The three big games this week are No. 8 Ohio State at No. 24 Michigan State, No. 18 Mississippi State at No. 1 Alabama and No. 2 Clemson at No. 17 Boston College. Can we expect a clean sweep from the favorites, or will chaos reign supreme in Week 11? MORE: Week 11 bowl game projections Sporting News has picks for those games and more this week, including a reunion between Florida State and No....
That won’t change, knowing six of the 13 Power 5 schools with one loss or fewer are on a bye this week. Each week, Sporting News will look at the best Playoff path for the top contenders remaining in November. Here is a closer look at those 13 teams. … MORE: Week 10 Playoff picture Prime Playoff position LSU (8-0) and Alabama (8-0) If the Playoff rankings were released today, then the Tigers would be No....
If you believe in ‘Bama, the No. 2 team in the College Football Playoff rankings released Tuesday night, here’s a different betting strategy to consider: starting with the Iron Bowl on Saturday, play the Tide on the money line and roll over your winnings each week. They’ll be favored each week, but when they’re up against some of the other best teams in the nation in the playoffs, they won’t be that big of favorites, and if you win on them on four straight money-line picks, you’ll be looking at a bigger payoff than 3-to-2 (about 2-to-1, according to a rough but conservative estimate)....
No. 1 Alabama, No. 3 LSU and No. 6 Georgia give the conference three teams in the top six (No. 9 Kentucky gives them four of the top 10). That’s great news for the SEC when you consider that only two teams have made the Playoff that didn’t open in the top six. That was Ohio State (2014) and Michigan State (2015). MORE: Week 10 College Football Playoff rankings...
Ohio State’s win over Notre Dame netted it two No. 1 votes, but the Buckeyes’ ugly win over the Irish didn’t seem to turn a ton of heads. Notre Dame, for its part, joins Utah as the only two 0-1 teams in the Top 25 (Utah, of course, lost to Florida in Week 1). Florida’s win over Utah catapulted it into the rankings at No. 12, while Utah dropped to No....
The biggest surprise of the Week 2 slate came when No. 12 Oregon, fresh off a narrow 31-24 win over Fresno State and missing its two best defensive players, went into Ohio Stadium and beat No. 3 Ohio State, 35-28. The defense was far from perfect, giving up 612 yards, but also limited the Buckeyes to 6 of 15 and 2 of 5 on third-and fourth-down conversions, respectively. Oregon running back CJ Verdell was excellent as well, rushing for 161 yards and tallying three total touchdowns....
That said, a few conferences have released full schedules and the intent is to try to start the season in September as of now. Conference-only schedules will be the norm, and some star players have opted out to focus on the NFL Draft. Still, the College Football Playoff plans on having its selection show Dec. 20. As of now, it’s game on. With that in mind, Sporting News has a Preseason Top 25....
Just another week in this topsy-turvy 2021 college football season. MORE: Oklahoma, Big 12 won’t get CFP committee’s forgiveness after loss to Baylor The Sooners will face immediate repercussions — potentially insurmountable ones, considering how little the selection committee has thought of this team through two sets of rankings. That said, the Sooners are still squarely in contention for the Big 12 championship game and a potential berth in the playoff....
Four games highlight the action on New Year’s Eve, including a pair of bowls featuring ranked teams. No. 24 Tulsa plays Mississippi State in the Armed Forces Bowl held in Amon G. Carter Stadium in Fort Worth, followed by No. 22 San Jose State meeting Ball State in the Arizona Bowl at Arizona Stadium in Tucson. The other two games don’t have ranked teams, but they do include three Power 5 programs....
Instead, we’re left with some of the same-old themes heading into the November portion of a season impacted by COVID-19. No. 1 Clemson, No. 2 Alabama and No. 3 Ohio State remain the teams to beat, but there are some other pieces left in the College Football Playoff puzzle — not to mention the coaching carousel. Here is a look at some of the over-reactions heading into the next month of the regular season:...
GameDay coordinating producer Lee Fitting made the announcement Monday afternoon during a luncheon at the College Football Hall of Fame in Atlanta. MORE: No excuses, Saban | Future schedules 2015-28 | Best SEC games The SEC vs. Big Ten matchup marks the second consecutive year that the pregame road show will spend the season’s first Saturday in Dallas-Fort Worth. Last year, before No. 1 Florida State met Oklahoma State in the annual neutral-site matchup at AT&T Stadium, GameDay set up in Fort Worth’s Sundance Square....
Vanderbilt and Mississippi State will meet at TD Ameritrade Park Omaha, Neb., in Game 3 of the College World Series finals, with the Commodores seeking their third NCAA title (and second in a row) and the Bulldogs looking for their first. Vanderbilt will start Kumar Rocker, a projected top 10 draft pick who is 14-3 with a 2.52 ERA and 173 strikeouts in 117 innings. Mississippi State could start staff ace Will Bednar, a freshman who last pitched Saturday and has been dominant in Omaha (22 Ks in 12....
He was knocked out cold in the opponent’s half. However, some quick and smart thinking from his teammates, who noticed that he was swallowing his tongue and reached for his mouth and cleared his airway, saved his life. This action was taken immediately after the collision and instead of panicking his team held their own and prevented what could have been a dark day in the history of football....
Shaynon McFadden and Royce Robbins bought their home on Rushmore Street in Elizabeth, Colorado in November 2018, KUSA reported. At first, they had no issues with snakes—but the following spring, they said a number of them started coming up out of the slats of the back deck of their home. “We started seeing garter snakes heads popping up in between the wood slats on the ground level patio,” McFadden told the station....
At a signing ceremony in Denver Tuesday, Polis reversed orders that were made by Territorial Governor John Evans in 1864, stating that they “shamefully targeted and endangered the lives” of indigenous people. The proclamations led to the Sand Creek Massacre—one of the deadliest mass murders in American history—in which the U.S. Army attacked Cheyenne and Arapaho people and slaughtered at least 230. “When then-Gov. Evans made that proclamation, he said, ‘you can hunt Native people,’ just as if you hunted buffalo and antelope and elk and deer—it was open season,” Reggie Wassana, governor of the Cheyenne and Arapaho Tribes based in Wyoming said during the ceremony, according to the Colorado Sun....
Since August, Colorado has seen its two largest wildfires to date—the Cameron Peak Fire and East Troublesome Fire—which have collectively burnt through more than 400,000 acres. The East Troublesome Fire, which began on October 14 just north of Hot Sulphur Springs, moved rapidly through Grand County and into the Rocky Mountain National Park. It was 37 percent contained as of Saturday morning, but has remained stable this week after the area received nearly a foot of snow on October 25 and 26, The Denver Post reported....
“Everyone in the queer Mormon community was afraid something like this would happen because the dangerous rhetoric of Mormon leaders, combined with a highly armed population, is volatile,” excommunicated Mormon feminist-activist and human-rights lawyer Kate Kelly said. “As a former Mormon missionary, I recognize a clear connection between the murderer’s actions and the church’s teachings,” Kelly said. “In the Book of Mormon, there is a very clear story about how it’s permitted—necessary even—to kill if that person would lead others to ‘unbelief....
Griswold filed the lawsuit on Thursday, seeking to strip County Clerk Peters of her powers administering elections in Mesa County. Responsibility for the county’s elections would be reassigned to two Republicans, former Colorado Secretary of State Wayne Williams and Mesa County Treasurer Sheila Reiner, Peters’ predecessor as county clerk. Griswold said the move was necessary because Peters “is not fit to serve” in the role during elections this November....
Mathis, 33, tested positive for a male fertility drug called clomiphene citrate, generically known as Clomid, according to NFL.com. Mathis led the NFL in sacks last season with 19 1/2 and was the initial winner of the league's Deacon Jones Award. He is fifth on the active career sacks list with 111, all with the Colts, where he has spent his entire 11-year career. In a statement posted on his Twitter account, Mathis said he was taking a prescription last season, which he did not name, because he and his wife had "fertility challenges,'' and that the prescribing doctor "incorrectly" told him the drug would not cause a problem with league testing....
