One of the more fascinating subplots in the first year of the 12-team College Football Playoff is how all of these realigned and suddenly crowded conference races are factoring into that Playoff picture. Sure, Tennessee–Georgia is a massive game for the 12-team bracket, but so is LSU–Florida. And Arizona State–Kansas State. And Clemson–Pitt. And a…
Heading into Friday’s games, which marked the final week of the regular season, there was a known understanding of who was in and who was out when it came to reaching the Virginia High School League (VHSL) playoffs. Sunday saw the official regional playoff brackets released and there is a strong representation of Fredericksburg-area schools…
Penn State took care of business with a 35-6 White Out win over Washington on Saturday night, but other top teams didn’t fare as well. A pair of top-five squads went down, and other teams in the playoff race sustained losses, leading to some shuffling in the College Football Playoff picture. Here’s where things stand…
Share The second College Football Playoff Rankings of 2024 are almost here and we enter these rankings with an already pre-established idea of how the CFP committee views each team. Before the CFP committee unveils the next rankings, I predict where the top 25 teams will land. The second of six CFP top 25 reveals…
LSU’s athletics director, Scott Woodward, has a reputation in college sports as a big game hunter. Whenever he has a chance to hire a coach in pretty much any sport, Woodward is going to unleash the money whip and land an established star. The agents love him. The coaches have been enriched by him. But…
Here’s the Herald-News prep football preview for the opening round of the state playoffs, featuring key showdowns across the greater Joliet area. Class 8A Lincoln-Way East (10-0) at Minooka (8-2) When: 6 p.m. Friday About the Griffins: Lincoln-Way East did what it has been doing for almost the entire season in the opening round of…
A season full of surprises didn’t produce many when the first set of rankings on the road to college football’s new 12-team playoff came out Tuesday. Undefeated Oregon got top billing. The selection committee liked Ohio State just a touch more than Georgia in its top 25 — the first of six weekly polls the…
Oregon, Ohio State, Georgia, Miami and Texas were the top five ranked teams Tuesday night in the first College Football Playoff rankings under a 12-team format, with No. 13 SMU, No. 14 Texas A&M and No. 15 LSU starting the championship race just outside the cutoff to make the newly expanded field. No. 12 Boise…
THOMPSON’S STATION – With a playoff berth up for grabs, the Independence High School football team relied on their potent offensive rushing attack to secure the final Region 6-6A postseason berth to knock off neighborhood rival Summit 30-12 on Friday. The win was the third in four games for the Eagles, who earned a trip…
You know the night is going well when you fight for extra yards on the sideline after a 30-yard run, get stood up, lateral to a 275-pound lineman and he gains an extra 6 yards. “That lateral was crazy,” said Lancers lineman Sincere Williams, who rumbled and stumbled his way another 6 yards after Chris…
