There are still 10 winless teams left in the FBS. Three weeks into the year, this is no longer so surprising. What’s surprising: One of them is Florida State, the reigning ACC champion, which fell from a regular season record of 12-0 last year to 0-3 this year after a home loss to Memphis. Things […]
SANTA CLARA, Calif. — The stakes are higher Monday night than when Brock Purdy and Breece Hall, two ultra-competitive roommates at Iowa State University, didn’t speak for hours after college video game battles. Purdy, the quarterback of the San Francisco 49ers, and Hall, the running back of the New York Jets, will play on opposing […]
What happens to the college football rankings when hardly anyone is doing well? Alabama, Penn State and Oklahoma fall out of the AP Top 25 after lackluster performances, the expanded SEC lands six of the top seven spots and Notre Dame remains in the rankings after a historic upset. Let’s take a look at the […]
College football had a Saturday full of upsets and close calls in Week 2, which caused some excitement in the latest AP Top 25 poll. Nebraska began the poll ranked No. 23, making its first appearance in the top 25 since Sept. 3, 2019. The Cornhuskers, who dominated Colorado on Saturday, had not been ranked […]
A week ago, the college football world celebrated Notre Dame’s away win at Texas A&M as one of the toughest of the weekend and christened the Irish as one of the favorites to reach the College Football Playoffs given the remaining schedule. So, about this schedule… Week 2 brought us a few Saturday hangovers, none […]
The Big 12 announced Friday the tiebreaker procedures that will determine participants in the 2024 Big 12 championship game. The tiebreakers are similar to those announced in recent weeks by the SEC and Big Ten, leagues that also moved to a divisionless format after the latest round of conference expansion. The Big 12 became a […]
Iowa State kicker Kyle Konrardy on his game-winning Cy Hawk kick Iowa State kicker Kyle Konrardy on his game-winning Cy Hawk kick IOWA CITY – Take a moment to imagine this. After 59 minutes and 51 seconds of Iowa State football, the game will come down to a kick. A 54-yard field goal, to be […]
Iowa lineman Gennings Dunker evaluates pros and cons against Iowa State Iowa’s right tackle made some great blocks that helped Kaleb Johnson make big runs, but the Hawkeyes lost a thrilling battle to Iowa State 20-19. IOWA CITY — What looked like a win for Iowa at Kinnick Stadium turned into a Cy Hawk classic […]
Cade McNamara The Iowa quarterback completed 21 of 31 passes for 251 yards and three touchdowns in Iowa’s season opener on Saturday. The Iowa football team will face rival Iowa State in Week 2 on Saturday with the goal of winning its eighth Cy Hawk trophy in the last nine years. But that won’t be […]
With eight new members in the last two years and the departures of Oklahoma and Texas, no (existing) power conference has changed as much as the Big 12. One thing that shouldn’t change is the jockeying that erupts in the league race, with the gap between the best and worst teams perhaps the smallest of […]
