Alabama quarterback Jalen Hurts has officially entered the NCAA transfer portal, meaning other schools are now allowed to contact him. The 2016 SEC Offensive Player of the Year has played in the last three College Football Playoff National Championship games with the Crimson Tide, but he lost his role as the team’s starting quarterback to […]
Clemson won the 2018 College Football Playoff National Championship, its second national title in three years, but the ACC only had one other team ranked in the final AP Top 25 Poll, so the conference offers an interesting profile for how it stacked up with the rest of the conferences nationally last season. The Big […]
Who: Florida International (8-4) vs. Toledo (7-5) What: Bahamas Bowl When: 12:30 p.m. ET, Friday, December 21 Where: Thomas Robinson Stadium, Nassau Spread: Toledo -6.5 How to watch: ESPN, WatchESPN Florida International Head Coach Butch Davis has led the Golden Panthers to an 8-4 record in the regular season in each of his first two […]
Who: UAB (10-3) vs. Northern Illinois (8-5) What: Boca Raton Bowl When: 7 p.m. ET, Tuesday, December 18 Where: FAU Stadium, Boca Raton, Florida Spread: UAB -2.5 How to watch: ESPN, WatchESPN How about UAB, which had its football program shut down for two seasons, but reemerged even stronger, going 8-5 in its first season […]
Here are my favorite bets for the first week of this bowl season, which runs from December 15th through the 22nd. Las Vegas Bowl: No. 21 Fresno State (-5) over Arizona State The highlight of the opening day of bowl season is Fresno State playing Arizona State in Las Vegas. Fresno State last played in […]
Who: Middle Tennessee (8-5) vs. Appalachian State (10-2) What: New Orleans Bowl When: 9 p.m. ET, Saturday, December 15 Where: Mercedes-Benz Superdome, New Orleans, Louisiana Spread: Appalachian State -7 How to watch: ESPN, WatchESPN Former Appalachian State coach Scott Satterfield, who led the Mountaineers to four consecutive bowl games (and three straight bowl wins entering this […]
Who: Utah State (10-2) vs. North Texas (9-3) What: New Mexico Bowl When: 2 p.m. ET on Saturday, December 15 Where: Dreamstyle Stadium, Albuquerque, New Mexico Spread: Utah State -7.5 How to watch: ESPN, WatchESPN Two of the best Group of Five teams in the country will meet in the New Mexico Bowl, and a victory […]
This is the latest in Stadium’s “Conference Chain of Command” series in which we polled a handful of veteran coaches in every league to determine the best JOBS in each league, all the way down to the ones that are the most difficult. Here are the nine categories that were utilized to determine the overall […]
After the release of the penultimate College Football Playoff rankings Tuesday, the bowl pairings became a lot easier to decipher. This much is certain based on the selection committee’s rankings: * No. 1 Alabama and No. 3 Notre Dame are locks in the College Football Playoff. Yes, even if Alabama loses to Georgia, the Crimson […]
Toledo and Florida International are headed to the Bahamas Bowl on Dec. 21, sources told Stadium. The Rockets (7-5) finished tied for second in the MAC’s West Division, while the Panthers (8-4) tied for second in Conference USA’s East Division. This will be the fourth meeting between the teams and first since FIU defeated Toledo […]
Down the stretch we come: only three weeks until Selection Sunday, when all of the 39 bowl pairings will be announced. My College Football Playoff selections remain unchanged and I expect the committee to have these rankings on Dec. 2 (as long as they all win out): No. 1 Alabama vs. No. 4 Michigan in […]
There isn’t much excitement for Week 12 of the college football season, but there are several betting opportunities to take advantage of. There are plenty of motivational angles with “rivalry week” coming up and teams with five wins looking to clinch a bowl berth. Here are seven sides to look at this weekend: Best […]
With no losses among the Top 10 teams in last week’s Associated Press rankings, this week’s bowl projections look pretty similar to last week’s. However, there was one slight – but major – change in my College Football Playoff projections. Since Notre Dame has been so dominating and it has the head-to-head victory against Michigan, […]
Not much change from last week in my Associated Press Top 25 ballot. Well, make that no changes among the top 11. My top 11 teams from last week stay the same since they all won this weekend and none were impressive enough to leap frog the team or teams in front of them. The […]
This week is Shula Bowl XVII and in case you’re not familiar with the South Florida rivalry between Florida Atlantic and Florida International, we’ve got you covered. Started in 2002 and named in honor of former Miami Dolphins head coach Don Shula, the Shula Bowl has alternated annually between Florida Atlantic and Florida International’s home […]
