Category: College Football

There may not have been a college football program with a bigger spotlight on it to start the 2023 season than the Colorado Buffaloes. The arrival of head coach Deion Sanders sent expectations for the Buffs through the roof, especially since they won just one game in 2022. Colorado went just 4-8 in 2023, but all eyes are still on Coach Prime as the Colorado football roster gets an overhaul. Sanders will still have his son, Shedeur, under center next season, but other pieces of the Colorado football depth chart have entered the spring transfer portal and are on the move. Now, it’s up to Sanders to find the players that will help get Colorado playing above .500 football. If you love Coach Prime and the Buffs, or just want the latest roster updates and college football transfer portal news, be sure to see what the proven team of insiders are saying at BuffStampede.com, the 247Sports affiliate that covers the Colorado Buffaloes.

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The team at BuffStampede.com has full coverage of who is coming and who is going on the Colorado football roster. Head to BuffStampede.com right now to see all the…

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Whether the expanded College Football Playoff comes as a blessing or a curse depends on which side of the break you’re on and what your rivals are up to.

It’s a grand development for a team like Penn State, which has finished inside the top 12 of the final playoff rankings six times in the past eight years but never qualified for a four-team playoff.

But, what about for a program like Florida? The Gators would’ve made a 12-team playoff in each of Dan Mullen’s first three seasons. The past three seasons, though, the Gators would’ve have been close to anything short of a 60-team playoff.

Meanwhile, Florida’s rivals would’ve marched into an expanded playoff one by one. It’s nauseating enough for Gators fans to stomach all that Dawg barking after Georgia won consecutive national championships. Now, imagine the feeling in Florida of seeing not only Georgia but also Tennessee making the 2022 playoff, or Georgia and Florida State piling into the playoff last season.

Now consider this season, when Georgia, Tennessee, LSU and FSU profile as a playoff hopeful, while the Gators are positioned for more mediocrity. Billy Napier serving a Mayo Bowl appearance Year 3 while four rivals piled into the playoff would come as some kind of sad consolation, indeed.

In the four-team playoff era, if your team plays for mayonnaise while your rival plays in the Citrus Bowl, a fan fluent in mental gymnastics can convince himself that’s about equivalent. That logic doesn’t hold, though, if your rivals take over the first round of the 12-team playoff. No one wants to see their coach slathered in a gross sandwich condiment while several rivals play for the big kids’ prize.

Are Gators fans really supposed to chant “S-E-C! S-E-C!” while Georgia and Tennessee play in a playoff quarterfinal?

This possibility is not unique to…

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Three-time national champion coach Urban Meyer blasted the current status of name, image and likeness earnings in college football by calling it “cheating” during an interview on the “Lou Holtz Show.” The 59-year-old three-time national champion said NIL is “great” but lamented the “arms race” it has created.

“If you’re a woman basketball player like the great girl from Iowa and they want to put her on a billboard and pay her, they should be able to do that,” Meyer said. “But that’s not what happened. What’s happened is the arms race of collecting money from donors and the donors are simply paying players. That’s what I understand is happening, and I don’t like that.”

Meyer last coached in college football during the 2018 season. Though that was only six years ago, where it was another era entirely. Since Meyer’s seven-year run at Ohio State concluded, the arrival of NIL, unlimited transferring and conference realignment have rocked the sport.

“If Lou Holtz or Urban Meyer or Marvin Harrison Jr., or C.J. Stroud, they want to go use their name and help sell cars, help a business, that’s great,” Meyer said. “But to have a 17-year-old demand money for a visit, to pay these players a lot of money to go visit a charity for 20 minutes and they write you a check for $50,000, that’s cheating. That’s not what this is all about. I’m very disappointed in where it went.”

While a large-scale revenue-sharing model is in the developing stages in college athletics, player compensation for now is stuck in the collective model under the guise of “NIL,” which doesn’t sit well with…

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BIG 12 TRACK & FIELD

OUTDOOR CHAMPIONSHIPS

at Clyde Hart Stadium, Waco

Thursday through Saturday

Event Finals Only

WOMEN

Team totals (through seven of 21 events): 1. Texas, 49 points; 2. (tie) Oklahoma, Oklahoma State, 34; 4. Brigham Young, 32; 5. Kansas State, 31; 6. Iowa State, 24; 7. TCU, 17; 8. Baylor, 14; 9. Texas Tech, 13; 10. Cincinnati, 10; 11. (tie) Houston, Kansas, West Virginia, 5.

Combined Events

Heptathlon: 1. Kristine Blazevica, Texas, 5,954 points; 2. Bailey Golden Oklahoma State, 5,784; 3. Urte Bacianskaite, Kansas State, 5,714.

Field Events

Hammer throw: 1. Monique Hardy, Kansas State, 210 feet, 9 inches; 2. Kassidy Gallagher, Oklahoma, 207-10; 3. Rachel Neaves, Oklahoma State, 191-3.

Javelin: 1. Irene Jepkemboi, TCU, 182-7; 2. Alysa Keller, BYU, 170-1; 3. Pippi Lotta Enok, Oklahoma, 169-11; 5. Kyeese Hollands, Texas Tech, 165-4; 6. Leah Howard, Texas Tech, 164-4.

Long jump: 1. Alexis Brown, Baylor, 22-5 (wind: +1.1 meters per second) (stadium record; old record, Ruth Usoro, Texas, 21-7 1/2 in 2022); 2. Sydney Willits, Iowa State, 21-3 1/4 (+1.4); 3. Ackelia Smith, Texas, 21-2 3/4 (+0.7).

Shot put: 1. Marilyn Nwora, Texas, 58-2 1/2; 2. Nina Ndubuisi, Texas, 56-11 1/4; 3. Paige Low, Oklahoma, 53-11.

Running Events

10,000 meters: 1. Gabby Hentemann, Oklahoma State, 34 minutes, 31.91 seconds; 2. Eva Jess, Texas, 34:35.92; 3. Anastacia Chepkorir, Texas Tech, 34:48.13.

3,000 steeplechase: 1. Janette Schraft, Iowa State, 9:58.76 (stadium record; old record, Sarah Scott, Oklahoma, 9:59.53 in 2018); 2. Taylor Lovell, BYU, 10:08.63; 3. Hannah Stewart, Kansas State, 10:10.43.

MEN

Team totals (through six of 21 events): 1. Brigham Young, 56 points; 2. Iowa State, 44; 3. Texas, 19; 4. Oklahoma State, 18; 5. Kansas State, 17; 6. Oklahoma, 16; 7. Kansas, 15; 8. Texas Tech, 13; 9. Cincinnati, 12; 10. Baylor, 10; 11. Houston, 8; 12. TCU, 6.

Combined Events

Decathlon: 1. Alexander Jung,…

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THE DALLAS MAVERICKS AND THE CLEVELAND CAVALIERS

This is why, for all the great offenses in the playoffs, the Mavericks‘ might be the most fearsome. Behind a bounce-back performance from Luka Doncic, a career performance from P.J. Washington and an out-of-nowhere performance from Tim Hardaway Jr., the Mavericks evened their series against the Thunder at one apiece with a 119-110 win.

Oklahoma City had not allowed more than 95 points in a game this postseason.

Doncic scored 29 points and made five of his eight 3-pointers, breaking out of a prolonged slump from deep. Washington had 29 points as well, obliterating his previous playoff career high of 18.Doncic and Washington became the first teammates with five 3s and 10 rebounds each in the same playoff game.
Hardaway, meanwhile, had 17 crucial points off the bench. For reference, he had 19…..

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The USC Trojans are being widely doubted before their 2024 college football season. Doubting USC is not unreasonable, given how badly the Trojans stumbled in 2023. USC does have a lot of questions to answer, and until those questions are answered in a satisfactory way, skepticism of Lincoln Riley is warranted. However, LSU is not in an appreciably better position than USC.

The Tigers, like USC, failed to maximize a Heisman Trophy-winning quarterback the past two seasons. They didn’t win a New Year’s Six bowl or capture a conference championship. They had a terrible defense, particularly in the secondary, in 2023. They made a lot of staff changes on the defensive side of the ball. Neither LSU nor USC are in an especially strong position, something we noted earlier this week.

Yet, while USC and LSU are — on a number of levels — in the same boat as college football teams, the media outlets which cover college football are giving LSU a lot more benefit of the doubt in a two-team comparison.

Preseason top-25 college football rankings from The Athletic, CBS Sports, ESPN, and USA TODAY Sports, fused into a composite post-spring set of rankings collected by College Sports Wire, have LSU at No. 12 while USC is completely out of the top 25. If LSU was

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While we’ve seen plenty of teams win the title of “offseason champions” only to fall flat on their face during the season, it isn’t likely Ohio State will suffer such a fate. It’s very much Big Ten title or bust in Columbus. Hell, it’s probably more national title or bust. Ohio State retained most of its key pieces from last season and added to the roster by landing big names in the portal such as Alabama’s Caleb Downs and Ole Miss’ Quinshon Judkins. Will Howard transferred in at QB but has not officially won the starting job because Ohio State has enviable depth at the QB spot. The only questions are on the offensive line.2

Speaking of programs that have had a great offseason, Oregon enters its first season in the Big Ten as a legitimate contender to win the league. Bo Nix has been replaced by left-handed Bo Nix (more commonly known as Dillon Gabriel), and he’s just one of the impressive transfers Dan Lanning has landed. There’s a strong argument that the Ducks are the second-most talented team in…..

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Florida football’s recruiting efforts have been in high gear of late — particularly in the 2025 cycle. Last week, coaches hit the road to visit the schools of some of the program’s coveted prep prospects and even handed out a scholarship offer to one unsuspecting recruit.

Four-star safety Izayia Williams out of Leesburg (Florida) Tavares is currently committed to the Syracuse Orange but has still entertained interest from elsewhere. The 6-foot-1-inch, 205-pound defensive back welcomed inside linebackers coach Ron Roberts to his school last Thursday and came away with a pleasant surprise: an offer from the Orange and Blue.

“I didn’t think they were interested at first,” Williams told Gators Online. “We went to a spring practice and they had somebody down there who committed or was on an official visit, so all the attention was on him and I didn’t talk to them like yet. I never kept in contact after, but then today they came by.”

While Williams is primarily a safety at the high school level, he is projected as a linebacker at the next level by many.

Recruiting Summary

Williams is ranked No. 20 overall and No. 2 at linebacker nationally according to the 247Sports composite while the On3 industry ranking has him at No. 144 overall and No. 15 at safety.

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