Tensions are high and controversy is ramping up around the College Football Playoff rankings with less than three weeks left before the field is set on Selection Sunday. Part of this week’s debate centered on the status of Indiana, which has a schedule short on quality opponents but long on victories. The Hoosiers are unbeaten heading into its showdown with ...
To the College Football Playoff selection committee: time to take a look at your report card. Ever since the first set of rankings were released two weeks ago, there have been plenty of chaos in the sport to turn the rankings on its head and alter the course for the 12-team playoff. While some teams have deservingly moved up or ...
As the New York Jets finish leveling their latest and greatest rebuild, they might as well take this thing just about all the way down to the studs – and we’ll get to them later. But in the interim, naturally, interim general manager Phil Savage – he replaced exiled Joe Douglas on Tuesday – might bring an organization that’s long ...
And a big part of the Hoosiers’ success this season — including its first 10-0 start in program history, a top five ranking in the US LBM Coaches Poll and a projected top seven seeding in the latest CFP rankings — is Indiana starting quarterback Kurtis Rourke. Even so, ESPN college football analyst Joey Galloway suggested on Tuesday’s CFP rankings ...
Tuesday night’s College Football Playoff rankings reflect the calm before the storm. With No. 2 Ohio State set to host No. 5 Indiana, No. 19 Army meeting No. 6 Notre Dame and several other impactful games involving ranked teams in the Power Four, this Saturday’s schedule will help clarify what has been an uncertain and unsettled race for the 12-team ...
Boston’s Jayson Tatum had the mismatch on Cleveland’s Georges Niang. The Cavaliers had erased the Celtics’ 21-point lead and trailed by just two points as the third quarter dwindled to its end. Tatum drove hard to his left and put on the brakes. Niang tried to absorb contact in hope of getting a referee to call an offensive foul on ...
Kam Jones etched himself in Marquette men’s basketball lore. The senior guard notched just the third triple-double in program history, and the Golden Eagles put on a defensive clinic in a 76-58 victory over sixth-ranked Purdue on Tuesday at Fiserv Forum. MU (5-0) is ranked 14th in the USA TODAY Sports Men’s Basketball Coaches Poll. Jones finished with 17 points, 13 ...
Major League Baseball announced its Manager of the Year winners Tuesday, with Stephen Vogt of the Cleveland Guardians and Pat Murphy of the Milwaukee Brewers taking home the awards, as voted on by the Baseball Writers’ Association of America. Vogt received 27 of 30 first-place votes, beating out American League finalists – and AL Central rivals – Matt Quatraro and ...
UConn women’s basketball had the event planned months ago, well before Wednesday’s game against Farleigh Dickinson officially became coach Geno Auriemma’s first chance to surpass all the college basketball coaches before him. The school announced in September it would celebrate the program’s 40 years under Auriemma and associate head coach Chris Dailey during the FDU game. More than 60 former ...
They’ll deny it. You bet your Golden Flakes, they will. But when Saturday arrives and the first of the final three college football regular season weekends begins, officials in the big, bad SEC will have one of many monitors in the war room of the league offices turned to what’s unfolding in Columbus, Ohio. Because if No. 2 Ohio State ...