State football coach Eric Morris believes in his process

NCAAF College Football News, Photos, Stats, Scores, Schedule & Videos… When new Oklahoma State head football coach Eric Morris began his first season as the head coach at Incarnate Word in 2018, he saw opportunity. The transfer portal was in its early stages, and Morris noticed other programs trending toward using the portal more frequently instead of recruiting high schools. Morris thought he could find some steals in the portal with talented players who were …

Gophers football: Will star Anthony Smith enter transfer portal?

NCAAF College Football News, Photos, Stats, Scores, Schedule & Videos… The few weeks between the end of the college football regular season in November, through bowl and playoff games in December and into the opening of the transfer portal in January come with a heavy dose of roster intrigue. Who’s coming back and who’s moving on? With Gophers quarterback Drake Lindsey announcing last week he will return in 2026, the player atop of Minnesota’s list of …

Quarterback Drake Lindsey will return to Gophers for 2026 season

NCAAF College Football News, Photos, Stats, Scores, Schedule & Videos… The biggest building block for the Gophers football program will return for the 2026 season. Quarterback Drake Lindsey told the Go Gopher Podcast he will come back to Minnesota for his redshirt sophomore season next year. Lindsey’s promising first season at the helm in 2025 led to some concern on whether the U could keep him around or if other deeper-pocketed programs could lure him away via …

Gophers football: P.J. Fleck rants about one specific aspect of his job

NCAAF College Football News, Photos, Stats, Scores, Schedule & Videos… P.J. Fleck extolled attributes and virtues of the 31 incoming freshman players signed to the Gophers’ 2026 recruiting class last Wednesday. He even shouted out notable things about some of their parents and siblings. For instance, Tolleson, Ariz., receiver Rico Blassingame’s mom and dad love craft beer. Beverly and Ryan will likely be spotted with pints in a local brewery when visiting their …

UCF’s focus is the future with an emphasis on recruiting, player retention

NCAAF College Football News, Photos, Stats, Scores, Schedule & Videos… Scott Frost’s re-introduction to college football began a few minutes following a press conference to welcome him back to UCF. “A couple of players and their agents were waiting outside my office five minutes after I finished, telling me how much money I needed to pay them,” Frost recalled last Wednesday. “I didn’t even know who the kids were.” It was a wild time for Frost, who had a crash …

TUESDAY MORNING QUARTERBACK: Like most breakups, it's best for Washington State to move past Jimmy Rogers

NCAAF College Football News, Photos, Stats, Scores, Schedule & Videos… Dec. 9—COMMENTARY He said all the right things. Heck, Jimmy Rogers was well on his way to doing all the right things, too, with a top 20 defense, a 5-1 record at Gesa Field and a season good enough to earn the Washington State football program its ninth bowl game berth in the last 10 full seasons and lay a foundation for a team that could compete for championships in the new Pac-12. He may …

TUESDAY MORNING QUARTERBACK: Like most breakups, it's best for Washington State to move past Jimmy Rogers

NCAAF College Football News, Photos, Stats, Scores, Schedule & Videos… Dec. 9—COMMENTARY He said all the right things. Heck, Jimmy Rogers was well on his way to doing all the right things, too, with a top 20 defense, a 5-1 record at Gesa Field and a season good enough to earn the Washington State football program its ninth bowl game berth in the last 10 full seasons and lay a foundation for a team that could compete for championships in the new Pac-12. He may …

Paul Sullivan: Notre Dame is justified in taking a stand against the College Football Playoff farce

NCAAF College Football News, Photos, Stats, Scores, Schedule & Videos… CHICAGO — The great farce that’s playing out in the College Football Playoff is likely to do lasting damage to Notre Dame’s relationship with the rest of the world. But not everyone liked “Rudy” to begin with, so the idea that everyone would agree Notre Dame was unfairly bounced from the playoff field when the CFP committee changed its mind at the last minute was far-fetched to begin with. …

Franklin, Fitzgerald find the right spots

NCAAF College Football News, Photos, Stats, Scores, Schedule & Videos… Dec. 5—Penn State needs a football coach. Still. LSU got its guy. So did Florida, Auburn and Virginia Tech, which grabbed fired Penn State coach James Franklin. With glee. In what will go down as one of the nuttiest coaching carousels ever, there still might be more movement. What if the NFL poaches a big name after this season? It could set off another round of crazy. This season has shown us …