We had a feeling the CFP committee would keep the Wolverines at No. 5, but we didn’t know how strongly it would feel about it. Michigan’s path to the playoff isn’t as easy as you think, but it is absolutely not a long shot. MORE: Eight big questions with one week to go The simple path appears to be either a loss by No. 3 Clemson (11-1) in the ACC championship game or No....
Alabama, Florida State, Ohio State and Oregon are established winners, and any of those teams could win the first College Football Championship. But who has the best quarterback? The best coach? The best track record? The best traditions? We’re glad you asked. Here’s a look at the best of the best of the four programs. Best quarterback 1A. Jameis Winston, Florida State 1B. Marcus Mariota, Oregon Blake Sims, Alabama Cardale Jones, Ohio State Verdict: How could you put Winston ahead of Mariota?...
Incredibly, three top-10 teams, each in contention for the College Football Playoff, fell during Rivalry Week, including two to unranked opponents. No. 3 Michigan dismantled No. 2 Ohio State 45-23; Texas A&M upset No. 6 LSU 38-23, and South Carolina took down No. 8 Clemson 31-30. That sets up a relatively clear path for several teams to make the Playoff during conference championship week — and also opens the door for yet more chaos in the last week of play before the final CFP rankings are unveiled....
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The Volunteers had no answer for Spencer Rattler, whose six passing touchdowns nearly doubled his previous season total of eight heading into the game. He completed 30 of 37 passes for 438 yards in the game of his life, and Tennessee’s offense simply could not keep up. Speaking of which, the Volunteers lost more than the game Saturday. Quarterback Hendon Hooker, the driving force behind Josh Heupel’s high-octane offense, left the game late in the fourth quarter with a non-contact injury, apparently to his knee....
Friday UCF (4-1) at Louisville (6-0), 8 p.m., ESPN MORE: SN Midseason Awards | Top 10 rivalries | Week 8 photos Saturday Colgate (1-5) at Holy Cross (3-4), Noon Villanova (4-2) at New Hampshire (2-3), Noon Texas Tech (6-0) at West Virginia (3-3), Noon, Fox Sports 1 Fordham (7-0) at Yale (3-1), Noon Southern Miss. (0-5) at East Carolina (4-2), Noon, FSN SMU (1-4) at Memphis (1-4), Noon, ESPN3 South Carolina (5-1) at Tennessee (3-3), Noon, ESPN Georgia (4-2) at Vanderbilt (3-3), Noon, CBS UConn (0-5) at Cincinnati (4-2), Noon, ESPNU Purdue (1-5) at Michigan St....
Of the three games on the docket, the marquee matchup is the Alamo Bowl showdown between Texas and Washington to cap off the day. Leading into that nightcap, Oklahoma will play No. 13 Florida State in the Cheez-It Bowl. Syracuse and Minnesota will start the day with the Pinstripe Bowl. Although it’s relatively light on games, the slate is a fun one. Here’s how to watch college football games Thursday to prepare for the weekend....
This week has three such games in No. 11 Michigan at No. 13 Wisconsin (noon, FOX) and a CBS doubleheader with No. 8 Auburn at No. 17 Texas A&M (3:30 p.m.) and No. 7 Notre Dame at No. 3 Georgia (8 p.m.). MORE: Watch college football games live with fuboTV (7-day free trial) Those games promise to be exciting, but other enticing matchups include Oklahoma State at No. 12 Texas and a meeting between No....
The first of those was 7-1 Marshall, which lost a 20-0 stunner to previously 1-2 Rice on Saturday. But it was No. 9 BYU’s loss to 14th-ranked Coastal Carolina that has the greater impact on the College Football Playoff race. The Cougars headed to Conway, S.C., looking for a resume-boosting win, but got more than they bargained for from Jamey Chadwell’s Chanticleers. It was a chippy game after Coastal Carolina took a cheap shot on BYU’s Zach Wilson at the end of the first half, but that doesn’t take away from the Chanticleers’ program-defining win, stamped with a last-second stop to preserve the 22-17 victory....
Two top-10 showdowns. The Pac-12 returns. All but three AP Top 25 teams are in action this weekend. The first set of College Football Playoff rankings will be released Nov. 24. For the moment, college football is back. MORE: Week 10 picks against the spread The big showdowns will help solve the puzzle. No. 5 Georgia and No. 8 Florida meet at 3:30 p.m. ET in an elimination game between two one-loss teams, not only for a berth in the SEC championship, but also the Playoff....
No. 1 Clemson and No. 5 Oklahoma — College Football Playoff participants last season — will begin their seasons, and No. 10 Notre Dame will make its ACC debut against Duke. MORE: Best game each week in 2020 Sporting News will pick against the spread for every Top 25 matchup this season, but we’ll throw in some other matchups through the first few weeks. Here’s how we fared in Week 1:...
The Wolverines, one of the last four teams to make this year’s NCAA Baseball Tournament, clinched a spot the championship finals Friday with a 15-3 victory over Texas Tech in Omaha, Neb. They will face Vanderbilt in a best-of-three series beginning Monday. UM is the first Big Ten school to make a College World Series final since Ohio State in 1966. The Buckeyes won the championship that year. Michigan (48-20) began the day in the driver’s seat....
The 2022 College World Series is here, the field is just about set and eight teams will vie for the opportunity to be named best in the nation. The 2022 NCAA baseball tournament has already been wrought with drama: The No. 1 team in the land, Tennessee, was handed a shocking elimination at the hands of the Notre Dame Fighting Irish in the super regional round. Arkansas knocked off No....
In fact, as many as one in four have stopped using the standardized tests for admissions, Michael Nietzel, president emeritus of Missouri State University, told PBS News Hour. By doing that, they are looking to bring in more students of color, low-income students and other underrepresented populations that might not otherwise be admitted to a school they could succeed in. For example, a June analysis of the 200 most selective schools that follow this practice, conducted by the Center on Education and the Workforce, showed that if the schools selected students based on the SAT alone, more than half of the new admittees would not have been accepted....
Puzzled investigators are still searching for explanations why Morrison chose to attack the school, take and sexually abuse six hostages during a four-hour standoff that ended when he shot and killed 16-year-old Emily Keyes on Wednesday. They also wanted to learn how long Morrison had targeted the school before beginning his assault. Morrison had moved to the area from Denver in recent months and appeared to split his time between his car and a local motel....
In fact, blacks in America have never had any choice but to face such “truths.” Theories of blacks’ innate intellectual inadequacy provided much of the rationale for slavery and for Jim Crow, They also accomplished something equally pernicious, and continue to do so today: they caused many blacks (if only subconsciously) to doubt their own abilities-and to conform to the stereotype, thereby confirming it. Long before Richard Herrnstein and Charles Murray came along, race and IQ was a touchy topic....
Trump has already sent in the Feds to quell unrest in Portland, Oregon, against the wishes of local leaders. The president is threatening to do the same in other cities, including Chicago and Seattle, despite mayors and governors telling him not to. In a letter that he shared on social media, Colorado State Rep. Dave Williams referred to “violent altercations” which in his view were incited by “Antifa thugs” during demonstrations in Denver in the aftermath of the killing of George Floyd....
It’s hard to celebrate anything even vaguely frivolous while the entire country remains in a virtual state of shock. Since Tuesday morning’s tragedy at the World Trade Center, the entertainment and sports industries have delayed almost all of their programming and events. In addition, the schedules and release dates for TV shows and movies are being rethought-and the content carefully screened for anything inappropriate. A look at the latest:...
