Barstool’s Dave Portnoy says he is banned from Ohio Stadium on Saturday. Ohio State disagrees
COLUMBUS, Ohio — Dave Portnoy will not be inside Ohio Stadium with the Fox Sports “Big Noon Kickoff” crew before Saturday’s game between top-ranked Texas and third-ranked Ohio State. Who made that decision continues to be debated. The Barstool Sports founder posted a nearly six-minute video on Twitter/X on Tuesday...
Switching schools doesn’t mean switching conferences for some QBs
MADISON, Wis. — Wisconsin quarterback Billy Edwards Jr. wasn’t necessarily looking to stay in the Big Ten when he decided to leave Maryland and enter the transfer portal. It just worked out that way. Edwards is one of several potential Power Four starting quarterbacks who switched schools without switching conferences....
LSU QB Garrett Nussmeier aims to show why patience and loyalty was the right road for him
BATON ROUGE, La. — LSU quarterback Garrett Nussmeier can see why he might appear conceited when periodically imploring teammates to hop on the “Nuss Bus.” The prolific passer and potential Heisman Trophy candidate, whose ninth-ranked Tigers open the season at No. 4 Clemson on Saturday night, insists he’s not that...
Schools use field logos, higher concession prices and more to pay for the new era in college sports
It was an exercise in corporate branding that wouldn’t have raised an eyebrow in most pro sports. In college sports, it bordered on revolutionary. In a full room of reporters, boosters and executives, the University of South Carolina delivered the news that it was bringing on a new sponsor that...
Rocco Becht stars as No. 22 Iowa State beats No. 17 Kansas State 24-21 in Ireland
DUBLIN — Rocco Becht passed for two touchdowns and ran for another score, helping No. 22 Iowa State beat No. 17 Kansas State, 24-21, in the Aer Lingus Classic on Saturday. Becht was 14 for 28 for 183 yards. He found Dominic Overby for a 23-yard TD in the first...
Arch Manning for Heisman and Texas to win national title are betting favorites
LAS VEGAS — The Manning name goes a long way, even for college football bettors. Top-ranked Texas is favored to win the national championship, and Longhorns quarterback Arch Manning is the early leader to capture the Heisman Trophy, which would be one of the rare accomplishments his famous football family...
Notre Dame coach Marcus Freeman uses past to propel No. 6 Irish
Marcus Freeman used some of the tough lessons he learned his first two years as Notre Dame’s coach to help him navigate the longest season in the FBS’ modern era. It’s prepared him for what’s next: taking the same script and rewriting the ending. Seven months after losing the national...
SEC approves 9-game conference schedule beginning in 2026, joining Big Ten and Big 12
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. — The SEC is moving to a nine-game conference schedule beginning in 2026, ending a yearslong debate and potentially easing a path toward another expansion of the College Football Playoff. The change was approved by conference presidents and chancellors Thursday. It previously had been recommended by league athletic...
CFP committee adding weight to games against strong opponents, limit reward for beating weak foes
The College Football Playoff selection committee announced Wednesday it will place more emphasis on strength of schedule this year when determining which teams make the 12-team field. The committee said in a statement that the schedule strength metric has been adjusted to apply greater weight to games against strong opponents....
10 House Democrats ask NCAA about plans to protect women as ways to pay college athletes increase
Ten Democratic members of the U.S. House of Representatives have asked the NCAA if and how college sports’ major governing body plans to protect the interests of female athletes as the largest portion of NIL and revenue-sharing payments continue to be directed to male athletes. The lawmakers, in a letter...
Julian Sayin named Ohio State’s starting quarterback for season opener against Texas
COLUMBUS, Ohio — Julian Sayin will be Ohio State’s starting quarterback when the No. 3 Buckeyes open the season against top-ranked Texas on Aug. 30, coach Ryan Day announced Monday. Day, who is in his seventh year leading the Buckeyes, said Sayin was more consistent in the competition with Lincoln...
Nebraska-Omaha basketball player Deng Mayar drowns in a Utah reservoir
Nebraska-Omaha basketball player Deng Mayar drowned Saturday in a Utah reservoir, police said. Herriman police said Mayar died at Blackridge Reservoir after going underwater about 35 yards from shore. Mayar, 22, was a graduate student who joined the Mavericks after playing two seasons for Summit League rival North Dakota. Mayar,...
Texas, Penn State each place 3 players on AP preseason All-America 1st team; 2 from Pitt honored
Texas and Penn State, the top two teams in The Associated Press preseason Top 25, each had three players selected for the preseason AP All-America team announced Monday. No. 1 Texas had one player from each level of its defense on the first team: edge rusher Colin Simmons, linebacker Anthony...
College football’s new era: Big money, same old powerhouses line up as the favorites
Headline after headline during the offseason spoke to the same reality for college football: Millions of dollars are headed directly into the pockets of players and only programs that can nimbly recalibrate and replenish their resources will succeed. Now, with preseason camps winding down and opening kickoffs approaching, a different...
After injury-shortened season, Apollo-Ridge grad Greg Klingensmith back to anchor William & Mary O-line
Perhaps not surprisingly, it isn’t difficult to find reminders of Pittsburgh Steelers coach Mike Tomlin around the William & Mary football facility. Tomlin still holds the program record for highest yards-per-catch average in a season (25.5 in 1992) and for a career (20.1). Across the street from the Williamsburg, Va.,...
Boise State again favored to win Mountain WestVideo
Change is coming to the Mountain West, but this season will feel like so many others. No. 25 Boise State was picked to win the conference. For the 15th year in a row. Broncos coach Spencer Danielson pointed out that didn’t equate to a conference title every time, but Boise...
No. 11 Arizona State seeks encore in Big 12; WVU’s Rich Rodriguez excited for returnVideo
Arizona State was a big surprise debuting in the Big 12 with a conference championship and making the College Football Playoff after being picked to finish at the bottom of the 16-team league. Kenny Dillingham, the 35-year-old coach now in his third season at his alma mater, bluntly told his...
Mid-American Conference boasts experienced QBs on top teamsVideo
Quarterback Dequan Finn is returning to a very different Mid-American Conference than the one he left when he transferred to Baylor last year. His biggest challenge now comes from quarterback Parker Navarro, who led Ohio to the 2024 league crown. Finn’s backup at Toledo, Tucker Gleason, is now the incumbent...
Michigan football fined millions, Moore suspended 3 games in sign-stealing scandal
ANN ARBOR, Mich. — The NCAA fined Michigan tens of millions of dollars Friday and suspended coach Sherrone Moore for three games for a sign-stealing scandal that has loomed over college football’s winningest program for nearly two years, including its national championship season in 2023. The NCAA said it had...
SEC tries to regain championship form after 2 years without title
SEC football is experiencing a championship drought. The powerhouse league hasn’t even played for a national title since the 2022 season. It’s a skid that just means more given the SEC’s nearly two decades of gridiron dominance, which included 13 championships over a 17-year span beginning in 2006. But the...
NCAA to release findings from Michigan football sign-stealing investigation Friday
Michigan will finally learn its punishment from a NCAA investigation into an alleged illegal scouting/sign-stealing scheme. The NCAA formally notified all of the involved parties on Thursday morning that the findings will be publicly released on Friday, according to an NCAA email obtained by The Detroit News. The findings will...
Pitt gets 3 players on All-Time All-America team after 100 years
Ohio State and Pitt each placed three players on the Associated Press All-Time All-America team announced Thursday as part of the news organization’s celebration of the 100th anniversary of the storied honor for the top players in college football. Since 1925, nearly 2,000 men have been named AP first-team All-Americans,...
Clemson’s experience makes Tigers the ACC favorite … Can anyone challenge them?Video
No. 4 Clemson won so much over more than a decade that it felt like a step back when the Tigers didn’t reach 10 wins two years ago in the first of back-to-back four-loss seasons. Still, the Tigers are the reigning ACC champions and coming off a trip to the...
NCAA informs Michigan ruling on sign-stealing investigation set to be released
ANN ARBOR, Mich. — The NCAA has informed Michigan that the organization will announce the results of its sign-stealing investigation on Friday, a person familiar with the situation told The Associated Press. The person spoke Thursday on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to share the details. The...
Crackdown on players faking injuries, tweak to video review verbiage among changes in college game
Officials will be cracking down on college football players who feign injuries, the number of overtime timeouts will be reduced and referees will use different verbiage when announcing the results of video reviews. Those are among the changes for the 2025 season, the National Football Foundation announced Wednesday in its...
