The dates for the 2019 College Football Playoff selection committee’s rankings were announced Thursday, which culminate in the four-team playoff field being announced on Sunday, December 8. The College Football Playoff Semifinals – the Peach Bowl and Fiesta Bowl this year – are on Saturday, December 28 and the national championship game is Monday, January […]
With the addition of three new college football bowl games in 2020, it’s time to re-evaluate what making a bowl game will mean when 65 percent of FBS schools will do so. In two seasons, there will be additional bowl games played in Boston, L.A. and Myrtle Beach, according to Stadium College Football Insider Brett […]
Seven schools had multiple players drafted in the first round of the 2019 NFL Draft on Thursday night, headlined by Alabama, Clemson and Mississippi State with three apiece. Here’s the full breakdown of which schools and conferences had the most players drafted in the first round, with the schools listed alphabetically. There were 22 schools […]
The three-day 2019 NFL Draft starts on Thursday, April 25 at 8 p.m. ET. The first round is on Thursday, the second and third rounds are on Friday and the fourth through seventh rounds take place Saturday. The second round starts at 7 p.m. ET Friday and the fourth round starts at 2 p.m. ET […]
The first round of the 2019 NFL Draft is Thursday night and there’s been more than a little speculation that Oklahoma’s Heisman Trophy-winning quarterback Kyler Murray will be the No. 1 overall pick by the Arizona Cardinals. That would make Murray a top-10 pick in both the NFL (2019) and MLB (2018) drafts after the […]
Defensive tackle Bryan Bresee, the No. 1 overall prospect in the 2020 recruiting class according to the 247Sports Composite rankings, committed to Clemson on Tuesday afternoon. Bresee, a 6-5, 290-pound recruit from Damascus (Md.) High School, chose the defending national champion Tigers over Alabama, Georgia, Michigan, Ohio State and Penn State. He ranks as the […]
Virginia won its first-ever national championship in 2019, which undoubtedly caps off a best-case season for the Cavaliers. Not just because of how Virginia’s 2018 season ended, but because the ‘Hoos were picked second in the ACC preseason media poll and they debuted at No. 5 in the preseason AP Top 25 Poll. They didn’t […]
When the NCAA announced the creation of a new metric to gauge college basketball teams, it was billed as an all-encompassing formula that would displace traditional metrics like RPI and effectively measure teams throughout the season. “What has been developed is a contemporary method of looking at teams analytically, using results-based and predictive metrics that […]
The ACC has three of the top four teams in the latest AP Top 25 Poll with No. 2 Virginia, No. 3 North Carolina and No. 4 Duke, as the conference could be the first since the Big East in 2009 to have three schools earn a No. 1 seed in the NCAA Tournament. Which […]
College basketball’s regular season is officially over, which means time is running out for teams to improve their resumes and climb onto the right side of the NCAA Tournament bubble. Four automatic bids have already been clinched and if there’s a high number of bid stealers, then the number of at-large hopefuls will shrink. Here’s […]
This is the final weekend of college basketball’s regular season and for many teams, their next loss will officially end their pursuit of an NCAA Tournament bid. Sure, the games on Saturday and Sunday count the same on a team’s resume as a game from November or January but there’s a much greater sense of […]
Minnesota and Oklahoma picked up massive home wins Tuesday night over Purdue and Kansas, respectively, which might have clinched at-large bids for the Gophers and Sooners. There are numerous NCAA Tournament bubble teams in action Wednesday, including Seton Hall, Florida, Georgetown and Clemson. Each could really use a win, if not several, to solidify its […]
It’s March 3 and…80 percent of the Big East is on the NCAA Tournament bubble? Welcome to NCAA Tournament Bracket Scouting, where we analyze the NCAA Tournament resumes and upcoming opportunities among tournament hopefuls from the top six conferences in college basketball. As a reminder, here’s how we define each category. Lock = These teams could […]
There are nine new locks across college basketball’s top seven conference in this week’s NCAA Tournament Bracket Scouting, where we evaluate teams’ resumes and what opportunities they have left in the regular season to climb onto the right side of the bubble. As a reminder, here’s how we’re defining each category. Lock = These teams could […]
Ten months from now, on Dec. 21, the 2019 bowl season will begin. Go ahead, set a reminder in your phone, I’ll wait. Since we’re “only” 10 months away, it’s never too early to crank out some bowl projections. The official dates for all 39 bowl games won’t be determined until May, but on Dec. […]