NCAAF College Football News, Photos, Stats, Scores, Schedule & Videos… Feb. 12—PULLMAN — Washington State’s first schedule in the rebuilt Pac-12 is here, and the Cougars’ lineup looks like none other in program history. WSU’s season-opener will be a road matchup against rival Washington on Sept. 5, which will be the third installment of a five-year nonconference extension of the Apple Cup. The Cougs will also visit Kansas State for the teams’ first meeting, and …
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NCAAF College Football News, Photos, Stats, Scores, Schedule & Videos… The Gophers football program is expected to hire Kansas State’s linebacker coach Steve Stanard as the U’s next rush ends coach, a source confirmed to Pioneer Press on Wednesday. Stanard replaces Bobby April III, who was hired after the Gophers’ overtime win in the Rate Bowl but soon left to join the Buffalo Bills’ new coaching staff. April was stepping in for CJ Robbins, who was promoted to …
NCAAF College Football News, Photos, Stats, Scores, Schedule & Videos… Feb. 11—*** I have covered a college football game at Detroit’s Ford Field. One of Ron Zook’s Illinois teams played Western Michigan there one year. It was a lot of fun. But I always figured I would be back someday to cover the Motor City Bowl (or whatever it was called). Eventually, Illinois would get an invite and I’d spend Christmastime in Detroit. No such luck. On Tuesday, Ford Field …
NCAAF College Football News, Photos, Stats, Scores, Schedule & Videos… Feb. 10—VERMILLION, S.D. — When Matt Vitzthum graduated from his small-town Iowa high school 21 years ago, Marty Wadle saw a senior heading off to college and had one prevailing thought about his team captain. That’s a natural leader, Wadle thought. The University of South Dakota agreed, making Vitzthum the school’s head football coach on Feb. 6 after former head coach Travis Johansen took the …
NCAAF College Football News, Photos, Stats, Scores, Schedule & Videos… Feb. 10—ROCHESTER — Jeremiah Molina is the John Marshall football team’s resident Renaissance man. And a big one at that — 6-foot-5, 360 pounds. It seems there are two Jeremiah Molinas who show up. There is that rough-and-tumble football offensive lineman who likes nothing more than dominating the guy across from him. “Once he gets his hands on you, it’s over with,” is how JM coach Kyle …
NCAAF College Football News, Photos, Stats, Scores, Schedule & Videos… Feb. 10—Bobby Hauck has officially retired as head coach of Montana football, and on this episode of Big Sky Now, the Daily Inter Lake panel breaks down what it means for the Griz, the Big Sky Conference, and the future of FCS football. Host Luke Schmit is joined by Daily Inter Lake’s sports editor Fritz Neighbor and reporter Jon Allen to unpack the timing and nuance behind Hauck’s decision — …
NCAAF College Football News, Photos, Stats, Scores, Schedule & Videos… Feb. 9—SIOUX FALLS — NDSU is finally going. They will transition to FBS effective immediately and join the Mountain West Conference in time for the coming season, but won’t be eligible for the Mountain West championship game or College Football Playoff until 2028 (though they are appealing for immediate eligibility). Good for them. The Bison are an incredible program and they’ve accomplished …
NCAAF College Football News, Photos, Stats, Scores, Schedule & Videos… JOHNSTOWN, Pa. – Don Bailey led the Forest Hills High School football program to 375 wins in 45 years, the seventh-highest total in Pennsylvania history. But his former players and area coaches remembered Bailey as more than a Hall of Fame football coach. Bailey, who died Sunday at age 74 after several years of health issues, was an educator, administrator, community leader – and a family man …
NCAAF College Football News, Photos, Stats, Scores, Schedule & Videos… For many generations, most of the boys who grew up in the Forest Hills School District wanted to play football for the Rangers. That was due, in large part, to coach Don Bailey elevating the program to be among the best in the region and state over his storied 45-year career patrolling the sidelines. Who could forget the 1990s when Forest Hills won 101 games over 10 seasons and posted a .820 …
NCAAF College Football News, Photos, Stats, Scores, Schedule & Videos… GAINESVILLE — Phil Trautwein’s return to his old stomping grounds at Florida feels welcoming, familiar and — he had long hoped — inevitable. Much also has changed since the Gators’ new offensive line coach attended his first game in the Swamp in 2001 or lined up at left tackle for the 2006 and 2008 national champions. The palatial $85 million Heavener Football Center dazzled him. The program’s …