Punter Pat McAfee, known for his hilarious tweets, took to Twitter to let everyone knows how he feels about the move. MORE: Peyton Manning turns down Colts for front office job Safe to say the Colts locker room won’t miss Grigson.
I wasn’t around for any of that, but it would not be at all surprising if that day was the first when the following eight words were spoken by someone wearing a sportcoat: “The bowls have been good to college football.” The people in charge of this wonderful sport have been slinging this hooey since I covered my first college football beat in the autumn of 1984, so it seemed almost inevitable that when they finally got the postseason playoff right, they’d find a way to muck it up by insisting the bowls be at the heart of it....
Ohio State, LSU and Clemson are locks after finishing off conference championship seasons with 13-0 records. Oklahoma should join the field as the lone Power 5 conference champion with one loss. There shouldn’t be much drama other than the seeding, which will determine who goes to the College Football Playoff semifinals at the Peach Bowl and Fiesta Bowl. MORE: Joe Burrow is Playoff’s most dangerous quarterback Sporting News’ breaks down the College Football Playoff picture for you here:...
Television ratings for Thursday’s College Football Playoff semifinals were down dramatically from last year’s numbers, with the games’ shift to the biggest party night of the year bearing the blame. ESPN said Friday that No. 1 Clemson’s Orange Bowl win over No. 4 Oklahoma drew a 9.7 overnight rating and No. 2 Alabama’s rout of No. 3 Michigan State in the Cotton Bowl earned a 9.9. MORE: Cotton Bowl photos | National title starts at QB | What to watch in national title game...
No. 1 Alabama (9-0), No. 2 Notre Dame (10-0), No. 3 Clemson (9-1) and No. 4 Ohio State (5-0) have not changed through the entire process, and the most likely scenario if the chalk holds is those four teams matching up in the College Football Playoff semifinals. This year, those will be the Sugar Bowl and Rose Bowl on Jan. 1. In a season that has been riddled with cancellations — the latest “The Game” between Ohio State and Michigan — that wouldn’t be the worst thing....
Sporting News breaks down each of those matchups with dates, times, TV schedule and what’s at stake in each game. MORE: Watch college football live and on-demand with fuboTV ACC Clemson (11-1) vs. Miami (11-1) TV: ABC When: 8 p.m., Saturday Where: Bank of America Stadium, Charlotte, N.C. What’s at stake: A playoff berth. The winner is in here. The Tigers are going for three straight ACC championships, while the Hurricanes can win their first ACC championship....
The Bulldogs remained at No.4 in the latest set of CFP rankings on Tuesday and are currently both the highest-ranked one-loss team and the only one-loss team in the top four. Georgia clinched a third consecutive SEC East title with a 21-14 road win over No. 15 Auburn last week and defeating Texas A&M—which rank 24th in the Associated Press Top 25 poll—would give the Bulldogs four wins against ranked programs....
Washington was a 13.5-point dog (Dawg?) when it went into Autzen Stadium and ended No. 6 Oregon’s Playoff hopes. Vanderbilt and Boston College were 17.5-half point underdogs against Kentucky and N.C. State, but both schools showed they are still working despite disappointing seasons and pulled upsets. And Arizona orchestrated a Pac-12 After Dark special, knocking off UCLA as a 19.5-point underdog. Are there still more big underdogs ready to rise up as we near the finish line?...
Florida’s matchup at home against LSU was postponed (maybe canceled), and FSU’s game at Miami could be dealing with damage after the storm passes South Florida. Hurricane aside, the Heisman hype continues to grow around ACC quarterbacks Lamar Jackson, Deshaun Watson … and Mitch Trubisky? MORE: Week 6 TV schedule Here are five story lines to watch for this weekend: 1. Hurricane Matthew doesn’t care about your football game. Teams playing in the Southeast will need to have a backup plan in case Matthew ravages Florida, Georgia, South Carolina and North Carolina....
College will always convey a certain image: Gothic buildings filled with postadolescents listening to tweed-clad professors. But the Internet is blurring that picture, and State U is quietly morphing into College.com. To be sure, a virtual university is no place for Felicity or her just-out-of-high-school friends; they want the full campus package, kegs and all. But “typical” college students–18 to 22 years old, living in dorms, studying full time–make up only 16 percent of enrollments today, says Arthur Levine, president of Teachers College at Columbia University....
The Gators won their first College World Series title in 103 seasons, beating LSU 6-1 in a sweep to take home a well-deserved national title trophy. MORE: Recapping Florida’s thrilling Game 1 win Much like in Game 1, pitching dominated the Gators’ winning effort, as freshman Tyler Dyson pitched the Gators to a lead with 6 IP, 3 hits, 1 earned run, 2 walks and 2 strikeouts. He is credited with the win and Player of the Game honors....
Texas, Tennessee, Vanderbilt, Arizona, Mississippi State, Stanford, NC State and Virginia will all be in Omaha, Nebraska, fighting to be the next champion of college baseball. The College World Series is unlike other prominent NCAA championships like March Madness and the College Football Playoff. The eight teams will start off in two brackets with two teams emerging to face off against one another in the finals matchup. Below, we’re breaking down the format for the College World Series, from how the initial brackets work to how teams reach College World Series....
Colo-Colo Lo Boza were travelling to Paraguay for a youth tournament in the early hours of the morning. The bus that the team and their delegation were travelling in was involved in a traffic collision in the Mendoza region of western Argentina, with the vehicle coming off the road. Colo-Colo confirmed the incident on their official Twitter account and offered their condolences to the families of those involved. “We deeply regret the tragic death of three children, members of a sports delegation of the Colo-Colo Lo Boza football school in the commune of Quilicura,” they wrote....
The Boca Juniors star made a gesture with his eyes at Korea players after a clash involving James Rodriguez and Kim Jin-su. Although Cardona denied all wrongdoing, Korea international Ki Sung-yueng described the behaviour as “absolutely unacceptable” after the match. Colombia, who have been drawn alongside Poland, Japan and Senegal for the World Cup in Russia, have one fixture scheduled, a game against France in March. But with more friendlies expected to be booked in, Cardona is still likely to serve the ban in time to take his place in Colombia’s first Group H game against Japan on June 19....
Just 31 seconds in, the Avs lost starting goalie Pavel Francouz following a collision with Mark Scheifele in the crease. Francouz laid motionless on the ice for a while before being helped to his skates and assisted off the ice by a trainer Warning: the content in this video may be disturbing for some audiences. When play resumed, it was not Philipp Grubauer, who is currently dealing with a lower-body injury, between the pipes....
I guess the officials were so shocked that a kicker could tackle like this that they totally turned a blind eye to what appears to be a helmet-to-helmet hit. (UPDATE: A closer look shows that McAfee didn't hit Holliday with the crown of his helmet, make the hit legal but no less stunning.) One thing's for sure: Ndamukong Suh didn't miss it.
Per WTHR in Indianapolis: MORE: “>Most heinous crimes connected to athletes | September first calendar month without NFL arrest in six years Adongo, born in Kenya, has been with the Colts off and on since 2013 and is viewed as a raw project player. He’s a converted rugby athlete and has seen limited NFL action, appearing in only two career games. Police arrived and spoke to the woman, who did not request any medical assistance and was unable to explain why she sent the text....
McAfee sent a picture of a beautiful palm-tree laden landscape and claimed that’s what Indianapolis looked like in March. MORE: Salary cap: who can spend and who can’t | Five best fits for Andre Johnson The Detroit Lions chose not to give Suh the franchise tag on Monday, mostly due to the fact he would have earned $26.9 million if they had. Now teams are in a bidding frenzy over one of the best defensive players in the league....
“Usually when I do my college football numbers to win the national championship, I start them on Saturday night, and then I firm them up on Sunday morning,” Johnny Avello, The Wynn’s Executive Director of Race & Sports Operations, told The Linemakers on Sporting News on Monday. “I had a tough time with it this week because there are just so many teams in the mix.” There has been little early line movement on those two games, with Auburn opening as a 3-point road favorite at Mississippi State and sitting at the same number on Monday afternoon, and Baylor dropping slightly from -11....
