College Football

Sally Alston didn’t know what she was getting herself into on her first date with Bobby Alston. “He told me he worked for the school,” said Sally Alston, now Bobby’s wife for more than four decades. “And then, he starts giving me directions to the school, and I’m like, ‘Wait a minute, I thought he said he was available!” “Anyways, …

USATSI Ohio State is set for another nonconference home game this weekend when it welcomes Western Michigan into The Horseshoe. The Buckeyes are looking to get back to the College Football Playoff this year after missing out a season ago. OSU shook off a sleepy start and to breeze past Akron 52-6 in the season opener last week. A big …

If things go like most expect, Georgia football will be able to go deep down its roster Saturday against Tennessee Tech and give plenty of snaps to players that are unlikely to see many in the grind of the SEC schedule. Guys like Jahzare Jackson, who has about as intriguing a story as any in college football this season. The …

USATSI The Oklahoma Sooners are set to host the Houston Cougars at Gaylord Family-Oklahoma Memorial Stadium on Saturday night. The Jackson Arnold era got off to a hot start last week, and the Sooners look to keep that rolling this weekend. In Week 1, Oklahoma smoked Temple to the tune of 51-3. The Sooners took a 34-0 lead in the …

BLOOMINGTON — The second half of Indiana football’s game against Western Illinois on Friday night started with officials keeping time on the field after the scoreboards at Memorial Stadium became inoperational. The scoreboards went dark at the end of halftime and there was a brief delay as officials discussed the issue. The Hoosiers have scoreboards located in each end zone …

USATSI Coming off their impressive Week 1 win against LSU, the USC Trojans will host the Utah State Aggies on Saturday night. USC has already scored a strong resume win as it heads into its home opener. In one of last week’s marquee matchups, USC went to Las Vegas for a top-25 clash against LSU. The Trojans were able to …

Photo: Isaiah Hole ANN ARBOR, Mich. — Not many are giving Michigan football much of a chance to compete against Texas in Week 2, despite having won the national championship last year. And much of that is due to the personnel losses mixed with how the offense looked in Week 1. But Fox Sports analyst Brady Quinn doesn’t think it’s …

USATSI Baylor and Utah will meet at Rice-Eccles Stadium on Saturday afternoon. The Bears should be a nice early conference test for the No. 11 ranked Utes, who are playing in their first-ever Big 12 conference game. Baylor got to ease into the 2024 season, notching a 45-3 win over Tarleton State last weekend. The Bears controlled the game on …

Sep. 6—Minnesota coach P.J. Fleck coached at Western Michigan. So did Jack Harbaugh, father of Jim and John Harbaugh. So did Elliot Uzelac, whose job as Ohio State’s offensive coordinator went up in flames when star running back Robert Smith sat out the 1991 season because of a conflict with Uzelac. And so did Tim Lester, who took over for …

Manny Diaz enters his second game as the Duke football head coach after leading the Blue Devils to a 26-3 victory over Elon in a dominant defensive effort last week. Duke had eight sacks and held Elon to 2.3 yards per play in its Week 1 victory but will face a stronger offense when Duke plays the Northwestern Wildcats on …

No. 1 Michigan Wolverines will host No. 3 Texas Longhorns during week two of the NCAA football season. (Aaron J. Thornton/Getty Images) Defending national champs the Michigan Wolverines and the No. 3 Texas Longhorns both won their first games of the season last week, and the two will meet this weekend in Ann Arbor for Week 2 of NCAA football. …

STARKVILLE, Miss. — Jeff Lebby ducks into a nearby open room as construction workers loudly clang away in his office as part of a summer remodel.  This is where we’d typically make the obvious comparison to what Lebby inherited as Mississippi State’s new coach, but it wouldn’t be the appropriate analogy. Mississippi State football didn’t need a remodel when Lebby …

With six sophomores in the starting lineup, North Star football coach Bob Landis expects growing pains to be mixed with the splash plays his youthful Cougars have made through two weeks of the Inter-County Conference schedule. The bottom line as Landis sees it, North Star will carry a 2-0 record into Friday night’s home game against Somerset County rival Meyersdale …

SMU wide receiver Jordan Hudson scores a touchdown on a 73-yard pass during a simulated game between BYU and SMU in the new EA Sports College Football 25 video game. | EA Sports College Football 25 Note: With EA Sports’ College Football 25 bringing college football back to the video game world, the Deseret News is simulating every BYU game …

The 2024 college football season rolls on this weekend with a packed slate of games on the Week 2 schedule. All 25 teams in the AP poll are in action, including two contests that pit one ranked team against another.  None are bigger than No. 3 Texas’ trip to No. 10 Michigan. It’s on the short list of the most …