Nov. 19—BOWLING GREEN — The Western Kentucky Hilltoppers are ready to go bowling again. WKU became bowl-eligible for the fifth consecutive season under head coach Tyson Helton on a Senior Day Saturday with a 28-23 conquest of visiting Sam Houston State in a back-and-forth Conference USA football game at Houchens/Smith Stadium. Hilltoppers linebacker Desmyn Baker intercepted Keegan Shoemaker’s fourth-and-goal pass …

Any NFL week this season where I can end up over .500 picking games both against the spread and straight up will be counted as a good week. That’s how brutal it’s been this year picking games. The league is a minefield every single week. Can we say the word upset anymore? Nobody is any good. Look what happened last …

3rd Quarter Report Fortunes may be turning around for New Mexico after losing three in a row. They have jumped out to a 18-14 lead against Fresno State. New Mexico took a bit hit to their ego last Saturday, so a win here would be a pleasant pick-me-up. New Mexico came into the contest with some extra motivation after the …

COLUMBIA, Mo. — Florida football sophomore quarterback Max Brown said he has taken the “one play away” mentality into each game this season since earning the backup role in fall camp. So, Brown said there were no jitters when he replaced injured Florida Gators starting quarterback Graham Mertz late in the third quarter on Saturday night before a raucous crowd …

Vikings running back Alexander Mattison appears ready to play tonight against the Broncos. Mattison is listed as questionable with a concussion, but multiple reports say the Vikings expect Mattison to be ready to play. Mattison has started all 10 games this season and is the Vikings’ leading rusher with 130 carries for 461 yards. The Vikings are on a five-game …

The College Football Playoff picture could not be more difficult to predict as we enter the final week of the regular season with five teams from Power Five conferences currently  undefeated with 11-0 records. Luckily, projecting the new AP Top 25 poll is a bit easier as those rankings are not limited to just four spots, but the Week 12 …

Back on October 14, Notre Dame welcomed an undefeated and 10th ranked USC team to South Bend. The Irish were coming off a disappointing and embarrassing loss at Louisville while although flawed defensively, USC was thinking they may be crashing the College Football Playoff party. We all know that Notre Dame dominated that night with a 48-20 victory. The Irish …

College football has just one week to go in its regular season for 2023 before the tide turns to conference championship games and eventually bowl season. Where has the fall gone?  I swear it was like 3 weeks ago that Notre Dame was kicking off the season in Week 0 against Navy in Ireland. A ton has happened along the …

There’s just one week left in the college football regular season. From there it’s off to the conference championship games. All of the action over the next couple of weeks will determine what four teams make the College Football Playoff, and this year there’s a bushel of undefeated and one-loss teams still in the mix for it all. Ohio State …

Periodically this season, people have asked the identity of the Texas Tech football team as if pounding Tahj Brooks, the FBS’s fifth-leading rusher with its second most carries, isn’t an identity. Another, even better identity, is emerging: Team for November. In their first two seasons under Joey McGuire, the Red Raiders are 6-1 in the last month of the regular …

Notre Dame didn’t have the fastest of starts on their 2023 senior day but at the end of the afternoon it was enough for a 45-7 victory over Wake Forest to move to 8-3 on the season. All that remains for Notre Dame this regular season is a trip west to Stanford next weekend to close the year and hopefully …

That really was one heck of a farewell present from Iowa State. They gifted Texas a spot in the Big 12 title game after the Longhorns 26-16 win on Saturday night. Texas’ interior defensive line duo of T’Vondre Sweat and Byron Murphy II took Jarrod Hufford’s comments from earlier this week personally, holding the Cyclones’ offense to nine rushing yards. …

Florida State football’s 58-13 win over North Alabama on Saturday will likely be remembered for one play in the first quarter than the victory. In FSU’s final drive of the first quarter, quarterback Jordan Travis was taken down at the North Alabama 49-yard line on a 16-yard keep and would not get up. Upon video replay, it was apparent that …

It wasn’t the wildest week of college football, but it was the set up for the big payoff. Michigan football and Ohio State remained undefeated for the big Week 13 showdown in The Game, and whoever wins will have the best win in all of college football. Georgia bested Tennessee, Washington hung onto dear life in a sloppy game at …

Minnesota football head coach P.J. Fleck knew it was going to be one whale of a challenge for his young team riddled with injuries to come into the ‘Shoe and hang with, let alone beat, Ohio State. He also knew it was a great opportunity. As it turns out, a pretty good effort by the Golden Gophers in the first …