Rivalry Week is here… or something resembling Rivalry Week in the 2020 college football season. We still have a few more weeks of regular season games and makeup games after this. There’s no Michigan-Ohio State. Nick Saban won’t be at the Iron Bowl. It’s going to be a weird one. Alabama announced today that Saban […]
Read MoreThe Spun’s 2020 College Football Staff Picks: Week 12
Once again, we’re dealing with a pretty abbreviated college football schedule. The list of currently canceled or postponed games is at 15 and growing, making it likely that this will wind up being the week with the most games pushed off that we’ve had so far this season. Luckily, there are still a number of […]
Read MoreThe Spun’s 2020 College Football Staff Picks: Week 11
This week has been more negatively impacted by COVID-19 than any other so far. A huge chunk of the SEC slate, including the rivalry game between Alabama and LSU, has been postponed, leaving something of a light College Football Saturday this weekend. Texas A&M at Tennessee, Georgia at Mizzou, and Auburn at Mississippi State are […]
Read MoreThe Spun’s 2020 College Football Staff Picks: Week 10
With the return of the MAC this week, and the Pac-12 this weekend, the vast majority of the FBS world will be underway, at long last. We have our first full-looking college football slate of the weekend, featuring games from all Power Five conferences. The headliner of the weekend comes out of the ACC. No. […]
Read MorePac-12 Announces Major Step Toward Potential Return To Football
The Pac-12 won’t be playing football right away this fall. But the conference commissioner Larry Scott announced on Thursday a major step in the potential return of football. The Pac-12 made the decision last month to delay the 2020 football season until next year. It’s still unclear when the season would actually begin, though. But […]
Read MorePac-12 School President Takes Major Shot At SEC Over Fall Football
The Big Ten and Pac-12 football seasons for the fall have been called off. The ACC, Big 12, and SEC football seasons are still set to push forward in September as of now. The health and safety of players is being used as an arguing point on both sides. The prevalence of myocarditis in a […]
Read MoreList Of Pac-12 Players Named Media Contacts For The Opt Out
A group of Pac-12 football players are considering a boycott of the upcoming college football season. With less than two months until the league is scheduled to start a delayed 2020 season, the group has released a list of demands pertaining to the ongoing pandemic, as well as racial injustice within college sports and the […]
Read MorePac-12 Moves Major Rivalry Games To Week 1 In New Schedule
To account for its modified conference-only schedule, the new Pac-12 football slate has moved some huge rivalry games up on the calendar. With the new schedule release, two major rivalry games are being moved from the end of the season to the start of it. Perhaps the biggest is the UCLA-USC game, originally slated for […]
Read MoreThe Pac-12 Is Reportedly Finalizing 2020 Schedule
Earlier this month, the Pac-12 announced its decision to play a conference-only schedule. We now have more details on what Pac-12 football will look like this fall. The previous announcement means the cancellation of some major college football games this fall. Alabama-USC is the headliner, but we were also set for games like Oregon State […]
Read MoreReport: Pac-12 Players Threatening 2020 Season Boycott If ‘Demands’ Aren’t Met
A group of Pac-12 players are threatening to boycott the 2020 season if a list of “demands” aren’t met, or at least addressed, per a report by a former quarterback in the league. Former Arizona State quarterback and current podcast host Rudy Carpenter dished out a series of tweets regarding the situation on Friday. According […]
Read MorePac-12 Makes Official Announcement About 2020 Football Season
The Pac-12 is joining the Big Ten in its handling of the current public health crisis. The conference just announced that it will move to a conference-only schedule for fall sports, including football. The move was expected over the last few days, after the Big Ten’s came down. Nicole Auerbach and Bruce Feldman broke the […]
Read MoreReport: Fall Pac-12 Football Season Is Now ‘Less Likely’
The Big Ten has reportedly made a decision on the 2020 college football season, as the league is expected to play a conference-only schedule this fall. It appears this is just the first domino to fall. According to 247Sports, the Pac-12 football season could be in jeopardy. Representatives from each team are reportedly going to […]
Read MoreOregon vs. Oregon State Rivalry, The ‘Civil War,’ Being Renamed
Oregon and Oregon State share one of the Pac-12’s most heated rivalries. That will remain the case going forward, but it will no longer be referred to as the Civil War. Moments ago, the news was announced. It comes as a reaction to the current national climate, which looks to properly contextualize and frame the […]
Read More2021 College Football Hall Of Fame Ballot Released
The College Football Hall of Fame ballot has been released for the 2021 class. It is stocked with names that should be very familiar to football fans. 78 players and seven coaches from the FBS ranks are included. Over 12,000 National Football Foundation members and existing Hall of Famers will vote on the candidates, and […]
Read MoreCollege Football Player Cut After Racist Comments Surface
A member of the Oregon State football team has been cut after a video of him making extreme racist comments surfaced. Beavers head coach Jonathan Smith and athletic director Scott Barnes made the swift decision Thursday night. Rocco Carley – a 6-foot-6, 236-pound tight end from Mt. Angel, Oregon – was found in a video […]
Read MoreLongtime College Football Assistant Coach Dies At 57
Osia Lewis, a longtime college football assistant coach who has spent the last four years at Vanderbilt, has passed away. Vanderbilt announced the news that their senior defensive analyst passed away this morning. Lewis had been battling liver cancer since 2017. He was 57 years old. Lewis was hired by the Commodores under head coach […]
Read MorePac-12 Announces When Sports Workouts Can Resume
The NCAA and individual conferences are working together to usher student-athletes back to campus. The Pac-12 is the latest conference to make a major announcement regarding the commencement of “voluntary in-person athletic workouts.” Like others, the Pac-12 cancelled winter and spring sports as the nationwide pandemic became more prevalent a few months ago. But COVID-19 […]
Read MoreKetron Jackson, Elite 2021 WR, Announces Top 14 Schools
Ketron Jackson – one of the top receiver prospects in the state of Texas – is starting to narrow down his recruitment. The four-star wideout announced his top 14 schools on Saturday. Jackson’s top 14 schools list features six SEC programs including Alabama, Arkansas, Auburn, LSU, Ole Miss and Texas A&M. Baylor, Colorado, Illinois, Nebraska, […]
Read MorePac-12 Commissioner ‘Increasingly Optimistic’ About College Football This Fall
For the last few weeks, much of the college football world has seemed pretty resigned to the sport getting pushed back some amount. For those who are hanging their hats on football being back this fall, Pac-12 commissioner Larry Scott has some optimism for you. Scott recently spoke to Jon Wilner of The Mercury News about […]
Read MoreNFL Draft Grades: Evaluating Picks From All 32 Teams
The 2020 NFL Draft has come to a close. While most of the headlines understandably come from Thursday night’s first round, plenty of valuable playmakers will come from every single round of this draft. The usual suspects have had very productive NFL Draft weeks once again. The Baltimore Ravens continue to be the masters of […]
Read MoreBetting Lines Released For Top College Football Games Of 2020
Fans are already looking forward to the upcoming 2020 college football season. LSU won last season’s national championship after a dominant performance over the Clemson Tigers. Which team will win it all this year? There are plenty of pivotal games for the 2020-21 season. Despite the season still being a few months away, FanDuel has […]
Read MoreWhere All 12 Pac-12 Teams Are Ranked In ESPN’s Preseason FPI
ESPN released its preseason FPI rankings for the 2020 college football season this past Tuesday, and as you’d imagine, there is some debate regarding the teams at the top. Clemson, which lost the national title game to LSU, is the No. 1 team in the country. Let’s take a look at the teams from the […]
Read MoreThe 8 Colleges With The Most Players In The XFL
We’re just over a week away from the debut of the new XFL and final preparations are underway for Week 1. With the rosters now set, we finally have a look at which colleges will be most represented in the new league. On Thursday the XFL revealed its “rosters by the numbers,” breaking down where […]
Read MoreOregon vs. Oregon State Game Time, Spread, Channel, Announcers
College football’s best Saturday of the season is nearly here. In the Pac-12, the 14th-ranked Oregon Ducks and rival Oregon State Beavers are set to meet in the Civil War at Autzen Stadium. Oregon’s College Football Playoff hopes were dashed last Saturday with the Ducks’ crushing defeat to Arizona State. But now sitting at 9-2, […]
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