‘What’s a first down?’: Meet Tobi Haastrup, the accidental superstar and coveted recruit
Tobi Haastrup had no idea what to do.The 17-year-old had never lined up in a defensive stance before. He wasn’t ...
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Week 11’s top 10 college football games: SEC eliminations and Colorado’s surge
It’s an admittedly subdued batch of games this weekend, but even that includes a pair of top-20 SEC clashes, Colorado ...
Predicting the first 12-team College Football Playoff selection committee rankings
The first College Football Playoff rankings will be revealed Tuesday night (7 p.m. ET), and once again I’ll be using ...
AP Top 25: Oregon, Georgia, Ohio State, Miami lead poll ahead of first Playoff rankings
In the last AP Top 25 before the College Football Playoff selection committee weighs in, Oregon became the first team ...
Week 9’s top 10 college football games: An SEC showdown for first place, upset alerts and more
It’s a compelling slate of games this weekend, including five ranked matchups, four of which feature double-digit spreads. (Any chance ...
Meet the college baseball recruit who stormed the field at Vanderbilt, Oregon and Tennessee
If there is a Guinness Book of World Records entry for the most consecutive field stormings in a college football ...
Tales from the college football sidelines: The ‘ridiculously fun’ life as a ball boy
It was one of the biggest moments in Georgia football history. Players were celebrating. Fans were delirious.But Bennett Vest had ...
AP Top 25: Oregon tops Georgia for No. 1 as Alabama plummets, Vanderbilt replaces Michigan
Oregon moved up to No. 1 in the AP Top 25 college football poll Sunday for the first time since ...
Heisman straw poll: Ashton Jeanty sprints into the lead, Dillon Gabriel makes an appearance
Travis Hunter got hurt, left early and watched his team lose a close one. That’s no reason for anyone who ...
Mandel’s Final Thoughts: Dillon Gabriel’s legend grows after 2024’s latest top-five classic
And now, 20 Final Thoughts from a remarkable college football Saturday that saw three top-10 teams go to overtime and ...
‘To the river’: Vanderbilt fans detail chaotic celebration and goalpost trek after Alabama upset
It sank. Of course it did.It was a several-hundred-pound goalpost heaved into the Cumberland River, but any of the students ...
College Football Playoff Bubble Watch: What upsets like Vanderbilt over Alabama remind us
We do it every year.Alabama has only four possible losses on its whole schedule! It’ll be favored in every game ...
Diego Pavia is a Bama-slaying Vanderbilt legend, and Vandy is a college football lesson
A twinge of sympathy struck in the moment, sitting in Vanderbilt’s McGugin Center last month, listening to Diego Pavia talk ...
What stat matters most in college football? Keep an eye on explosive play margin
In the old days, they were known as big plays. Or maybe long plays. It’s not clear when, or why, ...
Yahoo Top 10: After Texas’ flex and Notre Dame’s flop, which teams make the cut?
A week ago, the college football world celebrated Notre Dame’s road win at Texas A&M as one of the toughest ...
Mandel’s Final Thoughts: Clemson’s mini-dynasty is over, and that’s only part of ACC’s angst
And now, 17 Final Thoughts from the first three days of Week 1. (Apologies, LSU and USC, I just couldn’t ...
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