This offseason Georgia State replaced Ron Hunter, who left for Tulane, with Rob Lanier, who spent the last four seasons as the Associate Head Coach at Tennessee. Lanier agreed to a five-year contract with the university, according to a signed offer letter Stadium obtained via public records request. Lanier signed the offer letter on April […]
Texas Tech Coach Chris Beard has led the Red Raiders to eight wins in the NCAA Tournament, which is just as many as the rest of the coaches in Texas Tech history combined. Don’t forget, he’s been with the Red Raiders for just three seasons and his predecessors include national championship-winning coaches Bob Knight and […]
This first-round matchup will feature a 31-win Houston squad looking to bounce back from last season’s heartbreaking loss to Michigan and a Georgia State team looking to build on its tournament appearance from last season. The two coaches, Houston’s Kelvin Sampson and Georgia State’s Ron Hunter, have transformed their respective programs and will look to […]
Beginning in 2020, the Las Vegas Bowl will annually feature a team from the Pac-12 against a team from the SEC or Big Ten, and a new bowl in Los Angeles will feature the Pac-12 against the Mountain West, sources told Stadium. Other changes: The ACC will add the Holiday Bowl, the SEC and Big […]
Despite Northern Illinois’ search for a head football coach, the coaching carousel across the country has begun to slow down now that it’s mid-January. Here are our new faces, new places tier rankings of head coaches who have been hired this offseason — with consideration given to each school, its conference, the potential candidate pool […]
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 […]
The first five FBS bowls of the season were on Saturday as Fresno State capped off its first 12-win season in program history, Tulane overpowered in-state foe Louisiana and Utah State’s offense lit up the scoreboard. Here are the plays that decided the outcomes of Saturday’s bowl games. Las Vegas Bowl: No. 21 Fresno […]
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: Tulane (6-6) vs. Louisiana (7-6) What: Cure Bowl When: 1:30 p.m. ET, Saturday, December 15 Where: Camping World Stadium, Orlando, Florida Spread: Tulane -3.5 How to watch: CBS Sports Network For just the 12th time in program history, Tulane earned a bid to a bowl game and it’s the first time since the 1980s that the […]
Who: Georgia Southern (9-3) vs. Eastern Michigan (7-5) What: Camellia Bowl When: 5:30 p.m. ET, Saturday, December 15 Where: Cramton Bowl, Montgomery, Alabama Spread: Georgia Southern -1.5 How to watch: ESPN, WatchESPN After enduring back-to-back 2-10 and 1-11 seasons in his first two seasons at the helm of Eastern Michigan’s football program, Coach Chris Creighton has […]
The Sun Belt Conference’s bowl destinations are now set. Georgia Southern will play in the Camellia Bowl and Troy will play in the Dollar General Bowl, sources told Stadium. The official announcements will be made Sunday. The league had already officially announced that Arkansas State would play in the Arizona Bowl and the winner of […]
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 […]
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 […]
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, […]
There are five college football games apiece on Thursday and Friday this week, including three matchups featuring ranked teams. Here’s a reason why you should watch each game. Baylor at No. 13 West Virginia, 7 p.m. ET, Thursday, Oct. 25, FS1 West Virginia is still very much alive in the College Football Playoff hunt. The […]